The activity sheets are structured around the narrative, non-fiction and poetry blocks of the new literacy Framework. The content comes from common Year 1 fiction and non-fiction themes. The activities are designed to support work done across the curriculum as well as in literacy teaching. The activities follow the main literacy priorities in Year 1 and are designed to be used flexibly. They are intended to be used with an adult: it would be pointless for the child to do them alone. Much of the learning is in the interaction. Each activity sheet has a clear focus and advice to the adult as well as the child. There are four main types: • Understanding and engaging with texts; • Shaping texts; • Sentence structure and punctuation; • Spelling. Each unit contains a mixture of the activity types.

Racing to English Great resources for teaching English as an additional language. Free resource includes :- Set of photo cards and matching words. Picture Dictionary Sheet. Worksheets for oral and written work. If you are looking for a comprehensive English as an Additional language resource then see the full Racing to English resource on LCP’s website. For now, this is a great freebie that we wanted to share. Let us know what you think …

Part of LCP’s Teacher's Friend series, Help! I’m a Teacher is packed full of helpful hints and tips for student and newly qualified teachers (NQTs). Written in an unstuffy, unpretentious style by Chris Fenton, a former Headteacher with years of experience and professional nous. Full of anecdotes, its humorous and refreshing approach provides invaluable support for all school staff. Indeed, as a guide to the pinnacles and pitfalls of the academic year – it’s a must read for every teacher!

Aim To encourage children to think about how we value ourselves and respect each other. 30-45 minutes Learning outcomes Children should be taught: • to talk and write about their opinions, and explain their views, on issues that affect themselves and society; • to face new challenges positively by … making responsible choices … ; • to resolve differences by looking at alternatives, making decisions and explaining choices.

19 Home Learning sheets for Year 5 taken from our Homework Activities for Year 5 The activity sheets are structured around the narrative, non-fiction and poetry blocks of the new literacy Framework. The content comes from common Year 5 fiction and non-fiction themes. The activities are designed to support work done across the curriculum as well as in literacy teaching. The activities follow the main literacy priorities in Year 5 and are designed to be used flexibly. Each activity sheet has a clear focus and advice to the adult as well as the child. There are four main types: • Understanding and engaging with texts; • Shaping texts; • Sentence structure and punctuation; • Spelling. Each unit contains a mixture of the activity types.

Daily Dynamo! – the whole class resource that gives you over daily starters to challenge your pupils’ thinking and reasoning. Ideal for pre-Registration engagement in the morning, these PowerPoint slides are fully customisable by you to suit your class needs. All have clear links to ECM Objectives, and are themed so that you can choose on a daily basis which Daily Dynamo! to get your pupils powered up in the morning. Leave a review

Aim To help children understand the meaning of trust. 45-60 minute lesson Learning outcomes Children should be taught: • to talk and write about their opinions … ; • to … discuss … topical issues, problems … ; • to reflect on … social … issues, using imagination to understand other people’s experiences; • what makes a healthy lifestyle, including the benefits of exercise … what affects mental health, and how to make informed choices; • where individuals, families and groups can get help and support. Please review Like this lesson? Get the file. The files are packed with engaging lessons and practical ideas covering a wide range of topics such as: feelings and relationships, health and hygiene, living in a global community, life in Britain today, and good and active citizenship. The lessons in these units dip into sex education and British values in a safe and age-appropriate manner. Each plan provides the teacher with the lesson aim, list of resources needed, learning outcomes, differentiation and suggests any cross-curricular links with other parts of the National Curriculum.

The main purpose of LCP’s Mathematics Homework is to make your life, as a teacher or parent of Year 3 pupils, as easy as possible. All of the homework activities are based on the renewed Primary Framework for mathematics; however, as they assess specific learning objectives they can be used in conjunction with other planned teaching schemes. Each homework activity sheet addresses a whole, or part of, a learning objective. The questions are written to test the understanding of your pupils once they have worked on a topic in the lesson. With a full set of answers included you can be confident that your students are getting regular, relevant homework that tests their understanding across the Year 4 objectives and all seven core strands. Leave a review

Get 15 sheets or the whole book via our TES shop 5 sheets with Answers Alphabet – to put words into alphabetical order. Compound Words – to investigate compound words. Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to improve my vocabulary. Nouns – to revise word classes – nouns. Nouns – to recognise abstract nouns. Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 4 Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. Leave a review

Get all 5 sheets from our TES shop A worksheet on the Watercycle. Written for Year 4. Taken from KS2 Geography Resources File. Downloadable as a PDF Leave a review

Objective: Use approximations, inverse operations and tests of divisibility to estimate and check results. Homework/ activity sheet Full editable with answers One sheet from the Mathematics Homework Activites on CD These time-saving Mathematics Homework Activities on CD provide primary teachers with a set of challenging and engaging maths homework activities for every week of the school year. Part of the homework CD.

