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.
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 visual and easy to use PowerPoint leading you through a week of spelling lessons. Teach your class short and effective sessions to enable them to learn their spellings and succeed in the dictation. Give spellings a high profile and provide strategies for every child to access the curriculum.
All words are homophones from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Short easy to resource spelling activities to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way.
Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings.
A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week.
Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books.
Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in my other year 5/6 spelling lessons on homophones:
Guessed/guest, morning/mourning, past/passed, precede/proceed, ate/eight
Draft/draught, farther/father, heard/herd, led/lead, aren’t/aunt
Bridal/bridle, cereal/serial, compliment/complement, descent/dissent, desert/dessert
Aisle/isle, aloud/allowed, affect/effect, altar/alter, ascent/assent
You can find many more high quality resources made by an English specialist here: Teachallenjoy
An engaging pack for easily teaching predicting to KS2. Contains all you need for the week: plan, powerpoint, resources and answers. Includes sparky starters, meaty main activities and personalised plenaries.
Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one. All texts provided, a range of interesting genres and styles with modelled answers to comprehension questions.
Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results.
Designed for year 5 reading focusing on the comprehension skill of predicting. Easily adaptable for all other KS2 classes.
Differentiated resources and activities for two ability groups.
All reviews welcome.
For a whole term’s worth of reading lessons click here to save yourself lots of time!
A useful list of questions for guided reading, reading discussions 1:1 and reading assessments in Year 1. 38 question templates under 10 categories which match the expectations of the National Curriculum and build confidence in reading.
Available in 3 formats to save you time and enhance your pupil’s reading:
A4 black and white questions sheet.
A4 colour coded questions sheet.
Colourful leaflet for discussing reading at home.
Can be used in guided reading, reading 1:1, writing comprehensions, at home to support parents and for assessment purposes.
Useful for teachers, TAs and parent helpers.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular KS1 English resources:
Year 1 Writing Assessment Sheet
Year 1 Grammar Glossary
Year 1 Reading Corner Display
A good lesson teaching year 5 (or any KS2 class) how to find the perimeter of compound/composite shapes. Includes teaching PowerPoint, differentiation, worksheets,extensions and answers.
Show children this tricky concept in a clear and memorable way. A 29 slide PowerPoint with 11 slides focusing on the method needed for calculating missing sides and finding the perimeter of composite shapes.
An easy to use PowerPoint visually showing the children how to find missing sides, taking you through the lesson step by step from starter to plenary.
A differentiated lesson by input and worksheet.
LA - An independent starter and a simple input, with a worksheet using whole numbers only
MA - Support and challenge as needed.
HA - A reasoning starter, complex input involving calculating perimeter with decimals and a worksheet using whole numbers and numbers to 1 and 2 decimal places when finding perimeter.
All answers included.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in these high quality KS2 maths resources:
Calculating Perimeter of Regular Shapes Lesson
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Drawing Angles Lesson
An engaging lesson teaching year 5 (or any KS2 class) how to communicate and achieve their dreams, goals and aspirations.
An easy to use 17 slide PowerPoint evaluating the qualities needed for different professions, steps to success and obstacles you might face.
A hyperlink to a video case study along with other activities creates high quality dialogue and inspires thoughtful questions.
Individual, paired and group activities:
- Imagination game (If you were..)
- Group sorting activity
- Pairs evaluate a video
- Whole class discussion of dreams and pathways
- Individuals create dream fans
Simple and effective assessment task provided and a range of support options are offered if children feel they need to follow up/delve deeper with anything covered in class.
All reviews welcome.
10 experiments for years 5 and 6, includes instruction task cards, extensions, challenges and a scientific explanation. Inspire your pupils with a mini investigation for every day of British Science Week. 5 easy to set up and manage science activities for year 5. Plus 5 more simple but effective science activities for year 6.
Everyday a range of questions are provided to stimulate scientific thought and discussion. Children are also encouraged to think of their own questions to spark that scientific curiosity which this week is all about.
The extension activities and challenges further enrich the learning and engage every child.
A short equipment list is provided for each year group so you can quickly collect the things you need for the week.
Each activity is time flexible, they could take 10 minutes or easily extend to an hours lesson.
The science behind every activity is quickly and clearly explained with helpful images and diagrams.
Check out my other updated resources for British Science Week:
British Science Week KS2 Posters
British Science Week KS2 Homework Tasks
British Science Week KS2 Assembly
A detailed and complete lesson, with a 16 slide Europe teaching PowerPoint, starter, input, plenary, scaffolding, differentiated worksheets, extension task and video and geography game links.
Start a Geography unit on Europe with an excellent lesson on the continents of the world, map labelling and cultures of Europe.
All provided in this ready-to-go lesson, to save you time, energy and give you a better teaching to life balance.
Will work with the rest of my unit on Europe, written for Years 3 to 4. Also easily adaptable for years 5 and 6.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Geography lessons on Europe from the unit:
Label Countries of Europe Lesson
Compare Cities of Europe
Climate of Europe
Mountains of Europe
Rivers of Europe
An engaging 26 slide PowerPoint for a KS2 assembly on the life and success of Charles Darwin. Includes a video link, interactive activities and reasoning questions.
