I’m putting up a series of lesson for Christmas. RE themed. Catholic flavour. You get a nice powerpoint. Plus some planning and worksheets. I’ll put up the others if there is demand.

Lesson Three in my series on Advent and Christmas. Nice powerpoint and planning

A powerpoint that gives ideas on how to do short spag exercises in lessons Could be used as part of an inset day.

Gathered together all my Grammar teaching materials from Primary school. The zip contains them all. Over 170 mb of stuff. I’ve included a few examples in the ordinary upload so you can look. sample: Start by reviewing homework and making a list for the working wall. Define each type of word: Noun, adjective, verb and adverb. Build up a sentence as we go. Show the children a picture on the whiteboard of a horse galloping and of a lightning bolt. Children to write down 3 (LA) or 5(MA and HA) important nouns from the picture. Share. On the left of the noun, children to write an adjective to modify or describe the noun. Share. After the noun, children to write a verb and then an adverb to qualify the verb. e.g. The black horse galloped elegantly along the beach. Children to have 5 minutes to read and digest their new writing target. Ask any questions if necessary. Praise the children on yesterday’s literacy work – they showed knowledge of the function of nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs (HA showed knowledge of the difference between common, proper and pro nouns). Children to name a range of punctuation – I record on the board (I do not add to it at this point). Ask volunteers to illustrate uses of the punctuation named. Look on the punctuation pyramid – have we named any L5 punctuation? This is what we should be aiming at all the time. Children to have a variety of sentences to up level punctuation on their whiteboards. Come back to ‘The Mysteries of Harris Burdick’. Read through all of the captions and talk about ‘reading’ the illustration. Allow children time to talk about the ‘mystery’ – what do they think happened to Harris Burdick? Choose a picture from ‘The Mysteries…’ and list all of the questions which it provokes. What do children think of the pictures? Do the captions answer any of the questions? Talk about the settings in the pictures – often they are recognisable, familiar settings where things are not as they seem. Explain that we would call this ‘Stories in a familiar setting’. Model the task.

Planning for year one I’ve gathered from my log career. Mainly Maths and English but other stuff too. Zip has loads. I’ve put a sample in general download. Read the story ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’ Talk about the main events and make a list of the characters on the IWB. Introduce the term setting and discuss what a setting is. Identify all the different settings in the story and make a list on the IWB. Make links with the children’s own experiences eg who has walked through long grass? Diamond/ Ruby H/A (Ind) Children to complete worksheet identifying main characters, setting and event (HA sheet) Children to complete worksheet drawing favourite setting, identifying main characters, and explaining what happened. (SD to support) Children to complete worksheet drawing favourite setting, identifying main characters, and explaining what happened. (BM to support)

4 planning sheets. Plenty of ideas. Year 6. Literacy. Sample : Set up plenary clip at beginning of lesson to be played in plenary Imagination starter: display front cover of the Iron man on IWB – Tell pupils that we have a new topic surrounding the novel The Iron Man, and tell them we will find out more about the author and the story as the unit continues. Round Robin: Can you write down describing words about the character you see? Place pupils into A/B and give 2 minutes to write down ideas on wipeboards in pairs. Feedback with lollypop sticks to follow. Draw out discussion as to what genre the book might be/ if the character is good/evil. Read the first two pages to the class: Hands up: Does the opening make them want to read on? Why? Collect ideas on IWB- What is the effect of opening the story with questions? Explain that the author Ted Hughes was primarily a poet rather than author-so he plays with his words/sentence length a lot more. Note any important features of the text, which build up atmosphere and note on IWB. Choose an OPENERS card and set the class a challenge. As core, but once they have completed highlighting, pupils are to label similes, metaphors, alliteration, repetition, rhetorical questions, short sentences… Can I analyse the features of a good story opening and find poetic devices? Children are given a copy of the first 2 pages of The Iron Man to annotate. They highlight what parts of the text build up the atmosphere to make a good opening –and how this contributes to he overall style. Can I analyse the features of a good story opening? Support lower going over each section of the text together. Read through again if necessary. Can I analyse the features of a good story opening, with support?

Nice powerpoint on the Ascension. Plus Teaching Strategies Lent Vigil Explained. Vigil four parts explained.

