The perfect place for all your EYFS, KS1 and KS2 resources, Explore Education aims to provide you with amazing, outstanding lessons that help you to shine. Each lesson often has detailed planning, PowerPoints and differentiated resources. So whether you are looking for a maths lesson to get you through your next interview, an English lesson that will help you impress OFSTED or a history, science, RE, PSHE or PE unit to wow your class, this is the shop for you!
The perfect place for all your EYFS, KS1 and KS2 resources, Explore Education aims to provide you with amazing, outstanding lessons that help you to shine. Each lesson often has detailed planning, PowerPoints and differentiated resources. So whether you are looking for a maths lesson to get you through your next interview, an English lesson that will help you impress OFSTED or a history, science, RE, PSHE or PE unit to wow your class, this is the shop for you!
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This aspirations assembly is a fantastic way to inspire children to think about their hopes, dreams and create belief in themselves. This is a great assembly to use at any time of the year, particularly at the end of the summer when children are moving on.
You could use these for a primary school, KS1 only, KS2 only or in class.
You will receive a 22-slide PowerPoint.
This assembly is interactive and involves the children to make sure they are engaged and interested.
Key features:
What are your hopes and dreams?
The key to success
What will you be in the future? (Careers)
Perseverance and not giving up
Working hard for success
Inspirational people
Reminders about believing in yourself
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Create a meaningful and memorable Remembrance Day assembly with this comprehensive 5-page script. Designed for KS1 and KS2 students, this resource provides a sensitive and age-appropriate way to commemorate those who have served and sacrificed.
Features:
★ Complete Script: Includes speaking parts for pupils and teachers, ensuring everyone can participate and contribute.
★ Thought-provoking Content: Explains the significance of Remembrance Day, the poppy symbol, and the two-minute silence.
★ Beautiful Poetry: Features poignant poems to enhance the atmosphere of reflection and remembrance.
★ Wreath-laying Ceremony: Includes a simple yet moving wreath-laying ceremony to honor fallen heroes.
★ Easy to Follow: Clear formatting and instructions make it easy to organize and deliver a successful assembly.
Benefits:
★ Foster Understanding: Help children understand the importance of Remembrance Day and its historical context.
★ Encourage Reflection: Create a space for quiet contemplation and gratitude for those who have served.
★ Promote Values: Instill values of respect, empathy, and peace in young learners.
★ Build Community: Bring your school together in a shared act of remembrance.
★ Save Time: No need to write your own script - everything you need is provided.
Honor the fallen and inspire future generations with this heartfelt Remembrance Day assembly script.
Ideal for: KS1, KS2, Remembrance Day, Veterans Day, whole school assembly, collective worship, British history, World War I, World War II.
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This World War II Class Assembly is an outstanding opportunity for your class to take a poignant look back in time to one of the most significant events in our world’s history. Through music, dance, poetry, and drama, your class will be able to learn about and remember the bravery of those who fought for our freedom during the war.
The assembly includes four scenes, each highlighting different aspects of life during World War II. The first scene focuses on the impact of the war on daily life, including rationing and evacuations. The second scene features the Battle of Britain and the bravery of the Royal Air Force pilots and ground crew. The third scene highlights the impact of the Blitz on British cities, with a particular focus on London. The fourth scene describes D-Day, the largest seaborne invasion in history.
Throughout the assembly, your class will be able to participate in various activities, such as dancing to “Pack Up Your Troubles” and performing a shadow play set to “Spitfire Prelude and Fugue.” The assembly also includes opportunities for quiet reflection, such as lighting candles and holding hands during Vera Lynn’s “We’ll Meet Again.”
This World War II Class Assembly is an outstanding educational resource that offers a unique and engaging way for your class to learn about this pivotal moment in history. With its range of activities and opportunities for active participation, your class is sure to leave with a deeper understanding and appreciation of the sacrifices made during World War II.
This perseverance assembly is a fantastic way to inspire children to think about their challenges in life and create belief in themselves. This is a great assembly to use at any time of the year, particularly at the end of the summer when children are moving on.
You could use these for a primary school, KS1 only, KS2 only or in class.
You will receive a 16-slide PowerPoint.
This assembly is interactive and involves the children to make sure they are engaged and interested.
Key features:
★ Thinking about challenges
★ A story about a persevering ant - Andy the Ant
★ Sharing challenges
★ Making a perseverance pledge
★ Singing with music link
★ Reflection time
★ Prayer
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This 11-slide PowerPoint is perfect to either teach Hanukkah or lead an assembly about Hanukkah. Filled with colourful pictures and interesting facts, this is suitable for EYFS, KS1 or KS2.
