I am a primary school teacher and assistant head. I love my job and my aim is to produce high quality teaching resources that motivate learners and make life easier for teachers! All of my resources are ready to teach, differentiated and easy to adapt.
I don't make resources just to sell, all uploads have been made to be used in my own classroom. Therefore, I can vouch for their suitability, pitch and quality.
I am a primary school teacher and assistant head. I love my job and my aim is to produce high quality teaching resources that motivate learners and make life easier for teachers! All of my resources are ready to teach, differentiated and easy to adapt.
I don't make resources just to sell, all uploads have been made to be used in my own classroom. Therefore, I can vouch for their suitability, pitch and quality.
UPDATED FOR Summer 2019
A Complete ART lesson, which includes a detailed PPT, resources and models.
The lesson covers design and shape, children explore how to create zentangle patterns before creating a zentangle portrait using a photo of themsleves.
All resources are included - all you need is a photo of each child.
Perfect to help you get to know your class, whilst creating a fantastic display for the wall (ideal for the start of the year) Great for transition day too!
The children will produce a portrait for display.
Ideal for KS2/3
All images are either the authors own, or sourced from PIXABAY
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A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat's '3 BAD - (dash) question?' Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated) Would fit neatly into a grammar or narrative unit based on sentence construction. Also works very well as a standalone skills lesson.
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways.
The lesson has a dragon theme.
All images are sourced from PIXABAY.
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources based around Greta Thunberg’s Ted Talk on climate change.
This lesson begins by looking at the recent ‘School strike for climate change’ movement. It then moves on to explore the features of Persuasive Speeches and the students will annotate the speech to show their understanding. The lesson uses AFORRESTPIE as a vehicle for exploring the features.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A narrative writing scheme of work, presentations and resources for a series of 12/13 lessons. The unit starts with a cold task, and ends by writing a short story (hot task) on a similar theme to the text.
Aimed at Upper KS2 but easily adaptable. Each lesson is differentiated at least 3 ways.
All lessons are ready to go. This unit is genuinely ready to reach and planned to a high quality.
Each lesson is also available separately and includes a presentation and all resources.
Editable versions are included wherever possible.
Lessons are designed to teach children how to write in a clear and concise way. In grammar starters and individual lessons there is a focus on editing basic errors and writing sentences that make sense.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
Images sourced from Pixabay.
This is a SEF that I have written over time about our school. It is highly detailed - 29 pages and 20,000 words. This will save you hours of work, it is fully editable, in word and can be cut and paste.
Nothing like this existed when I started the journey, and it would have been so helpful to have seen what other schools write. It covers all Ofsted areas, including actions since last inspection.
Our school received GOOD in Autumn 2023 (Section 5 inspection) and my self was called ‘EXEMPLARY’ by my MAT and by our HMI inspector.
These are notes from our recent Ofsted inspection. They include the notes I made to prepare for the call, and the questions that I was asked during the call.
We had a section 5 inspection and achieved good in October 2023, These notes are fully editable.
A MINI UNIT OF 5 LESSONS, BASED AROUND THE SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE.
WRITTEN FOR UPPER KS2 (YEAR 6 ) BUT FULLY DIFFERENTIATED, SO EASILY ADAPTED.
EACH LESSON INCLUDES A DETAILED PPT AND ALL RESOURCES.
A complete Geography lesson, including a plan, editable slides and all the resources to teach the objective:
To compare conditions in Antarctica to the UK
This is lesson three in a series of 5 about the Extremes of Antarctica,
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A full Scheme of work for KS2 based around Tudor Portraits.
Objectives covered include:
Exploring and discussing Tudor portraits
How to structure a portrait
How to observe and sketch faces and Tudor clothing
Putting it all together to create a Tudor style portrait.
Each lesson includes all resources and a high-quality presentation.
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A complete 5 week unit, based around the history and art of Ancient Egypt.
All resources and a power point for each lesson is included.
Children explore Canopic jars and then create a 3d construction, using recycled materials and mod-roc (could just as easily be paper mache)
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A transition day lesson, full of ideas for getting to know your new class. Could be used on transition day, or on the first day of term. UPDATED FOR 2023
PowerPoint is fully adaptable to your needs, but takes you through the lesson plan step by step. All of the resources are included too. The activities all lead to potential displays for your classroom.