Inspire your pupils by learning about this brilliant man, be amazed by his achievements and see how they are still relevant today.
Includes many higher level thinking questions and a memory challenge to keep every child focused.
Can be used on Darwin's birthday February 12th or for starting a topic on famous scientists or explorers.
Takes the children through these key questions:
What did Darwin think?
How can we be a great scientist?
Who was Charles Darwin? - Early Life, Careers, Big Break, Exploring, Thinking and Writing, Later Life
What were Darwin's theories?
What impact did his theories have?
Is evolution important today?
Differentiated writing tasks included and resourced:
Task 1 - Draw or write a flow chart of Darwin's life journey.
Task 2 - Write a radio script interviewing Darwin about his life.
Task 3 - Write a comparison of Darwin with another famous person who inspires you.
Writing templates provided. Other activity ideas also included. Lots of opportunities for discussion and higher level thinking. All concepts explained clearly.
Relevant for KS2 and KS3.
All reviews welcome.
For a good and engaging science unit on forces click here to save yourself lots of time!
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One of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 37 slide teaching PowerPoint, photographs, videos, higher level questioning, paired and group activities, all resources and differentiation.
Teaching Points
What are human features?
What are physical features?
What is wilderness?
How have these changed over time?
What might the park look like in the future?
Covers key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go.
Resources Included
Starter
Teaching input
Photos to analyse in pairs and groups
Integrated video link
Differentiated activities
Sorting worksheet
Challenge
Plenary
Lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Human and Physical Geography National Curriculum Learning Objectives
understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of …a region within North or South America
describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: … rivers, mountains
describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use,
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular geography lessons on this topic:
Scandinavia Physical Features
Russia Physical Features
UK Coast Physical Features
A bright and animated PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons for years 5 and 6.
All words follow the pattern of using the letter string ‘ough’ from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 5 effective spelling lessons enable children to learn these spellings in an active and successful way.
Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings.
A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week.
Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books.
Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day.
All reviews welcome.
A complete reading display to inspire a year 1 class. Includes title, bunting, quotes, national curriculum learning objectives, vocabulary cards, question bubbles, interactive elements and a reading challenge.
Useful for teachers, children, parent helpers and visitors showing the reading objectives of the new curriculum in a bright and colourful way. An easy way to jazz up your reading corner.
Year 1 reading display pack:
A large welcome title
All the year 1 reading statements simplified to child speak within speech bubbles by animals
12 bunting triangles with famous inspirational quotes
Key reading vocabulary cards
10 question bubbles
Top Trump book review cards
Book recommendation sheets
A reading challenge
Easily adaptable to fit your space, could also be used in a library to prompt whole school progression.
Benefits
Children know what they are learning within reading lessons.
All adults involved with the class are able to ask effective questions when listening to children read.
Assessments of children are more accurate and relevant.
Children self and peer assess using the display.
Prompts reading discussions.
All reviews welcome.
A complete KS2 mental health lesson on understanding emotions. Includes an engaging PowerPoint leading you through the lesson, differentiated activities, resources and a mini assessment.
Develop children’s understanding of their emotions, show them how to identify emotions and teach what to do when you have negative emotions.
Animated PowerPoint Covers:
identifying emotions within memories,
knowing the four main emotions,
understanding why all emotions are healthy, even negative ones,
strategies for identifying emotions,
healthy coping strategies for managing emotions,
understanding emotion scales,
preventing negative emotions from turning you into a monster
Use the activities to foster high quality dialogue. Provide reflection time. Create a positive and calm atmosphere which enables progress.
Get children talking about mental health and provide them with strategies for understanding and managing their emotions.
A range of mental health support options are offered if children feel they need to follow up/delve deeper with anything covered in class.
Ideal for a KS2 class, easily adaptable for KS1.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in my other mental health lessons covering:
Self Esteem
Dreams and Aspirations
Or why not check out my mental health awareness week resources:
KS1 Mental Health Bundle
KS2 Mental Health Bundle
Inspire your pupils with this KS1 assembly celebrating World Poetry Day.
Includes an engaging PowerPoint, 4 poems, geography map skills, video link, reasoning questions and interactive activities.
This ready-to-go 27 slide PowerPoint leads you through the assembly explaining World Poetry Day and poetry. Read the children 4 world habitat poems written about environments from across the globe.
Choose poems from a world map, before reading about the animals, landscape and climate of jungles, grasslands, deserts and the arctic. Enhance geography skills whilst developing vocabulary and a passion for poetry.
An engaging video is included to provide a range of role models who clearly enjoy reading poetry and bringing it to life.
Celebrate World Poetry Day every year on March 21st to encourage diversity and a shared understanding of the world.
Use this assembly to inspire your pupils to become writers, enjoy the video link of a range of people reading a poem about how poets can write anywhere.
