Some nice planning. Plenty of questions on this great book. sample Look carefully at the book cover, what do you think this book is going to be about? What kind of story do you expect it to be (i.e. crime, fantasy, sci-fi)? Why do you think this? Look back over the chapter you are reading. Can you select five powerful words that you could use in your own writing? Write them down. At the beginning of ‘Chilblains and Semolina Pudding’, the narrator talks of the Butterfly Lion. Draw a picture of what you imagine him to look like.

Lots of planning for Maths and English year 3 sample: Text: ARCHIES WAR – Marcia Williams Genres covered in this unit: 2 weeks - character descriptions – to include descriptive settings Letter writing, information texts and propaganda posters. (Propaganda posters are covered in the topic books) Children have white boards. I will describe a person and you must draw them From the twits Roald dahl(Mr Twits). Children share ideas from the first opening paragraph. What made this so visual. LANGUAGE Look at a series of images. Witch, doctor, pirate. Look at the features, are there similarities. Elaborated pictures of people. Famous and non famous. Discussion and focal point. Play head band with the children. They have to describe the person they are holding and the partner has to guess who it is. Expanding on words to describe Starter - Use facial pictures for images. What may they be thinking? Do they look different now you out them in the picture. What about when they are wearing a certain clothing. Build the character in stages. Describe the physical appearance and the mental one. What may they be thinking? We can see their face and if they are smiling. Do they look different in different surroundings?

Planning from an academy. Spread over the three terms. Lots of planning. Worksheets. Powerpoints. Mainly English and Maths. Zip has the lot. ive included plenty in the general download to give you an idea of content. sample : Explore children’s understanding of the term angle and record on working wall. Where have they seen angles? What do angles look like? What are they measured in? Following knowledge harvest, explain that this term will focus on measuring, drawing, classifying angles. Ensure children can identify the key features of a protractor. Use enlarged version and annotate key features on WW. Ensure that the children can explain angle types and their properties. This will be useful when checking measurements. Explore strategies for measuring angles using enlarged models and enlarged protractor. Have the children measure angles to the nearest 10, 5 and degree. Identify difficulties when alignment is inaccurate. Model the use of known angle types to check accuracy of measurement. Discuss with pupils what they now know about the structure and style of a haiku poem. Model for pupils a haiku poem based upon the topic of water (links to Rivers topic, Finding Nemo setting and this week’s setting work) Then re write after making changes. Pupils to share their completed work Steps to Success Mild- to record ideas for a Haiku poem about water Spicy- present poem in the form of a Haiku Hot- to read over my own work and propose changes to grammar and vocabulary, spelling and punctuation ( CAGS 3 / 4) Extra Hot- selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary and understand how such choices can change and enhance meaning. ( CAG 5/6)

Gathered up my pland for year 5 from a great academy school. Mainly English and maths. sample: To use multiplication methods to multiply TU × U or HTU × U. On the board have a question: 76 x 4=? On their whiteboard ask the children to solve this. If they don’t know this then they don’t need to worry as I will be teaching them. Highers do 675 x 3=? On the progress board tally how many can do this. Teach them how to use the multiplication method. They follow in their yellow books. To use written methods to divide whole numbers. Ask the children who can divide 87 by 3? Highers do 87 by 4? Fill in the progress chart. Show them the chunking method. Hayley takes SEN out to show them how to use the number line to divide. Children follow in their yellow rough books. If the children understand it they carry on independently. Those that don’t sit there and follow until they understand. Targets. Ask the children who thinks they can achieve their targets now at the beginning of the lesson? Ask those who can’t remember them to look now in the front of their book. To know the key features of arguing a point of view. Link the reading with the work the group has been doing for the last two weeks. Introduction _ Explain that this week the group will be looking at another context for persuasive writing – presenting an argument in a letter. _ Discuss what the children have found out about persuasive texts. _ Read children their target for the week: ‘I am learning to organise my writing to present information clearly.’ Today they are going to see how one writer has done this. _ Explain that when reading ‘What a rip off’ you want the group to think about two things: (1) how the argument is structured, and (2) the language features. Read What a Rip Off.

