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Beatrix Potter Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning about Beatrix Potter, particularly those completing a history study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ It contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Times in Her Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Beatrix Potter Timeline;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
Ozymandias Comprehension Activities Booklet!
This 16-page resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s war poem ‘Ozymandias.’ Teachers have found them particularly useful throughout teaching, or for exam revision or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the key English Literature assessment objectives - suitable for all examining bodies. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and it is clearly highlighted within each task regarding which assessment strands the task is designed to demonstrate.
Activities within the booklet include:
‘Analysing Context’ - helping students to ‘Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.’
‘Analysing Subject Matter, Language and Structure’ - to help students to ‘Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.’
‘Diary Entry’ - to help students to ‘Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.’
‘The Speaker’ - to help students to ‘Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.’
Plus many, many more activities I’ve also added it as a PDF in case the formatting differs on your computer.
The Rainforest - Pointless Game!
Based on the popular game show ‘Pointless,’ this resource is perfect for use as a whole lesson resource, enrichment option, or revision tool. Editable, so that you can change to any other topic or change questions. (I’ve also added a blank template so that you can make your own games from scratch). Containing 25 slides of sound clips, engaging visuals, and suitably challenging questions, this resource is effective at both promoting engagement and enhancing learning. There are several full rounds of questions to build or revisit knowledge of The Rainforest.
Round 1. Countries with Rainforests
Round 2. Birds of the Rainforest
Round 3. Name the Rainforest!
Round 4. Anagrams Round - (Layers of the Rainforest)
Round 5. Mammals of the Rainforest
The nature of this game ensures that the resource can challenge students of all levels.
A blank template has also been added, so that you can create your own games!
Stone Cold Pointless Game (and template to create your own games!)
Based on the popular game show ‘Pointless’, this resource is perfect for use as a whole lesson resource, enrichment option, or revision tool. Editable, so that you can change to any other topic or change questions. (I’ve also added a blank template so that you can make your own games from scratch). Containing almost 30 slides of sound clips, interesting tasks, and suitably challenging questions, this resource is effective at both promoting engagement and enhancing learning. There are several full rounds of questions to build or revisit knowledge of characters, plot, and themes in ‘Stone Cold.’
Round 1. The characters in Stone Cold
Round 2. Quotations from the text
Round 3. Settings and Objects
Round 4. Themes in Stone Cold
The nature of this game ensures that the resource can challenge students of all levels.
A blank template has also been added, so that you can create your own games!
The Prevent Duty - Staff Training for Primary Schools!
This clear and concise staff training session is perfect for primary school leaders/ DSLs aiming to introduce (or give a refresher on) the Prevent Duty to their staff teams.
The presentation slides are easy to follow and enable staff members to:
-Recall basic Child Protection duties (it never hurts to go over these);
-Understand what the Prevent Duty is;
-Know what to look out for;
-Be secure in what to do should they have a concern.
It contains a breakdown of each of the main points from the government’s ‘Prevent Awareness’ training and some additional information that is more pertinent to primary schools. Hope that you find it useful!
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Classifying Animals Lesson, Resources, and Pointless Game!
This bundle contains the ‘Classifying Animals’ lesson, and also the fun and interactive Animal Classes Pointless Game!
The detailed and engaging lesson enables students to gain an understanding of what animal classes are, and which animals belong to the different categories. Furthermore, they learn to categorise animals themselves, using scientific knowledge of the features of each animal class. Students justify their choices using critical thinking skills.
Students learn through a number of fun and interactive tasks, which enable them to:
- Define each animal class and understand its features;
- Exemplify each animal class, justifying their choices;
- Use research and investigative skills to categorise animals for whom the class is not immediately obvious;
- Evaluate the learning and understanding of themselves and their peers.
The resources include:
-Visually engaging and comprehensive whole-lesson presentation;
-Resources for the card-sorting activity;
-A categorising and justifying worksheet (and answer sheet for teacher);
-An investigation log;
-Step-by-step lesson plan.
To help their investigation write-ups, I’ve also thrown in the literacy writing mat for free!
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.
KS1 Big Christmas Quiz!
An engaging, challenging, age-appropriate quiz, which features 50 questions in total, in addition to a tie-breaker question (if needed). The quiz includes 5 rounds of 10 questions each:
Round 1: Santa
Round 2: The Nativity Story
Round 3: Christmas Traditions
Round 4: Christmas Food
Round 5: A Bit of Everything!
Each question is multiple choice, with 4 possible answers. Answers are revealed after each question.
