This lesson is designed upper KS2 Giving opportunities for pupils to explain why it is important to follow rules when handling raw meat. To also outline and conclude why bacteria can be harmful when food is involved. After the activity pupils should successfully be able to prepare raw meat for cooking. The science lesson gives pupils a chance to explore how easy it is to transfer raw meat on hands over surfaces, and why it is important to wash hands immediately after handling raw meat, as the bacteria on the hands is harmful. Pupils will learn why it is important to follow rules when handling raw meat. By the end of the lesson from the watching clips on ‘You Tube’ and reading Jamie Oliver’s cooking skills on safety and avoiding cross contamination, pupils will be able to identify and make corrections to a set of instructions on handling raw meat or write own instructions.

Read and create Poetry This unit of work is for upper KS2. Lesson one starts with discussing how authors use language in poetry to capture the reader’s attention. Starting with synonyms and recapping what a synonym is. Asking pupils to write down on whiteboards what their interpretation of a synonym is. Lesson two continues with Identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning of a prose with a task; using personification and making kitchen utensils to life. As the weeks progresses, pupils will understand how to use personification, similes, synonyms in own writing; thinking how writing styles creates imagery. Pupils would take time reading different prose about food during the week and by the end of the week pupils would spend time refining and evaluating sentences using personification synonyms, metaphors, imagery and similes for impact. A review from this lesson would be appreciated.

KS 2 PE Athletics unit of work includes 7 lesson plans and instructions for the activities. Suitable for all KS2, Ideally for Yr5 - Yr6 Activities include running short sprints, long distances, hurdle jumping, long jumping, throwing, heaving and fling with a final lesson of a Multi Athletics Olympics

This lesson has been written for upper KS2. This lesson allows pupils to explore inventions of food and drink through the ages to modern day. A practical lesson where pupils will be able to blind taste test a range of white, milk and dark chocolate and rate the different chocolate; Opportunities to learn about The Cadbury story and talk through the benefits of cocoa and its impact on our lifestyles. The task would allow pupils to pick a medicine or vaccine, food or the pasteurization discovery from the past and research the person and produce a fact file. For example Louis Pasteur was a French microbiologist and chemist born on December 27, 1822 and died on September 28, 1895.

The following swimming lessons have been put together for teachers and support staff who take their classes swimming. There are 7 stages with Swim England website that are taught to children in schools. Attached is a six week block of lessons for children at level one at swimming. I am a qualified swimming teacher who teaches all levels of Swim England standards, and will be putting levels 2-7 together. Let me know if your teaching swimming in your school, and the level on poolside and would like some lessons in particular areas??

Biography Talk4writing yr 6 Harriet Tubman and the Underground railway The following 4 weeks of English has been carefully thought-out and planned for primarily yr 6, but can be taught to yr 5 as well. The first week looks at the features of a biography, and recognising the key features and with this children will learn about a famous abolitionist Harriet Tubman and her biography through a text and a BBC clip. Interesting activities have been included based around grammar and a reading comprehension to retrieve information about the text. Included in week one are 5 lessons of PPP, Also included is an overview of Harriet Tubman’s life for key features - NOT A STORY MAP, but could be used to learn all about Harriet’s life. The second week offers opportunities for children to identify grammatical features in a biography, using the box up plan to help develop ideas, before composing ideas orally and in writing. The English lessons links to History, where children will research another abolitionist/civil right campaigner or a Quaker during the 19th Century. This research will give children a deeper understanding on what life as a slave working on a plantation was like in the United States of America or as a worker in Great Briton in the work houses in Victorian Briton. During this week, children will use the box up grid to develop ideas before starting to prepare a shared piece of writing on either famous person. The third week focuses on continuing a shared write putting together a complete biography aiming to write five paragraphs. Other fun activities include role playing a Historian of American History/slavery radio phone in. In week four children will choose and write independently a biography about another historical person from the Victorian era who have made a difference to our lives today. This four week block will link to a cross curricular topics of: The Victorians or 19th Century American history. Take the time to read the biography of Harriet Tubman by Dorothy Sterling before you teach the 4 week block or read it as a class book. I enjoyed reading Harriet’s biography.

