This is a terrific descriptive writing lesson. Children contrast the inside of a tent (at night) to the outside. Lesson summary: 1. Vocabulary/simile sorting activities for 'meaning breakdown' and then for inside/outside 2. Release high attaining (AMA) writers to do indoor/outdoor writing independently 3. Shared (teacher led) writing of ‘indoor’ for everyone else 4. Rest of class use word bank (developed during part 1) for independent ‘outdoor’ writing It would work well from Y2 upwards - I used it in Y3, but I can imagine older writers enjoying this activity. Children use images and word banks to create wonderfully rich descriptive writing. You are buying: a detailed lesson plan and presentation, with inside/outside image word banks tasks suggested shared writing Enjoy!

This is a 14 session biography writing unit for upper KS2. Children explore the life of Anne Frank - supporting history learning about WW2 - and then go on to choose one of four other people who SHOOK THE WORLD while they were young (Boyan Slat, Greta Thunberg, Pele or Marley Dias). After learning new writing skills, children write a biography about their chosen subject. If you purchase this unit, please open the youthquake biography zip file. Each of the 14 lessons is organised into its own subfolder. All lesson plans, lesson slides and activities are included - it’s ready to go. Everything is created in PowerPoint and Word, so you can edit and adapt as you wish. The png files you can see in the previews are just there to give a taste of the first few lessons. Your class will enjoy learning about biographies and creating a YOUTHQUAKE! Throughout this unit, I would recommend reading children selected biographies from YouthQuake: 50 Children and Young People Who Shook the World by Tom Adams & Sarah Walsh.

A fully resourced, three week, Year 6 writing unit based on chapter 14 of ‘Number the Stars’ by Lois Lowry. This unit links beautifully with history learning, World War 2. If children a familiar with the story of Anne Frank, this text provides another example of what was happening in Europe in the final years of the WW2. All planning, slides and activities are included - no extra work necessary. Outcome After looking closely at chapter 14 of Number the Stars, children write their own suspenseful, historical story about a child who has to take a mysterious and important package on a dangerous journey. **The following objectives are comprehensively covered: ** Grammar skills • Use a parenthesis (a single dash) to add an afterthought • Use short sentences to create suspense • Use expanded noun phrases to add descriptive detail • Personify nouns Composition • Develop a historical character • Build atmosphere and create contrasting settings • Apply an understanding of the key features of historical stories and suspense writing • Plan a story using a familiar structure to support Reading and Vocabulary • Explore unfamiliar vocabulary in context • Develop reading fluency skills • Retrieve information and infer meaning • Retell a traditional story • Identify the key features of historical stories and suspense writing

Here are 6 lessons on digital wellbeing aimed at 7-9 year olds. We use it in Year 4, but it would also work in Year 5. These lessons are adapted from two lessons that can be found in the Be Internet Legends resource (though a very helpful starting point, I think that resource needs a lot of work before it can be used in class). All resources and slides included - I’ve recreated the activities in a more user friendly format. Please leave a review if you use it.