An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
A festive and easy to teach poetry week on ‘The Night Before Christmas’. Includes 5 engaging PowerPoints leading you through 5 complete lessons, differentiated lesson resources and a detailed plan.
An excellent week of English lessons for the build up to Christmas whilst maintaining focus and high quality outcomes.
The original and useuful resources make teaching enjoyable and easy. The video links in the PowerPoint inspire poetry writing and performance.
Each lesson is differentiated for two ability groups.
Each lesson contains a success criteria.
Higher level thinking challenges are provided.
Grammar starters cover handwriting, a or an, word classes, rhyming words and spellings.
A lovely, tried and tested week of learning about narrative poetry, rhyming couplets, poetry format and syllables.
Includes a range of activities and differentiated tasks. Children will compare and evaluate poems, identify features and then write their own narrative poem using the structure of ‘The Night Before Christmas’ with ideas from ‘The Snowman’.
Detailed weekly plan and all resources included.
All reviews welcome.
Create your primary maths reports quickly using these 280 differentiated maths report comments for KS2. The subject of maths is broken down into 7 skill sections, relevant for all year groups, with 4 ability groups provided. Use the girl and boy versions to save time, just quickly choose the right comments to suit each child. There are enough comments to create different personalised paragraphs of comments for at least a whole class of 30 children.
High Quality
Written for the whole of KS2 focusing on learning aptitudes and the general areas of maths. Some spaces are left for you to add some relevant objectives for your year group.
These are perfect for years 3, 4, 5 and 6 as they cover:
Attitude
Mathematical concepts
Lesson content
Operations and calculations
Mental strategies
Reasoning
Problem Solving
Understanding, explaining and checking solutions
Strengths and Assessments
Presentation
Targets
Differentiated
Maths report comment banks for four different ability groups are provided with at least 70 comments in each, so a minimum of 280 different statements for your reports.
Easy to Use
They all come in a girl and a boy version saving you having to change any pronouns. All names are shown with 3 stars so you just have to find and replace, to insert names.
Save Time
Teaching is busy enough without report writing as well, save time whilst doing a good job. Easily copy and paste these thoughtful comments to create personalised and admired reports.
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An engaging 33 slide KS2 assembly for British Science Week with 3 differentiated follow up writing tasks. Inspire your pupils to aim for a career in science. Includes many discussion opportunites and questions prompting higher level thinking. All concepts explained clearly. All writing templates provided, including differentiated printables. Relevant for KS2 and KS3.
Could also be a useful PSHE lesson on scientific careers and role models.
Covers these key teaching points:
What is science?
Definition explained in an easy to understand way.
How does science impact on our lives today?
4 key aspects explained in detail
Who would like to see Science in action?
An engaging, awe-inspiring and quick experiment to create excitement for this week of science.
What happened? Why?
A clear explanation of how the experiment worked, linking it to the children’s current understanding of the world.
What qualities and skills do you need to be a great scientist?
Key words covered and ideal characteristics.
Do you know any famous British scientists and what have they achieved?
5 impressive short biographies of famous British scientists.
What problems are modern scientists facing today?
A list with images of key issues that need resolving
Who are these busy modern scientists?
4 small biographies of 4 famous modern scientists and their achievements.
What degrees can start you on the path for a science career?
Look at a list of suitable degrees and possible career options from there.
How would you pursue a career in science?
Job options for a career in science and average yearly earnings.
Who is Stephen Hawking?
A short discussion about his achievements, challenges and why he is such an important role model and icon.
3 Tasks children could complete to extend and inspire:
Create a poster telling people about British science week.
Draw a flow chart of what you would like to investigate and how if you were a scientist.
Write a letter to a famous scientist, you must include at least 10 questions.
Check out my other updated resources for British Science Week:
British Science Week KS2 Posters
British Science Week KS2 Homework Tasks
LKS2 Mini WOW Investigations
UKS2 Mini WOW Investigations
Over 300 English report comments statements so you can quickly complete your primary English report comments. Select from this extensive bank to create individual differentiated paragraphs. Simply choose the right comment to suit each child, one from each of the 11 sections. There are enough comments to create personalised paragraphs of comments for a whole class of 30. Created with a large variety of phrases, openings and language so you can describe each pupil in a precise, eloquent and efficient way.
