Some planning and powerpoints. Sample: (BOOKS) Go through the first few slides of the ppt. Discuss that we are going to be writing a letter pretending we are a soldier on the front line writing to their family or friend. Have an A3 letter on the board. What do chn notice straight away? Discuss the purpose. Why do we have the date? Why do we have the address? Resources: Checklist Letter example – one per child and A3 for WW (BOOKS) Quickly recap the lesson from yesterday. Quick fire feature checklist quiz Read the passage. Discuss any words that are unfamiliar. Chn are to work as a class to identify the main events. Can they now order the events? Remind chn that each event is a new paragraph Can we write linking words for each of the paragraphs? All chn are to have a go and write linking sentences/words in between their events. Resources: Read passage from war horse of an event for the chn to write a letter from.

lessons for this interesting topic plus some maths. sample: In Jotters As a class think about what a newspaper is and where we have seen them. Can anybody name any famous newspapers? When did we last read a newspaper? Who knows the sort of things we read in a newspaper? Create a list on flip chart paper. Give children 30 seconds in talk partners to discuss answers and share. Show class an example of a newspaper front page. Can anybody name any of the different features? Call children out to front to highlight on IWB. Children are then sent off to have a go at annotating a real-life example on their own. Children will then be stopped and asked where they are with the task. As a class revisit work from the previous lesson (refer to working wall.) What can we remember from last lesson? Can you name any features of a newspaper? Children to be given a worksheet with cut outs from a newspaper article. Can any of you recognise these different segments of a newspaper article? Where would this segment go in a newspaper? Children will be asked to justify their choices as to why they have put a segment of the article where they have. Why would you put this here? Does this segment make sense here? Children to use talk partners to discuss what an orientation paragraph is and what they think the purpose is. Create an expectations vs reality table on flipchart – to be put up on the learning wall. What is an orientation? Where do you think an orientation goes in a newspaper? Children to be discuss the 5 W’s and what they are. Children to be given an example of a newspaper article and asked if they can see any of the W’s in there. Children to be asked to begin using their understanding of an orientation paragraph to complete a number of different tasks.

Four word docs. Plus powerpoint. Plus a few other bobs and bits. Word doc as example. The rest is in the zip. example: Introduce ch 1 for Kensuke’s Kingdom. Record initial response with prediction. Select examples to show Michael’s feelings. List reasons for and against yourself and family setting off on a round the world sail, Justify relating to evidence selected from the text. Red: format provided Gr/Or: list reasons from two places Bl/Y: form contrasting sentences… begin with, “even though…” Read ch 2. In pairs. How does Mom feel about the trip and Dad’s ideas? What is the alternative? Why has Michael decided now to tell his story?2. Who are the members of Michael’s family?3. What do the family do together on the weekends? Can you describe how it makes them feel?4. Why do the family stop sailing?5. What is the atmosphere like in the house?6. What happened to Michael’s best friend?7. What happens to Michael’s father and why?8. What do you think happens next?9. Describe the father when they meet up again. What sort of mood is he in?

Great lesson on this interesting book. Plus some nice Maths. Great for year 6. sample : Display the image from the front of the book. What does the title of the book tell you? What could the book be about? Why do you think that? Introduce the title. Children to identify what the book is about? What is the theme? Genre? What makes you think this? Children to make predictions about the book in groups using the cover – share and discuss ideas. Share extract from blurb ‘As young Thomas Peaceful looks back over his childhood from the battlefields of the First World War, his memories are full of family life in the countryside.’ 5ws and predictions modelled by CT. What has changed? Why has your opinion changed? What questions and predictions can you make now? Resources: Book cover, sentence starters, 5Ws sheet (LA), blurb extract Children to be reminded of the previous lesson. What did we learn? What do we think the text book is about? What happened in chapter one? Play BBC schools episode 1 - Children are to be given the first paragraph of the book. What is the theme? What is the genre of the book? Children to use talk partners and class discussion to list the characters involved in the first chapter and paragraph. Who are the characters we have met? What do we know about Tommo and his older brother Charlie? What is their relationship like? In this chapter, Tommo starts a new school – how would he be feeling about this? Look at the kindness of Molly – why does she act this way? Why doesn’t big Joe go to school? How would this be different today?

Another 100 worksheets on volume 2. I've included more questions per sheet and for some I have omitted the alphabet grid. I have designed 100 worksheets on letter patterns for the 11+ non verbal reasoning questions. There are 100 worksheets provided on a cd. Letter patterns is an important aspect of the 11+ exams. Ideal for parents, pupils and tutors. Answer sheets provided. Introduce some logic and problem solving skills to students with the Letter Patterns worksheet. Sets of letters related in some way are displayed. Students must find the next two letters in the pattern for each set of letters. You can see an answer sheet in my picture with the answers in red.

