I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
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I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
A five comprehension pack designed to support work on the Tudors. There are two comprehensions per monarch, one for Higher and Middle Ability children, a second for those of lower ability. The comprehensions can be used as stand-alone lessons or set as homework.
Each comprehension consists of glossary work on words in text, comprehension questions tied to each text, and a sequencing activity based on key dates during the monarch's reign.
Comprehensions cover, in chronological order:
Henry VII
Henry VIII
Edward VI
Mary
Elizabeth I
A five comprehension pack designed to support work on the Tudors. There are two comprehensions per topic, one for Higher and Middle Ability children, a second for those of lower ability. The comprehensions can be used as stand-alone lessons or set as homework.
Each comprehension consists of glossary work on words in text, comprehension questions tied to each text, and either an imaginative piece of writing (HA/MA) or a summary and matching activity (LA).
Comprehensions cover:
Life in Tudor Times
Law and Order
The Break with Rome
The Spanish Armada
Tudor Childhood.
Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Text includes a range of non fiction, fictionalised, historical texts and short poetry. Questions include whole range of SAT style questions such as: inference and deduction, prediction and factual recall. Ideal for Guided groups, homework or whole class activities.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To form opinions about a text based on its opening chapter.
To understand how an author shifts her narrative in time.
To understand how an author builds a sense of tension.
To understand how the author uses background information to further develop characters.
To empathise with the main character.
To use inference and deduction to understand how the main characters feel upon receiving unexpected news.
To reflect upon a completed story.
Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes:
A collection of eleven quotes from contemporary sources,
An explanation of five activities that can be carried out using these resources
Planning Templates to support arguments and a chart to help summarise arguments about education
Learning Objectives:
• To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance,
• To make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• To understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
Learning Outcomes:
Pupils will be able to:
• Recognise the difference between fact and opinion
• recognise and discern between arguments made for and against the role of education
• draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of education.
• produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) the introduction of universal education.
• produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of education.
• Produce their own written narrative of life at school
A complete set of Guided Reading resources for a half term.
The Silver Sword- HA
Flour Babies / Diary of a Wimpy Kid - MA
Charlotte's Web / James and the Giant Peach- LA
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To read a classic text.
To be able to explain the meaning of archaic language.
To be able to use inference and deduction to make predictions about the plot of a short story.
A great introductory activity or mini topic on the way that Victorian society changed during Victorian times.
This mini topic uses the Market Place PowerPoint to present to your whole class a series round robin / market place / carousel activities. Each of six groups will have skim and scan, research and present information on one of the six following areas of interest:
The Abolition of Slavery
Child Labour
The changing role of education in the lives of children
The industrial revolution and its impact on Victorian life.
The changing role of Women
Workhouses and the Poor Law
They will then gather information from the other five groups before answering a quiz based on this information.
In addition to meeting the learning objectives, children will also develop turn taking, team work, collaborative research and effective presentation strategies.
Learning Objectives:
To organise and select relevant historical information from a range of sources.
To devise and answer questions about the changes to society during the Victorian period.
Learning Outcomes:
To have researched and recalled this historical time period.
To have explained to others and understood for themselves the impact of change on life in Britain.
Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Text includes a range of non fiction, fictionalised, historical texts and short poetry. Questions include whole range of SAT style questions such as: inference and deduction, prediction and factual recall. Ideal for Guided groups, homework or whole class activities.
The Witches - working above expectations.
The Suitcase Kid - working at (high)
Cliff Hanger - working at (mid)
The Worst Witch - working at Year 3
Dick King Smith books - working towards
A collection of 5 differentiated books suitable for a typical Year 5 or Year 6 Class.
Sherlock Holmes- Above Expectations (text included)
Harry Potter - At Expectations - higher
Double Act - At Expectations - middle
The Witches - At Y5 expectations
Cool! - Working towards expectations.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To make comparisons between similar experiences today and those in the past.
To be able to understand the conventions of a non-fiction text.
To be able to skim and scan for information in a whole text
A differentiated set of guided reading for a six week term
Tom's Midnight Garden - HA
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - HA/MA
Road Dahl - Matilda- MA
The Suitcase Kid - MA /LA
Bill's new frock / The Iron Man - LA
This set also includes a PDF of A Christmas Carol
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activities based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To use cover, contents and preface to make predictions.
To read and understand a classic text.
To understand how memories can help change a person.
To understand how an author can have a character changed by what he experiences first hand.
To understand how knowledge of the future can help change a person.
To understand the many different ways an author can show a character has changed.
The Hobbit - Above Expectations - HA
Harry Potter - At Expectations - HA/MA
Kensuke's Kingdom - At Expectations - MA
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - At Y5 Expectations - MA/LA
Bad Girls / The Mousehole Cat - working towards expectations - LA
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To understand how an author uses flashbacks to tell a story.
To understand what life was like a hundred years ago.
To understand how different viewpoints affect a narrative.
To form your own opinions about the main characters and their interaction with a bully.
To gain an understanding of how ordinary soldiers felt about one another in the Great War.
To understand how a character’s actions can be viewed in different ways.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LO To be able to empathise with a main character.
This is a fourth in a series of resources designed to develop children's understanding of time-lines and their appreciation of where a particular historical period fits into the chronology of history.
Learning Objective:
To know and understand the history of these islands (Great Britain) as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day.
A series of activities designed to begin any history topic linked to the Anglo Saxon period including:
Resource 1: Anglo Saxon Time-line – with dates
Resource 2: Definition cards of the Anglo Saxon Time period.
Resources 3: Anglo Saxon Time-line– without dates.
Resource 4: Anglo SaxonTime-line Cards
Resource 5: Interactive Tudor Time-line without dates.
A Word document detailing some suggested activities for working with time-lines.
Learning Outcomes:
Children will be able to:
• Understand how the islands of Britain have changed over time.
• Understand that although the period they are studying is termed Anglo Saxon, there is considerable cross over with the end of Roman Britain, and the Viking period.
• Compare and contrast key events in British history.
Any feedback on these resources, their effectiveness, additions and areas in which they can be improved would be very welcome.
This is a third in a series of resources designed to develop children's understanding of time-lines and their appreciation of where a particular historical period fits into the chronology of history.
A series of activities designed to begin any history topic linked to the Victorian period including:
Resource 1: Victorian Time-line – with dates
Resource 2: Victorian areas of interest
Resources 3: Victorian Timeline – without dates.
Resource 4: Victorian Time-line Cards
Resource 5: Interactive Time-line with dates.
A Word document detailing some suggested activities for working with time-lines.
Learning Objectives:
To know and understand how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world.
To know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative (secondary objective)
Learning Outcomes:
Children will be able to:
• how the beliefs of Queen Victoria shaped Britain.
• how other individuals have also shaped Britain.
• how Britain’s relationship with the world changed during this period.
• how Britain has influenced and been influenced by its relationship other peoples around the world.
• how Britain spread its influence through the British Empire.
• Sequence a series of 4 digit numbers.
• Compare and contrast key events in British history.