Planning and resources for primary teachers from http://www.ks2history.com. Our history topics include Stone Age to Iron Age, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Victorians, Shang Dynasty etc and the list is expanding each month, with literacy units to link to the topics too.
Our popular resources have been tried and tested in hundreds of classrooms.
Planning and resources for primary teachers from http://www.ks2history.com. Our history topics include Stone Age to Iron Age, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Victorians, Shang Dynasty etc and the list is expanding each month, with literacy units to link to the topics too.
Our popular resources have been tried and tested in hundreds of classrooms.
Two of our popular All About Me Activities for primary pupils:
1. Fidget Spinner Theme All About Me Pack
2. All About Me Time Capsules.
You might like our other transition resources:
Transition Day Pack
All About Me Fidget Spinner Pack
End of Term Iphone Activity Booklet
Perfect for Anti-Bullying Week 2018! This Anti-Bullying iPhone Booklet makes a fun activity that helps pupils to think about some of the key issues about bullying and this year’s theme ‘Choose Respect’. All templates and Powerpoint slides required are included.
Pupils will create an iPhone-shaped booklet in which they write or draw to answer text messages about different issues relating to bullying.
The Powerpoint provided guides you though different discussion points and offers 3 different challenge levels for each question, allowing you to easily adapt this resource for your year group. Then pupils can use the templates provided to create their own antibullying booklets, making an excellent classroom display or handheld project to take home!
This resource includes:
- A full lesson powerpoint including differentiated discussion points
- A resource pack including teacher instructions and templates for the activity.
This is a fun and through-provoking activity easily adapted across KS1 and KS2.
Please note that due to terms of use in the images used, the Powerpoint file is not editable.
Looking for activities for the first week back with your new class? Updated for 2019.
Download this bundle of popular back to school activities for primary teachers getting to know their new classes!
New Class Activity Pack - pupils bond by working together to make a class poem
Time Capsule - pupils make an ‘All About Me’ time capsule to be sealed and opened again at the end of the school year
Recipe for a Great School Year - these recipes make a perfect classroom display.
The resources contain ideas for adapting the activities to suit older or younger classes in Ks1 or Ks2. Great for getting to know your new class in a fun and hands-on way.
Download our popular performance poetry units as a mega bundle!
This bundle is a great investment for school leaders and literacy co-ordinators to support teachers in teaching classic poetry eel across the school. Each unit builds up to a poetry performance.
Each of these planning packs includes full lesson plans and accompanying resources and is designed for the 2014 National Curriculum, with integrated SPAG objectives. All of our lessons are written by literacy experts and outstanding teachers.
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These two fun poetry activities provide festive fun in primary classrooms in the run-up to Christmas! Both of these resources are adaptable for different year groups and include ready-to-teach Powerpoint lesson presentations and teacher resource packs.
Please follow the download instructions at the bottom of the page to make sure you get all four of the files included in this resource. Problems downloading? Click here for download help.
Activity 1: Christmas Tree Kennings
In this Christmas literacy lesson, pupils will learn about what kennings are and practise using them with a festive twist! Then they will make their own kenning poem about Christmas trees and turn it into a fantastic colourful kenning tree ready for a Christmas classroom display! The Powerpoint provided guides you though the full lesson, including time to discuss ideas and vocabulary. Then pupils can use the templates and instructions provided to make their own colouring kenning trees.
Activity 2: Christmas Riddles
Uh-oh! There has been a mix-up in Santa's workshop and the cheeky elves have left clues about the presents instead of labelling them correctly! In this lesson, pupils will help Santa to solve the elves' riddles and then they will write their own riddles about Christmas presents. Follow the instructions to turn the riddles into fun lift-the-flap Christmas presents, perfect for a festive classroom display! The Powerpoint provided guides you though the full lesson, including time to discuss ideas and vocabulary. Then pupils can use the templates provided to plan their riddles and turn them into fun lift-the-flap pictures.
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PRIMARY back to school activities for meeting a new class.
This is a great one-off literacy activity and a wonderful teamwork project to help your new class work together to make a class poem. In this getting to know you activity pupils work together to create a new class poem using the letters in the name of their class.
The pack contains a Powerpoint lesson, teacher instructions and pupil resources - everything you need for this fun poetry lesson, including icebreaker games and a mini class performance at the end.
The activity allows pupils to bond as they make a class poem that spells out the name of their new class. The session is based around Edward Lear’s ‘Alphabet Poem’ and the activities include suggestions for adapting the lesson for different ages and abilities across KS1 or KS2.
This resource is structured in the following way:
Fun teamwork activities and games including name games, a classroom hunt activity, a paper-chain race and ‘Find Someone Who’ bingo.
A poetry time activity following the lesson Powerpoint to help the class to become familiar with Edward Lear’s ‘Alphabet Poem’. There are different options to adapt this for different age groups.
