An engaging assembly or lesson for raising awareness and understanding of mental health. Includes a 32 slide PowerPoint, interactive activities, reflection time, starter and plenary, higher level questioning, AFL and real life scenarios. Designed for Mental Health Awareness Weeks in primary schools. Could also be a useful PSHE lesson on discussing and coping with feelings. Takes the children through these key question: What is mental health? A child friendly definition. Why is mental health important? Explains how many children in an average class have mental health problems and more interesting facts. What do people think about mental health now? Explains the stigma associated with mental health and the importance of seeing a doctor for body and mind illnesses. What should we do when things get tough? Strategies for coping with intense feelings, inspirational quotes from well known fairy tales and reasons for keeping active. How do I keep my mind healthy? 3 easy everyday activities that can keep your mind healthy. What about other people? Supporting others with mental illness, medication and public perceptions. Who has mental health problems? 4 inspirational stories of famous people sharing their experiences. What have we learnt today? It is so important to talk about our emotions, ask for help when we need support and to look after our minds and bodies. Who can we ask for help? 4 sources of support supplied. Lots of opportunities for discussion and higher level thinking. All concepts explained clearly. All child friendly terms used. Relevant for KS2 and KS3. Check out my other updated resources for mental health awareness week: Emotion Cards Year 3-4 Week of Circle Time on Mental Health Year 5-6 week of Circle Time on Mental Health Mental Health Awareness Posters Self Esteem PSHE Lesson

An eye-catching reading corner display for years 5 and 6, complete with titles, bunting, images, interactive elements, vocabulary, skills, book covers and extra free resources. Perfect for display boards, book shelves, ceiling mobiles and libraries. A giant space themed reading display and reading resource pack to promote the love of reading. Glitter text, classic books and move-able elements, this display will save you time. A useful display for teachers, children, parent helpers and visitors. It includes the year 5/6 reading learning objectives, so they’re accessible to everyone. All the year 5 & 6 reading statements are simplified to child speak. This helps everyone to feel confident with knowing the learning objectives. Adults involved with the class will be able to ask effective questions when listening to children read. Assessments of children will be more accurate and relevant. Children could also use the reading statements on an interactive display to self and peer assess and prompt reading discussions. Whole package includes: A large title Year 5 and 6 New Curriculum reading Skills in bubbles 3 large space images 6 interactive doors to open to see new books 12 Reading Questions - linked to the curriculum 12 Bunting Triangles - with famous inspirational quotes about reading 16 Key Reading Vocabulary - cards to complete your display Top Book Trump review cards Book Recommendation sheets A Reading Challenge Easily adaptable to fit your space, could also be used in a library to prompt whole school progression. All reviews welcome. You might be interested in my other popular reading resources for yr 5/6: Year 5 Reading Assessment Questions Year 6 Reading Assessment Questions Whole Term Yr 5/6 Reading Lessons

A complete year 5 Science lesson, ready to download and teach about Spencer Silver. Enjoy using the detailed PowerPoint to lead you easily through the lesson. Also included is a helpful video link, differentiated activities, all the necessary resources and the complete lesson plan. Easily teach this new curriculum KS2 Science learning objective: They should find out about how chemists create new materials, for example, Spencer Silver, who invented the glue for sticky notes Use the detailed powerpoint to explain the science behind the post it notes invention of Spencer Silver and the helpful video to explain it in further detail. Give the children a range of activities differentiated for ability - a flow chart, an explanation using analysing skills and a scientific experiment making and testing glue. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in my other popular science resources: Lessons on Famous Scientists Bundle 5 Easy To Do Mini Investigations UKS2 KS2 Forces Unit

5 complete English lessons responding to and exploring the powerful video clip ‘The Piano’ by Aidan Gibbons, found on the Literacy Shed. Inlcudes 5 PowerPoints, paired and group work, modelled texts, new vocabulary, editing activities, complete inputs, starters and plenaries and differentiation. Higher order questioning probes deep into this interesting short movie inspiring descriptive writing and progress of writing skills. Engaging and complete Powerpoints provide many opportunities for productive paired, individual and group work. A range of modelled texts are provided so children can magpie new vocabulary whilst developing their editing, writing and publishing techniques. Written for KS2 it covers many relevant teaching points: relative clauses, expanded noun phrases, editing and improving language, parenthesis, creating an atmosphere, showing change within characters, describing settings, building suspense, summarising, identifying word classes and complex sentences. Starters include: spellings, synonyms, identifying verbs and adverbs, relative clauses and handwriting. Lesson 1 - Write a review of the clip responding to an email sent to the class. Lesson 2 - How to write about playing an instrument on your own - description and atmosphere. Lesson 3 - How to write about memories in stories, building suspense. Lesson 4 - Showing change in story characters. Lesson 5 - Planning your own memory story. All resources, a detailed plan and 5 PowerPoints are included, just download, print a few documents and your week of English lessons are ready to go. There are writing frames to support the lower ability and daily challenges for the higher ability. All reviews welcome. You can also download this as part of a bundle to save money: 2 Weeks of Planning Resources PowerPoints and a Display for The Piano Visit My Shop to find all the planning, Powerpoints and resources that you need to survive a teaching life.

