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Introduction
Unit resources
Medium-term plan
Lesson 1: Doing the right thing
Lesson 2: Making choices
Lesson 3: A good influence
Lesson 4: Wrong choices
Lesson 5: David and Goliath
Lesson 6: Inner strength
Lesson 7: It’s up to you
This unit is intended as an introduction to thinking about ultimate truths in Key Stage 2. By beginning with ‘golden rules’, found represented in all major faiths, pupils then explore how their sense of right and wrong can change with circumstances. By using stories from different faiths and by studying the actions of believers who chose what they believed to be right over wrong when that was a hard choice for them to make, pupils are introduced to the concept of faith and behaviour being inextricably linked. The issue of ‘right and wrong’ will be discussed almost daily throughout a school child’s life! For this age group, right and wrong tends to be very cut-and-dried. These lessons are not intended to introduce the issue of ‘grey areas’ or ‘relative truth’ as children at this age have neither the spiritual, mental, moral or ethical maturity to address these issues appropriately in a classroom context.
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Introduction
Unit resources
Medium-term plan
Lesson 1: Why are there wars?
Lesson 2: Why is there suffering?
Lesson 3 & 4: Responses to suffering
Lesson 5: Christmas Day truce
Taken from our Lower Keystage 2 R.E Resource file
This unit grapples with an issue of universal debate both within and between religions. In recent years, religious fanaticism has been regarded as a major contribution to war and suffering around the world. In truth, religious zeal has always been a factor in conflict on a local, national and international scale. By starting with playground problems and other contexts in which pupils’ arguments may get physical, the unit explores the problem of what is meant by a ‘justifiable’ war, looks at both religious and non-religious responses to war and suffering through the work of charities, and ends with a look at how individuals can make peace, even when whole countries are fighting each other. The length of the unit means that this is not intended to be an in-depth study, so you should see each lesson as an opportunity for pupils to develop questions, rather than be given all the answers. It will be important to address any topical issues or current events that may occur while you are teaching this unit to make the subject an uncomfortable reality for your class.
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Sheet 1: Tense – to change the tense of verbs.
Sheet 2: Tense Challenge – to change the tense of verbs.
Sheet 3: Tense Challenge – to keep the same tense throughout a piece of writing.
Sheet 4:Tense Challenge – to change irregular verbs to the past tense.
Taken from our Grammar and Creativity Year 3 book.
Easy to follow and use.
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Introduction
Unit resources
Medium-term plan
Lesson 1: Belonging to a group
Lesson 2: Confirmation and believer’s baptism
Lesson 3: Bar Mitzvah
Lesson 4: Amrit ceremony
Lesson 5: Taking responsibility
Lesson 6: Initiation ceremonies
About this unit This unit is intended to explore becoming an adult and discuss the themes that are addressed by different religious initiation ceremonies and their effect on people’s lives. Not all religions have specific ceremonies welcoming members into adulthood but Christianity, Judaism, Sikhism and Hinduism do. In this unit we will look at three religions: Christianity, Judaism and Sikhism, together with a non-religious view: humanism. This unit allows pupils to consider the commitment involved in deciding to become a full member of a religious community. Prior learning: This unit will build on the work completed in Year 3 on birth ceremonies. Lesson length: The lessons are designed to last approximately 60–70 minutes.
Taken from our R.E Lower Keystage 2 Resource File
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Taken from our EYFS/KS1 PSHE Resources File
LO: To help children understand that their choices have different consequences.
Learning outcomes:
To share their opinions on things that matter to them and explain their views.
To recognise choices they make
To take part in discussion with one other person or as a whole class
To understand that choices have consequences
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Taken from our PSHE EYFS/KS1 Resource file
One lesson with activities to get the children thinking about key questions.
About the unit in general:
The material in this unit contains ideas on how PSHE and Citizenship can be introduced in the early years. Many of the skills and values that fall within this area of the curriculum are taught throughout each day in an Early Years classroom. The qualities they encourage are illustrated on the following page. Three themes: • Fairness • Relationships • Choices have been covered in depth. Many of the qualities that are developed in PSHE and Citizenship are embraced within these particular subjects. They are fundamental to the Early Years curriculum. Timing In this unit most of the activities would take 10-15 minutes. However, some of the ideas presented are not full activities but suggestions of how to incorporate the topic into the everyday classroom
Find the full unit on TES: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eyfs-pshe-understanding-the-world-back-to-school-unit-of-work-6-lessons-unit-12319666
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Taken from our Literacy Upper KS2 Resource file
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Lesson 1: In my mind’s eye LO: Understand how description sets the scene for a story.
Lesson 2: One powerful legend, two stories
LO: To be able to compare different versions of a legend.
Lesson 3: Enter Beowulf LO: To explore a character through drama and to give references to support ideas
Lesson 4 Capturing the moment
LO: To act out scenes from stories and to describe them in precise sentences.
There are six units on fiction in this file for years 5 and 6. The third unit focuses on myths, legends and traditional stories. This unit covers reading and analysing features of the text types, comparing different versions of the same legend, exploring characters through drama, comparing written and oral narratives, evaluating performances and transferring oral text into written narrative.