High Quality
English report comments written for KS2 and easily adaptable for KS1. They are perfect for years 3, 4, 5 and 6 as they cover:
listening
speaking
reading
reading targets
word work
story writing
different genres
grammar and punctuation
spelling and handwriting
editing
writing targets
Differentiated
There are four different ability groups included with at least 80 comments in each, so a minimum of 320 different statements for your reports.
Easy to Use
They are all available in girl and boy version saving you having to change any pronouns. All names are shown with 3 stars so you just have to find and replace to insert names. All year groups are shown with 3 dots so you can replace them quickly as well.
Save Time
Teaching is busy enough without report writing as well, save time whilst doing a good job. Easily copy and paste these thoughtful comments to create personalised and admired reports.
Also…
Check out these other handy end of year resources:
General Report Comments
Maths Report Comments
Geography Report Comments
300 general report comment statements covering all aspects of school life. Easily make 30 different personalised paragraphs for your class. Use the boy or girl versions to save even more time. Suitable for KS1 and KS2.
Choose from the 300 comments, enough to create a whole class of different reports, 10 different statements to choose from for every child. Quickly create your general report comment paragraphs by selecting the right comment to suit each child, one from each of the 10 sections. Describe your pupils in a precise, eloquent and efficient way.
Written for all primary year groups, relevant for years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
High Quality
Use these high quality comments, 18 pages covering:
Overall Introduction
Working and Learning Style
Attitude
Working & Playing With Others
Behaviour
Learning Outcomes & Presentation
Strengths
Next Steps
Responsibilities, Homework & Spellings
Summary and Looking Forward
Easy to Use
All the comments come in a girl and a boy version saving you having to change any pronouns. All names are replaced with 3 stars so you just have to find and replace to insert names.
Save Time
Teaching is busy enough without report writing as well, save time whilst doing a good job. Easily copy and paste these thoughtful comments to create personalised and admired reports.
Also…
Check out these other handy end of year resources:
English Report Comments
Maths Report Comments
Geography Report Comments
A complete geography lesson on the mountains of Europe. Includes a thorough teaching PowerPoint, interactive activities, worksheets, video, extensions and games.
Follow the ready-to-go PowerPoint to teach about the mountain ranges of Europe.
Cover:
Formation
Map work
Climate
Vegetation
Facts
Famous peaks
Planned for years 3 or 4, easily adaptable for years 5 and 6.
Differentiated recording tasks provided with two extensions.
Highlights:
Photo analysis starter activity
Activities for all styles of learners
Scaffolded learning
Check out my other popular Geography lessons on Europe:
Where is Europe? lesson pack
Countries of Europe lesson pack
Compare Cities of Europe lesson pack
Climate of Europe lesson pack
Rivers of Europe lesson pack
264 differentiated science comments for boys and girls, covering 13 key areas for your primary KS2 reports. Create your report comments quickly this year by simply choosing a collection of comments to suit each child, one from each section. There are enough comments to create different personalised paragraphs of comments for a whole class of 30 children.
Written for the whole of KS2 focusing on learning aptitudes and the general areas covered so perfect for years 3, 4, 5 and 6. A summary of content is also provided to remind you of the topics covered in science by your year group to further personalise the reports.
Save Time
Teaching is busy enough without report writing as well, save time whilst doing a good job. Easily copy and paste these original comments to create personalised and thoughtful reports.
Differentiated
264 comments overall, divided into 3 ability groups: high, middle and low ability. Each group contains 13 sections with 6 comments in each. There are also 30 next steps included, differentiated into 3 ability groups.
High Quality
Use these high quality science report comments, covering:
Attitude
General Knowledge
Speaking and Listening
Learning New Concepts
Group Work
Equipment
Observations and Experiments
Predictions
Fair Tests
Measuring, Data and Recording Findings
Conclusions
Written Work
Asking Questions
Easy to Use
They all come in a girl and a boy version saving you having to change any pronouns. All names are shown with 3 stars so you just have to find and replace, to insert names.