Check out my other popular KS1 assemblies:
Mental Health Awareness Week KS1 Assembly
Albert Einstein KS1 Assembly
Charles Darwin KS1 Assembly
A bright and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of memorable spelling lessons for years 5 and 6.
All words contain the endings -cial and -tial (some not following the rule) from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 5 engaging and memorable spelling lessons which enable children to learn these words in an effective and successful way.
Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings.
A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week.
Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books.
Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day.
All reviews welcome.
30 spelling lessons to cover 6 weeks in term 2, years 5 and 6. This extensive pack includes daily lessons on PowerPoints, spelling rules, engaging activities, dictations and all the resources you will need.
Teach spellings for a whole term to boost your pupil’s achievement in year 5 and 6. Lessons suit all learning styles, with a range of activities such as active, written, oral etc.
This bundle also includes a visual display of the spelling words to pop up on the wall so you can easily refer to them throughout each week.
Find easy to use PowerPoints and lessons all ready to go, be organised every day for 6 weeks! Use these engaging and memorable sessions to make your pupils confident with their spellings and successful in their assessments!
Enjoy teaching the words from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling list in a logical and well planned way. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy term.
Quickly print the dictation to assess each week and be amazed at the progress and capability of your spellers!
All reviews welcome.
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A complete display for a reading corner in a year 3 or 4 classroom. Bright, colourful and engaging. Inspire reading with this pack which includes: title, bunting quotes, vocabulary, higher level questions, reading statements, images and other reading resources.
A useful display for teachers, children, parent helpers and visitors showing the new curriculum in a colourful and easy to use way.
All the year 3 and 4 reading statements are simplified to child speak with engaging animals and speech bubbles, an easy way to jazz up your reading corner.
Having the new curriculum statements on display for all to see will help everyone feel confident with knowing the learning objectives. All adults involved with the class will be able to ask effective questions when listening to children read. Assessments of children will be more accurate and relevant.
Children could use these on an interactive display to self and peer assess and prompt reading discussions.
Also included:
12 Bunting Triangles - with famous inspirational quotes about reading
A large welcome title
Key reading vocabulary cards
10 Bubbles containing thought provoking questions
Top Book Trump review cards
Book Recommendation sheets
A Reading Challenge
Easily adaptable to fit your space, could also be used in a library to prompt whole school progression.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in my other popular reading resources:
Year 3 Reading Assessment Questions
Year 4 Reading Assessment Questions
Bundle of KS2 Reading Lessons
A complete lesson on modal verbs, with an engaging PowerPoint, posters, word bank, differentiated activities and answers. All you need to make your class confident with using modal verbs in their writing.
Written for year 5 but easily adaptable for all KS2 year groups.
An easy to use PowerPoint leads you through the lesson. Explaining to the children about modal verbs, their purposes, rules, when to use them and order of probability.
Themed on the Simpsons it will engage your class. Bright, colourful, clear and memorable.
A differentiated lesson with 4 writing activities provided and a challenge.
All answers included.
All reviews welcome.
The second of seven engaging lessons which bring Scandinavia into the classroom. Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
This lesson covers these important teaching points:
What are biomes? Definition, images and discussion
Where are different biomes? Map of world to analysis
Which biomes are in Scandinavia? Use a map key to find each biome
What is it like in each biome?Fact cards to show on the screen or print for on desks
What have we learnt? *Children to show by writing postcards home *
How do animals adapt in each biome? Matching challenge activity
All resources are included, so just print the differentiated postcard templates, challenge grids and detailed lesson plan and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to link to and extend work in English with challenges linking to English objectives, e.g. persuasive writing features.
All reviews welcome.
To teach Scandinavia throughout the curriculum, download my English and art units:
Scandinavia Art Unit
Scandinavia Story Writing Unit
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An engaging primary assembly about the benefits of eating breakfast, covering many science objectives and includes follow up lesson activities.
The complete PowerPoint, with a video link, leads you through the assembly and the farm animals explain the many reasons why breakfast is good for you.
Includes a range of activities to inspire the children to want to eat breakfast, including choosing their favourite breakfast plate and discussing which meal is the best.
There are many discussion opportunities for children so they are involved in the assembly and accept responsibility for making a change, eating a better breakfast and doing well in school. Classic choices for breakfast are covered and tasty new ideas to try.
This assembly is ready-to-go, just have a glance through and print the resources if needed.
Teaching Points Covered about Breakfast:
What Farmhouse Breakfast Week is all about
Local UK farms involved
Why breakfast is so good for us
What we can eat for breakfast and why
How to make a balanced breakfast
How we can be organised in the morning
Differentiated Writing Opportunities
1. Sort the breakfast food cards under the food group headings
2. Use an eat-well plate to design a healthy balanced breakfast
3. Design a breakfast menu for the queen for a week
Use this as an assembly or a lesson, both will brighten up you and your pupil’s day whilst learning about cross curricular content.
Check out my popular Kindness Assembly