I have designed 100 worksheets on letter patterns for the 11+ non verbal reasoning questions. There are 100 worksheets. Letter patterns is an important aspect of the 11+ exams. Ideal for parents, pupils and tutors. Answer sheets provided. Introduce some logic and problem solving skills to students with the Letter Patterns worksheet. Sets of letters related in some way are displayed. Students must find the next two letters in the pattern for each set of letters. You can see an answer sheet in my picture with the answers in red.

Antonyms are an important part of the 11+ grammar school exams. I have designed 100 worksheets on this area. I have chosen a group of over 600 words. There are 10 questions per sheets and pupils write a, b, c or d. The teacher will be able to have a lively discussion when going over the work with the pupils, discussing the meaning of all the words. Of course they can be used by not only grammar school pupils. They would suit anyone of the top end of primary, adults with learning difficulties or foreign students learning English.

I have designed 100 worksheets on decoding numbers for the 11+ non verbal reasoning questions. There are 100 worksheets provided on a cd. Decoding is an important aspect of the 11+ exams. Ideal for parents, pupils and tutors. Answer sheets provided. The Decoding worksheet helps to reinforce spelling and problem solving skills for students. The letters of each word are replaced with other letters or numbers based on a pattern. Students must translate the words and spell them correctly. You can see an answer sheet in my picture with the answers in red.

Synonyms are an important part of the 11+ grammar school exams. I have designed 100 worksheets on this area. I have chosen a group of over 600 words. There are 10 questions per sheets and pupils write a, b, c or d. The teacher will be able to have a lively discussion when going over the work with the pupils, discussing the meaning of all the words. Of course they can be used by not only grammar school pupils. They would suit anyone of the top end of primary, adults with learning difficulties or foreign students learning English.

108 cloze exercises on Aesop’s Fables. Great for Literacy lessons. Gives lower ability pupils confidence. The Cloze worksheet is a standard exercise for improving students’ understanding of word context. The student then fills in the words on the worksheet based on an understanding of the sentence and the list of potential words removed from the text. The cloze procedure is a reading comprehension activity in which words are omitted from a passage and students are required to fill in the blanks. This procedure is incredibly useful in reading instruction because it can be easily done by any teacher and provides valuable reading comprehension information.

Important! If you’d like to buy the whole year’s planning (Autumn, Spring and Summer) you’d be better off buying my bundle. This is planning for year 3 for a Summer term. Plenty of great material here that you can adapt and cut and paste into your own school’s model. After decades of teaching I’m retired from teaching now. I’d like to help the younger generation so I’m putting my plans online. I hope your Sundays will be made a little easier by cutting and pasting allowing you more free time. You get: Literacy planning e.g. Adventure and Mystery Stories 4 weeks, Authors and Letters 4 weeks, Plays and Dialogues 3 weeks Numeracy 9 weeks Creative curriculum (a bit) RE (a bit - I taught mainly in Catholic schools so feel free to ditch this if you please) Science (a bit) You get 190 mb of material, which is good value in my opinion. Remember, all schools are different so you will have to adapt my materials to suit your school. It’s not a silver bullet, but should save you lots of time as you can cut and paste. Great for N.Q.T.'s and experienced alike.

I’ve combined all my planning from the schools I taught in. I was in a few schools in the U.K., quite a few of them Catholic. There is a massive amount of planning for you to sift through. Years range all the way through from 4 year olds to 11 year olds. There’s some great powerpoints, lesson plans, sheets, even a play or two. You’ll have to sift through them as I am enjoying my retirement too much to do that! You get over 250 mb of stuff (300 plus files)

I’ve retired from twenty five years teaching in the UK. I’ve gathered together my planning I did over the years for 4 to 11 year olds. There’s some great stuff there. Plenty of planning, powerpoints, worksheets, scripts for assemblies etc etc There is some stuff on Christmas in the world e.g. France There will be lots of things you can use to entertain the kids at this busy but wonderful time of the year. You get a massive of planning. 257 mb over 400 files Some caveats: I spent most but not all of my career in Catholic schools so everything has a Catholic feel. Lots of math stuff. I don’t have the time to sort everything so feel free to delete anything you regard as filler or irrelevant. You’ll need powerpoint and word to access most of it. Nearly everyone has that. there are some notebooks, flipcharts etc. I obviously can’t give you that so you have to get the free adobe reader and other free software to read some of the files.

Great Literacy planning for the first week back. You get the planning and three powerpoints and two word documents.

A powerpoint that gives ideas on how to do short spag exercises in lessons Could be used as part of an inset day.

I’m putting up a series of lesson for Christmas. RE themed. Catholic flavour. You get a nice powerpoint. Plus some planning and worksheets. I’ll put up the others if there is demand.

Lots of great planning from my teaching career in Primary schools. Nice powerpoints. Nice fun stuff too. Good value as you get a lot of stuff. I taught from Reception to year 6 so something for everyone.