In this activity pupils will reflect on how things changed in Benin Kingdom after the last Ogiso king was exiled from the kingdom and the second dynasty of Obas took charge. The worksheet provides a Venn diagram sorting activity.

This worksheet helps pupils to learn the vocabulary associated with the early Kingdom of Benin, when a group of villages joined to become a conglomerate. Pupils can use this worksheet to prepare a picture glossary of useful historical terms.

This is a recount of how the last Ogiso king was exiled from the Kingdom of Benin and how the second dynasty of Obas took charge. The PDF file also contains a storyboard template for pupils to record their own version of the story.

A motivational classroom poster encouraging Y6 children to relax and do their best!

These recipes give pupils the chance to make and test recipes using two of Benin Kingdom's main crops: yams and plantains.

This activity allows pupils to cut put the cards and sort them into chronological order to make a history of the three main periods of the Kingdom of Benin.

There is a limited pool of evidence that tells about Benin Kingdom. In this worksheet pupils fill in the table to show what the advantages and disadvantages of each type of evidence are

A list of common prepositions, ideal for KS2 pupils to use for SPAG or writing activities.

In this activity pupils will find out what jobs there were for ordinary people in the Kingdom of Benin by reading the job descriptions on the cards and matching them to the trade titles.

In this activity, pupils will consider what its surviving artwork tells us about Benin Kingdom. They will use the cards to match the vocabulary to the correct artefact. They could then use these artefacts as inspiration for their own art work.

A bundle of resources based on the poem 'Jabberwocky', including a week-long plan, a printable poem, a performance script, worksheets and activities.

This resource contains a template that pupils can use when they are planning their own instructional texts. Pupils can record each step of their instructions in pictures or words. There is also space on the plan to record a title, an equipment list, useful imperative verbs, prepositions and other helpful details. This is a versatile resource that can be used for planning instructions for lots of different topics.

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

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: 1. Return to this page. 2.Further down the page you’ll see the files included within the Resource listed under the header ‘Files Included’. You may need to click on the ‘See all Resources’ to view them all. 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.

Download our popular Easter Performance Poetry unit for KS1. One week’s worth of literacy planning! A five-lesson literacy unit of poetry planning for Years 1 and 2, based on performing Easter poetry and built around the KS1 English objectives. In this unit, pupils will read a classic Easter poem about a fast white rabbit and they will consider how the sounds and language patterns come alive when the poem is read aloud, particularly reflecting on the use of verbs and similes. Children will work towards creating their version of the Easter poem and turning it into an effective performance, which could be used for an Easter assembly or celebration. The aims of the unit for pupils are: • To listen to a classic Easter poem being read aloud • To identify verbs and similes • To prepare a poetry performance including actions • To perform a poem to an audience The PDF file contains 5 full literacy lesson plans, copies of the poem and all accompanying pupil resources. You may also like our other KS1 resources Y2 English Bundle Y2 SPAG Questions Going to Sea Poetry Pack KS1 Sentence Types Poetry Summer Performance Poetry Pack

Download these popular ‘All About Me’ activities with a fidget spinner theme! Great for back to school or getting to know you transition activities! The pack contains activities that can be used in the following ways: 1. An All About Me sheet for pupils to fill in the sections of the fidget spinners with pictures or words about their favourite foods, people, school activities etc. 2. A blank version of the above activity for teachers pupils to choose their own categories. 3. A game using real fidget spinners (if they have not been banned!) where pupils have until the spinner stops to talk about each category. 4. A multiple-choice quiz for pupils to make real and false answers about themselves using the fidget spinner templates. 5. A design-your-own fidget spinner activity. Check out our other popular resources: All About Me Time Capsule Summer Performance Poetry [Transition Day Activity Pack ](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/transition-day-activities-11605239)End of Term Iphone Activity Booklet

Free guide for teachers covering the main events and characteristics of Benin Kingdom. This guide covers the period AD 900-1300 as exemplified in the National Curriculum as a non-European study for KS2. It then goes on to describe later periods in Benin's history.

Back to School activity; Make a time capsule to seal and open at the end of the school year. A first week back essential! This is an ideal project for getting to know your new class. Make an ‘All About Me’ time capsule envelope to seal up and save and then watch the delight on pupils’ faces as they open them up again at the end of the school year! In this All About Me activity, pupils fill in two fun activity sheets about themselves. They seal their All About Me sheets in an envelope and decorate a time capsule label for the front. Be as creative as you like with the envelope decoration - glitter, stickers, pens or paints! Then the teacher saves the All About Me time capsule envelopes and returns them at the end of the year to be opened. Children just love opening these and seeing how they have changed over the course of the year! You might like our other resources: Class Poem Pack Recipe for a Great School Year! All About Me Fidget Spinner Pack

A teachers' guide to Skara Brae to go with the KS2 history unit 'Stone Age to Iron Age'. This guide explains what Skara Brae is, why it is important and how it fits in with the Stone Age topic.