In this unit children find out about the way people lived in the ancient Greek empire. They use a range of archaeological and written sources, select and record information and interpret the past in different ways. It is helpful if the children have: learnt about the way of life of people from different cultures who lived in the distant past; considered some of the attitudes and values of people living in the distant past, their motives and the results of their actions; used artefacts and pictures as sources of information. Includes: Contents Introduction Medium-term plan Preparatory information Useful websites about the Greeks Lesson 1 Greece today Lesson 2 Ancient Greek city states Lesson 3 Athens and Sparta Lesson 4 Triremes and hoplites Lesson 5 The battle of Marathon Lesson 6 Who did the ancient Greeks worship? Lesson 7 Theseus and the Minotaur Lesson 8 Ancient Greek theatre Lesson 9 The play’s the thing Lesson 10 The modern Olympic Games Lesson 11 The ancient Olympic Games Lesson 12 What we know about the ancient Greeks Picture Prompt sheets All lesson plans and activity sheets included. Not sure? See our free download on Ancient Greek Theatre

Who were the Celts? Learning objectives Learning outcomes The purpose of this lesson is: for the children to develop a clear understanding of who the Celtic people were. Children should learn: • to select and record information about Celtic ways of life; • about aspects of life in Celtic Britain, using a variety of sources. Class objective: • to find out about the Celts Children should be able to: • select relevant information from a number of sources; • record relevant information about the Celtic way of life Includes Lessons Plan and resources for activities

The purpose of this lesson is: to learn about the story of Theseus. Children should learn: • about one Greek myth in detail; • to answer questions showing understanding of myths and legends. Class objective: • to learn about the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Children should be able to: • understand the nature of a myth; • recount the story of Theseus and the Minotaur. Includes: Lesson Plans and Activities and the story

3 lessons covering: The Compass How to use the compass Directional language Includes Lesson plans and work sheets Lesson 1: The Compass and its uses Learning objectives Children should learn: • the names of simple compass directions; • simple locational language; • to describe the location of features on a map Lesson 2: Using the Compass Learning objectives Children should learn: • the names of simple compass directions; • simple locational language; • to use simple maps; • to plot a route on the ground. Lesson 3: Using directional language Learning objectives Children can: • begin to confidently use directional language. Taken from LCP’s KS1 Geography Resource File

Racing to English Great resources for teaching English as an additional language. Free resource includes :- Set of photo cards and matching words. Picture Dictionary Sheet. Worksheets for oral and written work. If you are looking for a comprehensive English as an Additional language resource then see the full Racing to English resource on LCP’s website. For now, this is a great freebie that we wanted to share. Let us know what you think …

8 Activities for Years 1 or 2 linked to the study of 1950’s Britain. Activity 1: My Kitchen Today Activity 2: Understanding a 1950’s Kitchen Activity 3: Let’s Go Food Shopping in the 1950’s Activity 4: Favourite Food now and then Activity 5: New Toy, Old Toy (Sort the cards into the box 2 sheet activity). Activity 6: Draw your home Activity 7: Understanding the Names of Different Homes All worksheets can be done as homework or for home learning. Taken from the KS1 History Resources File (available to purchase on our website). Leave a review

This resource includes 1 text with activities and questions. Text title: Mozart The cards primarily address text-level objectives for each year group and focus specifically on reading comprehension of non-fiction texts. The cards are designed to encourage talk and develop listening and speaking skills. There is a main text on the front of each of the reading cards. The main text is followed by talk time , where there are open-ended questions, which are designed to stimulate a personal response to the issues raised and encourage children to think about the card’s theme. The questions encourage discussion between two to six people. Talk time questions that are preceded by a require children to refer back to the text and are suitable for prompting children’s written responses. The box contains an interesting fact related to the card’s theme. This should appeal to the children’s sense of wonder and fascination for the remarkable. The reverse side of each card carries things to do box. This contains activities and challenges that are designed to enable children to pursue the main theme still further. The activities are mainly practical in nature, so that all children can succeed, whatever their levels of literacy Leave a review

Taken from Unit 1 UKS2 Literacy file. Read chapter 4 ‘The Keeper of the Keys’ from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling to the class. Put a plain cover on the book and do not reveal the title. Set the scene by reading a description of ‘the perfect place’ to stay from the penultimate page of chapter 3 beginning (he) ‘was pointing at what looked like a large rock way out to sea…’ .Explain to the children that as you are reading you would like them to the strategy of listening our for key features to help them decide which genre this story could be classed as. What clues are there? Leave a review.

