Upper Primary/KS2 Descriptive Writing Setting Lesson - Through the Keyhole This is setting focused writing lesson is a popular and engaging lesson for learners. The lesson provides an engaging story starter prompt which learners can use or come up with their own. The focus of the lesson is what the character ‘Mia’ sees through the keyhole. Learners may choose to keep this character or will adapt with their own ideas. The lesson can be solely focused on describing what is seen through the keyhole or more confident writers may wish to continue the narrative with the character stepping through the door. The lesson pack contains story starter prompt example settings and description opportunities for learners to work co-operatively planning pages (senses page or a simple mind map) an art template of a keyhole for displays setting word banks for the four picture prompts included

Fifteen weeks of activities until end of November. Excellent for soft starts in the morning or for filler activities. Activities that all learners can engage with as covers a range of topics from: General Knowledge Problem solving Geography Lateral Thinking Vocab development Spelling Current themes Puzzles/Riddles Answer scheme included for easy marking.

Boho maths wall classroom display. Display includes -Times Tables -Mathematical language Quadrilaterals -Place value chart up to millions & Thousandths -Fraction -Fraction, Decimals & percentages conversions For the display bunting please see my other resources

This scheme of work provides lesson for the full novel of Mr Nobody’s Eyes by Michael Morpurgo. It covers a range of reading skills throughout e.g. prediction comprehension main ideas summarising metalinguistics Character visualisation key themes evaluations

Halloween Imaginative Instruction Writing - How to Make a Magic Potion This is a great creative instructional writing lesson to engage learners during Halloween. It teaches learners how to write instructions and revises the different purposes of instructional writing. For more able learners, the resource demonstrates how learners can improve instructions by adding openers, powerful verbs, adverbs and adjectives. This resource also includes: Teaching slides Planning page. Printable word bank 2 differentiated modelled texts which could be adapted to suit different ages or abilities. 2 x writing templates which could be used for display. 1 x cauldron template and 1 x recipe book template. It also includes 5 different potion bottle templates for learners to design. These come in small or larger sizes. Display bunting saying - Our Magic Potions.

This yearbook is a great end of year activity for school leavers. It contains multiple pages where pupils can add information about themselves, class mates, teachers and memories. This is in a PPT format so can be easily edited to suit the school and printed.