10 engaging and effective experiments for year 3 and 4 classes, includes instruction cards, extensions, challenges and scientific explanations. Inspire your pupils with a mini investigation for every day of British Science Week. Use the questions provided to stimulate scientific thought and discussion. Encourage your pupils to think of their own questions to spark that scientific curiosity which this week is all about. Extension activities and challenges are included to further enrich the learning and engage every child. Mini Experiments LKS2 Pack: 5 easy to set up and manage science activities for Year 3. Plus 5 more simple but effective science activities for Year 4. A short equipment list for each year group so you can quickly collect the things you need for the week. Each activity is time flexible, they could take 10 minutes or easily extend to an hours lesson. Check out more popular British Science Week resources: British Science Week KS2 Posters British Science Week KS2 Homework Tasks British Science Week KS2 Assembly

A complete geography lesson teaching the countries of Europe. Includes a thorough teaching PowerPoint, interactive activities, worksheets, answers, extensions and videos. Follow the ready-to-go PowerPoint to teach about using an atlas, Europe, European languages and flags. Use the differentiated map worksheets to enable success for every child. Extensions are provided for fast finishers and those hungry for even more. Highlights: Interactive Ready-to-go Answers on PPT Editable Teach as part of a geography unit on Europe. Check out the other lessons: Where is Europe? Compare Cities of Europe Climate of Europe Mountains of Europe Rivers of Europe

An engaging KS1 assembly on Charles Darwin’s life and achievements. Includes the complete PowerPoint assembly, reasoning questions, differentiated follow up writing resources and opportunities for discussion. Involve the students with the interactive questions and inspire them to become scientists. Includes differentiated follow up writing activities with all the necessary resources. Can be used on Darwin’s birthday February 12th or for starting a topic on famous scientists or explorers. Key teaching points covered: Darwin’s beliefs Darwin’s early life and careers His big break at 22 Adventures around the world Darwin’s theories and the public’s views His characteristics for success Impact on the world Darwin’s family life Celebrating Darwin Lots of opportunities for discussion and higher level thinking. All concepts explained clearly. 3 differentiated writing resources included to extend the assembly/input into a full lesson. Give your pupils opportunities to imaginatively respond to his amazing life. Perfect for year 1 and year 2. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular KS1 science resources: Science Week Assembly Science Week Posters Science Week Investigations

A complete geography lesson comparing two cities in Europe. Includes a thorough teaching PowerPoint, interactive activities, worksheets, word bank, extensions, videos and plenary. Follow the ready-to-go PowerPoint to teach about the human and physical features of Bristol and Berlin. Compare: Population City layout Climate Landscape Landmarks Art and culture Planned for years 3 or 4, easily adaptable for years 5 and 6. Differentiated recording tasks provided with an extension. Highlights: Photo analysis starter activity Activities for all styles of learners Scaffolded learning Check out my other popular Geography lessons on Europe from the unit: Where is Europe? Label Countries of Europe Lesson Climate of Europe Mountains of Europe Rivers of Europe

A set of 19 Arctic poems written for children to understand, enjoy and learn from. Perfect for teaching a topic on the Arctic. All written in different styles; to engage, inspire and teach about the Arctic whilst developing key reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. The poems are descriptive whilst using facts to educate and inspire. Each poem could spark a whole lesson, they start discussions on important geographical issues about the Arctic: What is the Arctic? What is it like there? Global warming, The future of the Sami people, Understanding Inuit life, Living with the polar night, Taking responsibility for our world Ice burgs Glaciers The Inuit Language Arctic animals Winter Each poem comes with a simple explanation of its essential components. The children could use these as a scaffold before going on to write their own poem about the Arctic, or respond in a different way with a letter/poster/story/newspaper article etc. A range of engaging but easy to imitate poetry styles are used: Cinquains Didactic Poems Etherees Free Verse Ghazal Poems Haikus All the poems are written by me and the images are copyright free. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in my poems about India

A detailed week covering the imitate phase of learning about discussion texts. Includes open questions, higher order thinking, engaging texts, video links, differentiation, 5 teaching PowerPoints, all resources, worksheets and answers. Every day starts with an engaging starter focusing on SPAG skills, such as KS2 spellings, parenthesis, conjunctions and handwriting. Extra for experts activities for further challenge and modelled texts to support the lower ability. Learning Objectives: To understand a discussion text and identify its features To identify facts and opinions To use conjunctions to link ideas in a for or against argument To write an introduction and conclusion To plan a discussion text on ‘Is Homework Necessary?’ Main activities differentiated by colour: Green - LA Yellow and blue - MA Red - HA Highlights: Ready to teach All printables provided KS2 appropriate Cross curricular links Differentiated Check out the follow up week for this unit here.

