An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
A differentiated class set of personalised English report comments. Written for year 5 in line with the new National Curriculum, they are positive, detailed and easy to adapt for other KS2 year groups. End your year on a positive note, with a healthy work-life balance and pupils who feel valued and understood.
A contents page shows you the 30 comments in ability groups, reading, writing strengths, attitude and targets for the future. Choose the correct comments for your children or mix and match comments to design the perfect reports.
Each comment comes in a girl and boy version. The name spaces are shown with 3 stars so you can quickly find and replace them with the names of your pupils. The comments cover speaking and listening, reading, writing and spelling, punctuation and grammar.
You might also be interested in these handy assessment tools:
Assessment Guidance
SMART Targets for Writing
Reading Assessment Questions
A large pack of bright inspirational posters designed to get children excited and talking about science. Every poster covers the new national curriculum for working scientifically in KS1. They are cheerful, realistic and clear. Perfect for engaging all the pupils.
Place around your school to inspire Science learning during British Science Week or any science topic. Use as discussion prompts or as part of your classroom displays.
Key Stage One
A set of 10 bright colourful posters asking and answering the question: What is Science?
For example, ‘Science is Observing’.
You might also be interested in my other updated time-saving British Science Week resources:
British Science Week KS1 Homework Tasks
British Science Week KS2 Posters
An engaging 26 slide PowerPoint for a KS2 assembly on the life and success of Charles Darwin. Includes a video link, interactive activities and reasoning questions.
Inspire your pupils by learning about this brilliant man, be amazed by his achievements and see how they are still relevant today.
Includes many higher level thinking questions and a memory challenge to keep every child focused.
Can be used on Darwin's birthday February 12th or for starting a topic on famous scientists or explorers.
Takes the children through these key questions:
What did Darwin think?
How can we be a great scientist?
Who was Charles Darwin? - Early Life, Careers, Big Break, Exploring, Thinking and Writing, Later Life
What were Darwin's theories?
What impact did his theories have?
Is evolution important today?
Differentiated writing tasks included and resourced:
Task 1 - Draw or write a flow chart of Darwin's life journey.
Task 2 - Write a radio script interviewing Darwin about his life.
Task 3 - Write a comparison of Darwin with another famous person who inspires you.
Writing templates provided. Other activity ideas also included. Lots of opportunities for discussion and higher level thinking. All concepts explained clearly.
Relevant for KS2 and KS3.
All reviews welcome.
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Year 5 writing objectives on one handy sheet. Separated into transcription, composition and grammar.
Useful for remembering what to cover, assessing work and for planning for progress.
You could have one sheet for each child or use as a resource on its own.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in these resources for teaching English with the New Curriculum:
Year 5 Writing Assessment Guidance
Year 5 SMART Writing Targets
Year 5 Reading Assessment Questions
You can find all of this and more at my shop:Teachallenjoy
A useful document for assessing children’s writing in Year 4, guidance for you to have a better understanding of assessing with the New Curriculum.
Make your assessments quick, clear and useful so that your planning hits the spot.
Ensure progress for every child as you confidently identify their next steps and find any small essential gaps to fill.
See all of the writing statements in an easy to understand grid, sorted into three simple steps:
- Beginning/Entering
- Within/ Developing
- Secure
You can use these for one child or for the whole class to track and enhance their progress throughout the year.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular resources for teaching English with the New Curriculum:
Year 4 Writing Assessment Sheets
Tear 4 SMART Writing Targets
Year 4 Reading Assessment Questions
You can find all of this and more at my shop: Teachallenjoy
An engaging primary assembly about the benefits of eating breakfast, covering many science objectives and includes follow up lesson activities.
The complete PowerPoint, with a video link, leads you through the assembly and the farm animals explain the many reasons why breakfast is good for you.
Includes a range of activities to inspire the children to want to eat breakfast, including choosing their favourite breakfast plate and discussing which meal is the best.
There are many discussion opportunities for children so they are involved in the assembly and accept responsibility for making a change, eating a better breakfast and doing well in school. Classic choices for breakfast are covered and tasty new ideas to try.
This assembly is ready-to-go, just have a glance through and print the resources if needed.
Teaching Points Covered about Breakfast:
What Farmhouse Breakfast Week is all about
Local UK farms involved
Why breakfast is so good for us
What we can eat for breakfast and why
How to make a balanced breakfast
How we can be organised in the morning
Differentiated Writing Opportunities
1. Sort the breakfast food cards under the food group headings
2. Use an eat-well plate to design a healthy balanced breakfast
3. Design a breakfast menu for the queen for a week
Use this as an assembly or a lesson, both will brighten up you and your pupil’s day whilst learning about cross curricular content.