A group activity in which pupils create their own stanzas for the alphabet poem, using the letters that spell out your class name or their new teacher’s name.
A whole class performance of the new poem.
Ideal for the first week back!
Check out our other popular resource packs:
All About Me Time Capsule
Recipe for a Greatr School Year!
Autumn Poetry Pack KS1
All About Me Fidget Spinner Pack
Stone Age Boy Pack
The resource contains 2 PDF files and 1 PPT. Please note that due to terms of use in the images, the Powerpoint file is not editable.
Back to School - a fun activity for primary classrooms. This Recipe for a Great School Year activity pack (including full lesson Powerpoint and all templates) makes a fun welcome project for a new class and creates a classroom display to put up for the new school year. Updated for Back to School 2019.
A super first week back/getting to know you activity!
The aim of this fun activity is to help your new class think about what will make the next school year a successful one.
Pupils will create a recipe for a great school year (the writing activity is included in the Powerpoint lesson provided) and then they can use the templates to turn it into a fabulous transition craft, perfect for display!
This resource includes:
- A full lesson powerpoint including discussion points and a differentiated writing activity.
- A teacher instruction pack
- A template pack for making the chef craft
This is an easy-to-follow, fun activity perfect for primary classrooms and can be easily adapted for different age groups.
Please note that due to terms of use in the images used, the Powerpoint file is not editable.
8 classic poems for Easter performances, suitable for primary school children to learn or perform. Themes range from Christianity to Easter bunnies to spring flowers.
Brilliant to use in the classroom or for an Easter assembly, performance or service.
Go for gold with our new Summer Sports Poetry Pack!
This is a five-lesson English unit of poetry planning for Years 3 and 4, based on creating shape poetry themed on the summer olympic games.
In this unit, pupils will research different olympic sports and work on developing vocabulary to describe the different movements involved. Pupils will investigate shape poetry and begin to understand the relationship between the language used in the poem and the shape of the words on the page. There is also a grammar focus on adding suffixes to form comparative adjectives. At the end of the unit the pupils will work towards a visual performance of a poem that is created in the shape of the olympic rings.
The objectives of the unit for pupils are:
• To investigate shape poetry
• To retrieve information from non-fiction
• To apply grammar rules for adding suffixes
• To prepare a group poetry performance
• To create a shape poem
The PDF file contains 5 full literacy lesson plans and all accompanying pupil resources. This unit would work really well with topics about summer, sports, olympics, going for gold or healthy bodies.
You may also like:
Summer Performance Poetry KS1
Jabberwocky Poetry Planning Pack
Stone Age Boy Literacy Pack
The Egyptian Cinderella Literacy Pack
A bundle of seasonal resources for primary classrooms to take you through November and December!
Including:
- Christmas Literacy Activity (Riddles Lesson)
- Anti-Bullying Activity
- 3d Bonfire Poems
- Autumn Performance Poetry
- Christmas Performance Poetry
- Christmas Tree Kenning Poems
Three fun new year resources for primary classrooms! Start 2018 off in style with these fun activities that help pupils to think about the year ahead.
1. Recipe for a Happy New Year - a fun activity lesson where pupils reflect on what will make a successful year and creative a recipe to display.
2. Our Class Poem - a teamwork activity to bring your class together at the start of the year. They will create and perform a class poem.
3. Time Capsule - pupils create an ‘All About Me’ time capsule envelope to seal up and open again at the end of the year!
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Download our popular two-week literacy unit of poetry planning for Years 1 and 2. This unit is perfect to go with a living things topic and is built around objectives from the National Curriculum.
In this unit, children will read and listen to nature poems by Christina Rossetti and consider how the sounds and language patterns come alive when the poems are read aloud. Pupils will have the opportunity to create their own versions of the nature poems and to perform them.
The aims of the unit for pupils are:
• To listen to classic poems being read aloud
• To identify patterns of language and recurring phrases
• To use the voice in different ways to express ideas
• To perform a poem off by heart
The PDF file contains 10 full literacy lesson plans, copies of the poems and all accompanying pupil resources. Perfect for National Poetry Month!
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You may also like our other KS1 poetry packs:
Going to Sea Poetry Pack
Summer Performance Poetry Pack
Spring Performance Poetry Pack
A ten-lesson history unit study on Benin AD 900-1300 for Y3/4 (2nd/3rd Grade).
The pack contains lesson plans, pupil resources and teachers' guides.
Everything you need to teach this fascinating period of history.
This unit covers the following questions:
1. What was the Kingdom of Benin?
2. How was the Kingdom of Benin first established?
3. What did the people of Benin Kingdom believe?
4. Why did the first dynasty of Ogiso come to an end in AD 1180?
5. What were the Obas like as leaders?
6. What did ordinary people do for jobs in the Kingdom of Benin?
7. What was Benin Kingdom art like?
8. What happened to Benin Kingdom after the period AD 900-1300?
9. What was left after Benin Kingdom was destroyed?
10. What have we learned about this period of history?
This is a Powerpoint lesson and worksheet based on the ‘Laurel or Yanny’ soundclip debate that is going viral! When people listen to the clip, some people seem to hear it as ‘Laurel’ and others seem to hear ‘Yanny’.