Planning for English and Maths. 56 files. sample: Text: This is the bear and the scary night Genres covered in this unit: Narrative SPAG focus: Monday: spelling patterns Tuesday: use and to join clauses Wednesday: high frequency words Thursday: high frequency words Friday: time connectives Key teaching input/texts/questions/ clips etc Steps to Success Read the story This is the Bear and the scary night Discuss character, setting, key events etc… Discuss what happened in the beginning, middle and end of the story. Explain to the children that this week they are going to write their own story similar to the bear and the scary night. Ask children to describe their character to their partner (can be their favourite toy or the teddy they bought into school on Friday). Ask children to share their ideas about their story. What is the setting? What are the characters doing? What is the problem? How are the characters feeling? How does your story end? Mild: describe your main character Spicy: share your ideas with your partner Hot: listen attentively to your partner Extra Hot: Act out key events from your story LA Activities MA Activities HA Activities Read to Write Mrs Preston Phonics Mrs Simpson Talk for writing and act out their story Photos for books Resources: The bear and the scary night book, cards with questions Give 3 minutes for children to recap their story. Who is their main character? What happens at the beginning, middle and end of the story? Model how to put key ideas onto their plan. Steps to Success Mild: recap your story with your partner Spicy: Identify the beginning, middle and end of your story Hot: Write key ideas onto your story plan for the beginning, middle and end. Extra Hot: Check your partner’s plan is sequenced correctly

Three great powerpoints. Two great flipcharts. Planning. Sample: Discuss fantasy settings we know so far as a whole class using Fantasy PP 1. Reinforce the concept of a fantasy setting by showing lion, witch and wardrobe where child walks into Narnia clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMYU5vSaal8 In talking partners discuss adjectives describe the setting. Beach ball/Bean bag ideas. Feedback to group. Recap yesterday’s learning. Then use the Fantasy PP 2 and go through with the children how to create their own fantasy world. Explain the activity – children to create on paper their own fantasy world and label it. Must include: Setting Characters Magical objects Watch the clip from Harry Potter in the magic shop and encourage the children to look out for all the magic objects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDR5XgHHLBY and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szEFdhOHtrI (0-40 seconds) Make a list of all the objects they could see, what they could be for, using Fantasy PP 3. Explain the activity; children will be creating a magic object from their setting they created yesterday or a new one. What does it look like? What is it called? Etc

English and maths planning. 39 files Text: ARCHIES WAR – Marcia Williams Genres covered in this unit: 2 weeks - character descriptions – to include descriptive settings Letter writing, information texts and propaganda posters. Children have white boards. I will describe a person and you must draw them From the twits Roald dahl(Mr Twits). Children share ideas from the first opening paragraph. What made this so visual. LANGUAGE Look at a series of images. Witch, doctor, pirate. Look at the features, are there similarities. Elaborated pictures of people. Famous and non famous. Discussion and focal point. Play head band with the children. They have to describe the person they are holding and the partner has to guess who it is. Expanding on words to describe Steps to Success Mild: To review characters Spicy: To recognise features of a character Hot: To describe your character Extra Hot: How could you describe yourself? Tell me.

