I work in KS2 and love creating engaging lessons and resources for my children, as well as making my classroom a happy and positive learning environment!
I work in KS2 and love creating engaging lessons and resources for my children, as well as making my classroom a happy and positive learning environment!
A fun way to end the week and encourages the children to reflect on the week/their learning and set a target for the following week.
Slips could go home at the end of the day as a discussion point, stay in the classroom to be referred to or recycled!
‘Teacher Noticeboard’ lettering - Harry Potter/Daily Prophet themed.
Includes ‘messages’ and ‘to do’ list sheets, perfect for laminating and popping on your noticeboard next to a dry wipe marker!
A unit based on area and perimeter (Year Five). Linked to housing plans for The Tudors and the book ‘The Secret Diary of a Tudor Boy Spy’.
Objectives cover include:
Cold Task
LI: To explore position and direction, area and perimeter.
LI: To calculate the perimeter of different shapes.
LI: To calculate the perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes.*
LI: To collaboratively plan and design a Tudor house and gardens.
LI: To calculate the area of rectangles.
LI: To calculate the area of compound shapes. *
LI: To design and present my Tudor House demonstrating my understanding of measurement, area and perimeter.
Hot Task
LI: To explain Tudor houses and gardens.
*This lessons require Twinkl worksheets (not included) or a different type of worksheet (not provided).
All over necessary worksheets/resources are included.
16 different circuit activities.
Including russian twists, sit ups, dinosaur nest, diy, skipping, sprinting, plank.
Cards are ideal to be laminated and put across the playground or hall to create different circuit ‘stations’.
Three different worksheets.
1.) partitioning and representing numbers.
2.) 10 more/10 less and 100 more/100 less
3.) number lines to 1000.
PDF format so ready to print and go.
Pitched at Year Three.
A ‘Stig of the Dump’ inspired character description used as a model text to help demonstrate sentence starters, sentences of three, fronted adverbials and powerful verbs/adjectives.
Links with topic work based on the stone age.
"Stumbling to his feet, the musty, stale smell of damp clung to Barney’s nostrils. "
A lesson about where Egypt is in the world.
Children identify which continent Egypt is in and looks at the key geographical features of Egypt.
Children can use air dry clay to create the shape of Egypt and then paint on the features.
Suggested resources:
Google Earth, atlas, globe.
Covers all Year Five place value objectives.
Three weeks worth of lessons and resources.
A few lessons require Twinkl tasks (not included) but can be adapted. These lessons are used to consolidate learning from the lesson before so are not 100% necessary but supplement the learning nicely.
Most tasks offer a range of ‘mild’, ‘warm’ or ‘spicy’ tasks with an added option for an extension or probing question.
Those three lessons which would benefit from a Twinkl membership are - Roman Numerals, Compare and order numbers, Place Value problems.
Lessons are:
Cold task
LI: To represent numbers up to 1,000,000.
LI: To add powers of 10, 100, 1000 and 10,000.
LI: To subtract powers of 10, 100, 1000 and 10,000.
LI: To compare and order numbers up to 1,000,000. x2
LI: To read and interpret negative numbers.
LI: To round a number to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. x2
LI: To read and write Roman numerals to 1000. x2
LI: To solve problems involving place value. x2
Hot task - Please note this is the same as the cold task, the title just needs to be changed.
LI: To know the names and order of the planets.
Success Criteria:
I can name all of the planets.
I can find a way to help me remember them.
I can identify and label the different planets.
LI: To learn about the planets in our solar system.
Success Criteria:
I can identify the different planets.
I can research facts about the different planets.
I can present my research in a fact file.
LI: To describe the movement of the Earth and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system.
Success Criteria:
I know the names and order of the planets in our Solar System.
I can explain the difference between rotation and revolution.
LI: To participate in a debate using my scientific understanding to explain my reasoning.
Success Criteria:
I can form an opinion based on research.
I can share my ideas with others.
I can listen and reflect on other peoples point of view.
LI: To understand about gravity and its effects on Earth. #
A Twinkl PPT for the debate lesson is useful to download if you have a Twinkl account, otherwise different sheets, books, internet for research.
Aimed at Year 5/6, this unit or work looks at a range of skills needed to compose effective non-chronological reports.
Includes an example NCR on Hippogriffs to be used as a model text, hot and cold task unit targets, Smart Notebook slides.
12 lessons in this unit for Non-Chronological Reports. Content can be tweaked to focus on certain aspects of HP.
