At its height, the Roman Empire ruled over much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. In this lesson, students will learn about how the Roman Army was so successful. They will read sources, watch an informative video, learn about the different battle formations and what was required of Roman soldiers.
They will be encouraged to enact the different battle formations, label the uniform of a Roman soldier and write a job application to become a soldier in the Roman Army.
This lesson is intended for KS2 but can easily be adapted to suit KS3.
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In this lesson students will focus on the question- why was Sparta so tough?
They will learn how Sparta was ruled and will compare this with Athens. They will learn more about the spartan warrior lifestyle through the presentation and video links and how boys were trained in the Agoge from age 7. They will also learn what a hoplite (Spartan soldier) wore and what role women and girls played in Sparta.
Their tasks will be to draw and label their own hoplite and then write a diary entry from the perspective of a Spartan, using the information they have learnt. Worksheets for these tasks are provided.
By the end of the lesson, students will have a deep understanding of Spartan society.
This lesson is intended for KS2 but can easily be modified to suit KS3.
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In this lesson, students will learn about Queen Victoria through her diary, videos and reading a biography. They will then ‘hot seat’ someone from the class as Queen Victoria to pose their own questions.
Following this, they will answer comprehension questions on her biography and complete true/false questions using what they have learnt. Finally, they will be tasked to write a diary entry as Queen Victoria herself.
All resources for this lesson are provided.
This lesson is intended for KS2 but can easily be modified to suit KS3.
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In this lesson, students will learn how Athens was governed as a direct democracy. They will learn what the key words- oligarchy, monarchy and tyranny is and will understand how the direct democratic model worked in Athens.
They will also learn about the Athenian criminal court system and will then enact two different scenarios using drama to better understand the systems. They will be given two scenarios to write down their arguments either for/against and as a class will role play these.
This lesson is heavily guided with all of the information needed included. A video and a quiz also makes it engaging for all.
This lesson is intended for KS2 but can easily be modified to suit KS3.
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In this lesson, students will firstly look at where the Victorians fit in the timeline of British history before learning key facts about their clothing, food & drink, jobs & education, housing and pastimes.
In groups, they will be tasked to write key notes on each area using the information sheets provided. They will then feedback what they have learnt to their original group.
Their final task will be to compare the lives of rich and poor Victorians using what they have learnt through a venn diagram.
All resources are provided.
This lesson is intended for KS2 but can easily be modified to suit KS3.
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In this lesson, students will learn what Greek mythology is and how the Ancient Greeks worshiped the gods. They will learn more about the the twelve main gods using an informative fact file and then complete a quiz to test their understanding. Then they will read the myth Pandora’s Box before writing their own myth linking to the gods and goddesses they have studied.
By the end of the lesson, students will have a deep understanding of what Greek mythology is and will have successfully applied this understanding in their own myth.
This lesson is intended for KS2 but can easily be modified to suit KS3.
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In this BUNDLE you will receive lessons on addition & subtraction, long multiplication and short & long division.
All lessons come with a comprehensive presentation outlining what these calculations are and the appropriate methods. They also come with practise activities and problems which require students to use these methods in context.
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All lessons are intended for Year 6 students but can easily be modified to suit lower KS2 and KS3 students.
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Stories From Other Cultures give children the opportunity to experience a world outside of their own and to bring it into the classroom to appreciate a culture that they may not have even considered. It may also help to unlock some different texts that they wouldn’t normally reach for.
This is a sequence of lessons to support the teaching of Stories from Other Cultures. The sequence follows:
Lesson 1- Whole-Class Guided Reading on Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Lesson 2- Identifying features of Stories from Other Cultures
Lesson 3- Re-telling a story
Lesson 4- Writing a character description
Lesson 5- Writing a setting description
Lesson 6- Planning and writing own story from another culture
All of the supporting resources are provided as well as comprehensive lesson plans for each lesson.
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In this pack of activities, you will get the following task sheets in a 25 page booklet!