Short of ideas for year one Autumn term? Put my planning from different schools together. It’s all in the zip file. I’ve put some examples in the general upload but there is TONS more in the included zip file. Lots of different types of planning as my schools were all different. There’s lots of free stuff too that is adaptable e.g. year 2 work. sample : Today we are going to read ‘Titch’ together. Read Titch under the visualiser. Does this remind you something that has happened to you? Can children identify with the characters/settings and events? Discuss with talk partners and beach ball/bean bag ideas. Look at some cvc words; start with hen; who can spell this word on the IWB? What is the 1st sound? Get a child to write it down. Can you tell your talk partner some words that rhyme with this? Make a list. Robins/Bears [AA] Talk about how Titch might feel. Do they feel like that? Children to write sentence/s about how the children feel. Chicks/Giraffes [A] Talk about how Titch might feel. Do they feel like that? Children to write a sentence about how the children feel. Octopus [BA] Talk about how Titch might feel. Do they feel like that? CT/TA to scribe some sentences about how the children feel. Listen to sentences that children have came up with about the story. Can we suggest any other sentences about ‘Titch’. Teacher to scribe them on IWB and save them for later. Show chn the picture from the front cover of Lost and Found. Start up a discussion asking the question: Who are they? Depending on chns responses ask other questions – who, why, when, what, where, how. Show chn question hand – use this to remind chn of the types of questions we can ask. PUT HAND AND PICTURE ON WORKING WALL FOR CHN TO REFER TO. Model recording some responses to the questions asked on post it notes. Mild: Talk about the picture on the front cover Spicy: Think of questions that we could ask to find out about the story Hot: Share responses to the different questions asked Extra Hot: Write responses making phonetically plausible attempts. LA Activities Green MA Activities Orange and Red HA Activities Blue Adult pose a question about the picture. Adult to scribe responses on post it notes. Photograph for books. Chn to talk about the picture with partner- Chn to remember some of the questions asked earlier and write down their responses to the questions. Photograph for books. In pairs chn take it in turns to ask each other a question. Chn to write their responses on post it notes. Stick post its and a smaller version of picture in book.

Lots of English and Maths. Tremendous amount of stuff on World War 2. Text: Room on the Broom. We will also share a variety of Julia Donaldson texts with the children at the end of each day to support and promote new learning and understanding. Genres covered in this unit: Non-Narrative. Grammar focus: Monday: Using a capital letter to start a name: Julia Donaldson. Tuesday: Using a question mark at the end of a question. “How many books have you written?” Wednesday: Writing a clear sentence using a capital letter and a full stop. Thursday: Writing a clear sentence using a capital letter and a full stop. Friday: Writing a clear sentence using a capital letter and a full stop. Key teaching input/texts/questions/ clips etc Steps to Success Teacher to display a picture of Julia Donaldson on IWB. Q: Who do you think this is? What do you think she does for a living? Why? - Teacher to encourage pupils to expand on their answers/thinking. Teacher to explain that this woman is called Julia Donaldson and she is a children’s author. Class to work together to list stories from this author using reading area to support. E.g. The Gruffalo, The stick man, Room on the Broom… TTYP: Can you think of 3 questions that you would like to find out about this author? – Class to share ideas and Teacher/TA to scribe to support future learning. Using the following website, Teacher to carry out shared reading with the class to discover new information/answer any questions e.g. “How many books have you written” Mild: state something you would like to find out about Julia Donaldson. Spicy: use phonetic knowledge to segment and blend CVC/ CVCC words Hot: share an interesting fact you have found out about Julia Donaldson. Extra Hot: Would you like to be an Author? Why?

Lots of planning for all three terms. Maths and English mainly but arts stuff and History too. sampl: Text: The Gunpowder Plot Genres covered in this unit: • Predictions • Inference (How? Why?) • Newspaper features • Journalistic writing • Letter writing Key teaching input/texts/questions/ clips etc BOOKS Display an image from the front cover of the book and discuss what children already know. What does it look? What do you think will happen? What can you see in the picture? Share and discuss, make notes for working wall. Show children the entire cover of the book. Identify the 5Ws; who? What? Where? When? Why? What is the title? What do you think will happen? Note 5ws for working wall. Show children the grid for likes, similarities and puzzles, Identify one for each section and explain why I chose it. Whole class discussion of extra hot challenge. Resources: Book cover Images from book cover Grid sheet JOTTERS Review previous learning – refer to working wall. What do you think will happen? Who will be involved? Where will it happen? Why does it happen? When does it take place? Share predictions. Introduce the text to the children. Read first 4 pages and ask questions linked to the text. Children to read through/skim read to identify the 5Ws – record for the working wall and compare with predictions. Was anyone close with their prediction? Why might this be? Share video with children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YptNONmnXH0 Discuss key events. What do you think will happen next? Make predictions in jotters and share.