This fun lesson is a simple data handling activity that can be made suitable for KS2 or KS1 classes. Pupils will listen to the sound clip and then record the responses in a frequency table and block graph,
Included in the Powerpoint are also some data processing questions, starting with straight forward questions that simply require intepreting of the data for younger classes and going on to more difficult questions involving fractions, percentages and ratios for KS2.
Included in this resource:
Powerpoint file (fully editable)
Worksheet
Recipe for a Happy New Year: New Year 2018 Activity
Updated especially for New Year 2018! Recipe for a Happy New Year (including full lesson Powerpoint and all templates) - a fun new year project and display for your classroom!
Please follow the instructions at the bottom of this description to download all of your files.
Here is a fun activity to help your pupils think about what will make this new year successful!
Pupils will create a recipe for a happy new year (the writing activity is included in the Powerpoint lesson provided) and then they can use the templates to turn it into a fabulous baker craft, perfect for display!
This resource includes:
- A full lesson powerpoint including discussion points and a differentiated writing activity.
- A teacher instruction pack
- A template pack for making the back to school chef craft
This is an easy, fun activity perfect for the primary classrooms!
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Celebrate Chinese New Year with this mini history project on the Shang Dynasty of Ancient China. This bundle includes lessons plans, pupil resources and teacher's guide. It is designed for KS2 and includes cross-curricular activities like cooking Shang recipes, investigating ancient tombs and designing oracle bones with ancient Chinese messages on.
This nine-lesson unit covers the following questions:
1. What was the Shang Dynasty?
2. What was it like in settlements around the Yellow River Plain?
3. How did Shang farmers provide food for their society?
4. What were the religious beliefs of the Shang Dynasty?
5. What was the Shang system of writing like?
6. What did the rulers of the Shang Dynasty do?
7. What do archaeological findings tell us about the Shang Dynasty?
8. Why is Lady Fu Hao’s tomb significant to historians?
9. Why did the Shang Dynasty fall in 1046 BC?
Very popular! This is a great one-off literacy activity and a wonderful teamwork project to help your class work together to make a class poem. You could use this as a great way to start a new year, as pupils come together in unity to create a new class poem using the letters in the name of their class.
The pack contains a Powerpoint lesson, teacher instructions and pupil resources - everything you need for this fun poetry lesson, including warm up/getting to know you games and a fun teamwork project based on making and performing a class poem.
The activity allows pupils to work together to make a class poem that spells out the name of their new class. The session is based around Edward Lear’s ‘Alphabet Poem’ and the activities include suggestions for adapting the lesson for KS1 or KS2.
This resource is structured in the following way:
1. Fun warm up activities and games including name games, a classroom hunt activity, a paper-chain race and ‘Find Someone Who’ bingo.
2. A poetry time activity following the lesson Powerpoint to help the class to become familiar with Edward Lear’s ‘Alphabet Poem’. There are different options to adapt this for different age groups.
3. A group activity in which pupils create their own stanzas for the alphabet poem, using the letters that spell out your class name or their new teacher’s name.
4. A whole class performance of the new poem.
Check out our other popular resource packs:
All About Me Time Capsule
Recipe for a Great School Year!
Autumn Poetry Pack KS1
All About Me Fidget Spinner Pack
Stone Age Boy Pack
Please follow the steps below to access your files:
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3. Use the download arrow icons found to the left of each of the file names for each separate file.
Please note that due to terms of use in the images used, the Powerpoint file is not editable.
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End of School Year Activities.
A bundle of three of our popular end of term activities!
1. End of term iPhone activity booklet.
2. Fidget Spinner All About Me activities (end of term/transition).
3. All About Me time capsules - fill these in at the end of term and pass on to the next teacher to be opened in a year's time!
3 great activities to have up your sleeve for the end of term!
BONUS FREEBIE: Recipe for a Great School Year!
This bundle contains all of our downloadable planning units, bundled together at a discount price!
A great resources for schools, history co-ordinators or home educators looking to build a supply of tried-and-tested history resources.
The following packs are included:
Anglo-Saxons KS2 Pack
Victorians KS2 Pack
Stone Age to Iron Age KS2 Pack
Romans in Britain KS2 Pack
Benin Kingdom KS2 Pack
Shang Dynasty KS2 Pack
Stone Age Boy Literacy KS2 Pack
How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth KS2 Pack
Escape from Pompeii KS2 Pack
Romans Instructions KS2 Pack
Beowulf KS2 Pack
The Great Kapok Tree KS2 Pack
The Egyptian Cinderella KS2 Pack