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This non-fiction unit for Years 5 and 6 revisits the key features of recount texts. Analysing recounts drawn from a range of media, children identify common features and differences. They then go on to produce a plan, carry out interviews, collate and evaluate the information they have gathered and write an article or report. To give context to this work, it would be useful to arrange a visit from a local news reporter or a trip to a news office, if possible. The examples in these lessons are taken from ‘Beowulf’ and follow on from Fiction Unit 3. This unit could be used at any stage in Year 5. Lesson length This unit could take about three to four weeks. We have organised the unit’s content into seven lessons, each of which should take about an hour. Each lesson also has a set of extension activities for different abilities, as well as Hotspot! (Higher Order Thinking/Higher level questioning ) challenges.
Lesson 1 Read all about it!• To identify the different features of a newspaper
Beowulf ’s clash with Grendel – an impersonal recount • To write a recount of an event.
3 An interview with Wiglaf. • To recognise the key features of an interview use a range of open and closed questions to gather information from an eye-witness
4.‘We interrupt this programme for a newsflash…’ • To take useful notes and to ask open questions. • To explore individual’s motives through role play
5 Carefully chosen words.• To write a range of different kinds of sentences.
6 Here is the news • To organise and edit work and make improvements
7 The importance of good editing
• To reflect critically on their own and other’s writing and to improve it.
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The purpose of this topic is to ensure that children can greet each other by responding and saying
¡Buenos días!, ¡Hola! and ¡Adiós! It is also to familiarise children with new sounds and to encourage them to speak and practise customs, even if they make mistakes, in order to gain confidence.
Learning objectives
Children learn:
to say hello (distinguish between formal (¡Buenos
días!) and informal (¡Hola!))
to say goodbye (¡Adiós!)
greeting customs
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Lesson Plans and Activity Sheets
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In this first section, which contains a term’s work, the children will learn to introduce themselves in
Spanish and to greet others. They will learn numbers 0–12 and some classroom objects. They will also
begin to work on sounds and spellings, and use simple classroom instructions.
Topic titles (6 Lessons)
Greetings
How are you?
Introducing yourself
Numbers 0–12
Classroom instructions
Classroom objects
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Lesson Plans, Subject Vocabulary and Activity Sheets
Taken from Literacy Year 1 Resource File
WALT • Talk about what happened in the story. • Talk about the people in the story.
1 lesson with activity resources (does not include story)
Activitiy overview: Listen to teacher’s introduction and to the story Oliver’s Vegetables and look at pictures. Answer questions, recall and order the events. Discuss Oliver’s character.
This lesson is the first of six on the theme of stories about grandparents. It will be helpful if you can read other books on this subject to enrich the children’s experience and give them points for comparison. Approach the subject with sensitivity bearing in mind your children’s personal situations.
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Sample one week lesson plans from LCP’s Phonics Planning 3rd Edition
Day-by-Day Lesson Plans based on Letters and Sounds
Please note: This is just the planning and does not come with the lesson’s resources.
What is LCP Phonics Planning? It is not a phonics teaching scheme and I have assumed that your school already has such a scheme in place, for example, LCP Phonics.
There are many other commercially produced schemes available. LCP Phonics Planning is a planning tool for teachers who are teaching phonics using the Letters and
Sounds document from the DfE. It is a guide and should be used with flexibility and at a pace which is appropriate to each group or class.
Objectives and criteria for success:
Teach new graphemes for reading (p134) ay ou ie.
Teach the rules for spelling words containing these digraphs. (Appendix 6).
Teach reading the tricky word people (p140) and decodable words house, about (p141).
Teach reading and spelling compound words. (Appendix 7).
Practise reading and spelling high frequency words (p141/p148).
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The purpose of this topic is for children to learn vocabulary to describe the colour of items.
Learning outcomes
Children learn:
to say the correct word for the colour in response
to the question ¿De qué color es?, e.g. Es azul.
to use short phrases to express personal
responses and preferences: me gusta el rojo, no
me gusta el amarillo.
to use correct intonation to indicate they are
asking a question
to show they understand nouns used with
colours
to show they understand simple commands, e.g.
¡Buscad!
to listen carefully in order to discriminate sounds
and identify meaning
to show they understand familiar statements
to begin to show understanding of syntactic
structure in languages, e.g. position of adjectives
in Spanish in relation to English adjective
position, e.g. un bolígrafo azul – a blue pen
Resources:
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The purpose of this topic is for children to identify members of their family, to respond to questions
and to write short phrases correctly with support.
Learning objective
Children learn:
to introduce members of the family
Learning outcomes
Children learn:
to identify correctly names for members of the
family
to understand and say whether or not they have
brothers or sisters
to respond with Se llama… when asked
someone’s name
to understand that el is masculine and la is
feminine
to role-play members of own, imaginary or
famous family
to copy familiar short phrases correctly
to name and describe people
to use visual clues to produce short phrases
using mainly memorised language
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Lesson Plans, Vocabulary and Lesson Activities
The purpose of this topic is to ensure that the children can say what nationality they are, ask the
question of others and say what language they (and others) speak.
