This resource consists of four Notebooks to teach Year 5 Reading lessons for chapters The Vow, Max, Waiting For Dawn and Another Kind Of Exploring chapters for ‘The Explorer’ fiction book by Katherine Rundell. Each lesson is about an hour long, focusing on one chapter in each lesson for an hour. ‘The Explorer’ is a fiction book that was used to accompany a topic on the Rainforest and the book is about children surviving a plane crash in the Rainforest. More lessons also available for the rest of the chapters.

This resource consists of four PowerPoints and worksheets to teach Year 5 Reading lessons for chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 for ‘The Explorer’ fiction book by Katherine Rundell. Each lesson is about an hour long, focusing on one chapter in each lesson for an hour. ‘The Explorer’ is a fiction book that was used to accompany a topic on the Rainforest and the book is about children surviving a plane crash in the Rainforest. More lessons also available for the rest of the chapters.

This is 2 weeks planning and resources for Year 1 writing lessons, based on the story ‘Man on the Moon’ by Simon Bertram, including grammar work on conjunctions.

This is the planning and Notebook presentation for a 2 week writing plan using the traditional tale of Hansel and Gretel. It includes differentiation opportunities and learning objectives. The first week is learning the story through talking and actions and sequencing. The second week is a carousel of 5 activities which could be changed to one whole class activity each day if carousels aren’t appropriate.

Early Year or Year 1 - Includes ActivPrimary presentation to record whole class ideas and pages to print to draw activity they did in the holidays and write about it.

This is a 2 week writing plan to go with the story ‘Katie In London’ by James Mayhew. Great for London/Britain topics. It includes plans and Notebook presentations plus differentiated worksheets and supporting resources.

This is a weeks lesson plan for learning and then writing the story of ‘Whatever Next’ by Jill Murphy. It includes Notebook presentations, lesson plans, differentiated resources to match each activity such as word banks, story maps and worksheets. It includes story sequencing, story mapping and punctuation practice. it also includes innovating the story and writing a new story.

1 week of maths for Autumn term addition lessons. Could be used for reception later in the year. Includes Notebooks to teach from and lesson plan.

This is a week’s maths planning for a year 1 class learning number bonds and learning one more and one less to 20. Includes differentiation, worksheets, learning objectives.

This is a bank of Year 1 report comments for reading writing and maths to use in mid term reports. Differentiated for all abilities.

Suitable for Year one or adaptable for reception/KS1, this is a week of planning for poetry using the sense. It includes learning objectives, differentiation opportunities, example poems and a worksheet.

A 2 day plan to go along side reading of Harvey Slumfenburger's Christmas Present by John Burningham. The children will describe what is inside the present (before finishing the story) and then after reading the story they will describe Father Christmas.

Little red hen writing plan - story map to writing the story.

A week of Firework poem planning. With differentiation and learning objectives.

A story about a class animal’s adventure to London to inspire children to write their own story about their class animal. Includes a week’s planning with a story, Notebook of photos ideas. Can be adapted for any class animal.

This is planning and resources for a science investigation on materials to see which are the best to use for a boat. Includes a Powerpoint, planning, recording sheets and images to support.

A practise reading comprehension for able readers in KS1 with a short extract from The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. A short extract from text followed by questions with a space to write answers. Across 2 pages.

Writing plan for first week of Cornerstones topic Bright Lights Big City - can be used in conjunction with Cornerstones resources. Includes introduction to the Queen and model letter plus letters for children to invite the Queen to tea. Also includes how to make a cucumber sandwich instruction writing for when the Queen visits.

A great story to enhance the Moon Zoom topic. The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield (an ex-astronaut). This is one week’s plan to go with the brilliant book which includes learning objectives, differentiation, plus writing frames for the children to write a story at the end of the week.

Year 1 writing plans for first three weeks based on the Enchanted Woodlands topic. This includes detailed planning with learning intentions and differentiation. It also has some worksheets to use and adapt.