Tried and tested, and always popular, this quiz helps to provide structure in an engaging way in the lead-up to the Christmas break. Enjoy!
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World War 1 Poetry Bundle! (All the WWI Lessons, PowerPoints, Resources, and Lesson Plans!)
This engaging, varied, and informative bundle of lessons is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of a range of WWI poetry. Each of the poems are widely studied, with many being from the Literary Heritage bank, and most being fixtures in examination board anthologies. They all deal with the destructive and horrific nature in different and original ways.
Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings in poems, understanding the writer’s ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical context of World War 1, and analysing features of content, language, and structure.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided for the following poems:
-Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes
-Mametz Wood - Owen Sheers
-Dulce et Decorum est - Wilfred Owen
-The Falling Leaves - Margaret Postgate Cole
In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique!
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War/Conflict Poetry Big Lesson Bundle! (Whole lessons - all PowerPoints, resources, and lesson plans included!)
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the content, language, and structure features of ten war/conflict poems. In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! Each of the poems are widely studied, with many being from the Literary Heritage bank, and most being fixtures in examination board anthologies.
Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings poems, understanding the writer’s ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of the different wars/conflicts, and analysing features of content, language, and structure.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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GCSE Poetry Huge Lesson Bundle!
This huge resource pack contains highly stimulating, detailed, and informative whole-lesson resources for 18 different poems - each of the poems feature on the new GCSE poetry lists for the vast majority of examining boards. In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! The poems included are largely from the Relationships and War/Conflict poetry lists.
Individually, these resources are worth more than double the price of the bundle, meaning that you can make a considerable saving!
Each lesson employs a wide range of teaching and learning strategies, with a large variety of interesting tasks and ideas. This pack contains a whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation for each poem, in addition to all of the worksheets, task resources, and lesson plans that you need to teach.
Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes
Before You Were Mine - Carol Ann Duffy
Dulce et Decorum est - Wilfred Owen
In Paris with You - James Fenton
Love's Philosophy - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mametz Wood - Owen Sheers
Mother, Any Distance - Simon Armitage
Neutral Tones - Thomas Hardy
next to of course god america i - E.E. Cummings
Out of the Blue - Simon Armitage
Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poppies - Jane Weir
Sonnet 116 - William Shakespeare
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Falling Leaves - Margaret Postgate Cole
War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy
What Were They Like? - Denise Levertov
When We Two Parted - Lord Byron
Comparing Poems!
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the presentations.
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KS1 Significant Individuals - Explorers - Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about explorers, as a part of their study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ Included in this bundle are knowledge organisers about:
Christopher Columbus;
Neil Armstrong;
Robert Scott;
Amy Johnson
Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Key Times in their Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Timeline of their Life;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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KS1 Geography Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for planning, learning and revising all areas of the KS1 Geography National Curriculum.
The knowledge organisers included are:
-The United Kingdom;
-The Seven Continents;
-Oceans and Seas;
-Polar Explorers;
-Capital Cities;
There is also a organiser that can be adapted for whichever area of local study you choose to cover (the template focuses on ‘Exploring Essex.’)
The organisers are separated into logical compartments, based on the key curriculum expectations.
Each resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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European Countries KS2 Geography Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for students revising knowledge relating to Europe, as a part of their study of place, human and physical geography. Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections on:
Overview and Maps;
Physical Geography;
Human Geography;
Comparison with the United Kingdom;
Timeline;
Key Vocabulary.
There are 12 knowledge organisers in total:
-France
-Germany
-Greece
-Iceland
-Ireland
-Italy
-Netherlands
-Poland
-Russia
-Spain
-Sweden
-United Kingdom
Each organiser is designed to help children to learn the relevant place, human and physical geography knowledge from the KS2 Geography National Curriculum:
-‘understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region of the United Kingdom and a region in a European country’
-‘physical geography, including: climate zones, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes’
-‘human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy.’
They are provided as both PDFs and Word versions (so that you can edit if you want to).
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Introduction to Jesus Lesson Bundle and Knowledge Organiser!
THIS BIG BUNDLE CONTAINS THE INTRODUCTION TO JESUS LESSON BUNDLE, IN ADDITION TO THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER!