Learning objective
Children learn:
to describe their nationality and the languages
they speak
Learning outcomes
Children learn:
to describe their nationality and ask others the
same question, for example Soy inglés/inglesa
to say what languages they speak, for example
Hablo inglés y español
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Lesson Plan and Activity Sheets
Invaders and settlers
The purpose of
this lesson is: to establish that the Anglo-Saxons both invaded and settled in Britain.
Children should learn:
• to use the terms ‘invade’ and ‘settle’;
• to place the Anglo-Saxon period in a chronological
framework.
Class objective:
• to discover the difference between invaders and
settlers.
Learning Outcomes
Children should be able to:
• use a dictionary to find the meanings of the words
‘invade’ and ‘settle’;
• sort words or phrases correctly under the headings
‘invade’ and ‘settle’;
• locate the Anglo-Saxon period on a time line;
• discuss ideas associated with invasion and
settlement.
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The purpose of this topic is for children to say what the weather is like, using a few simple phrases.
Learning objective
Children learn:
to describe the weather, using a few simple
phrases
Learning outcomes
Children learn:
to respond to the question ¿Qué tiempo hace?
using short phrases, e.g. hace buen/mal tiempo;
hace calor/frío
to name and describe the weather in various
places, e.g. en Alicante hace calor
to write the phrases so they can describe the
weather correctly
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In this section, the children will learn to say their age and where they live. They will learn the numbers 13–21, the days of the week, some phrases about the weather and the Spanish alphabet.
This is a 7 week unit of work
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Medium Term Plan, Individual Lesson Plans, Lesson Activities
**Topic titles
How old are you?**
The purpose of this topic is for children to know how to say how old they are and to ask others their age
2. Where do you live?
The purpose of this topic is to teach and ensure that children can respond to the question ¿Dónde vives? Children should also be able to ask others the same question and to understand the response.
3. Nationalities
The purpose of this topic is to ensure that the children can say what nationality they are, ask the question of others and say what language they (and others) speak.
4. Numbers 13–21
The purpose of this topic is to ensure that children can count to 21 in Spanish
5. Days of the week
The purpose of this topic is to teach children to understand and say the days of the week. It is also to ensure that the children can respond to and ask the question ¿Qué día es hoy?
6. The weather
The purpose of this topic is for children to say what the weather is like, using a few simple phrases.
7. The Spanish alphabet
The purpose of this topic is for children to learn the Spanish pronunciation and sounds of the alphabet
that will aid accurate pronunciation and the spelling of simple words.
In this unit, children are introduced to the idea that people from other societies have been coming to settle in Britain for a long time. Children find out about what was discovered at Sutton Hoo. By investigating the finds, children learn about the work of archaeologists and about the culture and way of life of Anglo-Saxons who settled in Britain.
Lesson 1 On the move
The purpose of this lesson is to consider why people move away from where they were born.
Lesson 2 Invaders and settlers
The purpose of this lesson is: to establish that the Anglo-Saxons both invaded and settled in Britain.
Lesson 3 Where did they come from and where did they go?
The purpose of this lesson is: to develop a clear understanding of where the Anglo-Saxons came from and where they settled.
Lesson 4 Archaeology
The purpose of this lesson is: to develop an understanding of archaeology and archaeological evidence.
Lesson 5 Sutton Hoo
The purpose of this lesson is:to find out how the ship burial at Sutton Hoo was discovered and what sort of objects were found.
Lesson 6 The Sutton Hoo treasure
The purpose of this lesson is: look in detail at some of the Sutton Hoo finds.
Lesson 7 Sutton Hoo drama
The purpose of this lesson is: to consolidate learning about the Sutton Hoo ship burial.
Lesson 8 Everyday Anglo-Saxon life
The purpose of this lesson is: to research and record information about the everyday life of Anglo-Saxons.
Lesson 9 Presenting everyday Anglo-Saxon life
The purpose of this lesson is: for children to present the information they have researched about the everyday life of Anglo-Saxons.
Lesson 10 Anglo-Saxon writing
The purpose of this lesson is: to investigate different types of writing in Anglo-Saxon times.
Lesson 11 Riddles and stories
The purpose of this lesson is:to look at the Anglo-Saxon oral tradition with reference to Anglo-Saxon riddles and the Beowulf story.
Lesson 12 Visit to an Anglo-Saxon site
The purpose of this lesson is: to visit a location that will provide evidence of Anglo-Saxon life.*
The purpose of
this lesson is: to investigate who the Romans were, and why they came to Britain.
Children should learn:
• to select and record information about Roman ways
of life;
• about aspects of life in Roman Britain, using a variety
of sources.
Class objective:
to find out who the Romans were, and why they
came to Britain.
Children should be able to:
• select relevant information from a number of
sources;
• record relevant information about the Roman way
of life.
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