This week-long unit is fully resourced. It is winter-themed and although some poems are about Christmas, others are on the topic of winter itself to cater for everyone in your classroom. Lesson 1 - introduction to poetry, ‘taste’ two poems and record their response. Lesson 2 - Introduction to figurative language, ‘taste’ two poems and record techniques found. Lesson 3 - Discuss their favourites and why. Recommend the poems to people in their lives they think would most enjoy them. Lesson 4 - Focus on rhyming couplets and rewriting/mimicking one of the peoples by rewriting every other line. Lesson 5 - Polish and Publish using the theme. The slides cover everything. The worksheets come too. All you need to do is print. The slides are dyslexia-friendly, concise and free of cognitive overload. They are designed for UKS2 but can be easily adapted to suit your class or another year group. The poems have a range of techniques so cover a lot of ground. Perfect to recap techniques gathered throughout their school career or assess where a newer class are at so you know how to approach your next poetry topic. This is a tried and tested resources. Year on year, children love it and it brings joy to the classroom and an appreciation of poetry. Please feedback how you have used this resource to help a small business promote and extend their catalogue and customer - thank you!

This is a series of 11 lessons that take you on a journey to planning a detailed diary entry. It could be adapted to a first person narrative too. This unit uses a video stimuli which explores Athens from the perspective of a warrior adventurer. The journey includes relative clauses as well as all the features of a diary entry. All example texts are written by myself and designed to draw out UKS2 grammar and writing objectives. All lessons are fully resources, with planning and scaffolding. This entire unit is dyslexia friendly. This is an extremely high quality unit that is ready to teach to outstanding quality. This has taken many hours to create and I have used it many times and polished and perfected it. It is great for cohorts needing improved vocabulary choices, those that struggle with writing stamina and is packed with inclusive strategies for all disadvantaged groups to thrive.

This is a set of 4 lessons based on the poem “I Don’t Like Poetry” By Joshua Seigal. It is really good fun to read and mimic. This week long block includes fluency and performing the poem, it them analysing the structure and compares it to another one of Joshua Seigal’s poems, there is a comprehension day working on a mix of skills from retrieval to author’s intent and the opportunity to add a paragraph about hyperboles to extend their figurative language knowledge. Aimed at UKS2 but easily adapted for LKS2.

This is a weeks worth of Guided Reading based on the text Cosmic by Frank Cottrell-Boyce. This covers Chapter 2 and and up to page 33 due to running alongside The Write Stuff unit, we needed to get to the Car Showroom to start our writing. One lesson is mostly reading and there is one lesson which focuses on a particular type of inference question from reading papers (3 mark questions). This also features a drama lesson where children act out a scene from the car showroom.

Here is a classroom jobs poster I created. I printed mine as two A4 documents, stuck them together and laminated them. But, this being said, you could have them as individual tickets or perhaps as strips and attach pegs with names on either side. They are flexible and of course the jobs are suited to my setting so you will probably want to edit them. I hope you enjoy. Miss HB x

This presentation is useful for Artist Studies. The voice files may or may not work so you may have to delete them but otherwise its good to go. I may have gone a little wild on the presentation features as this is an upcoming topic for the kiddos so wanted to get in some cross-curricular questions too (perhaps this is helpful, perhaps not). I have directed this work at Paul Cezanne’s still life and use of sketch book to promote resilience, creativity in experimentation and viewpoint - this supports our overall topic. Edit as you wish but please tag me on instagram @misshb_teacher Thanking you kindly - Miss HB x

Here are some pastel coloured sentence starters for Reading. These were recommended by an old mentor. However, I’m unsure where the original idea comes from. I have edited mine slightly so they are smaller - although could be blown up on the photocopier or decreased further to make a table support. Please edit them as you please but tag my instagram @misshb_teacher and show me what you have done with them. Miss HB x

Hey guys, Here is the overview of my drawing planning for Year Five drawing. It shows the steps and order that I have organised the unit and therefore may be useful as a starting point for anyone planning in this area. Please enjoy and let me know how you use it. Miss HB xoxo

Hello guys, Here are some pre-made english display letters with a leaf theme. They would go well with a ranforest topic or natural themed classroom. I hope you enjoy. Thank you Miss HB xoxo

Hello. This activity is a sorting worksheet for words. The learners use it to sort the relevance or effectiveness of vocabulary in context. For example, when looking at synonyms of the word big, children may generate words but then given the context of space, decide that some words generated are not as effective in this context or relevant so they organise them using the rings. In this resource, you will find a sheet that can be used as a worksheet and a larger copy for display purposes. Please show me how you use the resource and or review it. You can also tag me on instagram @missHB_teacher

I use this very simple template with 30 marbles to collect for my classes to earn a half-termly treat. I’ve always found other templates have way too many marbles to earn or too few. 30 is perfect for a half-term as there are rougly this many school days. I give class marbles for whole class working - everyone on task, working as a team, when adults compliment our classroom or transitions - assemblies etc Hope it is helpful.

I use this to gather a song from every class member and then pull one out of a basket if they have extra time because everyone has been getting on or everyone is working beautifully during an afternoon art lesson. I also may single out a student working really hard and listening well to get their song played.