We used a trip to the Warner Bros Studio Tour to research and collect information about Harry Potter.
You may wish to add an extra lesson or two creating a lesson through research of books/internet to help develop note taking, etc.
Lessons/LIs:
Cold task: To write a NCR.
To explore a non-chronological report (ERIC)
To explore language and structural features of a non-chronological report.
To compose effective and concise introductory paragraphs.
To construct compound sentences using coordinating conjunctions.
STAND ALONE ‘Extended Write’ - (focus on modal verbs)
To start my sentences in different ways.
To write well structured paragraphs.
To plan a NCR.
Hot Task: To write a NCR. (You may want to do this over two lessons to ensure content and quality).
To edit and improve my writing.
To publish a piece of work.
A block of 11 lessons with one ‘stand alone’ diary entry lesson which links to Letters from the Lighthouse’.
The main body of the lessons is looking at features and skills to create a news article based on the mass evacuation of children and vulnerable adults during WWII. This unit goes well with learning about WWII in history.
Please note: this is a smart notebook file. I have attached pdf and ppt versions of these files but these are not editable. Smart notebook is the best format for this!
LI: To write a diary entry (cold task)
Success Criteria:
I can take on the persona of a character.
I can write in first person.
LI: To explore the features of a news article.
Success Criteria:
I know what makes something ‘news’.
I can identify key language and structural features.
I can answer questions based on a text.
LI: To use compound sentences with accuracy.
Success Criteria:
I can identify main and subordinate clauses.
I can use a range of coordinating conjunctions.
I can write topical compound sentences.
LI: To use a range of conjunctions when creating complex sentences.
Success Criteria:
I can identify a range of complex sentences.
I know that a complex sentence contains a main (independent) clause and at least one subordinate (dependent) clause.
I can identify a range of conjunctions.
I can form a variety of complex sentences.
LI: To use parenthesis to add additional information.
Success Criteria:
I can identify parenthesis.
I can decide what punctuation to use for parenthesis.
I can write sentences including parenthesis.
LI: To use direct and reported speech.
Success Criteria:
I can differentiate between direct and reported speech.
I can punctuate direct speech accurately.
I can draw out key quotes from a range of information.
I can write the main body including a variety of reported and direct speech.
LI: To write an effective introduction.
Success Criteria:
I know what the 5Ws are.
I can use the 5Ws to create an effective introduction.
I can suggest an appropriate headline.
I can use prepositions and adverbs to express time, place and cause.
LI: To form detailed paragraphs.
Success Criteria:
I understand the structure of a news article.
I can expand on a point.
I can link my sentences together to provide cohesion.
LI: To plan a newspaper article.
Success Criteria:
I can box up a newspaper report.
I can use the 5Ws.
I can write factually.
LI: To write a newspaper article.
Success Criteria:
I can use my plan to help me.
I can include an appropriate heading and hook.
I can use the 5w’s in my introduction.
I can link my sentences, selecting appropriate time words.
LI: To publish a newspaper article.
Success Criteria:
I can carefully proof-read my work.
I can make changes to improve my work.
I can present my work using my best handwriting.
14 English starters perfect to be stuck into books at the start of a lesson.
Each starter has five questions in different formats, exploring grammar, punctuation and spelling.
Ideal for UKS2.
Link to history/The Ancient Egyptians.
Investigate the mummification process and consolidate understanding of mummification.
Children get to mummify their own apples, making predictions, comparing the experiment to what the Ancient Egyptians did and evaluating the experiment at a later date. (Can leave the apples as long as you like - we left them for 10 days!)
Children love completing this experiment and are engaged the entire time!
Materials needed:
Small apples, antibacterial hand gel, table salt, bicarbonate of soda, plastic cups, paper towels, vegetable peeler, labels.
‘Sharp Work
Our Work is on Point’ display lettering with several different A4 prints that are perfect to be laminated and used to pin children’s best work on.
My kiddies love this display and I added real succulents on the table infront of the display board.
Reading Folder great to have lots of important information all in one place!
In PDF (not editable), Word and Pages format. Please note - fonts and pages will look different due to font types. Font types used are Shella Clean and KG Second Chances Sketch
I laminate the front and back pages and then bind to make a super little booklet.
Pages include:
Front cover/back cover
Daily reader checklist / frequent reader checklist
Reader checklist (class)
Reading Assessment (key curriculum objectives with checklist per term) - I use one per child.
Guided Reading grouping
Example guided reading rotations
Key texts pages to record key books per term