Gathered together my plans from an excellent Catholic school. sample: Watch the story of Rapunzel with the children http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOgZkcs72oI Also show the pictures (thorns, tower, hair, witch etc) that are being used in the lesson on PP. Make sure that everyone is clear on what the pictures are of. Explain that today we will be using our phonic knowledge to write some of the main words in the Rapunzel story, to prepare us for our sentence writing next session. Practise with a few words. Ask the children to recap the story of Rapunzel with a talk partner. As a class verbally retell and order the story. Fill in the story journey of Rapunzel. Discuss the order and use of time connectives and language. Ask the children to think about where the story was set. Today we will be thinking of words that describe the tower that Rapunzel was imprisoned in and different towers. We will start by describing the tower that Rapunzel was imprisoned in. Ask the children to give suggestions of their descriptive words, CT to write them up alongside the picture. Ask children to support CT in spelling the words. Talk to the children about good and bad characters, remind them off the goats and troll from last week. Name each of the characters, discuss if they were good or bad. Explain that we will make a wanted poster for the witch as we did for the troll last week. To prepare ourselves we will think of as many words to describe the witch as we can. Display the picture of the witch and give the chn time to think, pair and share. CT to model how to put these words into sentences.

Great little lesson or short set of lessons for persuasive writing. Couple of nice powerpoints. Endangered Pandas Pandas are rare today and are protected by law in China. In 1963, the first panda was exhibited in a zoo outside of China. Today, there are more than a dozen pandas in most zoos. Pandas can be seen in zoos in Washington D.C, Mexico City, London, Tokyo, Madrid, Paris, and Berlin. All pandas in zoos are given double names; this is a Chinese custom, which indicates affection. Scientists study the zoo pandas in hope to learn how to save wild pandas from extinction. There are only about 700 to 1000 pandas alive in the world today. Imagine you are one of the scientists that are researching pandas and a philanthropist has come to you and offered you a substantial research grant if you can persuade him that your research deserves. He asks you, “What makes a Panda so special that it should be saved?”…. your response is crucial!!! In both short and extended texts, I can use appropriate punctuation, vary my sentence structures and divide my work into paragraphs in a way that makes sense to my reader. Tools LIT 2-22a Throughout the writing process, I can check that my writing makes sense and meets its purpose. Tools LIT 2-23a I am learning to use language and style in a way which engages and / or influences my reader. Creating Texts ENG 2-27a Learning Intention ~ I can use personal research to create a persuasive piece of writing. Success Criteria – have you… (Tick as you have achieved) ???  I have used emotive and descriptive language to engage the reader’s emotion  I have punctuated accurately  I have used paragraphs effectively to organise my ideas  I have proof read and self-corrected using a variety of resources

nice easy lesson. sample: TTYP – why do authors use descriptive vocabulary? Take feedback and jot down ideas for the working wall – elicit the idea that, as a writer, it is our job to create an image in the reader’s mind. Show the part of ‘Matilda’ where the main character approaches Crunchem Hall for the first time. 22 min 30 to 24 min 30. Take part in ‘Book Talk’ on this visual text: How did we feel about Matilda when we watched her walk into the school under the arch? How did we feel about the school buildings and environment? What impressions have we made about Miss Trunchbull? How were we made to feel like that? How did the director manipulate our emotions? Show the ‘Likes, dislikes, patterns and puzzles’ board and explain the task . Task 1 11am-11.10am Engaging with the visual text. A – Australia group (Level 3a/4c): Children to fill in an individual ‘like/dislikes’ board. Children to focus particularly on the ‘patterns and puzzles’ sections. Working independently. Extension task – children to annotate a still from the film with adjectives to describe the setting. BA – Brazil group (Level 3b/c): Miss Greenwood to support and extend. Children to fill in an individual ‘like/dislikes’ board. SEN/BA – Mexico group (Level 2): Working with Miss Noble on a guided like/dislikes board. Extending children to talking about the atmosphere. Main Teaching 2 10 minutes (11.10am – 11.20am) Share some ideas from the task and explain that now we are fully immersed in the text, we are going to start to transfer the clip into a written text. TTYP – what does ‘atmosphere’ mean? Talk and agree that it means: a feeling or mood created by a particular place. I am going to attempt to describe the setting AND the atmosphere to the reader. I am going to write in third person and past tense. Elicit the use of the senses for a setting description. Model write with reference to s/c and sentence trick cards.

