Chinese New Year is a festival which celebrates the beginning of next year in the Chinese Lunar Calendar. These activities can be used as standalone activities or as part of a more in depth look at a celebration from a different culture. The activities include: a quiz, a guided reading activity (more suited to KS2), a Top Trumps card game activity based on the Chinese Zodiac, a template and instructions for making paper lanterns and outlines of Chinese dragons to colour and create your own dragon dances!

Mother’s Day is a celebration of motherhood and mothers around the world. This resource could be used as a PowerPoint for assembly or in class to promote discussion about what mums/mother figures do for us. Suitable for KS1 or KS2.

Mother’s Day is a celebration of mums everywhere. This English resource contains a PowerPoint (includes a WAGOLL) and planning sheet, so that children can successfully create a rhyming poem about mothers, or their own mother. The resource explores different types of poems before looking in detail about the benefits of rhyme in poetry and other poetic devices.

A Christmas quiz is a fun way to test your children’s understanding of key aspects of the curriculum. This resource contains three Christmas quizzes for you to share with your class (primarily aimed at KS2 year groups) in the busy run up to the Christmas holiday. This collection contains a fun general knowledge quiz, with various rounds for children to enjoy and complete individually or in groups; a maths quiz to test their understanding of everything covered in the Autumn term (place value, number and the four operations) and a SPaG quiz to test their understanding of various grammar points, all with a Christmas theme. All answers are included, where possible. A fun way to still ensure their is learning taking place in your classroom, but with a fun, festive twist!

A Christmas Carol is a story about Ebenezer Scrooge written by Charles Dickens. This unit of work comprises three lessons focused on descriptive writing. It looks at how to write effective character and setting descriptions based on A Christmas Carol. All the slides and lesson plans are fully editable. The slides contain everything required for a successful lesson, including a WAGOLL, success criteria, links to video clips and extracts from the text.

Letters to Santa are a popular Christmas tradition. this resource helps guide KS1 children through how to write a letter, discussing the layout and what features to include. The resource contains a lesson plan, PowerPoint and worksheets, which are all fully editable. Enjoy a key part of Christmas with your class with this English resource. Merry Christmas!

Adapted from the SMART Notebook version of this resource. A fully editable PowerPoint presentation including three lessons based on Charles Dickins’ A Christmas Carol. It looks at character and setting description. Includes all resources needed for the lessons, including an editable lesson plan and extracts where needed.

Christmas poetry and letter writing - a fun way to continue to teach high quality English lessons during the busy Christmas period. Two individual KS2 English lessons (which could be stretched to more lessons if needed) around the theme of Christmas. One lesson focuses on the art of writing a persuasive letter, with the hook of writing to Santa to persuade him to bring their desired presents. It looks at the features of a letter, as well as exploring what different persuasive techniques could be used. The another lesson focuses on poetry, specifically haikus. This lesson teaches the format of a haiku and discusses the importance of syllables. The children can then write their own Christmas Haiku Poem. Each lesson comes complete with PowerPoint slides, worksheets (where applicable), a WAGOLL and lesson plan - all of which are fully editable. Enjoy English with your class in the run up to Christmas with these lessons!