1,. Growth mindset poster activity - feeds into a discussion about the type of learners we want to be.
2. Guess Who bunting - children design their own piece to match their characters, using likes and dislikes etc… Makes an effective display for the start of the year.
3. A passport which will provide space for key information about students and mini art works to complete on transition day. Suitable for KS2. Could be printed onto a single sheet of A3 to make it large enough for display. (this would make it A5 on each surface)
4. A blank mobile phone template - for a Selfie portrait activity and display. I did it Snap chat style with text and images too. Made a really great display for September.
Ideas for other time fillers, to avoid running out of activities!
A complete 6-week scheme of work, based on the history of Ancient Greece. Written for a mixed year 4/5 class, but easily adapted
Objectives covered include:
The geography of the ancient world
Greek daily life
Life in Athens and Sparta
School in Ancient Greece
The Greek Alphabet.
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A complete English lesson, written for year 5/6 and differentiated 3 ways.
The objective covered is suspense writing, with a starter that looks at the passive voice.
The planning uses the animated film: Francis Brandywine, which is available on You tube. Directed by Richard Hickey
All images are public domain from pixabay.com
A complete scheme of work, presentations and resources for the story of ** ’ KING KONG by ANTHONY BROWNE.** Aimed at Upper KS2 but easily adaptable. Each lesson is differentiated at least 3 ways.
All lessons are ready to go (the only thing missing is the book!). This unit is genuinely ready to reach and planned to a high quality.
Editable versions of ppts and activity sheets are included wherever possible. The scheme starts and end with a cold and hot task to aid assessment and show clear progression of skills.
**There is a free sample lesson available here:**https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/king-kong-lesson-2-expanded-noun-phrases-free-sample-lesson-11877353
Lessons are based on the understanding of the text and its themes, as well as key narrative, and descriptive writing skills. Coverage includes: cohesion, conjunctions, Precise language choices, adverbials, sentence variety and structure, figurative devices and more.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay. CLips and images from king kong are sourced from Publicdomain.com
This is a complete 5-week GEOGRAPHY scheme of work, based on the Extremes of Antarctica . Written for Upper Key Stage 1, but easily adapted to suit KS2.
Objectives covered:
To locate Antarctica and the 7 continents and 5 Oceans
To compare conditions in Antarctica and the UK.
To locate and identify features of the North and South poles.
To find out about a range of explorers who have reached the poles.
To understand the importance of preserving Antarctica and what we can do to help.
Each lesson comes with all resources and an editable powerpoint. There is also a medium term plan for all 5 lessons.
This is a six week unit that looks at the causes, build up and key battles of the Wars of the Roses. Written for upper Key stage 2 (but easily adapted) and is differentiated. Would be a great way to start a unit on Tudor history.
Everything that you need to teach each lesson is included, including planning, resources and a PowerPoint presentation.
This is a complete 5-week scheme of work, based on the history of Windrush . Written for UpperKey Stage 2, but easily adapted
Objectives covered:
• To be able to locate and identify the Caribbean Islands. (Geography Skills)
• To use historical methods to find out about history of African-Caribbean people in Britain before the 1940’s.
• To know that Caribbean men and women served in the second World War.
• To be able to explain why people chose to travel on the Empire Windrush
• To know and understand the difficulties faced by the Windrush settlers when they arrived in Britain.
Each lesson comes with all resources and an editable powerpoint. There is also a medium term plan for all 5 lessons.
A complete lesson with the LO: to understand Darwin’s voyage on HMS Beagle.
During the lesson, students will map the voyage and key events on each stop of the journey.
All resources are included, although internet access may be required for the higher attainers to research additional information, using the Beagle diaries (Link included in the resources)
All other images from Pixabay or authors own.
A complete unit of work (8 days) for newspaper reports linked to the Tudors.
Presentations and resources included. Aimed at year 3 or 4, fully differentiated 2 or 3 ways in each lesson.
All images from PIXABAY or authors own.
A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat's 2 pairs sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated 3 ways) This lesson is designed as a standalone grammar/sentence skills lesson. However it would also fit neatly into a grammar or narrative unit based on sentence construction.
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways. Where possible, all resources and PowerPoint's are fully editable.
The lesson has an alien/space theme.
All images are sourced from PIXABAY.