This series of interesting and engaging lessons aims to equip children with a solid foundation understanding of the life and significance of Jesus Christ. The lessons offer a broad outline of the events in his life, focusing more heavily on two particularly important moments (his baptism and the last week of his life). The bundle contains the following lessons:
His Significance
Key Events in His Life
Representations of Jesus
Jesus’ Baptism
The Easter Story
In each lesson, the learning is guided by a clear and colourful PowerPoint presentation, which guides students through logical, step-by-step activities. There are also clear hyperlinks for the video resources, and engaging, well-structured worksheets for the activities.
In the past, I have used these lessons with children from across Key Stage 2 - the key learning is aligned with curriculum expectations for RE, and also the content prescribed by most diocese regions. All images are licensed for commercial use.
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Monarchs and Leaders - History Knowledge Organisers Big Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about monarchs and leaders, as a part of their history study. Included in this bundle are 8 knowledge organisers, spanning different eras, countries, genders and ethnicities:
1.Elizabeth I
2. Winston Churchill
3. Queen Victoria
4. Abraham Lincoln
5. Adolf Hitler
6. Nelson Mandela
7. Henry VIII
8. Julius Caesar
Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Key Times in their Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Timeline of their Life;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3 or A4, and are provided as both PDF and Word versions (so that you can edit if you want to). They are most suitable for children in KS2 and KS3. All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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People of Discovery Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about people of discovery, including explorers, inventors and scientists. Included in this bundle are the following 11 knowledge organisers:
Christopher Columbus;
Neil Armstrong;
Robert Scott;
Captain James Cook;
Marco Polo;
Marie Curie;
Isaac Newton;
Albert Einstein;
Charles Darwin;
Alexander Graham Bell;
Sir Francis Drake
Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Key Times in their Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Timeline of their Life;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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World Continents - Big Lesson Bundle!
These interesting and highly-stimulating lessons enable students to describe and understand the key aspects of physical geography (e.g. climates, vegetation belts, flora, fauna, mountains, and rivers) and human geography (e.g. types of settlement, populations, use of resources, and trade) for each of the different continents of the world.
Each lesson follows the same clear, logical, bite-size learning journey, which guides students towards relevant and constructive learning objectives. Students become able to:
-Identify the continent on a map, and identify the countries and regions within the continent;
-Understand key information about the physical and human geography of the continent, through a fun, interactive quiz;
-Retrieve, share, and describe their understanding of the physical and human geography of specific locations in the continent through comprehending information texts about the main geographical features;
-Complete case studies of the physical and human geography of a location of their choice in each continent, and describe their findings to others;
-Peer assess each others’ descriptions using the learning objectives.
This resource pack includes seven lessons (one for each continent), each containing:
-A visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation;
-Key case-study information sheets on 4 geographical features of the continent;
-A blank case study template;
All images are licensed for commercial use.
These resources can be easily adapted to suit home/remote learning.
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People of Discovery Volume 2 - Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about people of discovery, including explorers, inventors and scientists. Included in this bundle are the following 11 knowledge organisers:
Abel Tasman;
Alexander Mackenzie;
Amelia Earhart;
Amy Johnson;
Buzz Aldrin;
David Attenborough;
Edmund Hillary;
Ibn Battuta;
Joseph Banks;
Roald Amundsen;
Vasco Da Gama.
Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Key Times in their Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Timeline of their Life;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Bundle!
These resources are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Power and Conflict’ poem: ‘Ozymandias.’ Students will complete this learning having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the poem, understanding the poet’s meaning/ideas within the poem, analysing the features of form and structure, considering settings and themes, and understanding Weir’s language devices.
The bundle contains:
-The comprehensive and engaging lesson;
-The 16-page comprehension booklet;
-The visually-appealing and informative knowledge organiser/ revision mat,
-A range of resources to prepare your students for critically comparing poems.
The lessons included are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Romantic Movement Poetry Comprehension Activity Booklets Bundle!
These 16-page resource booklets contain a wide range of challenging and engaging comprehension activities to aid the teaching of a number of the most famous romantic-era poems. Teachers have found the activities particularly useful throughout practicing for unseen poems, for teaching as part of a poetry unit, or to support guided reading sessions. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and it is clearly highlighted within each task regarding which assessment strands the task is designed to demonstrate.
Each booklet is provided in both Word (to allow for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure for consistency of formatting between computers).
Activities across the booklets are as consistent, to provide an equal understanding of each poem, and include (amongst many others):
‘Analysing Context’ - helping students to ‘Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.’
‘Analysing Subject Matter, Language and Structure’ - to help students to ‘Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.’
‘Diary Entry’ - to help students to ‘Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.’
‘The Speaker’ - to help students to ‘Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.’