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.
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.
This Unit is ideal for providing evidence of English across the curriculum.
Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes:
A collection of nine extended quotes (with summary information) 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 Workhouses
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 education.
• draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of universal 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 universal education.
• Produce their own written narrative of life in a school.
This resource is designed to be used in conjunction with either of the following resource packs:
The Victorians - a complete Unit of Work
The Victorians - a complete Unit of Work - with guided reading.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions - one week sample
A set of resources for display to be used to support Year 1 learning about length and height. Supports Year 1 Spring Term Week 8 and 9 of the White Rose Maths scheme and Year Term 1 Week 3 of the Lancashire Maths scheme.
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit - a series of flashcards presented using PowerPoint to recap the sound oi and oy
Review of /air/ sound
Teach Reading alternative grapheme ere for /air/, quick copy and segmenting for spelling
Practice write a sentence using one of the words,
Practice read and quickly copy tricky words when, what, why, where.
Apply reading sentence
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A complete youtube lesson prepared to facilitate home learning during the school closure,
The lesson consists of:
a starter linked to halves and quarters of quantities
an explanation of positional language next to, right, under, left, above, in between, over and below.
a game and an activity for independent learning when the video ends.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit - a recap the sound /w/, /h/ and wh
Review grapheme /ai/, split digraph a-e
Teachalternative grapheme a-e for /ai/, quick copy of words with split digraph a-e
Practice Reading and spelling of tricky words do, so, come little
Apply Writing a sentence
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit - a phoneme spotter for the alternative /ear/ sounds, ere, ear and eer
Review of /air/ sound
Teach A countdown of /air/ sounds revising alternative air, are, ear, and ere
Practice Play word challenge - writing as many different words for each of the alternative /air/ sounds
Apply reading sentence using all of the alternative /air/ trigraphs
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit - a series of flashcards presented using PowerPoint to recap the sound /ear/
Teach Reading alternative grapheme ear for /air/, quick copy and segmenting for spelling
Practice write a sentence using one of the words,
Practice read and quickly spell tricky words when, what, why, were.
Apply writing sentence
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit - a series of flashcards presented using PowerPoint to recap the sound oi and oy
Teach Reading alternative grapheme are for /air/, quick copy and segmenting for spelling
Practice write a sentence using one of the words,
Practice read and quickly copy tricky words when, what, why, where.
Apply reading alien sentence and substituting words for alien word.
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit - a series of flashcards presented using PowerPoint to recap the sound ear, ere, ere to runaround.
Teach Reading alternative grapheme are for /air/, quick copy and superhero spelling.
Practice read and quickly copy tricky words when, what, why, where.
Practice write a sentence using one of the tricky words
Apply writing sentence
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit / Review writing the alternative /air/ sounds, are, ear and are
Teach reading, writing and spelling of alternative /c/ sounds teaching alternative k
Practice Reading tricky words said, little, people, there, Quick spell of tricky words
Apply writing sentence using alternative /c/ - k
Today’s lesson revises alternative /air/ sounds and teaches reading and writing all the alternative /c/ - ck, k, ch
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit / Review runaround checking spelling of the alternative /air/ sounds, are, ear and are
Teach reading, writing and spelling of alternative /c/ sounds teaching alternative ck
Practice Reading tricky words said, little, people, there, Quick spell of tricky words
Apply writing sentence using alternative /c/ - ck
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit / Review Phoneme Spotter for alternative /air/ sounds, are, ear and are
Teach reading of all alternative /c/ sounds ch, k, ck using countdown
Practice Writing and spelling tricky words using all alternative /c/ graphemes.
Apply reading a sentence using alternative /c/ graphemes
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit / Review reading the alternative /air/ sounds, are, ear and are
Teach Writing and spelling of alternative /c/ sounds teaching alternative ch
Practice Reading tricky words said, little, people, there, Quick spell of tricky words
Apply writing sentence using alternative /c/ - ch
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit reading the alternative /ear/ sounds, ere, ear and eer
Review of /c/ sound
**Teach Reading of alternative /c/ sounds teaching alternative ch
Practice Reading tricky words said, little, people, there, Quick copy of tricky words
Apply reading sentence using alternative /c/ - ch
The lesson consists of:
Revisit - a runaround activity using PowerPoint to recap the sound /ure/, /ear/, /air/
Review grapheme ff and f for /f/
Teachalternative grapheme ph for /f/, reading ph words
Practice Quick copy of ph words, Roll it, Read it for ph and wh words
Apply Reading a sentence
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit - a series of flashcards presented using PowerPoint to recap the sound /ure/, /ear/, /air/
Review altnerative grapheme wh for /w/
Teachalternative grapheme wh for /w/, segmenting for spelling
Practice Countdown reading alternative /w/ sounds against 2 minute timer
Apply Writing a sentence
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit - a series of flashcards presented using PowerPoint to recap the sound /ure/
Review of /w/ sound
Teach Reading alternative grapheme wh for /w/, quick copy and segmenting for spelling
Practice read and quickly copy tricky words do, some, come, little
Apply reading alien sentence. What word could be used instead of the alien name.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit - a recap the sound /ure/, /ear/, /air/
Review grapheme /ai/
Teachalternative grapheme ay for /ai/, reading ay words
Practice Reading of tricky words said, have, like so.
Apply Reading a sentence