Important! If you’d like to buy the whole year’s planning (Autumn, Spring and Summer) you’d be better off buying my bundle. Planning for the Autumn term for year 4. You get 160 mb of material so good value imo. I taught mainly in Catholic schools so has a Catholic bent. But as we live in a multicultural society, this should be no problem. You get planning for: creative curriculum Literacy Numeracy P.E. (some) Science (some) R.E. (Advent, Abraham, Judaism etc) Loads of great lessons to ease your Sunday afternoons. Just cut and paste into your school template.

Important! If you’d like to buy the whole year’s planning (Autumn, Spring and Summer) you’d be better off buying my bundle. Planning for the Spring term for year 4. You get 160 mb of material so good value imo. I taught mainly in Catholic schools so has a Catholic bent. But as we live in a multicultural society, this should be no problem. You get planning for: creative curriculum Literacy Numeracy P.E. (some) Science (some) R.E. (Christmas, Lent etc) Loads of great lessons to ease your Sunday afternoons. Just cut and paste into your school template.

Four Weeks Gandhi work. Plus stuff on Roald Dahk Matilda. All on word documents. lots of great ideas. A few other goodies thrown in for good measure. Plenty of grammar as well with some great powerpoints. the zip file contains loads. I have uploaded a few examples too so you get the feel. sample planning : L.O: Understand who Mahatma Gandhi was. Success Criteria  Use limited information to deduce and infer.  Describe why Mahatma Gandhi was so well known and influential.  Consider what you would like to find out about him. Start by showing the phrase ‘An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.’ In table groups discuss what you think this means and what type of person you think may have said it. Feedback, discuss and put on working wall. Reveal that it was a man called Mahatma Gandhi who said this. Show the trailer to ‘Gandhi’ DVD (1982). All groups to complete a KWL grid. What do I know? What do I want to know? What have I learnt? APP links: L.O: Use L5 adjectives to analyse a real character from history. Success Criteria  Take useful notes on a subject.  Generate L5 adjectives and phrases.  Use alliteration if possible. Use PowerPoint to discuss Gandhi’s life further – children to make notes in SODA books. Give each pair a minute to decide on one fact they think should be on working wall. Make notes on working wall about his life to include: Helped free Indian people from British Rule Non violent protest based on courage and truth Different ways of protesting Started in South Africa then India Governments were forced to listen to him and negotiate Encouraged people to make their own resources rather than buying British. Used fasting as a protest and a penance Spent time in prison Is known as the ‘Father of the Nation’ Birthday is a public holiday in India. Children to have a picture of Gandhi in the middle of their page. Annotate with L5 adjectives and phrases to describe him. Fire group (AA): Extended by CN to include alliterative phrases that could be newspaper headlines of his life. Water Group (A): Working independently. Air group (BA): Supported by assistant.

Some great year 6 short term Literacy planning. Covers the Gunpowder Plot. Brucie Bonus: some free Maths planning

I’ve combined all my planning from the schools I taught in. I was in a few schools in the U.K., quite a few of them Catholic. There is a massive amount of planning for you to sift through. Years range all the way through from 4 year olds to 11 year olds. There’s some great powerpoints, lesson plans, sheets, even a play or two. You’ll have to sift through them as I am enjoying my retirement too much to do that! You get over 250 mb of stuff (300 plus files)

A fantastic planning set. Four weeks worth. J K Rowling. Worked very well when I was a teacher. Focuses on : Tales of the Beadle Bard’ and ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.’ Two long powerpoints included. In total you get : 4 Powerpoints 3 pdf files 7 word files that have 4 weeks planning on them 2 excel files Sample planning: Genre: Narrative Unit 1 - Stories by a significant children’s author. Focus Texts: ‘Tales of the Beadle Bard’ and ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.’ Objectives Primary Framework Group Discussion and Interaction: Understand the process of decision making. Understanding and interpreting texts: Infer writers’ perspectives from what is written and what is implied. Compare different types of narrative and information texts and identify how they are structured. Explore how writers use language for comic and dramatic effects. Engaging with and responding to texts: Reflect on reading habits and preferences and plan personal reading goals. Compare the usefulness of techniques such as visualisation, prediction and empathy in exploring the meaning of texts.