A great month of planning. lots of powerpoints. Pupils have to use persuasive language to make a chocolate bar. sample Adverts will be up on the board. Introduce topic by asking what it is… (5mins)Asked to identify the aim of the advert (using mini whiteboards). Teacher leads discussion through the answers e.g. “what made you think it was that purpose?” (10mins) Then asked to go to tables and work in mixed ability groups to identify the aims of adverts on their tables – recording this info(15mins). Extension work – to write the features as to how they knew it was that purpose. class discussion as to the aims of the adverts – questioning how they know that(5mins)etc Discussion to lead onto ‘who is the intended audience’, again using mini whiteboards at first(5mins), then back to groups to identify the audience of the adverts they had seen before – recording this information(10mins). Discuss the audience – recap with new adverts asking pupils to identify both purpose and audience as plenary. (10mins) Starter – to recap on purpose and audience of adverts quickly on the board, using adverts seen yesterday then new advertisements that weren’t seen yesterday (5mins). Put cadburys cream egg advert on board and ask the children to point out some of its features. Ask questions like ‘what makes this advert stand out’ talk about the colour, the slogan, the brand, the image. Put up some other advertisements and ask them to point out the slogan, talk about how slogans rhyme, have a play on words, are short, use alliteration etc (10mins). Go back to their tables where there will be some recognisable products (coca-cola, mars bar, bouncy ball, yazoo milkshake), where children have to come up with a slogan for each. Extension work – come up with more than one slogan and they have to pick their favourite. (15mins) Children then share their slogans with the rest of the class. Table points for the best. Point out that slogans are in big bold fonts and match the phrase e.g. the Cadbury one is ‘gooey’, Children draw out their favourite slogan on A4 paper – to colour in too (20mins). Children asked to explain why they used certain colours or style of writing for their slogans for that product. (5mins). Homework – find 5 slogans from ads.

Three weeks planning. Dramatic conventions. Pupils write a news report and tv script. sample: Chn to complete new KWL and explain that we are starting a new unit called dramatic conventions. What do you think this means? (Dramatic conventions may be categorized into groups, such as rehearsal, technical or theatrical. Rehearsal conventions can include hot seating, role on the wall and still images. Technical conventions can include lighting, dialogue, monologue, set, costuming and entrances/exits. Theatrical conventions may include split focus, flashback/flashforward, narration, soliloquy and spoken thought) Explain that we will be focusing on the technical conventions side especially the dialogue/script As a class watch part of this news round clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xb387rEINs How do they know what to say? How do they know what to do? How would this be scripted? What do you think it would be like? Discuss how this would have to be scripted just like in the news etc without being a play – explain that this can sometimes look similar to a play script but not always as they will see tomorrow. What do you think you would need to include in script writing?