All about ‘me’ activity sheets
General getting to know my class and classroom sheet
Maths from Year 5 recap
Science topics from Year 5 recap
English- holiday recount writing
Art task to sketch a portrait of your partner
DT teamworking task to build a structure using spaghetti and marshmallows
Geography local area research task
History ordering dates on a timeline
This booklet is perfect for Year 6 pupils returning to school!
Power point presentations and correlating worksheets for 1-2 weeks of place value with Year 6’s.
These lessons cover the national curriculum objectives:
-read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10 000 000 and determine the value of each digit
-round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy
-use negative numbers in context, and calculate intervals across zero
-solve number and practical problems that involve all of the above
Simply follow these presentations to cover all of the objectives in a fun and engaging way! all worksheets are differentiated and worksheets are provided.
This sequence of lessons studying newspaper reports is based around the theme of Space. It looks at a model text about Tim Peake’s journey to space and over two weeks teaches students how to structure a newspaper report part by part.
Each lesson comes with an engaging powerpoint presentation and all relevant material. Included is a unit planning overview so you can see how the lessons progress. At the end of the unit, the children are tasked to write their own newspaper reports using the techniques they have learnt.
The lessons progress as follows:
Lesson 1- Show what you know
Lesson 2- Whole class guided reading on the model text
Lesson 3- Using a range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs
Lesson 4- Features of newspaper reports
Lesson 5- boxing up the model text and planning own reports
Lesson 6- writing the headline, subheadline and introductory paragraph
Lesson 7-writing the main body of the report
Lesson 8- writing a conclusive paragraph
Lesson 9-Show what you know- independently writing own reports
Lesson 10- editing, improving and sharing writing
This lesson is intended for Year 5/6 students but can easily be modified to suit lower KS2 or KS3.
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This three-week unit of work is based on the text Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman and the Talk for Writing model with a baseline assessment- planning- imitation- innovation- independent application- final assessment.
The pupils will learn what the features of newspaper reports are and how to identify bias. They will look in detail at a ‘model text’ and will learn this off-by-heart to help them reproduce similar sentence structures and vocabulary in their own writing.
Through teacher modelling, they will embellish the class version on kidney xenotransplantation before writing their own independently using the techniques they have learnt.
Lesson 1- Have a go writing own newspaper report
Lesson 2- whole class guided reading on the model text (Pig Heart Boy based)
Lesson 3- Looking at how cohesion is created
Lesson 4- Features of newspaper reports
Lesson 5- ‘Boxing-up’- looking at how the model text is structured
Lesson 6- Analysing bias and how it is created in newspaper reports
Lesson 7, 8 & 9- Shared writing with teacher modelling
Lesson 10,11,12,13,14,15- planning, writing, editing and improving own newspaper reports
This unit is planned for Year 5 and 6 children but can easily be modified to suit lower KS3 students.
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In this unit of 15 lessons, students will be supported in writing their own science fiction stories in the style of Talk4Writing. The lessons follow the sequence below:
-Introduction to science fiction
-Whole-class guided reading lesson on a model text
-Character development
-Creating a science fiction toolkit looking at the features of this text type
-Boxing up the model text
-Shared writing during the innovate stage and children learning how to develop a story from the opening, build up, problem, resolution and ending
-Children independently write their own stories
Each lesson comes with an engaging powerpoint presentation and the relevant resources. The process of writing their own stories is modelled and supported and they will learn how to describe characters and settings, how to create suspense, how to use sentence structures for effect and much more!
This lesson is intended for Year 5/6 students but can easily be modified to suit lower KS2 or KS3.
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In this unit of lessons, students will improve their ‘working scientifically’ skills by carrying out different investigations with a focus on presenting their results in different ways e.g. bar charts, scatter graphs, line graphs.
All of the National Curriculum objectives for Year 5&6 working scientifically skills are covered in the 6 lessons and an overview plan is provided which outlines the resources needed for each lesson as well as the key areas covered.