Assorted great planning and ideas for the superb poem The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. Great powerpoints. Great ideas and worksheets. Plenty to get your teeth into and reassemble. Sample planning : Introduce children to ‘The Highwayman’. Explain that it is a poem that tells a story involving a highwayman. They will need to listen carefully as the poem is read, as it uses a lot of ‘old-fashioned’ language. The poem was written by Alfred Noyes and was first published in August 1906. Read the poem to the class and then children talk with partner about what they have found out about the story. Come back together and discuss the story told through the poem. How can children tell that this poem was written some time ago? Make notes on the board about character and story. Make notes about the Highwayman’s appearance. Recap on the techniques we use in fiction writing (and make clear again that poetry is a type of narrative) to describe the scene/setting to the reader. What is our main objective? To create an image in the reader’s mind. We do this by using the senses – recap. Re-read just the first three lines of the poem, ask children to close eyes and visualise the setting as I read it again. Talk about the language and the kind of pictures it created for them. The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight looping the purple moor, Can the children see a technique which has been used in each of the three lines? Metaphor. Discuss. Children to pick out words which evoke the senses: Darkness, gusty trees, ghostly etc Recap what we have found out so far about ‘The Highwayman’. What makes it a narrative poem? Explain children’s final writing outcome. They are going to use the opening part of ‘The Highwayman’ as their inspiration and they are going to write their own poem based on Bess, the Landlord’s daughter. Recap on last lesson – what is a simile and what is a metaphor? What are the three nouns which Noyes describes using metaphor? The wind, the moon and the road. Children are also going to use metaphor to describe these, they are then going to use simile to describe Bess waiting for her love. Explain that today’s planning session is going to focus on the metaphor part of the writing outcome. Model how to write a metaphor by first mind mapping each item.

This is some great planning for Christmas for Year 5 Literacy. I found the kids loved it. Advantages for you: kids are interested, it’s non religious so can be shown to everyone, you can watch the lovely short movie umpteen times so takes the strain off you. It’s based on a great little movie, voiced by the late great John Hurt. It will fill up the last two to three weeks nicely. Plus there’s non literacy planning for free. Some example planning : To analyse and create a character and setting description for 23 Degrees 5 Minutes North. I can express verbally what a character may be feeling, thinking or doing I can explain why I think a character may feel, think or do something I can describe a setting using figurative language Starter 5 mins Pen portrait of key characters in 23 Degrees 5 Minutes North: Children mind map/annotate information about the key characters that they know so far around an image of The Adventurer and Professor Erit. They add information about the internal feelings, thoughts and emotions within and the external information such as physical description, or known facts Activity 1 5-10 mins Use key questions and discussion in groups to think about answers to questions such as: Why am I here? Will I be able to find Professor Erit? Emphasise the importance of chn giving evidence to support their opinion when they give a response to these questions. Activity 10 mins Return to image of the Adventurer and Professor Erit. Using a different coloured pencil, chn should add information about these characters Main 20 mins Give chn an image of the setting and ask them to mind-map descriptive words, phrases or sentences they could use to describe the narrative setting. Model using the different kinds of sentence-types to record a setting description, using the vocabulary recorder in the mind-map. Chn use sentences to build suspense if they can. Plenary 5 – 10 mins Chn share their comments about the Adventurer and Professor Erit with the class. Chn to explain what they have now learnt about each character - using their skills of inference. Share best sentences to describe setting. Take a moment to add any extra information after the class discussion to their own work, using another coloured pencil.

Quick gap Christmas Lesson year 3.

My planning for teaching Matilda in Year 6. Nice planning and powerpoint. Great to adapt for your personal planning. sample planning :

back to school activity pack. Ideal for year 4 and 5. Can be adapted for different years of course. I mainly taught in these years groups, and this planning helped so much in that tricky first week, There;s a bit of everything. Planning of course, rules, display, activities Just packed with vital little time savers. Some really goo VCOP stuff too. Plenty of resources. Give it a go!

A mass of planning from my years teaching year 5. Loads of powerpoints, planning, worksheets etc It covers : Harry Potter Myths/Iron Man Stories from other cultures The Secret Garden The Piano Sample planning :

This concentrates on Maths and English. Lots of great teaching ideas. Mainly Maths and English. The zip file has the lot. I have put some in the general download to give a flavour. sample planning : LO: To use written methods of addition. Review written methods of addition carried from Friday’s lesson (column, number line and partitioning. Use numbers with up to 4 digits during teaching time. Review how to use written methods and inverse knowledge to identify missing digits within calculations. Move on to solving simple word problems by choosing the most appropriate methods for task. AG: Supports Circles during teaching time. RM: Abacus Y1 page LO: To use written methods of subtraction. Give the children the following calculation 98 – 47. How many different ways can they carry out this calculation? Focus on methodology used by class. As a class ensure understanding of the following methods, number line, partitioning and column. What happens with column subtraction if the calculation was 96 – 47? Model decomposition. What happens when we work with decimal numbers? Model the use of decomposition several times. Children to carry out a range of calculations – AG: Supports Circles during teaching time. RM: Abacus Y1 page LO: To use written methods of subtraction. Review subtraction calculations for number lines and column methods involving amounts of money. Ensure children are familiar with decomposition and have time to review as needed. Apply within calculations that involve single and multiple decomposition. APPLY TO WORD PROBLEMS RM: LO: To use written methods of multiplication. As before, review methods of multiplication with the class. Focus on the use of grid methods and compact methods to carry out calculations. MUST: Multiply TU x U SHOULD: Multiply HTU x U CHALLENGE: Multiply (H)TU x TU LO: To identify sequence rules. Review knowledge of sequences and rule identification with the class. Explore how sequences can involve numbers, shapes and letters. Children to continue sequences. When exploring number sequences, make link to times table groups. E.g. 3, 6, 9, 12… Next number is… Focus on continuing and completing sequences, by identifying the difference between known numbers and using this to identify missing values. AG: Supports circles / RM: Completes sequences involving shapes or colours. INDEPENDENT

