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Out of the Blue - Simon Armitage - 9/11 Poem
These informative and engaging resources enable students to build the skills needed to interpret and analyse the langauge used in poems. These resources also give students a strong foundation knowledge, including the SMSC implications, of the events of 9/11 - an important historical day that should never be forgotten.
Students learn through the following tasks:
- Collecting and discussing knowledge of the events of the day through an interactive starter task;
- Reading the poem ‘Out of the Blue’ and identifying the descriptive devices throughout the poem;
- Discussing a model analytical paragraph about the language used in the poem, in order to form their own success criteria;
- Using a template to form their own analytical paragraphs about the language used in the poem;
- Using peer or self-assessment in order to establish their success at analysing language.
The following resources are provided:
- Engaging and colourful step-by-step PowerPoint
- Poem
- Teacher lesson guidance;
- Identifying worksheet;
- Analysis template;
- Writing to analyse help-sheet
- Analysis model
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint.
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Classifying Animals Lesson, Resources, and Pointless Game!
This bundle contains the ‘Classifying Animals’ lesson, and also the fun and interactive Animal Classes Pointless Game!
The detailed and engaging lesson enables students to gain an understanding of what animal classes are, and which animals belong to the different categories. Furthermore, they learn to categorise animals themselves, using scientific knowledge of the features of each animal class. Students justify their choices using critical thinking skills.
Students learn through a number of fun and interactive tasks, which enable them to:
- Define each animal class and understand its features;
- Exemplify each animal class, justifying their choices;
- Use research and investigative skills to categorise animals for whom the class is not immediately obvious;
- Evaluate the learning and understanding of themselves and their peers.
The resources include:
-Visually engaging and comprehensive whole-lesson presentation;
-Resources for the card-sorting activity;
-A categorising and justifying worksheet (and answer sheet for teacher);
-An investigation log;
-Step-by-step lesson plan.
To help their investigation write-ups, I’ve also thrown in the literacy writing mat for free!
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.
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Ancient History Big Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS EACH OF THE ANCIENT HISTORY KNOWLEDGE ORGANISERS, IN ADDITION TO THE ANCIENT HISTORY POINTLESS GAMES!
The clear, detailed and visually-appealing knowledge organisers offer complete reference points for students learning or revising knowledge relating to each of the following ancient history topics:
Ancient Egypt;
Ancient Greece;
The Romans.
Each organiser contains a number of comprehensive sections explaining the key elements of the topic, timelines detailing key times and events, diagrams and images to visually aid understanding, and key facts to extend the learning of higher attaining students.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDFs and Word documents (so that you can edit should you wish to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
Based on the popular game show, the ‘Pointless’ games are perfect for use as whole lesson resources, enrichment options, or revision tools. The games are editable, so that you can change to any other topic or change questions. Each game contains around 25 slides of sound clips, engaging visuals, and suitably challenging questions and they are effective at both promoting engagement and enhancing learning. There are several full rounds of questions to build or revisit knowledge of Romans, Ancient Egyptians, and Ancient Greeks.
The nature of the games ensures that the resources can challenge students of all levels.
A blank template has also been added, so that you can create your own games!
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KS2 Knowledge Organisers Big Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing knowledge organisers offer complete reference points for KS2 students learning or revising knowledge relating to each of the following topics:
World War II;
Ancient Egypt;
The Solar System;
Tudors and Stuarts;
The Rainforest;
The Romans;
Ancient Greece.
Each organiser contains a number of comprehensive sections explaining the key elements of the topic, timelines detailing key times and events, diagrams and images to visually aid understanding, and key facts to extend the learning of higher attaining students.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDFs and Word documents (so that you can edit should you wish to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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Introduction to Jesus Lesson Bundle and Knowledge Organiser!
THIS BIG BUNDLE CONTAINS THE INTRODUCTION TO JESUS LESSON BUNDLE, IN ADDITION TO THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER!
