Resourcefully has an ever growing range of primary teaching resources carefully created by us. Our resources are here to help you build amazing lessons for your pupils without starting from scratch.
Resourcefully has an ever growing range of primary teaching resources carefully created by us. Our resources are here to help you build amazing lessons for your pupils without starting from scratch.
Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons.
This lesson summarises our first enquiry Question: Who were the Anglo-Saxons and how do we know about them?
Teaching PPT with a quiz to recap what students have learned so far.
Cartoon strip activity.
Whole unit planning.
Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots
Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture.
Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study.
They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.
Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons.
Enquiry Question: Who were the Anglo-Saxons and how do we know about them?
Clear teaching PPT illustrating where the Anglo-Saxons came from with clear maps as well as exploring why they came to Britain.
Jigsaw activity, students add the countries in Europe where the Anglo-Saxons came from to complete the map of Europe.
Whole unit planning.
Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots
Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture.
Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study.
They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.
Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons.
Enquiry Question: Who were the Anglo-Saxons and how do we know about them?
Clear teaching PPT illustrating when the Anglo-Saxons lived using a timeline and who they were.
Engaging main activity using extracts from Anglo-Saxon texts to understand more about who the Anglo-Saxons were.
Whole unit planning.
Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots
Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture.
Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study.
They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.
New and improved for 2024
Fun, Christmas themed crack the code activity! Aimed at Years 3 and 4, students need to solve addition and subtraction problems using formal written methods in order to crack the Christmas themed codes. This resource includes:
A PPT with a quick warm up, a practise code breaker and a missing number addition problem.
Code breaker activity with three levels of differentiation.
Addition and subtraction with 2 and 3 digit numbers involving some carrying for addition and no exchanging for subtraction.
Addition and subtraction with 3 digit numbers involving carrying for addition and exchanging for subtraction.
Addition and subtraction with up to 4 digit numbers involving carrying for addition and exchanging for subtraction.
Challenges with three levels of differentiation, challenges 1 and 2 involve missing number calculations. Challenge 3 involves word problems using different words to mean addition and subtraction.
Answers.
Looking for more Christmas themed activities? Try our KS2 Advent Calendar or our KS2 activity bundle.
New and improved for 2024
Fun, Christmas themed crack the code activity! Aimed at Years 5 and 6, students need to solve addition and subtraction problems using formal written methods in order to crack the Christmas themed codes. This resource includes:
A PPT with a quick warm up, a practise code breaker and a ‘spot the mistakes’ activity.
Code breaker activity with three levels of differentiation.
Addition and subtraction with 3 and 4 digit numbers.
Addition and subtraction with 4 and 5 digit numbers.
Addition and subtraction with up to 6 digit numbers.
Challenges with three levels of differentiation. The challengese include spotting the mistakes, following written clues to fill in a keypad and completing the Christmas maths story with Maths problems within the story.
Answers.
Looking for more Christmas themed activities? Try our KS2 Advent Calendar or our KS2 activity bundle.
Advent calendar with different, fun Christmas activities for each day of advent. These activities are perfect for morning starters or activities during the Christmas build up and can even be extended into full lessons. Aimed at the whole of KS2.
Christmas themed activities including:
Christmas Maths code crackers, addition and subtraction problems (3 and 4 digits) and times tables and related division facts.
Christmas themed anagrams.
Snowflake symmetry.
Decoration making.
Mindfulness colouring.
Christmas around the world facts.
Planning and budgeting a Christmas party.
Letter to Santa spelling activity (differentiated to lower and upper KS2)
Christmas recipe jumble and much more!
Days that fall on a weekend have a fun true or false fact for students to discuss and the advent calendar ends with a quiz.
Answers included. All questions and activities are displayed on the PPT with activity sheets provided for those activities that need them.
Spelling activity cards with 30 different challenges for children, perfect for practising spellings in fun and creative ways. Activities range from written activities, challenges that can be done alone, games for pairs or teams to outdoor tasks. These activities can be used or adapted for all ages.
Aimed at Year 6, this fantastic bundle features detailed resources for introducing Y6 grammar objectives or revising them, ideal for SATs. Each resource features a range of activities, suitable for short and snappy grammar activities or for the main activity in a lesson. Most of our resources contain three levels of differentiation and answers are always included.
Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons
Teaching PPT to guide students through their self-assessment at the end of this unit with an opportunity to add to the thought shower created at the start of this unit.