Materials for teaching Easter and Jesus and his disciples. Planning powerpoints etc. Road to Emmaeus board game.

I have designed 100 worksheets of 12 pages each (50000 questions in total) on fractions. They are suitable for years 5 and 6 i.e. 10 and 11 year olds. They could be used in the first few years of secondary school too, or for adults who need help with Maths. There is a wide range of difficulty. You can dip into the worksheets and pick the ones you like. The further you go into a worksheet the more difficult it is as I have used bigger denominators, mixed and whole numbers, a wider range of numbers etc. There are questions on: Comparing fractions Division with Whole Numbers fractions addition fractions and Decimals fractions multiplication fractions subtraction Mixed operations with fractions Multiplication with whole numbers Simplifying fractions You can use your professional judgement to choose the appropriate sheet. You can pick and mix, leave questions out etc. it’s your choice!

Save your Sundays! Great planning (7 weeks worth) for year 5 Literacy Topics covered: Older Literature Poetry Stories from other cultures Plenty of powerpoints in there. Plus great close sheets on Aesop.

Lots of great planning from my teaching career in Primary schools. Nice powerpoints. Nice fun stuff too. Good value as you get a lot of stuff. I taught from Reception to year 6 so something for everyone.

For the European day of languages, but can be used anytime. Useful info on France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Germany, Sweden and Wales. Brilliant for assemblies. Great value as there is a lot of stuff.

Hannukah teaching Materials 5 Powerpoints 4 Word Documents Nice visual topic. Interesting.

A 12 page play for Christmas. Great for an assembly or fun Christams lesson. Brucie bonus. 2 page ks1 play

Lessons from all terms for years 1 to 6. Over 200 files. Plenty to sift through and a good idea to use bits of lessons to make a really long lesson. Lessons easily adaptable to go one up or one down. Enormous range of topics from performance Poetry to journalism planning

Looking for a big set of display material for the new academic year? I have collected together all my collection from decades in teaching Primary school level. Aimed a little at the top end as that is where I spent most years. Lots of stuff. Vcop stuff Maths stuff. RE stuff Art. Over 400 files. Word, pdf, excel etc

Some great short but punchy Literacy lesson plans. Spread throughout the terms. Example : Synonyms to describe the soldier WALT: explore the main ideas of a text WILF: I know what the important points in a text are. I can explain my ideas about a character. I can find relevant information in a text. Recap on the story. Was it fair for the soldier to kill the witch? What type of characters are the soldier and witch? Explain your ideas. Shared read an alternative version of the tinderbox. Discuss what the main points of the text are. Children to highlight what they think are important points and explain why they think this. CT to introduce tasks and explain their roles. Task: Children to work in mixed ability groups with each given a role. 1. Draw an image of a main character. 2. Record the thoughts and feelings of the character using information from the text. 3. Identify the main points of the text so far. 4. Summarise the key points of the story. Read through to page 10. What do you think might happen next? How will the soldier spend his money? Group 1 CT to read the text with the children and discuss the key information and supplementary information. CT to check children’s understanding of the text. Task: Children to debate whether the soldier committed murder or not. Punctuation- recap over .,!? WALT: create dialogue between characters WILF: Correct use of speech punctuation Use of adverbial phrases to extend sentences Ability to use tone, gestures and expression to convey a characters mood. Read the tinderbox to the page when the villagers are discussing the soldier’s new money and desire to meet the princess. Highlight the speech punctuation and discuss what the rules for speech are. CT to model examples. Task: Children in pairs to create a short dialogue that they can act out for the class. Children must use references to the text and expression, gestures and tone to convey the characters viewpoint. Read the line ‘I really want to see her’ – why is this in italics? What do you think the soldier will do to see the princess? Group 4 CT to support the children to use correct speech punctuation and adverbials to extend ideas.

I’ve put together my planning from a school I taught in. You get a massive 890 files and over 400mb of planning. Spread over a number of years, you may wish to form for your own use your own lessons by combining elements of various lessons. The zip contains the lot. I’ve included a few in the general upload so you can peruse.

25 slide flp chart.

3 rounds. Answers at end. Handy filler at very busy time of year. Please look at my other Christmas resources. Merry Christmas!