A big value set of planning. For year 5. Loads of material here. Planning, worksheets, powerpoints etc Give your planning a real boost. Excellent for filling in gaps in the curriculum and making your Sundays easier. Concentrates on Maths and English, but plenty of other subjects, especially R.E. in there. The zip contains loads of files. I’ve included a FEW in the general upload to give you and idea of the planning.

Spread out over the three terms, some nice lesson planning, worksheets, powerpoints. It concentrates on Literacy but there is far more. Numeracy, linked to the Abacus system, is useful even if you do noit have abacus. Just condense and adapt them You get a chunk of Science RE PE Soda activities Geography I’ve also included some nice year 2 stuff that you can use. The zip file has the lot. I’ve included a few examples in the ordinary download. Sample : Introduction Recap idea of creating atmosphere in setting: happy, calm, peaceful, angry, afraid, busy etc. Read ‘Mousehole Cat’ extract. S&L Children discuss with response partner first impressions about the setting and the atmosphere. Which senses have been used in the description? Activity Create list of settings the children are most familiar with in their own lives:home, school, playground, seaside, countryside, park etc. Teacher model writing powerful descriptive sentence. Make changes, improve, edit etc. Word/Sentence Activities (see groups)Use IWB store ideas. Can children classify word types: nouns, adjectives, adverbs etc. YEAR 3 LITERACY LESSON PLAN TUESDAY Whole Class Shared Learning Introduction Read opening extract ‘The Mousehole Cat’. Ask the children if they think the atmosphere is calm, threatening, angry or peaceful. Display the text and highlight the words and phrases that give a) a threatening feeling and b) a calm feeling, using different colours. Activity Children work with a partner and plan a short mime of this scene from The Mousehole Cat. One child takes the role of The Great Storm Cat and the other the role of Mowzer. Show characters’ feelings through mime. Explain going to change atmosphere to a calm one. How? The Great Storm Cat is a metaphor for the wind. Explain term and revise simile also. Model own sentence, discuss effect and technique. Word/Sentence Activities Challenge children to find words for the Dustbin and Wow areas from the text. Guided and Independent Activities Work with a partner and discuss an event. It might be something Charlie sees happening, or does himself. Independent Group to start After Activity Decide on a problem for Charlie to solve, and write it down. Work with a partner and discuss an event. It might be something Charlie sees happening, or does himself. Teacher to start After Activity Decide on a problem for Charlie to solve, and write it down. Work with group and discuss an event. It might be something Charlie sees happening, or does himself. AR (TA) Support Group After Activity As a group decide on a problem for Charlie to solve, and write it down.

Gathered together my lessons for year 5 Maths and English for a particular year. There’s about a year’s worth in there. Plenty of great ideas. the zip has the lot. the general download a few to have a look at. Sample planning : Start by showing the word ‘Instructions’ – TTYP what does this mean? Come back together and establish that instructions are a set of commands given to help someone do or create something. Show the children a recipe and the instructions as to how to play Sevens using cards. Look at the instructions. What do children notice about how these are laid out? They are given in an order. They are bullet-pointed. Each sentence is fairly short. There are many ‘bossy’ verbs: ‘place’, ‘play’, ‘turn’ etc. Explain that we call these ‘imperative’ verbs – an imperative is a command. Discuss why it is helpful to have ‘bossy’ verbs and short clear sentences. There is a title which tells you what is to be achieved. Numbers or time connectives used e.g. 1, 2, 3 or later, next - are used to show chronological order. Create a features list on the working wall by sticking post it notes onto a piece of sugar paper –these can be used throughout the unit as a game to start the lesson. Divide the class into three teams. Deal out seven cards to each team and the teacher! Play a little of the game of sevens, following the instructions. Demonstrate how we can follow the instructions to play. Return to features of instructions displayed on working wall. What can you remember about these? Children turn to a partner and tell them 3 different features. Report back & discuss. Show children the instructions checklist (working wall). Have we mentioned all of these features? Ask children to think of a new idea for a card game. Use a talking partner & brainstorm a game idea on whiteboards. Gather everyone’s ideas/discuss the concepts. Pick one idea. Decide how many players we will need & how to play it. Allow children time with talking partners to practice playing the game. Ask some children to demonstrate. How will we write the instructions? What comes first? (Title, subheading.) What is our first instruction? Repeat for a few more sentences.