I am a primary school teacher and assistant head. I love my job and my aim is to produce high quality teaching resources that motivate learners and make life easier for teachers! All of my resources are ready to teach, differentiated and easy to adapt.
I don't make resources just to sell, all uploads have been made to be used in my own classroom. Therefore, I can vouch for their suitability, pitch and quality.
I am a primary school teacher and assistant head. I love my job and my aim is to produce high quality teaching resources that motivate learners and make life easier for teachers! All of my resources are ready to teach, differentiated and easy to adapt.
I don't make resources just to sell, all uploads have been made to be used in my own classroom. Therefore, I can vouch for their suitability, pitch and quality.
A complete unit of 7 lessons, covering narrative objectives for upper KS2. Children apply the learning in the final lesson when they write a short story based on a fantasy setting.
**Objectives covered include: **
To use advanced punctuation
To use modal verbs
To use slow writing to develop my techniques.
To develop dialogue for advancing the action.
To understand and apply the structure of a short story.
There is a presentation for each lesson and all resources are included.
All images are from PIXABAY,
A complete lesson and resources for chapter 6 of the book ' The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' by L Baum. Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on developing children's understanding of the whole story - from the point of view of the antagonist.
The lesson is also available as part of a scheme of work that is based on the understanding of the text and its themes, as well as narrative, non-fiction and descriptive writing skills. Touches on, and links well to American History at the turn of the 20th century.The original text is in the public domain and available online.
The lesson is part of a scheme that is based on the understanding of the text and its themes, as well as narrative, non-fiction and descriptive writing skills. Touches on, and links well to American History at the turn of the 20th century.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
Scheme of work available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-wizard-of-oz-full-narrative-scheme-of-work-12-days-of-planning-presentation-and-resources-11679928
All images sourced from Pixabay. Original illustrations are in the public domain.
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’ PIG HEART BOY’ by Malorie Blackman.
Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on how to integrate dialogue in a narrative
This is lesson 7 in a series of 14. The whole scheme of work is available here:
The whole scheme includes a cold and a hot task, and culminates in the class writing a dilemma story
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’ PIG HEART BOY’ by Malorie Blackman.
Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE FOR EFFECT
This is lesson 11 in a series of 14. The whole scheme of work is available here:
The whole scheme includes a cold and a hot task, and culminates in the class writing a dilemma story
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’ PIG HEART BOY’ by Malorie Blackman.
Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on developing a character tone and voice (and maintaining it)
This is lesson 9 in a series of 14. The whole scheme of work is available here:
The whole scheme includes a cold and a hot task, and culminates in the class writing a dilemma story
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’ PIG HEART BOY’ by Malorie Blackman.
Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson is a mid unit warm task to evaluate progress. It could also be used as a Big Write session.
This is lesson 8 in a series of 14. The whole scheme of work is available here:
The whole scheme includes a cold and a hot task, and culminates in the class writing a dilemma story
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete history lesson, including a plan, editable slides and all the resources to teach the objective:
To use historical methods to find out about history of African-Caribbean people in Britain before the 1940’s.
This is lesson two in a series of 5 about the Empire Windrush
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A complete history lesson, including a plan, editable slides and all the resources to teach the objective:
To know and understand the difficulties faced by the Windrush settlers when they arrived in Britain
This is lesson five in a series of 5 about the Empire Windrush
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Two different comprehensive personal statements which I wrote during my recent job search.
Although they obviously needed to be adapted to suit the needs of each school that I was applying for, I found that having a series of ‘base’ letters was extremely useful. I was shortlisted for each job I sent these applications to (and gained a job)
There was nothing on line at the time that I could use to guide/scaffold me, so I hope that someone finds this useful!
A complete lesson and resources for chapter 6 of the book ' The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' by L Baum. Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on the themes, motifs and symbols of the novel.
The lesson is also available as part of a scheme of work that is based on the understanding of the text and its themes, as well as narrative, non-fiction and descriptive writing skills. Touches on, and links well to American History at the turn of the 20th century.The original text is in the public domain and available online.
The lesson is part of a scheme that is based on the understanding of the text and its themes, as well as narrative, non-fiction and descriptive writing skills. Touches on, and links well to American History at the turn of the 20th century.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
Scheme of work available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-wizard-of-oz-full-narrative-scheme-of-work-12-days-of-planning-presentation-and-resources-11679928
All images sourced from Pixabay. Original illustrations are in the public domain.
A complete history lesson, including a plan, editable slides and all the resources to teach the objective:
To know that Caribbean men and women served in the second World War.
This is lesson three in a series of 5 about the Empire Windrush
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A complete humanities lesson, including a plan, editable slides and all the resources to teach the objective:
To be able to locate and identify the Caribbean Islands. (Geography Skills)
This is lesson one in a series of 5 about the Empire Windrush
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A complete history lesson, including a plan, editable slides and all the resources to teach the objective:
To be able to explain why people chose to travel on the Empire Windrush
This is lesson four in a series of 5 about the Empire Windrush
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A series of 4 Poetry lessons, that teach and revise form poetry:
1. haiku
2. kenning
3. calligrams
4. concrete
Linked to the theme of winter (and animals) , chdn create a different type of poem each day.
All resources, presentations and resources are included.
Outstanding lesson - Judged by HMI inspection. I originally planned this lesson when coaching and mentoring a year 4 teacher, to model challenge for the more able and guided groups.
I updated and redrafted the plan to teach the lesson myself in year 5 for a HMI inspection, in 2014 for which the lesson was judged outstanding.
All resources are included, and a Prezi presentation (which is fully editable and accessible on any computer with internet access)
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A complete scheme of work, presentations and resources for the book ’ Skellig ’ by David Almond. Aimed at Upper KS2 but easily adaptable. Each lesson is differentiated at least 3 ways.
All lessons are ready to go (the only thing missing is the book!). This unit is genuinely ready to reach and planned to a high quality.
Each lesson is also available separately and includes a presentation and all resources.
. Editable versions are included wherever possible.
Lessons are based on the understanding of the text and its themes, as well as key narrative, and descriptive writing skills. Coverage includes: personification , Precise language choices, description of setting and character, perspectives, foreshadowing, point of view, figurative devices and more.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for a unit on DESCRIPTIVE WRITING (winter themed) in Upper KS2 (Year 6) Although part of a scheme, it is also able to be taught as a standalone lesson.
The lesson focuses on the types of errors that we can make when writing sentences EG:
Fragments
Run-ons
Missing words
Punctuation errors
Tenses
The class explore these by looking at extracts together, before going onto proofread and edit extracts for themselves. The final task is then to repeat these activities with a piece of their own (previously done) writing.
This is lesson 2 in a series of 8. The whole scheme of work is also available as a bundle The planning for the whole unit of work is included in each individual lesson.
The whole scheme includes a cold and a hot task, and culminates in the class writing the cold task again as a hot task - in order to demonstrate progress.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete English lesson, written for year 5/6 and differentiated 3 ways.
The objective covered is mood and tone, with a starter that looks at sentence and cohesion for sense.
The planning uses the animated film: Alma, by Rodrigo Blaas, which is available on Youtube.
All images are public domain from pixabay.com
A unit of work, linked to a wider FLIGHT topic (also uploaded)
Children create a set of wings out of wire (framework) and recyclable materials.
Written for year 6 but easily adapted.
A scheme of 3 lessons, aimed at KS2.
Comprehensive planning and Power Points for each lesson are included. All that is missing is print outs of the actual paintings for the children to use. Children will create 2 pieces of work in Rousseau's style.
All images from PIXABAY.
