Planning for a week of writing looking at stories with a historical settings. Included are planned lessons on planning a story, check and editing our writing and then the first three paragraphs of Place, Person and Problem

A unit front cover for Historical settings - writing objectives

A set of example recounts written about events occurring during WW2

A full piece of writing using the 5Ps of place, people, problem, panic and peace. This is a shared piece of writing and can be used to demonstrate how each section has been written or ahred as a whole story

This PowerPoint is a guide to how children can describe the place where the action will take place adding details to show mood

An activity where children can either self or peer assess their own work or it can be used to analyse recounts at the start of the unit of work

Group task sheets linked to the lesson on inverted commas

A PowerPoint based lesson guiding the children through a shared writing for introducing their characters in their people paragraph in their story with a historical setting

A lesson on writing a character evaluation of Villains in stories linked to Superheroes

A collection of travel guide research sheets that can be used as differentiated sheets. One is completed as an example, the Australia travel guide. This could also be used for children to use to write up the research into a detailed guide. There are example places given which can be changed to fit the country/area you are studying.

A PowerPoint for teaching two poetry lessons writing and performing their own Chocolate poem based on Kit Wright's Poem The Magic Box. Included are the poems The Magic Box by Kit Wright and Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen

A fun activity teaching fractions using smartie tubes which can be extended to work on statistics by using tally charts and bar charts/pictograms/pie charts

A selection of activities on a pick and mix sheet that children can take home at the start of the topic and choose from a selection of english, maths and topic based tasks on one page. This allows them the freedom to choose an activity which can be completed at least 1 per week

A selection of resources for Winter acrostic poems differentiated for different age groups or abilities. Included are: Simple lesson plan with a success criteria sheet Ideas plan for poem at two levels An example written to show what is expected Sheets for writing up the acrostics for Winter, Snowflake and Christmas

A whole lesson looking at planning a story with a historical setting. It includes a PowerPoint, success criteria and differentiated planning sheets

A complete lesson including PowerPoint, video clip and thought bubbles to create a freeze frame of the moment Veruca Salt gets her Golden ticket. It asks children to think about whether she really deserved the ticket and what the worker who found it would have thought, felt and said.

A fun activity for year 6 that involves maths and SPAG tasks for them to solve in pairs or small groups. The resource involves clue sheets A-H and an answer sheet for them to fill in.

WAGOLL examples to go with the Next chapter lesson based on what Charlie should do when he finds the 50p. The lesson can be downloaded separately

A lesson writing the next chapter in Charlie and the chocolate factory based on what he does when he finds the 50p. Included is the planning sheet