2 lessons covering UK Counties and Major Cities Lesson 1: Counties in the UK Learning objectives Children should learn: • the UK is divided into countries and counties. Success criteria Children can: • understand that the countries in the UK are divided into counties and can name some of the counties. Lesson 2: Major Cities in the UK Learning objectives Children should learn: • about the major cities in the UK. Success criteria Children can: • understand that there are a number of major cities in the UK and can name and locate them. Taken from LCP’s LKS2 Geography Resource File

3 worksheets focuses on the teaching of adverbs Sheet 1: to revise adverbs of manner Sheet 2: to revise adverbs of time, frequency and place. Sheet 3: to investigate how adverbs can affect adjectives Taken from Grammar and Creativity Year 6 (by LCP) Clear sheets that have instructions so easily to follow. Leave a review

This unit links to the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements in the Programme of Study and considers the key historical enquiry question, How do we find out about Florence Nightingale? It introduces the children to the idea of historical sources, introduces the concepts of old and new, and encourages them to think about the life and times of a famous person. The approach used could be applied to the study of other famous people. It provides a wide range of opportunities for children to develop their spoken language. It is helpful if the children have: ordered events in time and used everyday terms about the passing of time; answered questions about people/ events in the past using pictures and written sources; recounted episodes from stories about the past; looked for similarities and differences between today and the past. Lesson 1: How do we find out about a famous person? Lesson 2: The story of Queen Elizabeth I. Lesson 3: Recording the life of a famous person: Why do we remember Queen Elizabeth I? Leave a review

7 activities to support the understanding of the Naples and Campania Region as part of a location study aimed at Keystage 2 children. Activity 1: Where is Italy? Activity 2: The Regions of Italy Activity 3: Base Map of Naples and the Campania Region Activity 4: Reading Train Timetables: Circumvesuviana line table (The train around the Bay of Naples). Activity 5: Holiday Brochure Activity 6: Understanding Volcanoes- The Vesuvius Crater Activity 7: A Section Through a Volcano. Leave a review

3 lessons including lesson plans and resources- What and where is Europe? This has been written as two lessons as there is so much to learn about Europe. Lesson 1 will be the introduction, finding out about the continent as a whole, whilst Lesson 2 will concentrate on Europe related knowledge. The interactive games may be played in both lesson. Lesson 1:What and where is Europe Learning objectives Children should learn: • to begin to identify countries in Europe and their major cities. Success criteria Children can: • locate and understand that Europe is a continent that has a number of countries and a range of major cities Lesson 3: Regions in Europe Learning objectives Children should learn: • countries and capital cities in Europe; • to work together to design a tour of a region of Europe. Success criteria Children can: • understand that Europe is a continent that has a number of countries and can produce a tour of a region in a country in this continent. Taken from LCP’s LKS2 Geography Resource File

About this unit This unit looks at what it means to belong to something, whether it be a community, class, club, country, team, family, circle of friends and so on, and the need to show that belonging through joint activities or lifestyle, dress or behaviour. The unit explores belonging to: • a family • a school • other groups • the local community • our country • the world. People of particular life stances or groups will be valuable in sharing their experiences and showing any clothing and artefacts that signal their belonging and pride in that. Where opportunities arise for adding this feature to the lessons, make the most of them! Lesson length: Each lesson is designed to take one hour. (Lesson 3 will take longer if the group works outside to gather photographs.) Expectations At the end of this unit most children will: • understand the importance people attach to belonging to a group, and be able to name a religious and secular group. Some children will have made less progress and will: • be able to talk about the groups they belong to. Some children will have progressed further and will: • be able to explain why people belong to religious groups, naming some

5 worksheets to inspire learning and encourage geographical curiosity both at home or at school. Focused on a location study: South Wales. Taken from Keystage 2 Geography Resource File. Available as PDF to print. These worksheets include: Rainfall and Temperature in the UK worksheet Climate Statistics in Cardiff Types of Coal The Railway Children Comprehension Reading a Map (Distrubition of Iron and Steel in South Wales)

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a famous engineer who lived in Victorian times. He was a very good engineer and he won a competition to build a bridge over the River Avon. This bridge became the Clifton Suspension bridge. This unit links to the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements in the Programme of Study and considers the key historical enquiry question, How do we find out about Isambard Kingdom Brunel? It introduces the children to the idea of historical sources, introduces the concepts of old and new, and encourages them to think about the life and times of a famous person. The approach used could be applied to the study of other famous people. It provides a wide range of opportunities for children to develop their spoken language. It is helpful if the children have: ordered events in time and used everyday terms about the passing of time; answered questions about people/ events in the past using pictures and written sources; recounted episodes from stories about the past; looked for similarities and differences between today and the past. Lesson 1: How do we find out about a famous person? Lesson 2: The story of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Lesson 3: Recording the life of a famous person.

