With over 13 years of primary teaching experience across Key Stage 2 (Year 3 to Year 6). I am now embarking on NPQSL to build on my experience and develop further my leadership skills. During this time, I have held several subject lead positions; R.E.; School Council Co-ordinator; SEND champion; Music lead; IT lead and currently PSHE lead. Please look through my resources, which I have carefully selected as successful and useful in teaching the primary curriculum.
With over 13 years of primary teaching experience across Key Stage 2 (Year 3 to Year 6). I am now embarking on NPQSL to build on my experience and develop further my leadership skills. During this time, I have held several subject lead positions; R.E.; School Council Co-ordinator; SEND champion; Music lead; IT lead and currently PSHE lead. Please look through my resources, which I have carefully selected as successful and useful in teaching the primary curriculum.
I have used this text and resources with Year 4 students many times and they have always been successful in getting even the most reluctant pupils to engage in creative writing.
This unit of work is designed to support the teaching and learning of Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo. It includes approximately 14 sessions worth of materials that provide pupils with the opportunity to practice and refine their writing skills through short writing exercises. The bundle contains PowerPoint presentations, differentiated worksheets, and other supporting materials.
The planning has been adapted from various sources and tailored to the way in which English is taught in my school. There is no Week 4 planning as it was assessment week, so it naturally follows onto Week 5. The following objectives are covered:
Write predictions about a character and text
Write a character description
Using expanded noun and prepositional phrases to describe a monster.
Describe the beast and his crimes in two paragraphs.
Write a character profile about Beowulf.
Identify adverbial phrases and use fronted adverbials in sentences
Write an effective and detailed character description
Image what it was like to be one of Beowulf’s soldiers.
Complete time-line of events using conjunctions and adverbial phrases.
Plan and discuss 3 paragraphs
Retell the story of Beowulf
Re-draft a retelling of Beowulf
Plan and draft own Beowulf adventure
Edit and re-draft own Beowulf story
This PPT and worksheet: Sieve of Eratosthenes was designed to help lower attaining Year 5 pupils learn about prime numbers. The activity within the presentation are suitable for a number of age rangers from upper Key Stage 2 to Year 7 and will help children identify prime number to 100.
Prime numbers are special numbers, greater than 1, that have exactly two factors, themselves and 1. In this PPT the children are introduced to prime numbers with the Sieve of Eratosthenes in a scene using the characters from Transformers to unlock the prime numbers to 100 before it is too late…
I’ve used this resource with both Year 5 and Year 6 students and you can make this exercise more interesting by asking them to colour in the prime numbers within a specific time limit.