This series of interesting and engaging lessons aims to equip children with a solid foundation understanding of the life and significance of Jesus Christ. The lessons offer a broad outline of the events in his life, focusing more heavily on two particularly important moments (his baptism and the last week of his life). The bundle contains the following lessons:
His Significance
Key Events in His Life
Representations of Jesus
Jesus’ Baptism
The Easter Story
In each lesson, the learning is guided by a clear and colourful PowerPoint presentation, which guides students through logical, step-by-step activities. There are also clear hyperlinks for the video resources, and engaging, well-structured worksheets for the activities.
In the past, I have used these lessons with children from across Key Stage 2 - the key learning is aligned with curriculum expectations for RE, and also the content prescribed by most diocese regions. All images are licensed for commercial use.
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War/Conflict Poetry Big Lesson Bundle! (Whole lessons - all PowerPoints, resources, and lesson plans included!)
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the content, language, and structure features of ten war/conflict poems. In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! Each of the poems are widely studied, with many being from the Literary Heritage bank, and most being fixtures in examination board anthologies.
Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings poems, understanding the writer’s ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of the different wars/conflicts, and analysing features of content, language, and structure.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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GCSE Poetry Huge Lesson Bundle!
This huge resource pack contains highly stimulating, detailed, and informative whole-lesson resources for 18 different poems - each of the poems feature on the new GCSE poetry lists for the vast majority of examining boards. In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! The poems included are largely from the Relationships and War/Conflict poetry lists.
Individually, these resources are worth more than double the price of the bundle, meaning that you can make a considerable saving!
Each lesson employs a wide range of teaching and learning strategies, with a large variety of interesting tasks and ideas. This pack contains a whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation for each poem, in addition to all of the worksheets, task resources, and lesson plans that you need to teach.
Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes
Before You Were Mine - Carol Ann Duffy
Dulce et Decorum est - Wilfred Owen
In Paris with You - James Fenton
Love's Philosophy - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mametz Wood - Owen Sheers
Mother, Any Distance - Simon Armitage
Neutral Tones - Thomas Hardy
next to of course god america i - E.E. Cummings
Out of the Blue - Simon Armitage
Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poppies - Jane Weir
Sonnet 116 - William Shakespeare
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Falling Leaves - Margaret Postgate Cole
War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy
What Were They Like? - Denise Levertov
When We Two Parted - Lord Byron
Comparing Poems!
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the presentations.
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Collective Worship Huge Bundle!
These fun and original collective worships sessions aim to aid children in developing their understanding of Christian themes.
The bundle contains collective worship sessions on:
Compassion
Honesty
Endurance
Humility
Celebrating Differences
Peace
Creativity
Thankfulness
All of the sessions have been tried and tested, and have always been really well received in the past.
The slides are visually engaging and well-presented, and the subject matter is tailored to the interests and needs of young people. For example, there are references to scenarios and dilemmas that they themselves might find themselves in, in order to help them to make the right choices in their own lives. Each session also links to an apt bible story, each of which has been modified to suit a younger audience.
There are also fun role-play activities, beautiful, thought-provoking videos exemplifying each theme, and various discussion activities regarding how to show the skills in different areas of their own lives. No further resources are required, everything that you need to present the sessions is included.
Each set of slides are fairly self-explanatory, but I’ve included guidance notes for each session to assist the speaker. Hope that you find this useful!
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Florence Nightingale - KS1 History Big Bundle!
This bundle contains all of the Florence Nightingale lessons, in addition to the knowledge organiser!
The series of interesting and engaging lessons aims to equip children with a solid understanding of the life and significance of Florence Nightingale. Included are 4 double lessons, offering over 8 hours of learning content.
The lessons included are:
Introduction to Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale - Comparing Historical Sources
Creating Florence Nightingale Timelines
Comparing Florence Nightingale with other Significant Individuals.
In each lesson, the learning is guided by a clear and colourful PowerPoint presentation, which guides students through logical, step-by-step activities. There are also clear hyperlinks for the video resources, and engaging, well-structured worksheets for the activities.
In the past, I have used these lessons with children from across KS1 (years 1 and 2) however, with some adaptations they may be suitable for older year groups. All images are licensed for commercial use.