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This 3 week guided narrative unit of work follows the first six chapters of Pig Heart Boy and the Talk for Writing model with a baseline assessment- planning- imitation- innovation- independent application- final assessment.
The children work on their comprehension skills through whole class guided reading lessons based on what they have read so far. They learn to develop the characters through dialogue and description in structured lessons and through teacher modelling, they complete a shared write before independently writing the next chapter of the narrative.
Lesson 1- ‘Have a go’ independently writing next chapter
Lesson 2- Whole class guided reading on model chapter
Lesson 3- Exploring characters
Lesson 4- Characterisation through dialogue
Lesson 5- Characterisation through description
Lesson 6- Planning shared write
Lesson 7, 8 &9- Shared writing
Lesson 10- Chapter 5 comprehension
Lesson 11-15- Planning, writing and editing independent ‘Show what you know’
This unit is planned for Year 5 and 6 children but can easily be modified to suit lower KS3 students.
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This sequence of lessons cover:
solving problems involving the relative sizes of two quantities where missing values can be found by using integer multiplication and division facts.
-solving problems involving unequal sharing and grouping using knowledge of fractions and multiples.
-solving problems involving similar shapes where the scale factor is known or can be found.
-Mix of problem solving with ratio and proportion.
All lessons include an engaging powerpoint presentation and 3 levels of differentiated worksheets. Answer sheets are also provided.
These lessons are aimed at Year 6 students but can easily be modified to suit Year 5 or lower KS3 students.
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This sequence of lessons is based on the Victorian period. The model story ‘The Fall’ tells the story of a young coal miner who is nearly involved in a mine disaster. The lessons cover how to write a story, links to the Victorians and SPAG coverage.
The unit lessons follow this sequence:
Lesson 1- Show what you know
Lesson2- whole class guided reading on the story ‘The Fall’
Lesson 3- identifying suspense
Lesson 4- Identifying adverbials and subordinate clauses
Lesson 5- Planning own historical fiction story
Lesson 6- whole class guided reading- Queen Victoria
Lesson 7- Writing the opening
Lesson 8- Writing the build up
Lesson 9- Writing the problem
Lesson 10- Writing the resolution and ending
Lesson 11 & 12- Writing own historical fiction story
Lesson 13-15- editing, improving and sharing stories
These lessons are intended for use with Year 5 & 6 children, however they can be easily modified to suit KS3 and lower KS2.
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This bundle includes lessons on the following:
Lesson 1- Plant Reproduction
Lesson 2- Animal Reproduction
Lesson 3- Amphibian & Insect Life Cycles
Lesson 4- Mammal & Bird Life Cycles
Lesson 5- Natural Scientists
All lessons come with a knowledge organiser, engaging powerpoint, video clip links and related activity sheets.
These lessons are intended for Year 5 students but can be easily modified to suit all of KS2 and KS3 students.
This BUNDLE contains 6 lessons of teaching material on Animals including Humans. The lessons follow the sequence:
Lesson 1- The Circulatory System
Lesson 2- The Heart
Lesson 3- The Blood
Lesson 4- The Benefits of Exercise
Lesson 5- A Healthy Diet
Lesson 6- Drugs & Alcohol
A knowledge organiser for the unit is also included.
Lessons come with an engaging presentation, video links, worksheets and activities. They deliver a comprehensive overview of Animals including Humans and do so in an engaging way. These lessons have been designed for Year 6 students but can be easily adapted to suit KS2 or KS3 students.
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In this BUNDLE, all of the lessons for Year 5, Animals Including Humans topic are included. You will receive lessons on the following:
Lesson 1- Human Timeline
Lesson 2- Prenatal (In the Womb)
Lesson 3- Baby & Child
Lesson 4- Adolescence & Puberty
Lesson 5- Adult & Old Age
Lessons come with engaging presentations, video links and task sheets to follow. They deliver a comprehensive overview of Animals Including Humans and do so in an engaging way. These lessons have been designed for Year 5 students but can be easily adapted to suit KS2 or KS3 students.
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