Lesson ideas to teach Relationships: Relationships at home and in the community Leave a review

Aim To create an understanding of germs (what they are and where they live) and help children develop good hygiene habits, such as handwashing, to lessen the risks of germs spreading. Learning outcomes Children should be taught: • to share their opinions on things that matter to them and explain their views; • to take part in discussions with one other person and the whole class; • how some diseases spread and can be controlled; • to make simple choices that improve their health and well-being. Can easily be linked to Cornavirus All resources included Leave a review.

Aim To help children understand how people overcome problems and achieve happiness. 30-45 minute lesson Learning outcomes Children should be taught: • to recognise, name and deal with their feelings in a positive way; • how to set simple goals; • to take part in discussions with one other person and the whole class; • to relate feelings to aspects of everyday life. All resources included for lesson. Leave a review

Aim To help children understand the value of money and the need to be careful in looking after it. Lesson 30-45 minutes Learning outcomes Children should be taught: • to recognise what they like and dislike; • to share their opinions on things that matter to them and explain their views; • to take part in discussions with one other person and the whole class; • to recognise choices they can make; • to realise that money comes from different sources and can be used for different purposes. All resources included Leave a review

Aim To help children consider and value the needs of a community or society. 45-60 minutes in length Learning outcomes Children should be taught: • to share their opinions on things that matter to them and explain their views; • to take part in discussions with one other person and the whole class; • to recognise choices they can make; • to agree and follow rules for their group and classroom, and understand how rules help them; • to appreciate that people and other living things have needs, and that they have responsibilities to meet them; • to realise that they belong to various groups and communities, such as family and school; • to value and consider the needs of a community or society. Full lesson with resources. Leave a review

Aim To help children understand that being responsible for someone or something is a total commitment that we should accept, even if to do so is time-consuming and/or difficult. 2x 25 minute lessons Learning outcomes Children should be taught: • to share their opinions on things that matter to them and explain their views; • to take part in discussions with one other person and the whole class; • to realise that people have needs, and that they have responsibilities to meet them; • to be able to identify positive and negative aspects about taking on a responsibility. Lesson plan and resources. 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.

Aim To help children understand the influences that affect our choices 30-46 minute lesson 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 collecting information, looking for help, making responsible choices, and taking action; • to research, discuss and debate topical issues, problems and events; • that their actions affect themselves and others, to care about other people’s feelings and to try to see things from their points of view. Like this lesson? This lesson is part of our The Key Stage Two File. This file is packed with great information that it has been split into two files (Part 1 and Part 2), both suitable for all year groups, but covering different topics. Each file contains several units which include a Teacher’s Guide, Medium-Term Plan, and up to fifteen lessons ranging from 20 to 90 minutes. 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.

Aim To appreciate the changing roles of men and women in society. 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 recognise their worth as individuals by … setting personal goals; • about the range of jobs carried out by people they know, and to understand how they can develop skills to make their own contribution in the future; • to recognise and challenge stereotypes; • that differences and similarities between people arise from a number of factors, including … gender 25 minutes lesson Lesson plan and resource Leave a review

5 worksheets to inspire learning and encourage geographical curiosity both at home or at school. Focused on a location study: South Wales. Taken from Keystage 2 Geography Resource File. Available as PDF to print. These worksheets include: Rainfall and Temperature in the UK worksheet Climate Statistics in Cardiff Types of Coal The Railway Children Comprehension Reading a Map (Distrubition of Iron and Steel in South Wales)

This unit covers Getting dressed and undressed with some adult help, including learning how to use zippers; ■ Learning how to be independent in self-care; ■ Naming and describing items of clothing; ■ Knowing which types of clothes are suitable for different activities; ■ Developing independence when going to the toilet. Includes 6 pages of activity ideas Taken from our popular resource Building Blocks. Building blocks is a modular series of resources offering Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) practitioners a source of fresh, fun activities linked to inspirational, childcentred themes, and providing comprehensive coverage of the different aspects of the Early Learning Goals. 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

Two units from Make Phonics Fun Each topic within Make Phonics Fun is supported by a range of lively and appealing pupil text. The two units are based around the theme of starting school and the weather. Includes fiction/ non-fiction text, vocabularly words and activities based on the texts. Across the different genres, children are introduced through the fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts to a list of key words, enabling them to develop their decoding and blending skills. Real and pseudo words have been chosen to cover the grapheme-phoneme correspondences. Each topic is also supported by photocopiable, labelled picture scenes, providing visual cues for some of the key real and pseudo words to be tested. Care has been taken to ensure that the pictures representing the key pseudo words are of objects and items that are clearly meant to be imaginary. Leave a review.

Get the all 71 sheets via our TES shop 15 worksheets: Alphabet – to put words into alphabetical order. Dictionary – to understand that a dictionary gives the meaning of words. Word Families – to recognise members of a word family. Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings. Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings. Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings. Adjectives – to identify adjectives. Adjectives – to experiment with adjectives. Adjectives Challenge – to experiment with adjectives. Determiners – to know when to use a and an. Prefixes – to understand what a prefix is and to recognise some common prefixes. Prefix Challenge – to understand what a prefix is and to recognise some common prefixes. Prefixes – to recognise some common prefixes. Prefix Challenge – to identify and use other prefixes. Suffixes – to identify and use the suffixes: ful and less. Suffix – ful Word Search. Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 3 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

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. The guide is organised in an incremental way, later tasks being built on earlier ones. Step by step, each exercise calls upon skills and terminology already explored. In this way, both the child and their teacher will develop a sense of the progress being made. At any particular age, of course, children will be working at different levels and may need either more fundamental or more challenging work set for them The guide has three main sections: word, sentence (including punctuation) and text. Each section has an introductory page which can be enlarged to create an explanatory poster for display purposes. At the end, there is a glossary explaining the terminology used in the book, as well as an answer section. Leave a review

This unit covers: Knowing the importance of keeping healthy and clean; ■ Managing own hygiene needs; ■ Knowing where we can find germs; ■ Identifying other times when we need to wash Taken from our Building Blocks resource. Building Blocks is a modular series of resources offering Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) practitioners a source of fresh, fun activities linked to inspirational, childcentred themes, and providing comprehensive coverage of the different aspects of the Early Learning Goals This unit is full with 6 pages full of a range of activities to teach your child about the importance of washing their own hands. Leave a review

Grammar and Creativity for Year 5 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. The guide is organised in an incremental way, later tasks being built on earlier ones. Step by step, each exercise calls upon skills and terminology already explored. In this way, both the child and their teacher will develop a sense of the progress being made. At any particular age, of course, children will be working at different levels and may need either more fundamental or more challenging work set for them The guide has three main sections: word, sentence (including punctuation) and text. Each section has an introductory page which can be enlarged to create an explanatory poster for display purposes. At the end, there is a glossary explaining the terminology used in the book, as well as an answer section. Leave a review

An activity to encourage children to think and collect alternative words for imperative verbs of direction. Taken from UKS2 Literacy Resources File Leave a review

A crossword to use in conjunction with Treasure Island unit. Leave a review

Promote book talk for all ages with this helpful worksheet. Leave a review