A differentiated class set of personalised English report comments. Written for year 5 in line with the new National Curriculum, they are positive, detailed and easy to adapt for other KS2 year groups. End your year on a positive note, with a healthy work-life balance and pupils who feel valued and understood. A contents page shows you the 30 comments in ability groups, reading, writing strengths, attitude and targets for the future. Choose the correct comments for your children or mix and match comments to design the perfect reports. Each comment comes in a girl and boy version. The name spaces are shown with 3 stars so you can quickly find and replace them with the names of your pupils. The comments cover speaking and listening, reading, writing and spelling, punctuation and grammar. You might also be interested in these handy assessment tools: Assessment Guidance SMART Targets for Writing Reading Assessment Questions

An engaging and detailed week taking children through the process of writing a discussion text. Each day there are engaging starters, main activities and plenaries. Every teaching point comes with at least one modelled text with analysis. Sequenced learning Starters review key spellings and grammatical terms from the new curriculum. Plenaries are written to encourage higher order thinking skills and encourage peer and self assessment. The main teaching points are: Writing a high quality introduction, Structuring a paragraph with PRE Using facts and opinions in discussion texts, Using modal verbs and sentence openers, Ideas of for and against points Writing a high quality conclusion. The success criteria are differentiated for three ability groups: Green - LA Blue and Yellow - MA Red - HA All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in Exploring and Planning a Discussion text Discussion text Openers

A complete set of targets for year 6 children. Covers all areas of the national curriculum. Includes at least 52 targets ability grouped and colour coded for the areas of English. Use this resource to write Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound year 6 writing targets. Useful for teachers when assessing so you can narrow down the statements from the New Curriculum into small next steps which the children can understand. Broken down into targets for punctuation, handwriting, grammar and composition. You could print out one for each child and use as an assessment tool. Or just use when marking to save time so you can quickly choose a high quality target personalised for each child. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in these high quality resources for the New Curriculum: Whole School SMART Targets Whole School Writing Assessment Sheets Whole School English Writing Assessment Guidance Whole School Guided Reading Questions

A week’s KS2 English planning focusing on teaching writing skills through a history theme of WW2. Engaging activities, resources and opportunities for discussion all included. A bright and engaging PowerPoint leads you through the week, with starters, modelled examples and plenaries for every lesson. Lessons cover these learning objectives: L.O. I know how to use relative clauses in a recount of building a bomb shelter L.O. I know how to use subordinating conjunctions in a recount of a woman’s day in the war L.O. I know how to use brackets in a recount of escaping capture L.O. I know how to use dashes and commas in a recount of a day in a tank L.O. I know how to edit and improve my writing Daily starters focusing on: punctuation, handwriting, verb prefixes and modal verbs. All lessons are differentiated: support for lower ability and challenges for higher ability. Detailed plan included. All reviews welcome. Could be used alongside a WW2 History unit or on its own.

17 inspiring, easy to set up and curriculum linked homework tasks for KS2. A range of ready to go printables for each year group in KS2 designed to inspire and excite during British Science Week. Enable your pupils to try out science at home with activities that are easy and enjoyable for parents to resource and support. Includes a writing template for children to complete about their homework, which is especially useful for the hands on investigative style activities. Year 3 Plants and data handling Cartoon strip and nutrition Pet diet and maths link Garden discoveries Year 4 Searching for States Animal Instructions Boiling water and data handling Can you hear me? Investigation Year 5 Mission impossible letter writing Who wants to be a forces millionaire? Sticky or Slippy investigation If you look closely… Follow in the footsteps of a great man Year 6 Such big teeth you have! Animopoly and other games I’m a poet and I don’t even know it Pass the scalpel - plant studies Where did it go? Light and reasoning Check out my other updated British Science Week Resources: KS2 British Scientist Quote Posters British Science Week LKS2 Mini WOW Investigations British Science Week UKS2 Mini WOW Investigations

An engaging display pack for KS2-3 on persuasive writing. Complete with titles, posters, modelled sentences, word banks, process stars, writing strategies and more. Includes bright colourful posters useful for display or a writer’s toolkit. Eye catching resources designed to engage, support and enhance. Download and quickly pop up on your English display board. Enjoy the examples of language, writing features, modelled paragraphs and key ideas. Focuses on persuading someone to visit somewhere. Easily adaptable to other types of persuasion. All reviews welcome.