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Prepare for Ofsted inspections with confidence using this comprehensive and adaptable lesson planner template! Designed to meet the rigorous standards of Ofsted inspections, this resource empowers teachers across KS1-KS4 to create well-structured, engaging, and impactful lessons that showcase outstanding teaching and learning.
Key Features:
★ Ofsted-Focused Structure: The template aligns seamlessly with Ofsted's key inspection criteria, ensuring your lesson plans demonstrate effective teaching practices and promote student progress.
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Ideal for: KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4 teachers, NQTs, supply teachers, and anyone looking to improve their lesson planning and teaching practice.
Celebrate and learn from the stories of famous disabled people in history and today with this engaging and inclusive lesson for disability history month. This lesson covers the following learning objective and success criteria:
Learning objective: To learn about the lives and achievements of some famous disabled people in history and today, and how they overcame the challenges and barriers they faced.
Success criteria: By the end of the lesson, you will be able to:
★ Name some famous disabled people in history and today and describe their disabilities and accomplishments.
★ Compare and contrast the experiences and opportunities of disabled people in different historical periods and contexts.
★ Express your opinions and feelings about the stories of famous disabled people and how they inspire you.
This resource pack includes:
★ A detailed lesson plan with clear instructions.
★ A PowerPoint presentation with slides for the starter, main teacher input, main activity, and plenary.
★ Eight famous disabled people cards with information and images of Helen Keller, Stephen Hawking, Frida Kahlo, Ludwig van Beethoven, Stevie Wonder, Alex Zanardi, Aaron Fortheringham, and Warwick Davis.
★ A presentation criteria sheet with a checklist.
This lesson is designed to develop the students’ knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of disability as a natural and diverse part of human life, and to inspire them to pursue their goals and dreams, and to support disability equality and inclusion in their school and community. It also supports the development of the students’ research, presentation, and communication skills, as well as their critical thinking and creativity.
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This fantastic phonics assessment system has been created by experienced KS1 specialists to make baseline and following assessments simple and easy to communicate with other staff.
This assessment starts at Phase 2 and tests through to Phase 6. Teachers just need to point at each sound and word and get children to read each one. If a child gets it right, it can be checked off.
Previously, I have created one of these booklets for each child and placed in a folder for TAs to ‘pick up and go’ as interventions or early morning work.
This allows teachers to immediately show progression for pupil progress interviews and can then be passed on to the next teacher to see what gaps children have.
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Are you ready to take the next step in your educational career and step into a leadership role? Our Successful NPQLT Application Form Example for primary teachers is the ideal resource to help you on your journey.
This comprehensive example application form has been created to provide you with a clear roadmap for applying to the National Professional Qualification for Executive Leadership (NPQLT).
These example questions and answers cover:
✹ Why would you like to complete the Programme with (provider)?
✹ Please provide a specific example to show how you are ready for the next step in school or education setting leadership for your NPQLT.
✹ Throughout the programme, you will develop knowledge and skills in leadership to enable all pupils to succeed. Explain why school and trust culture, and organisational management and leadership, is the most important for you to develop in your role and explain how this will impact on pupils and staff at your school or education setting.
✹ Please provide a specific, recent example to show how you are ready for the next step in school leadership.
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Are you teaching year 5 or 6 children (UKS2) about obtuse, acute, and right angles and how to use protractors to measure angles in math? This outstanding interview lesson plan is perfect for you!
This outstanding interview lesson teaches year 5 and year 6 children about obtuse, acute and right angles and using protractors to measure angles in maths is designed to showcase your mastery of subject knowledge and effective teaching techniques, impressing any Ofsted inspector.
Using the principles of mastery learning and reasoning, this lesson is differentiated to meet the needs of all learners. The learning objective is to accurately use a protractor, with success criteria that include lining up the bottom of the protractor with one of the lines, making sure the corner (vertex) of the angle is in the middle of the protractor, and looking at where the 0 is on the line to use the correct set of numbers.
The starter activity invites the children to look at the success criteria and complete a cold task on the screen, while the main activity provides teacher input on what angles are, as well as a discussion of real-life examples and different types of angles, such as right angles, obtuse angles, and acute angles. Children also have the opportunity to play “Simon Says” to identify whole turns, half turns, and 90-degree turns, shouting out the degrees of each angle as they do it.