Includes lesson plans and resources. Taken from our Literacy Upper Keystage 2 Resource File Tales from other cultures and traditions Lesson:1 Once upon a time… (two versions of Red Riding Hood) LO: To find similarities and differences between two stories Lesson 2: Would you trust this wolf? LO: Speak and write in a persuasive way and use speech marks with other punctuation. Lesson 3: Creating word pictures LO: Use similes and metaphors to make writing interesting Lesson 4: The real Mr Wolf LO: To recognise that stories change when told from a different perspective Lesson 5 Journey to Jo’burg LO: Find out about life in other countries by reading stories. • Make notes about characters and places Lesson 6: In Johannesburg LO: Read between the lines’ in stories. Write newspaper articles and letters from different viewpoints. Lesson 7: Going home LO: Discuss important issues found in stories. Make notes on both sides of an argument. Lesson 8: Inspiration for Journey to Jo’burg LO: Match an author’s experiences to scenes and characters in their stories. This fiction unit explores some stories from other cultures. In reading stories from a variety of cultures and traditions, children are encouraged to see differences in relationships, customs and attitudes and use of language. Children will identify points of view and plan and retell a story from alternative viewpoints. They will also précise texts and rewrite them as letters, dialogue or newspaper articles. There will be opportunities to discuss the motives of both the characters and the story tellers. The first four lessons focus on versions of the familiar European folk tale ‘Red Riding Hood’. The last four lessons analyse a children’s novel - Journey to Jo’burg written by a South African author in the 1980s. As one focus of this unit is on story illustrations, it might be useful to link with Art and design lessons and invite a professional illustrator into school. Leave a review

This non-fiction unit looks at persuasion and argument. Children will read and evaluate texts intended to inform, protest, complain or persuade. In doing so, they will consider how the texts are set out and what language devices are used. They will notice the deliberate use of ambiguity, half-truth, bias; how opinion can be disguised to seem like fact; infer writers’ perspectives from what is written and from what is implied. Children will investigate the use of persuasive definitions, rhetorical questions, pandering and condescension. During the unit, children will write persuasive letters for real purposes, for example to put a point of view or comment on an emotive issue. The first two lessons focus on writing persuasively about environmental issues. The next two lessons look at formal and informal writing and at how to produce a balanced argument. In Lesson 5 the children will take part in a formal debate. The final lesson looks at a famous wartime speech by Winston Churchill. (This could be used separately during a history lesson.) Lesson 1: How big is your carbon footprint? • Evaluate texts intended to persuade. • Identify persuasive devices • Infer what is implied 2 Green letters• Know the features of a persuasive letter. 3 Exploring a controversial issue • To identify textual viewpoints – for, against and balanced. To explore the language and organisational features of texts presenting a specific argument/ point of view. 4 Comparing formal and informal texts • To identify and explore the features of formal and informal texts. • To listen for language variation in formal and informal contexts. • To employ the features and narrative techniques of formal and/or informal texts in their own writing 5 Establishing a viewpoint on a controversial issue • To participate in wholeclass debate using the conventions and language of debate, including Standard English. • To identify the ways spoken language varies according to differences in the context and purpose of its use. Analysing a famous speech • Listen to and understand a speech. • Recognise the use of repetition and emotive language. Leave a review

Invaders and settlers The purpose of this lesson is: to establish that the Anglo-Saxons both invaded and settled in Britain. Children should learn: • to use the terms ‘invade’ and ‘settle’; • to place the Anglo-Saxon period in a chronological framework. Class objective: • to discover the difference between invaders and settlers. Learning Outcomes Children should be able to: • use a dictionary to find the meanings of the words ‘invade’ and ‘settle’; • sort words or phrases correctly under the headings ‘invade’ and ‘settle’; • locate the Anglo-Saxon period on a time line; • discuss ideas associated with invasion and settlement. Includes Lesson Plan and Activity Sheets See full unit available on TES

The purpose of this lesson is: to develop a clear understanding of where the Vikings came from and where they settled. Children should learn: • about the Viking homelands; • the places that the Vikings visited; • where the Vikings settled when they came to Britain. Class objective: • to find out where the Vikings came from and where they settled Children should be able to: • locate the Viking homelands on a map; • locate countries in the world that the Vikings visited; • identify Viking settlements on a modern map. Includes Lesson Plan and Activity Sheets Would you like the full unit? Purchase on TES or on our website