Check out my popular Kindness Assembly
Three essential resources for improving your own and your school’s behaviour management:
1. Noise Meter - Keep the level of classroom chat at the most appropriate for outstanding learning. Use this bright and clear tool with the children to save your voice.
2. Behaviour Management CPD Pack - An inspiring CPD pack for refreshing and updating your behaviour management.
A 29 slide PowerPoint takes you through key techniques and strategies to update your teaching. Within this there are moments to discuss, reflect and evaluate your practice.
Alongside this a 10 page document explain in more detail these key aspects:
How to lay the foundations for outstanding behaviour
How to explain your expectations and consequences
The 4 behaviour management essentials
The 10 strategies you need in your toolkit
How to teach for engagement and excellent behaviour management
Walking around school and behaviour
Table Plans
Playground behaviour management
Practical subjects, rewards and tidying up a classroom
How to evaluate and change your practice
Also included is an optional anonymous survey you can give your class to find out what they think about your strengths and weaknesses - a daring but effective way to move your skills forward.
This would be helpful for any NQTs and other teachers looking to refresh and update their pedagogy.
You could use it for your own personal CPD or provide it as a whole school CPD.
3. Seating Plan Pack: A bright and clear seating plan useful for teachers and your students.
Five seating plans that work for different classrooms, lessons, children and times of year.
Two sets of colour coding:
1. Colour coded for ability
2. Colour coded for groups
Labelled for subjects. Lots of spare tables and chairs so can edit each plan. Start the term with a focused, organised and refreshed classroom.
All reviews welcome.
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Use this resource to write Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound writing targets in year 2.
Useful for teachers when writing targets so you can narrow down the statements from the National Curriculum into small steps which the children can understand.
Broken down into targets for punctuation, handwriting, grammar and composition.
You could print out one for each child and use as an assessment tool.
Or just use when marking to save time so you can quickly choose a high quality target personalised for each child.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in these high quality resources for the New Curriculum:
Whole School SMART Targets
Whole School Writing Assessment Sheets
Whole School English Writing Assessment Guidance
Whole School Guided Reading Questions
A complete Year 1 grammar pack including an A4 grammar glossary, grammar memory cards, grammar flash cards and an engaging PowerPoint which introduces these technical terms and gives children the opportunity to practice finding each one.
A colourful and useful resource designed to increase your pupil’s progress when learning English with the New Curriculum. Enhance the confidence of every child, parent, TA and Teacher with these clear and up-to-date glossaries.
All the technical vocabulary used in the new curriculum explained for children from year 1. Every word class and sentence type explained with clear helpful examples.
Useful to have as a large display or as a laminated mat for the tables. Very useful stuck in English or SPAG books to encourage independence, revision and confidence during lessons.
Can also be stuck in homework books to support children with explaining these new technical terms to parents and carers at home.
All reviews welcome.
Check out these other popular resources:
Whole School SMART Targets
Whole School Writing Assessment Sheets
Whole School Guided Reading Questions
Useful KS1 target sheets.
Can be used with the children stuck in their English books or kept in a teacher’s file.
Teacher can choose how much evidence needs to be collected before the children achieve the target.
Can show recognition of target achieved in work with a sticker/star/symbol.
Encourages responsibility for learning and ensures the children know their targets.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in these resources for teaching English with the New Curriculum:
Year 1 Writing Assessment Guidance
Year 1 Reading Assessment Questions
Year 2 Writing Assessment Guidance
Year 2 Reading Assessment Questions
Year 6 writing objectives on one handy sheet. Separated into transcription, composition and grammar.
Useful for remembering what to cover, assessing work and for planning for progress.
You could have one sheet for each child or use as a resource on its own.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in these resources for teaching English with the New Curriculum:
Year 6 Writing Assessment Guidance
Year 6 SMART Writing Targets
Year 6 Reading Assessment Questions
You can find all of this and more at my shop:Teachallenjoy
Year 3 English objectives on one handy sheet. Separated into transcription, composition and grammar.
Useful for remembering what to cover, assessing work and for planning for progress.
You could have one sheet for each child or use as a resource on its own.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in these resources for teaching English with the New Curriculum:
Year 3 SMART Writing Targets
Year 3 Writing Assessment Guidance
Year 3 Reading Assessment Questions
3 complete noiseometers, to enhance the learning in your class. Choose the style that best suits your class or change every now and then to mix things up.
All ready for you to quickly print out and pop up on the wall so you can enjoy teaching with this tool for clear communication with your class.
Works well laminated as well, either in A4 or A3 size.
Save your voice when teaching and simply turn the arrow to point at the level of noise you would like.
All reviews welcome.
You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 resources, lessons and planning at my shopTeachallenjoy
You might also be interested in:
Seating Plans
Behaviour Management CPD Pack
Self Esteem Boosting Lesson
A visual and interactive assembly celebrating public speaking and debating. This engaging PowerPoint explains the history of National Speech and Debate Day, the importance of this day and provides ways to celebrate it.
