Printable bundle, ideal in Year 2 to teach the coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or. -Coordinating conjunction activity sheets, children can practise joining words and phrases together using coordinating conjunctions and identifying the correct conjunction for the sentence. -Coordinating conjunction display cards. Differentiation Using and to join two words and create a phrase. Using and, but to join two phrases together. Using and, but, or to join two phrases together. National Curriculum Links# Pupils should be taught to learn how to use co-ordination (using or, and, but)

A bundle of activities to help you teach how to use hyphens for clarity and to avoid ambiguity in Upper Key Stage Two. Hyphens activity sheets with three levels of differentiation, includes a range of activities for children to identify words that can be joined with hyphens, how they can be used and how they can change the meaning of a sentence. Hyphen matching cards. A range of words that can be linked together using hyphens, this is a fun matching game that can be used to help children make hyphenated words and go on to use them in sentences for clarity. National Curriculum Year 6 statutory content to be introduced – how hyphens can be used to avoid ambiguity. Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to indicate grammatical and other features by using hyphens to avoid ambiguity. Differentiation Using hyphens to link two words, explaining how a hyphen makes the meaning of the sentence more clear. Using hyphens to link two words, explaining how hyphens can change the meaning of a sentence and adding hyphens in the correct place. Using hyphens to link three words e.g. mother-in-law and explaining the difference in meaning between words with and without hyphens e.g. re-cover and recover.

A fifteen lesson writing unit, leading students towards writing their own newspaper article based on a fictional event: people have lost their shadows This would make a great unit to be taught alongside a Science unit on light and shadows, or as a way to revisit Scientific knowledge. The lessons beginning with exploring the text type, followed by sentence level work and ending with writing their newspaper report. The unit uses differentiated example text types throughout to support students understanding. Where appropriate, each lesson is differentiated and carefully planned to suit different students needs. Lesson order: Hook lesson: introducing the newspaper story, people have lost their shadows. Students take part in a fun treasure hunt activity to piece together the story. Identifying and sorting features of a newspaper report, using differentiated example texts. Sorting facts and opinions, understanding their use in a newspaper report. Writing headlines. Writing captions, including using prepositions. Generating appropriate vocabulary for our newspaper report. Generating fronted adverbials to be used in our newspaper report. Understanding and using conjunctions, this fun activity involves students rolling a dice to see which conjunction makes sense in a sentence and which fits best. Writing in the past tense. Writing quotes, punctuating direct speech for quotes in a newspaper report. This lesson also includes a hot seating activity for the whole class to engage in. Writing the report: writing the introduction. Writing the report: writing the main body. Writing the report: writing the conclusion. Writing the report: editing. Writing the report: publishing. Lesson activities are downloaded as PDF files

Sorting cards with a range of statement, commands, exclamations and questions. Answers included. Perfect for independent work, in pairs or as a group.

Worksheets (with three levels of differentiation) allowing students to convert past tense verbs to present tense and use them in sentences. Answers included. Past to present tense verb matching cards.

A fun bundle of activities aimed at Years 5 and 6 to keep students busy and focussed. It includes: Spelling anagrams - rearranging Years 5 and 6 common exception words. Silly story writing - completing a story with different word classes and clauses. Four operations colouring picture. 6, 7, 8 and 9 x tables race game. Drawing challenge. End of year reflection. Answers.

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons Thorough teaching PPT explaining definition of climate, weather and biome and modelling the main activity. Engaging create your own weather forecast activity with climate tables to support children completing their weather forecasts. Whole unit planning. Geography Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle. Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities.

A perfect resource to support your teaching of the subjunctive form in Year 6. Activity sheets with three levels of differentiation, allowing children to identify and write sentences in the subjunctive form. National Curriculum Year 6 statutory content to be introduced – The difference between structures typical of informal speech and structures appropriate for formal speech and writing for example the use of subjunctive forms such as If ‘I were’ or ‘were they to come’ in some very formal writing and speech.

Ideal when teaching how to add prefixes to verbs in Year 5 or consolidation in Year 6. Matching cards for children to match prefixes to verbs, ideal for use in small groups or pairs. Activity sheets for children to add a range of prefixes to create new verbs and understand their meanings. Prefixes: de, mis, dis, over and re. National Curriculum Year 5 Statutory content to be introduced: verb prefixes [for example, dis–, de–, mis–, over– and re–]. Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to use further prefixes and suffixes and understand the guidance for adding them.

A bundle of 10 fun Chirstmas activities suitable across Key Stage Two. Select individual activities or create your own Christmas activity booklet. Plan a Christmas party with a budget. Mindfulness colouring. Christmas elf and bauble colouring and craft. Spell check a Christmas letter (activities for Years 3&4 and Years 5&6). Addition and subtraction Christmas trees. Christmas story writing. Snowflake symmetry. Sorting the 12 days of Christmas. Rearranging instructions for a Christmas recipe. Sort and identify Merry Christmas in different languages on map of the world. These activities are also available as part of our Advent Calendar, along with many more Christmas themed activities.

Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons. Enquiry Question: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?* Clear teaching PPT exploring Anglo-Saxon crime and how they were punished. Including an engaging activity to match Wergild fines to their crime. Differentiated main activity: matching definitions of words and phrases linked to Anglo-Saxon crime and punishment, exploring the crime of Helmstan and the ethics of Anglo-Saxon punishments. Whole unit planning. Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture. Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study. They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

The perfect way to start off your morning of learning. Monday morning tasks start with activities relating to feelings to get the week off to a good start. Each sheet has English and Maths activities aimed at Year 3, beginning the term with consolidating their learning from Year 2 and continuing with what they will learn during the Autumn term. Maths activities progress in small steps as the week goes on. PPTs include challenge tasks for children who finish early and answers. Content: Number sequences Marking numbers on a number line Comparing and ordering numbers Place value Writing numbers in words and digits Addition and subtraction progressing from adding ones to adding and subtracting numbers in the hundreds using a range of representations 3, 4 and 8 x tables using a range of different representations. Using adjectives, verbs, adverbs and nouns in sentences. Synonyms and antonyms. Spelling of common exception words. Correcting spelling and grammar mistakes Descriptive writing.

A bundle of resources to teach commas for clarity in Years 5 and 6. ‘Commas for clarity’ activity sheets. A set of sheets with three levels of differentiation, including activities to allow children to identify correct and incorrect use of commas, where to add commas and how commas affect the meaning of sentences. Answers included. ‘Commas for clarity’ cards. A set of cards with pictures of signs using commas incorrectly, perfect to use in pairs or groups to encourage discussion around how commas can cause ambiguity. National Curriculum Links Year 5 statutory content to be introduced – use of commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity. Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to indicate grammatical and other features by using commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing. Differentiation Commas used to separate items in a list. Commas used to separate items in a list and to clarify the meaning within a sentence. Commas used to separate items in a list, to clarify the meaning within a sentence and clauses within multi-clause sentences.

A Maths themed escape room aimed at Years 5 and 6, focusing on the four operations. Perfect as a fun maths activity or for revision. Printable escape room where students try to find clues linked to Years 5 and 6 maths problems. Printable maths clue cards - the clues hidden in the escape room lead students to maths questions for them to solve in their pairs/groups. Each solved maths clue leads to a number, part of the code for the safe in the escape room. PPT introducing the escape room and clues. Teacher’s instructions and answers.

Fourteen weeks of morning task activities, four activities per week. These morning activities are perfect for the start of the day, after break or lunch. We know how these times of the school day can be tricky and there is a lot going on, each day’s activity focuses on one objective with a challenge for any students who need it. They are designed to review curriculum knowledge that students have already learnt about, so are a perfect way to warm up for the day. These activities are prepared for the first term of Year 3 but can be used whenever, keep an eye out for morning tasks for the rest of the year. Objectives cover: Adding 10 and 100 Times tables Mental addition and subtraction Spelling, including common exception words Word classes Number sequences Ordering and comparing numbers and more! PPT and worksheets. Answers/examples provided where appropriate.

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons Clear teaching PPT explaining food chains and modelling a food chain with plants and animals of the rainforests. Engaging food chains activity with two levels of differentiation, students will use their fact files for different animals to work out the food chains in rainforests. Interesting and beautifully presented living things fact files for students to use to support them creating food chains. Whole unit plan. NC objectives: Science Y3: identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat Y4: construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey

Ideal for in Year 4 when teaching how to punctuate direct speech. ‘Punctuating Direct Speech’ activity sheet with three levels of differentiation and a range of activities to allow children to punctuate direct speech correctly, write direct speech with correct punctuation and mark the punctuation sentences. Answers included. ‘Punctuating Direct Speech’ passage, short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation where children need to spot the mistakes and punctuate sentences correctly. Ideal as a short activity or in a grammar session. Answers included. ‘Punctuating Direct Speech’ comic strip. A fun activity for children to turn a comic strip with speech bubbles into a short story, writing direct speech with the correct punctuation. Two versions available – comic strip with completed speech bubbles and blank speech bubbles for children to create their own version. National Curriculum Links Year 4 statutory content to be introduced – Use of inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech. Year 3 and 4 – using and punctuating direct speech. Differentiation Capital letters and inverted commas in direct speech. Above plus commas before and at the end of direct speech. Above plus ? ! . at the end of direct speech.

Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons. Summarising enquiry Question: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?* Teaching PPT with prompts for discussion about what students have learnt so far. Activity: students will create a wall of everything they have learnt throughout this unit. Whole unit planning. Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture. Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study. They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons. This lesson summarises our first enquiry Question: Who were the Anglo-Saxons and how do we know about them? Teaching PPT with a quiz to recap what students have learned so far. Cartoon strip activity. Whole unit planning. Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture. Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study. They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons Teaching PPT to guide students through their self-assessment at the end of this unit with an opportunity to add to the thought shower created at the start of this unit. Fun and engaging orienteering style question cards, summarising this rainforest topic. Whole unit planning.