To engage higher ability children, they can complete the Hot Task (input) silently and independently while the rest of the class receives input. Differentiated activities include using angle eaters to measure and identify different types of angles, estimating and measuring angles on worksheets, and exploring the patterns and relationships between angles in different shapes.
In the plenary, students will review the success criteria and reflect on their learning, sharing which part of the lesson was the easiest or hardest. The resources for this lesson include a PowerPoint, protractors, angle eaters, cold task, show it tasks, table display, and challenge tasks.
Overall, this lesson is a strong example of how to teach a complex mathematical concept while promoting mastery and reasoning skills, making it an excellent choice for showcasing your teaching abilities during an interview or impressing an Ofsted inspector or SLT observer.
Ideal for a 30 minute-1 hour lesson.
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Start the school year off on the right foot with these 14 KS2 Transition Day / First Day Activities. Designed to foster a positive classroom environment and build relationships among students, these activities will help ease the transition into a new year group.
From introductions and expectations to personal learning goals and learner presentations, this resource pack offers a variety of engaging and interactive activities to make the first day a memorable and enjoyable experience. With resources such as bingo card templates, learning shield templates, speech bubble templates, and more, you’ll have everything you need to create a vibrant and welcoming classroom display.
Empower your students to reflect, express themselves creatively, and get to know their peers with these fun-filled activities. Perfect for teachers looking to make the first day of school a special and productive one.
This set of lesson plans, a PowerPoint and accompanying resources includes 14 activities and ideas and can easily be adapted to suit all KS2 year groups (and even KS1).
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Enlighten the magical adventure story of Kensuke’s Kingdom with this four lesson diary writing unit.
Previously used in Year 5, this unit is easily adaptable across Key Stage 2.
Each lesson comes with a detailed lesson plan with a starter, main input, main activity and plenary. There is also a PowerPoint with questions for the first 3 chapters of the story.
Children will explicitly learn about using adverbials, conjunctions, subordinate clauses, relative clauses, main clauses, different sentence types (simple, compound, complex), speech (direct and reported).
Used successfully for observations, these lessons have been rated Outstanding by experienced leadership teams.
Lesson 1
L.O.: to write using a range of cohesive devices, including adverbials.
Success Criteria:
I can summarise the main ideas of a text
I can include thoughts and feelings of the main character
I can use exciting vocabulary
I can use adverbs and adverbial openers in my writing
Lesson 2
L.O.: to write using a range of cohesive devices
Success Criteria:
I can use the layout of a recount
I will go into most detail about main events
I will include my thoughts and feelings
I will describe my experiences and think about what will happen in the future
I will use language features such as similes and metaphors to create an image for the reader.
Lesson 3
L.O.: To be able to write a dialogue between characters using correct speech rules.
Success Criteria:
I can use the layout of a conversation
I will go into most detail about the main events
I will include my thoughts and feelings
I will describe my experiences and think about what will happen in the future
I will use language features such as similes and metaphors to create an image for the reader
Lesson 4 (could be spread over two lessons)
L.O.: To be able to write using a range of clause structures, varying their position within a sentence.
Success Criteria:
Creating atmosphere and using dialogue to advance exciting action and creating the character’s personality.
Selecting vocabulary that reflects the theme
Using a range of cohesive devices to create flow
Using passive and modal verbs
Using adverbs, prepositional phrases and noun phrases effectively
Using correct speech punctuation
Spelling most words correctly
This unit includes:
✸ x4 Lesson plans
✸ x4 PowerPoints
✸ x4 Writing planning pages
✸ Adverbs word mat
✸ Feelings word mat
✸ Cohesive devices activity
✸ Conjunction types
✸ Diary writing checklist
✸ Alternatives to Said word mat
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Discover the enchanting tale of ‘People of the Rainbow’ a heartwarming story that teaches children the importance of embracing diversity and celebrating individuality. In the magical town of Harmonyville, each unique Rainbow Person represents a different color, coming together to create a vibrant tapestry of unity. Follow Ruby, a little Rainbow Girl, as she learns that change is a beautiful part of life and that, just like the colors of the rainbow, every person is special in their own way. This engaging and uplifting story encourages children aged 8 and above to appreciate differences, fostering a message of love, acceptance, and harmony. Perfect for promoting inclusivity in the classroom!
Class Dojo reward chart where children can exchange their dojos for lots of different prizes! Really motivational and not expensive to fund. Editable so you can change the font or prizes/number of dojos.
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