Also…
Check out my other handy end of year resources:
General Report Comments
320+ English Report Comments
280+ Maths Report Comments
Report Comments MEGA BUNDLE
A complete geography lesson on rivers in Europe. Includes a thorough teaching PowerPoint, interactive activities, worksheets, word bank, extensions, videos and plenary game.
Follow the ready-to-go PowerPoint to teach about identifying, describing and comparing rivers in Europe.
Cover:
What is a river?
How is it formed?
Parts of a river
Rivers on maps of Europe
Europe River facts
What are Fjords?
Planned for years 3 or 4, easily adaptable for years 5 and 6.
Differentiated recording tasks provided so children can label a map of Europe with the main rivers. Includes 3 extensions.
Highlights:
Differentiated
Activities for all styles of learners
Scaffolded learning
Check out my other popular Geography lessons on Europe:
Where is Europe?
Countries of Europe
Compare cities in Europe
Climate of Europe
Mountains of Europe
An engaging 30 slide British Science Week PowerPoint for KS1. Full of bright colours, interactive elements and a hands on activity. Ideal for an assembly or lesson to kick off this special week. Inspire your pupils with thoughtful questions and an easy but WOW science experiment!
Many opportunities for discussion and higher level thinking. All concepts explained clearly. Could also be a useful PSHE lesson on scientific careers and role models. Perfect for KS1.
All differentiated writing templates provided and ready to go.
The assembly covers these key teaching points:
What is science?
Images showing key skills used when studying the world
How does science impact on our lives today?
4 key aspects explained using images of our world
Who would like to see Science in action?
An engaging, awe-inspiring and quick experiment to create excitement for this week of science.
What happened? Why?
A clear explanation of how the experiment worked, linking it to the children’s current understanding of the world.
Do you know any famous British scientists?
4 impressive short biographies of famous British scientists.
What qualities do you need to be a great scientist?
Key words covered
Who would like to be a scientist?
Discussion on what the children could observe, measure, test and compare.
What science could you do at home?
9 easy and fun ideas for the children to start a life long love of science.
Includes these 3 tasks and templates for follow up activities:
Create your own animal which you have discovered in the rainforest.
Draw a famous scientist and write a caption.
Create a poster explaining British Science Week.
Check out my other updated resources for British Science Week:
KS1 British Science Week Homework Tasks
KS1 What is Science? Posters
KS1 British Science Week Mini Investigations
All you need for a week of reading lessons on summarising. Includes a detailed plan of the week, engaging teach-ready PowerPoint and all the necessary resources for UKS2. The animated 85 slide summarising reading Powerpoint takes you effortlessly through the week of 5 lessons.
Questions designed to develop higher order thinking skills and all activities focused on improving comprehension skills whilst enhancing reading assessment results.
Each day there are relevant and enjoyable starters, main activities and plenaries. Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one. All texts provided, a range of interesting genres and styles, fiction and non-fiction.
Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA).
Written for Year 5 but easily adaptable for all other KS2 classes.
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A week of detailed lessons on writing recounts for KS2, PPT, Plan and resources all included. Differentiated activities, quick and effective starters and plenaries and lots more…
Includes:
Differentiation provided for three groups - two challenges provided for every lesson
Engaging starters and plenaries designed to grab your pupil’s attention
Modelled texts provided highlighted to show how you construct paragraphs in recounts
Word banks provided to support and extend pupils
Editing skills developed
Peer and self assessment opportunities
Animated and clear PPT
Expand your pupil’s vocabulary and enhance their writing techniques whilst writing about personal events.
Engaging activities, opportunities for individual, paired and group work. Written for year 5 but relevant for year 6 and easily adaptable for years 3 and 4.
All reviews welcome.
To go with this unit download my Features of a Recount Display
A complete geography lesson teaching the countries of Europe. Includes a thorough teaching PowerPoint, interactive activities, worksheets, answers, extensions and videos.