This 20 slide, fully editable and animated presentation takes the pupils through these key areas:
How to debate,
The purposes of public speaking,
Famous speeches,
Famous speakers,
Famous debaters
Famous debates.
Highlights of this resource:
Each section contains an equal balance of role models, including gender, race and era.
Top quality open questions are provided throughout to encourage higher level thinking and discussion.
It includes a model showing the essential cycle needed for debating.
A copy of a speaking and listening success criteria for speaking and debating.
A hyperlink to a famous debate.
Ideas for celebrating this day.
Many images and colours to keep the pupils entertained.
All reviews welcome.
You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy Shop
You might also be interested in:
Whole School Speaking and Listening Success Criteria
Discussion Text Week of English Planning and Resources Imitate
Discussion Text Week of English Planning and Resources Invent
Raise awareness and understanding of mental health issues with this bundle of 30 emotion cards, 14 posters, and a 36 slide assembly.
Useful for Mental Health Awareness Weeks in primary schools. Colourful, bright and easy to use. Be prepared and organised for these important moments.
Develop your pupil’s emotional wellbeing, language for discussing their emotions and provide them with coping strategies.
3 children in an average classroom are facing mental health problems and 75% of mental health issues arise before the age of 18. So we need to do all that we can to provide children with the tools to cope with these challenges and an understanding to support those around them as they grow.
A large bundle of resources for KS1.
Raise awareness and understanding of mental health issues with this cover for a class worry box. Encourage your pupils to share their small problems so that they don’t develop into larger issues.
Print out the cover images and stick on a cardboard box. Provide a welcome space for children to share their worries and concerns so they feel heard, valued and understood. Give every child the opportunity to have their voice heard in your class.
Useful for Mental Health Awareness Weeks within primary schools. This can also be kept throughout the year to safeguard the children.
Develop your pupil’s emotional wellbeing, language for discussing their emotions and provide them with coping strategies.
3 children in an average classroom are facing mental health problems and 75% of mental health issues arise before the age of 18. So we need to do all that we can to provide children with the tools to cope with these challenges and an understanding to support those around them as they grow.
This cover is designed with a focus on friendly characters which the children will know and be able to relate to.
Check out my other Mental Health Awareness Week Resources:
KS1 Mental Health Bundle
KS2 Mental Health Bundle
Or check out my PSHE lessons in My Shop
Bright inspirational posters designed to get the children excited and talking about science. A pack of inspirational posters quoting famous scientists from history, from Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking. Each quote instigates high quality thought and discussion, perfect for KS2
Every scientist is British so a great resource for British Science Week.
Could be used both as posters or as starters or plenaries in a science lesson. Also handy for science displays throughout the year. Relevant to both KS2 and KS3.
You might also be interested in my other updated British Science Week Resources:
British Science Week KS2 Homework Tasks
British Science Week LKS2 Mini WOW Investigations
British Science Week UKS2 Mini WOW Investigations
4 Engaging and animated assemblies, explaining and bringing to life 4 important days in our year. Each one full of information, video links, fun facts, higher level reasoning questions, interactive elements and discussion opportunities.
World Poetry Day - 21st March
Celebrate famous poets from around the world, amaze your pupils with their culture, story and achievements. Share some thought provoking poetry and inspire them to write their own poetry.
World Kindness Day - 13th November
Celebrate this day or use on Random Acts of Kindness Day (17th February) or Random Acts of Kindness Week (February).
Enthuse children to be kind by sharing how it is celebrated around the world, what is kindness, who is the kindest person you know, famous influential kind people, why it is difficult to be kind sometimes, how to overcome this, ideas for being kind and how to pledge for kindness.
Includes activities to use in the classroom.
National Speech and Debate Day - 1st March
This animated presentation takes the pupils through how to debate, the purposes of public speaking, famous speeches, famous speakers, famous debaters and famous debates.
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
This thought provoking and interesting assembly explains the history of slavery, how it has changed and what we know of slavery today. Discuss some famous quotes about this subject and encourage pupils to think about how their generation could make positive changes to the world.
A complete assembly on the Australian Open 2024 for KS2. Includes a 24 slide PowerPoint, interactive moments, higher order questions, video and song links, reflection time and worksheet templates.
Takes about 20 minutes to use as an assembly.
Could be taught as an hour lesson in class, using the differentiated follow-up written activities.
This assembly/lesson explains this Grand Slam of tennis, inspiring the next generation of sports athletes.
Highlights:
Interactive
Colourful
Engaging
Scaffolded
Ready-to-go
Check out my other popular assemblies:
New Year Assembly
Martin Luther King Junior Day Assembly
National Breakfast Week Assembly