Fun and engaging orienteering style question cards, summarising this rainforest topic.
Whole unit planning.
Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons
Clear teaching PPT explaining what deforestation is and its damaging effects with opportunities for students to talk in pairs and discuss engaging questions.
Varied and engaging carousel of activities: creating signs for peaceful protests, word link activity, consequences board game and animal diaries.
Deforestation fact file to support students, this fact file goes into detail to help students as they complete activities independently.
Whole unit planning.
NC objectives:
Geography
Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things
Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons
Detailed teaching PPT detailing the largest tribe in the Amazon, the Yanomami. Explore their way of life, focus on the food they eat and how they source it with the help of this resource.
An engaging main activity with 2 levels of differentiation, students will identify the foods that tribal people eat and how they source them, some will compare it to food that we eat and how we source it.
Whole unit planning.
NC Objectives:
Geography
Describe and understand human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity
including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy,
food, minerals and water
Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons
Clear teaching PPT explaining food chains and modelling a food chain with plants and animals of the rainforests.
Engaging food chains activity with two levels of differentiation, students will use their fact files for different animals to work out the food chains in rainforests.
Interesting and beautifully presented living things fact files for students to use to support them creating food chains.
Whole unit plan.
NC objectives:
Science
Y3: identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
Y4: construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey
Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons
Detailed PPT discussing the needs of different animals and why the different layers may suit them, using the living things fact files to support learning.
Creative and fun main activity with 3 levels of differentiation, students will create their own rainforest animal or plant depending on the layer they live in, some will move on to work out the layer in which a brand new animal lives in, based on their features.
Interesting and beautifully presented living things fact files to support students independent learning.
Whole unit planning.
NC objective:
Science
Y3: explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant
Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons
Detailed and interesting teaching PPT detailing the different layers of the rainforest: including how their features make them suitable for different animals and the animals which live there.
Interesting and fun ‘lift the flap’ book activity for students to add information about each layer of tropical rainforests to.
NC objectives:
Science:
Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.
Y3: explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant
Y3: identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
Y4: recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways
Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons
-Detailed PPT explaining the difference between vertebrate and invertebrate and introducing some of the rainforest animals.
-Interesting and beautifully presented living things facts files to support students learning.
World map activity with three levels of differentiation. Students will use the animal fact files to work out the location of animals and add them to the world map, some will add vertebrate/invertebrate and add extra information about each animal.
NC objective:
Geography
Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of
Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities
Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and
describe features studied
Science
Y3: explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant
Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons
Clear teaching PPT illustrating where on the map of the world the lines of tropics are, explaining the difference between tropical and temperature rainforests and what they mean.
-Engaging main activity to find and mark tropical rainforests on the map of the world with three levels of differentiation, some will work towards finding both tropical and temperate rainforests and understanding that tropical rainforests lie within the lines of tropics.
Continent maps with tropical and temperate rainforests marked on for students to use as reference points when plotting rainforests on their world map.
Geography
Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of
Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions,
key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities
Identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern
Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the Prime/Greenwich Meridian and time zones (including day and night)
Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons
Thorough teaching PPT explaining definition of climate, weather and biome and modelling the main activity.
Engaging create your own weather forecast activity with climate tables to support children completing their weather forecasts.
Whole unit planning.
Geography
Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers,
mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.
Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities.
Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons
-Clear teaching PPT introducing the topic of rainforests with a quiz as a fun way to introduce a range of interesting facts about the topic.
-Thought shower template to use as an assessment tool at the start of the lesson.
Key word leaf templates for display, laminate and write down key words or facts about rainforests.
NC objective:
Geography - Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers,
mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.
The perfect way to start off your morning of learning.
Monday morning tasks start with activities relating to feelings to get the week off to a good start. Each sheet has English and Maths activities aimed at Year 3, beginning the term with consolidating their learning from Year 2 and continuing with what they will learn during the Autumn term. Maths activities progress in small steps as the week goes on.
PPTs include challenge tasks for children who finish early and answers.
Content:
Number sequences
Marking numbers on a number line
Comparing and ordering numbers
Place value
Writing numbers in words and digits
Addition and subtraction progressing from adding ones to adding and subtracting numbers in the hundreds using a range of representations
3, 4 and 8 x tables using a range of different representations.
Using adjectives, verbs, adverbs and nouns in sentences.
Synonyms and antonyms.
Spelling of common exception words.
Correcting spelling and grammar mistakes
Descriptive writing.