Follow the ready-to-go PowerPoint to teach about using an atlas, Europe, European languages and flags.
Use the differentiated map worksheets to enable success for every child. Extensions are provided for fast finishers and those hungry for even more.
Highlights:
Interactive
Ready-to-go
Answers on PPT
Editable
Teach as part of a geography unit on Europe. Check out the other lessons:
Where is Europe?
Compare Cities of Europe
Climate of Europe
Mountains of Europe
Rivers of Europe
A whole week of year 2 reading comprehension lessons on The Giraffe And The Pelly And Me. Includes teaching PowerPoint, paired and group activities, scaffolding, differentiation, sequenced learning, challenge and answers.
Five complete lessons which develops the children’s understanding of the book and their ability to answer comprehension questions.
Every lesson includes:
Starter
Teaching points
Pages to read
Independent activities
Challenge
Plenary
This week focuses on the comprehension questions which ask you to find a word with a similar meaning to a quote from the text. The teaching points emphasise the importance of looking back over what you have read and using what you know.
Colonel Code Breaker appears everyday to give the children handy tips and help them become confident at decoding tricky words.
All activities are differentiated into 3 ability groups, with printable sheets provided separately to support every child.
Enjoy teaching reading with this accessible and engaging famous book by Roald Dahl, excite your pupils with the charming characters whilst they expand their vocabulary.
You can find lots more useful resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop
Or you might be interested in these handy resources:
Year 2 Reading Corner Display
Year 2 Reading Assessment Questions
A detailed lesson covering coasts and how they can change. Includes a 38 slide PowerPoint, a detailed plan, 2 writing templates and a challenge activity including another writing template. Covers the impact of tourism, shipping, urbanisation, overfishing and communities on the coast.
Written for UKS2 but can easily be used by all year 3, 4, 5 and 6.
An engaging starter, mixture of independent, paired and group work.
Plenty of opportunities for discussion and for children to share ideas.
Full of lots of interesting images to prompt discussion about geographical features.
An extension activity to challenge the higher ability.
Plenary for children to move on in their learning.
Covers national curriculum learning objectives:
Learn about diverse places, people and resources
Learn about natural and human environments
Learn about the interaction between physical and human processes
Learn about the formation, use of and change of landscapes and environments
All resources included.
All reviews welcome.
A complete lesson on the climate of Europe, focusing on map skills and locational knowledge. Includes a thorough teaching PowerPoint, video links, interactive activities, worksheets, answers, extensions and challenges.
This lesson is ready-to-go, written for a year 3 class, so suitable for years 3 and 4, but easily adaptable for years 5 and 6 (the extension tasks are suitably challenging).
Highlights:
Differentiated
Higher level questioning
Modelling
Scaffolding
Easy to mark
Written as part of a unit on Europe.
Check out my other popular Geography lessons on Europe:
Where is Europe?
Label Countries of Europe Lesson
Compare Cities in Europe
Mountains of Europe
Rivers of Europe
All reviews welcome.
5 complete English lessons responding to and exploring the powerful video clip ‘The Piano’ by Aidan Gibbons, found on the Literacy Shed. Inlcudes 5 PowerPoints, paired and group work, modelled texts, new vocabulary, editing activities, complete inputs, starters and plenaries and differentiation.
Higher order questioning probes deep into this interesting short movie inspiring descriptive writing and progress of writing skills. Engaging and complete Powerpoints provide many opportunities for productive paired, individual and group work.
A range of modelled texts are provided so children can magpie new vocabulary whilst developing their editing, writing and publishing techniques.
Written for KS2 it covers many relevant teaching points: relative clauses, expanded noun phrases, editing and improving language, parenthesis, creating an atmosphere, showing change within characters, describing settings, building suspense, summarising, identifying word classes and complex sentences.
Starters include: spellings, synonyms, identifying verbs and adverbs, relative clauses and handwriting.
Lesson 1 - Write a review of the clip responding to an email sent to the class.
Lesson 2 - How to write about playing an instrument on your own - description and atmosphere.