Planning for this interesting book. sample Show chn the front cover of The Hodgeheg and say that we will be working on this book. Read blurb on back then ask chn what type of story they think this is? Establish that it is a Quest or Adventure story with a problem, journey and resolution. Ask chn what else the blurb tells us and note their ideas for Working Display notes. (E.g. the main character is Max who is a hedgehog, he has a family and he wants to cross the road…). Explain that today we are going to be Sentence Detectives as we read the story. We are looking for sentences which have adverbs in them. Revise the fact that an adverb modifies a verb, telling us how something was done: She went happily to see her granny. Develop this to talk about fronted adverbials, phrases at the start of a sentence which act like an adverb, telling us how, where or when something is done or happened, e.g. In total silence, the girls tiptoed along the corridor. Comprehension 1/ Grammar 1 Display extract from Hodgeheg (see resources). Read it out loud together. Briefly revise the rules for writing dialogue: (1) Speech marks around direct speech; (2) new speaker = new line; (3) Punctuation (question marks, exclamation marks, commas, full stops) that goes within the speech marks. Point out that if the dialogue finishes but it’s not the end of a sentence, then a comma goes at the end of the dialogue within the speech marks. See resources for marked up example. Then make-up physical signs for each type of punctuation, e.g. speech marks = hands held up, 2 fingers on each hand bent; comma = one finger drawing it in the air; full stop = pointing gesture, etc. Draw a map of the passage together, (look at the example map resource to guide you). Ask chn for suggestions for each element. Spoken language 1

Couple of weeks planning. sample; Genre: Narrative Unit 4 ‘Older Literature’ Focus Texts: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare. (Adapted for children by Andrew Matthews and Tony Ross – Orchard classics). Begin by introducing the new topic and the learning outcome. We will be studying ‘older’ literature. Explain that older literature is defined as anything written before 1914 but we are going to look at much older than this! Show a picture of William Shakespeare: children to TTYP – Who is this man? What is he famous for? Can you name any of his works? Come back together and elicit that William Shakespeare was an author – not of stories but of plays and sonnets (poems). Talk about some of his more famous work and explain that he wrote 38 plays and over 160 sonnets. Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died in 1616. He produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613 – why do you think he wrote mostly plays rather than stories? Elicit that he was an actor so he loved the stage and he intended his works to be acted out rather than just read and also because of the times. TV and film were not entertainment options and the majority of people couldn’t read so going to the theatre or watching an outside performance was very popular. Explain that Shakespeare’s plays can be broadly split into tragedies and comedies. TTYP – what does this mean? Show a list including some of Shakespeare’s most famous comedies and tragedies. Talk about our recent history topic – who would have been on the throne when Shakespeare was writing (Elizabeth I until 1603 and then James I start of the Stuart dynasty). Talk briefly about the context to Shakespeare’s plays – Elizabeth I ruled over a very successful empire, England was starting to explore and find new shores and arts & culture were becoming more important and sought after. Link to previous unit. Children to take a whole page in their literacy books to design an advert/poster to be put up around a Tudor town. It should advertise an exciting new play by William Shakespeare (give children a few to choose from). Talk about the different language used for a comedy or a tragedy. CN with target group. CS with JD group. Start to read the children’s adapted version of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Success Criteria: I recognise William Shakespeare and I know what he did for a living. I can start to understand what England was like when Shakespeare was writing.

sample planning Introduce the section of work. Explain that we are going to use a very interesting focus text to complete some narrative writing, art work and drama. Have a photocopy of the front cover and blurb for ‘The Savage’ by David Almond. TTYP and discuss “What are your initial responses?” (Ask children who may have read the book, not to give it away). Come back together and discuss children’s ideas from the blurb and front cover. What sort of story is it going to be? What genre? What age group/gender do you think it may be aimed at? Does anyone know anything about David Almond? His style of writing? His previous work? Share that he was born into a large family in Newcastle; his books are very popular and critically acclaimed (what does this mean?). His books are very philosophical (meaning) and often appeal to both adults and children. Share with children that ‘The Savage’ deals with issues of loss, sadness, bullying and love. Read the first two chapters of the focus text. Come back together and discuss. What does the use of two different fonts tell us? Discuss how this is a story within another story. Why is Blue writing about ‘The Savage’? What is it helping him to do? Might there be something of Blue in ‘The Savage’? Might he be expressing his anger at what has happened to his family?