These three lessons are suitable for upper KS2. Included in these three lessons are lesson plans, and two PPP , resources and weblinks including an opportunity for Children to interview a local farmer as well as watch the BBC programme – Jimmy’s Farm Heroes 2008 (1 hour in length), making notes about what is affecting today’s farmers the most. Children in Lesson 1 will compose questions to ask a farmer and interpret his/her answers In Lesson 2 children will understand the link between land use and economic activity.(Summary of Farmers interview is Lesson 2) This time allows children to summarize questions asked to a local farmer or from the video watched in part 2 of lesson one. By the end of lesson 1 children will be able to ask open ended questions. Interpret information from different sources and evaluate, from interviewing, that there are physical and human characteristics that affect farming. By the end of lesson 2 children will successfully identify land use; Identify the effect of land use on economic activity. As well as identify the distribution of food from its origin. Included is a photo of some notes the class teacher took when interviewing a local Cornish Farmer. Lesson three - Farm to Fork This lesson follows on from Farming in the UK interviewing local farmers; giving opportunities for researching different types of farming, expressing views and opinions on farming and how food ends up on our plates. Answering questions: do you know where our food comes from? As a nation should we be supporting our local farmers? There are links to a number of numeracy lessons on how far food travels from farms to end up on the supermarket shelves. Websites provide information on locations of locally sourced food products, and who these farmers sell their produce to. It is not just dairy, rearing animals, crop growing; fishermen are also farmers, catching fish to sell at markets and restaurants. This lesson provides opportunities for discussion on farming life and the produce that is sold to supermarkets and other sources for profit.

This lesson has been written for upper KS2. Geography/History – Changes in our landscapes Topic day- Methods of farming and changing land use. Q. How has methods of farming and land use changed over time? To gain an understanding of how land use and life has changed over time and recognise key topographical features using and reading OS maps identifying land use symbols and scales as well as locations and distances on all scales of maps, including national and world maps. This lesson is for upper KS2 and is an ideal lesson for a topic day where pupils would be looking into farming and land use seeing how much has changed over time. Pupils would use local maps of a county, regional and nationally from a local library - to see how land use has changed over a period of time in the history aspect of this lesson. With a focus on the different farming ways –studying beef, sheep, dairy, arable, mixed, pastoral and renewable energy using Google Earth as a source of information. The aim of the geography lesson is for pupils to consider the changes that can happen in an area and about the impact that these changes can have on both the environment and the people who live there. The curriculum links to Literacy W3 –W4 How farming has changed over time and why Fair trade products are so important, History- Atlantic trade routes /PSHE Fair Trade and Numeracy W5 – Time, distance and speed investigating how far food is exported to. These can be bought also as a bundle. I would appreciate any reviews and comments and if improvements can be made.

This lesson has been written for upper KS 2. The crux of the lesson is to find out as a class how water and nutrients are transported in the body to where they are needed. Also to gain an understanding of how blood has a function on the body and the role within the body; as well as understanding what the body’s circulatory system is responsible for and how it transports materials throughout the entire body. Discussions can also be generated on possible illnesses that are caused if the body doesn���t function adequately. Opportunities to invite st. Johns ambulance to offer talks to pupils can be arranged. (see website in web site links) Other First aid lesson plans can be found on this site. This lesson offers a good understanding on why water is vital to us humans, and how nutrients are transported around the body from the water we drink. Look out for the advanced water transportation lesson in the coming week. This lesson would be ideal to be taught over several days. files included: ppp lesson plan teacher background notes website list teaching resources Feed back and reviews would be appreciated

This lesson is designed for upper KS2 This lesson will give pupils an understanding of the concept of varying food prices across the supermarkets. As well as opportunities for research and give an explanation of varying food prices across the UK and world. When we do our food shopping, do you look at the prices between supermarkets on certain produce? Today’s lesson involves thinking about Q. Why does the cost of fruit and vegetables vary so much between the supermarkets? Many food produce, especially fruit and vegetables are imported from around the world. Q. How does this impact and influence the shopper on food prices? As a nation are we set in our ways in only buying from one supermarket, or only buying brand name produce? A research lesson where children will evaluate their findings, putting the data collected into a graph and writing an explanation of what has been found out.

This six week block is for upper key stage 2 and includes lesson plans, artwork, photos and ppp 's . Based on how food has been represented through the ages by famous artists, by looking at photos of food today and evaluate them according to the media used and style. To taking photos of displays of food to then use in creating own pop art based on Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. This will lead into sketching using different resources and techniques from photos to use for a food package and study how art is used in the packaging of food. By the end of the six weeks children will use examples of artwork to design a food package by researching the web to base own ideas on. This six week art block would lead into a six week block in Design Technology that can be purchased with additional numeracy lessons. I would appreciate any feedback and reviews.