Lesson 3 - How to write about memories in stories, building suspense.
Lesson 4 - Showing change in story characters.
Lesson 5 - Planning your own memory story.
All resources, a detailed plan and 5 PowerPoints are included, just download, print a few documents and your week of English lessons are ready to go. There are writing frames to support the lower ability and daily challenges for the higher ability.
All reviews welcome.
You can also download this as part of a bundle to save money: 2 Weeks of Planning Resources PowerPoints and a Display for The Piano
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All you need to write your English, Maths, Science and General comments for your primary reports. Over 1400 different high quality differentiated comments to save you time.
Save time and energy this year when writing your primary KS2 reports. Use these extensive report banks to quickly whip up a class full of personalised English, maths, science and general comment paragraphs.
Simply copy and paste a selection of thoughtful comments to suit each child, choosing from each large subject bank. Speedily create fluent paragraphs describing the whole child.
Each subject is divided into sections, in total there are enough sentences to create different paragraphs for every child in your class. All appropriate and relevant to your pupils.
Ideal for years 3,4,5 and 6, easily adaptable for KS1.
Impress your pupils, your parents and your head teacher with articulate and positive comments for these subjects. Show your pupils and their families you do know them well by choosing comments to suit each child. End the year knowing you’ve valued and helped each pupil in your class, whilst saving time for the wellbeing of yourself outside of school.
You can also find lots of other handy end of year resources at my shop.
Why not use my SMART targets to choose next steps for your pupils?
Or use my Assessment Guidance to speed up your end of year data decisions.
A complete lesson on erosion on the UK coast, teaching the concepts of bays headlands, arches, stacks, stumps, caves and much more. Engaging resource pack with differentiation, answers, videos and animations.
Includes a PowerPoint leading you through the whole lesson and all the necessary resources.
Covers these national curriculum objectives:
- Learn about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments,
- interaction between physical and human processes,
- formation, use of and change of landscapes and environments.
Written for UKS2 but can easily be used by all year 3, 4, 5 and 6.
An engaging starter, mixture of independent, paired and group work.
Plenty of opportunities for class dialogue and for children to share ideas.
Full of interesting images to prompt discussion about geographical features.
An extension activity included to challenge the higher ability.
Plenary available for children to share their learning and present the challenge research.
All reviews welcome.
For more useful and reliable Geography lessons, plans and resources follow the links below:
- Human Impact on Coasts KS2
- UK Coasts Physical Features KS2
- Journey Through Russia, Physical Features KS2
- Scandinavia Unit KS2
- Yosemite National Park Unit KS2
You can also find many more inspiring and engaging KS2 resources for a wide range of subjects at my shop: Teachallenjoy
A complete bank of discussion text sentence openers. Includes a variety of words grouped into useful types. All that you need for expanding vocabulary and heightening progress during a discussion text unit.
Types of openers included:
Openers for additional points of view
Openers for opposing points of view
Openers for discussing opinions
Generalisation openers
Openers referring to time
A variety of extra openers
They are bright and colourful so would be perfect for a display, toolkit or word bank.
Print as either PowerPoint slides or aA4 format.
Check out my popular lesson packs on discussion texts:
Week 1 Explore and Learn About Discussion Texts
Week 2 Write Your Own Discussion Text
All the spelling words and rules that year 5 and 6 need to know. Available in different formats for all of your spelling needs. Designed to save time, enhance progress and increase pupil independence.
Formats:
- Colour year 5/6 spelling word bank
- Black and white year 5/6 spelling word bank
- Year 5/6 spelling word bank with tick boxes
- Teaching PowerPoint with 11 slides
These sheets could be used as an teaching tool, assessment tool, homework support or stuck into books to support writing.
All reviews welcome.
For daily lessons on how to teach these rules follow this link:
Teachallenjoy
Here you will find year 5/6 spelling lessons for the whole year:
Term 1 Weekly Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Term 2 Weekly Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Term 3 Weekly Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Term 4 Weekly Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Term 5 Weekly Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Term 6 Weekly Spelling Lessons and Dictations