The main purpose of LCP’s Mathematics Homework is to make your life, as a teacher or parent of Year 6 pupils, as easy as possible. All of the homework activities are based on the renewed Primary Framework for mathematics; however, as they assess specific learning objectives they can be used in conjunction with other planned teaching schemes. Each homework activity sheet addresses a whole, or part of, a learning objective. The questions are written to test the understanding of your pupils once they have worked on a topic in the lesson. The Year 6 curriculum is structured into five blocks, reflecting the same structure as the other primary year groups. Each block is made up of three units, and each unit represents two or three weeks of teaching. The blocks are: Block A: Counting, partitioning and calculating • Block B: Securing number facts, understanding shape • Block C: Handling data and measures • Block D: Calculating, measuring and understanding shape • Block E: Securing number facts, relationships and calculating Leave a review Read less

This resource includes 1 text with activities and questions. Text title: Seaside The cards primarily address text-level objectives for each year group and focus specifically on reading comprehension of non-fiction texts. The cards are designed to encourage talk and develop listening and speaking skills. There is a main text on the front of each of the reading cards. The main text is followed by talk time , where there are open-ended questions, which are designed to stimulate a personal response to the issues raised and encourage children to think about the card’s theme. The questions encourage discussion between two to six people. Talk time questions that are preceded by a require children to refer back to the text and are suitable for prompting children’s written responses. The box contains an interesting fact related to the card’s theme. This should appeal to the children’s sense of wonder and fascination for the remarkable. The reverse side of each card carries things to do box. This contains activities and challenges that are designed to enable children to pursue the main theme still further. The activities are mainly practical in nature, so that all children can succeed, whatever their levels of literacy Leave a review

Full lessons also available on our TES shop Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a famous engineer who lived in Victorian times. He was a very good engineer and he won a competition to build a bridge over the River Avon. This bridge became the Clifton Suspension bridge. This unit links to the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements in the Programme of Study and considers the key historical enquiry question, How do we find out about Isambard Kingdom Brunel? It introduces the children to the idea of historical sources, introduces the concepts of old and new, and encourages them to think about the life and times of a famous person. The approach used could be applied to the study of other famous people. It provides a wide range of opportunities for children to develop their spoken language. It is helpful if the children have: ordered events in time and used everyday terms about the passing of time; answered questions about people/ events in the past using pictures and written sources; recounted episodes from stories about the past; looked for similarities and differences between today and the past. Leave a review

This resource includes 1 text with activities and questions. Text title: Snakes The cards primarily address text-level objectives for each year group and focus specifically on reading comprehension of non-fiction texts. The cards are designed to encourage talk and develop listening and speaking skills. There is a main text on the front of each of the reading cards. The main text is followed by talk time , where there are open-ended questions, which are designed to stimulate a personal response to the issues raised and encourage children to think about the card’s theme. The questions encourage discussion between two to six people. Talk time questions that are preceded by a require children to refer back to the text and are suitable for prompting children’s written responses. The box contains an interesting fact related to the card’s theme. This should appeal to the children’s sense of wonder and fascination for the remarkable. The reverse side of each card carries things to do box. This contains activities and challenges that are designed to enable children to pursue the main theme still further. The activities are mainly practical in nature, so that all children can succeed, whatever their levels of literacy Leave a review

Push Me,Pull You Reviewing the effects of pushes and pulls on the movement and shape of objects Learning objectives Children learn: • that pushes and pulls are examples of forces; • that pushes and pulls can cause objects to move,to stop,to change shape. Learning outcomes Children: • describe what they did using words such astwist,squeeze, stretch,pull out and classify actions as pushes or pulls,e.g.stretching is a pull,squeezing is a push. One lesson plan with worksheets Leave a review

Get all 7 Geography Activities from our TES shop An extract of Pliny the Younger’s letter to his friend Cornelius Tactius, a Roman historian, recording his experience of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD. It could be used as part of Geography, History or within Reading. Taken from the KS2 Geography Resource file. Available as a PDF Leave a review

Read the adjectives and verbs and sort the words into two groups. Comic, humerous or funny Scary, threatening or unpleasant. Taken from UKS2 Literacy Resources File Leave a review

A review of the topic of forces Taken from LCP Science Resource Files KS2 Learning objectives Children learn/revise: • that pushes and pulls are examples of forces; • that forces are needed to start and stop things and to change their speed and/or direction; • that friction,including air resistance,is a measure of force; • that forces have direction and that they can be measured using a forcemeter; • that the standard unit for measuring force is the newton. Learning outcomes Children: • revisit work on forces from previous years/units. Purpose of the lesson:to review the topic of forces.(This is a quick run-through,to reacquaint the children with the subject,and it is not necessary to go into depth. Comes with lesson plan and worksheets Leave a review

Aim To help children recognise and appreciate the meaning of the word ‘rule’ Length: 25-30 minutes Learning outcomes Children should be taught: • to take part in discussions with one other person and the whole class; • to agree and follow rules for their group and classroom, and understand how rules help them. Resources • A large space to sit in a circle • Small whiteboards or number fans • A story about different animals, either published or created by the teacher. Leave us a review.