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The Huge History Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for students learning or revising knowledge relating to a wide range of history topics, including:
The Ancient Egyptians
The Ancient Greeks
The Vikings
The Romans
The Victorians
The Aztecs
Baghdad c.900AD
World War I
World War II
Tudors and Stuarts
The Great Fire of London
Anglo-Saxons
The Holocaust
The Cold War
Each organiser contains a number of comprehensive sections to guide learning and revision including:
Overviews of the era;
Annotated maps/ diagrams;
Timelines;
Rulers/ Emperors/ Prominent People;
Daily Life at the time;
Important facts/ dates
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDF and Word versions (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included). The knowledge organisers may be used for students of all ages, but are most suitable for children in upper KS2 and lower KS3.
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KS1 Significant Individuals Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning about ‘Significant Individuals.’ Included are knowledge organisers about:
Nelson Mandela;
Neil Armstrong;
Florence Nightingale;
Stephen Hawking;
Marie Curie;
Elizabeth I;
Winston Churchill;
Martin Luther King.
Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Times in the Individual’s Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Life Timeline;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
Each resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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KS1 Significant Individuals - Explorers - Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about explorers, as a part of their study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ Included in this bundle are knowledge organisers about:
Christopher Columbus;
Neil Armstrong;
Robert Scott;
Amy Johnson
Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Key Times in their Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Timeline of their Life;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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KS1 Significant Individuals - Monarchs and Leaders - Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about monarchs and leaders, as a part of their study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ Included in this bundle are knowledge organisers about:
Winston Churchill;
Queen Elizabeth I;
Abraham Lincoln;
Queen Victoria.
Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Key Times in their Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Timeline of their Life;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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KS1 Significant Individuals - Nurses and Helpers - Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about writers, as a part of their study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ Included in this bundle are knowledge organisers about:
Florence Nightingale;
Mary Seacole;
William Booth;
Mother Teresa.
Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Key Times in their Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Timeline of their Life;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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People of Discovery Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about people of discovery, including explorers, inventors and scientists. Included in this bundle are the following 11 knowledge organisers:
Christopher Columbus;
Neil Armstrong;
Robert Scott;
Captain James Cook;
Marco Polo;
Marie Curie;
Isaac Newton;
Albert Einstein;
Charles Darwin;
Alexander Graham Bell;
Sir Francis Drake
Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Key Times in their Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Timeline of their Life;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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Monarchs and Leaders - History Knowledge Organisers Big Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about monarchs and leaders, as a part of their history study. Included in this bundle are 8 knowledge organisers, spanning different eras, countries, genders and ethnicities:
1.Elizabeth I
2. Winston Churchill
3. Queen Victoria
4. Abraham Lincoln
5. Adolf Hitler
6. Nelson Mandela
7. Henry VIII
8. Julius Caesar
Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Key Times in their Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Timeline of their Life;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3 or A4, and are provided as both PDF and Word versions (so that you can edit if you want to). They are most suitable for children in KS2 and KS3. All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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Activists - History Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about activists and activism. It is useful as a part of a history study of significant people over time, or a PSHE/ Citizenship study of different activists and how they have changed the world. Included in this bundle are 8 knowledge organisers, spanning different eras, countries, genders and ethnicities:
1.Nelson Mandela
2. Mahatma Gandhi
3. Florence Nightingale
4. Dr. Martin Luther King
5. Rosa Parks
6. Greta Thunberg
7. Guy Fawkes
8. Emmeline Pankhurst
Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Key Times in their Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Timeline of their Life;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3 or A4, and are provided as both PDF and Word versions (so that you can edit if you want to). They are most suitable for children in KS2 and KS3. All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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People of Discovery Volume 2 - Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about people of discovery, including explorers, inventors and scientists. Included in this bundle are the following 11 knowledge organisers:
Abel Tasman;
Alexander Mackenzie;
Amelia Earhart;
Amy Johnson;
Buzz Aldrin;
David Attenborough;
Edmund Hillary;
Ibn Battuta;
Joseph Banks;
Roald Amundsen;
Vasco Da Gama.
Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Key Times in their Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Timeline of their Life;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.