An interesting and interactive based unit of work planned for upper key stage two. This unit of work is a six week block that gives pupils opportunities to research about the different religions and the food they are allowed to eat. The following objectives are laid out below week by week. W 1 To Research foods that are forbidden and permitted from different religions from around the world. W 2 Understand through research different cultures have different celebrations and dietary requirements W 3 Research a religion and continue researching about its culture and celebrations W 4 To study in further detail a religion continuing research about its culture and celebrations. W 5 To design a menu for the religion already research selecting food that can be eaten for that religion. Identify the foods that are excluded from their diet from previous research. W 6 To explain what the religious beliefs are. To give an oral account of the religion researched, the festivals, celebrations and the menus designed.

This lesson has been written for upper Ks 2 Geography - Seasons - Understand and gain knowledge on impact of seasonality on food production around the world. By the end of the lesson children would be able to: summarise and give an explanation why foods are grown in seasons. Identify the climates and locations where food is grown, reared, caught and produced. To locate where food is exported in the world. This lesson entails using search technologies effectively, appreciate how results are selected and ranked and be discerning in evaluating digital content. To use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly.

This six week Design Tech unit of work is for upper KS2 This block is all about Menus, tasting and cooking. This block of work is a practical, fun and involves group work activities over the six week block. With the overall objective to create a menu, buy the ingredients and then prepare the food for their chosen menu. Inviting family members into school to share work produced over the past 12 weeks. There are a number of numeracy lessons that are linked to the DT unit of work which help them prepare for the family invite and presentation these include: Using the 12 & 24 hour clock, timings and preparation. The nutritional value of foods by creating a set of top trump cards, understanding direct and indirect ratio proportion; as well as budgeting, working out cost of ingredients, quantities of ingredients needed in preparing foods.

This unit of work is for upper KS 2. Pupils will learn all about writing Non Chronological reports, focusing on farming, land use and why fair trade produce is important to farmers, as well as how climate and weather conditions affect farmers in the UK. This unit of work includes 8 lesson plans, 8 PPP’s for each of the lessons, resources and web links to help pupils on their learning journey. This unit of work follows the new curriculum standards, Learning objectives and success criteria are displayed clearly. Other lessons that are linked to this block are PSHE, History and numeracy and can also be purchased as a bundle. PSHE History focus -What does Fair trade mean to you? History – Atlantic Trade Routes Numeracy- Fair Trade on the High Seas

These three lessons are for upper KS2 Involving solving problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure. Pupils will apply skills in converting between miles and kilometres. As well as working out the time it takes on the high seas and distance in miles to reach a location in the UK or around the world. Applying knowledge is using the time, distance speed equation to all modes of transport – air, sail boat/sea & road. Then choosing a fair trade product and the distance, speed & time it would take to reach a supermarket In lesson two and three, pupils will choose a famous explorer and explore the routes they sailed and produce they brought back to Europe and the UK. There are a number of weblinks that pupils can use to research Explorers and the routes they traveled. These lessons are linked to History - Atlantic Trade Routes and PSHE- What does fair trade mean to you?

This Geography lesson has been written for upper KS2. Giving pupils opportunities to research where farms are locally; also finding out what produce is farmed and do these farms supply supermarkets? Pupils can also use the links provided to help them research crop and animal production from the different farms in the UK- Using the map pupils can work out the scale – distances in miles/km, then work out the time it would take to transport/deliver the produce to its destination, including counties/countries travelled through. The lesson gives pupils opportunities to research using the world wide web and ways of how they will present their findings from their research.

This unit of work offers a fun work out where you will find a six week programme with warm ups, main exercises and cool downs. Station cards with photos to demonstrate the exercise and teaching points. If your a supply teacher and need a PE lesson, this would make a great stand alone lesson as all resources are prepared and ready to use. See Keep fit Circuit Plan weeks one to six for background information. Any feedback and comments would be greatly appreciated.

This lesson has been created for upper KS2 This lesson has a scientific aspect, giving pupils a chance to understand and research what foods are consumed in the world and how they are consumed. What foods are produced for the fast food industry and how does overconsumption of certain foods increase obesity in the world? Pupils will have opportunities to research areas of the world where there is an obesity crisis; also by watching a bbc clip/you tube clip –‘The men who made us fat’. Will allow pupils to think about the foods we eat, seeing fast food restaurants everywhere, and advertisements. By researching the crops that are grown and farmed in the world have a huge impact on world population and world obesity.