We did a whole school RE day (incarnation) We looked at the question 'What is the true meaning of Christmas?' Here is the notebook file I used. It was a really successful day and I hope somebody else can use some of it. We made some great adverts as a result of it.

L.O- To recognise and challenge stereotypes. A lesson I have just done on sytereotypes, prejudice and discrimination which went really well. Thought others might find it useful :-)

A wordsearch based on 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens.

The beginning of 'A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens with all punctuation removed. Solution included.

This pack includes 3 of my maths mastery/reasoning activities for KS2, all with an ELF Christmas theme. All answers included.

Here are 6 different tasks I made. They are reasoning problems all based on some of the old Nrich maths problems for more able children upper KS2- but all altered and with a Christmas theme. Eric the elf Elf City Christmas Treats Mother Claus good Deals? North Pole Diner Christmas Animal Crackers Pack includes all 6 of the reasoning problems/tasks on easy to print/laminate individual sheets and all answers. This is a fun activity that keeps the learning going until Christmas and my class are loving these. I may well make some more (if I have time!)

Here is a great Christmas Activity. 15 different ways of saying 'Merry Christmas' from all around the world. The students must read and learn the different phrases, find them in a wordsearch and then use internet to do an online quiz and find out whhich country each phrase is used in Merry christmas

I did a 2-3 week unit on the book ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’ by Phillip Pullman. I can’t find my planning- but here are the notebook files I made in case they are useful to anyone else.

Last year, we did the book 'Shackleton’s Journey and the children loved it! It is a power of reading book and also linked with our whole school topic of Ice. Here are my plans and lots of the notebook files I made- hopefully some people will find some of it useful.

I found a unit i created with a colleague in 2014. For RE we did a unit called Christian celebrations and Christmas symbols. It includes all our planning, resources etc. Putting it all on here in case it is useful to someone else. Merry Christmas

a lesson looking at the artist Bridget Riley and her style of 'Op-art' Lesson includes powerpoint and worksheet. The learning objective is 'To reflect on an artists work'

A fun maths code cracker with all words from 'A Christmas Carol by Dickens. This could be used as a fun festive activity which links English and Maths with upper KS2, Year 7 or EAL and SEN children. 4 pages altogether -including answers download or 'Bah Humbug!'

Some word problems all require division and some require another operation too as they are multi-step. All Christmas themed and answers provided. I will be using these with years 5 and 6 next month Merry Christmas

Reading Comprehension with different activities based on the poem- Twas the night before Christmas. I used this with years 4-6 New accounts and first-time buyers can get 90% OFF this resource by entering the code 90NOVEMBER at the checkout before November 30th!

We have been doing the class book 'Skellig' in English and Multiplication in Maths. I linked the 2 together so here are 4 different levels all with answers. Super- is 4 digit by 1 WoW! is 2 x 2 Fabulous is 4 digit x 2 Marvellous is just word problems that require 4 x 2