I am a primary school teacher and assistant head. I love my job and my aim is to produce high quality teaching resources that motivate learners and make life easier for teachers! All of my resources are ready to teach, differentiated and easy to adapt.
I don't make resources just to sell, all uploads have been made to be used in my own classroom. Therefore, I can vouch for their suitability, pitch and quality.
I am a primary school teacher and assistant head. I love my job and my aim is to produce high quality teaching resources that motivate learners and make life easier for teachers! All of my resources are ready to teach, differentiated and easy to adapt.
I don't make resources just to sell, all uploads have been made to be used in my own classroom. Therefore, I can vouch for their suitability, pitch and quality.
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the legend of ‘Robin Hood’
This is lesson 1 in a series of 8. The whole scheme of work is available.
The whole scheme includes 8 full lessons, each fully resourced, and including a detailed PPT. The scheme culminates in the class writing a legend based on Robin Hood.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
A Complete ENGLISH/ART lesson, which includes a detailed PowerPoint and all resources, including example poems. UPDATED for 2023
The lesson is designed to help you get to know your class, whilst creating a fantastic display for the wall (ideal for the start of the year) Children consider their Values, beliefs, Strengths, skills and hobbies- before creating an autobiographical poem in the shape of a fingerprint.
This lesson is also perfect for an end of year activity, and the poem can then be kept as a keepsake by the pupil.
Ideal for KS1/2 or 3 as the art activity is easily differentiated.
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A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat's '3 BAD - (dash) question?' Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated) Would fit neatly into a grammar or narrative unit based on sentence construction. Also works very well as a standalone skills lesson.
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways.
The lesson has a dragon theme.
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A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat’s DE:DE Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated)
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways.
The lesson has a dragon/monster theme.
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A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat's 2a Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated)
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways.
The lesson has a dragon/monster theme.
All images are sourced from PIXABAY.
A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat's Emotion word, comma Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated 3 ways) This lesson is designed as a standalone grammar/sentence skills lesson. However it would also fit neatly into a grammar or narrative unit based on sentence construction.
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways. Where possible, all resources and PowerPoint's are fully editable.
The lesson has an alien/space theme.
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A complete English lesson, written for year 5/6 and differentiated 3 ways.
The objective covered is suspense writing, with a starter that looks at the passive voice.
The planning uses the animated film: Francis Brandywine, which is available on You tube. Directed by Richard Hickey
All images are public domain from pixabay.com
A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat's OUTSIDE. (INSIDE.) Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated 3 ways) This lesson would fit neatly into a grammar or narrative unit based on sentence construction. It would also work very well as a standalone skills lesson.
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways. Where possible, all resources and PowerPoints are fully eitable.
The lesson has a dragon/monster theme.
All images are sourced from PIXABAY.
A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat’s BOYS Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated)
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways.
The lesson has a dragon/monster theme.
All images are sourced from PIXABAY.
A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat's if, if, if then sentences. (CONDITIONAL SENTENCES) Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated 3 ways) This lesson is designed as a standalone grammar/sentence skills lesson. However it would also fit neatly into a grammar or narrative unit based on sentence construction.
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways. Where possible, all resources and PowerPoint's are fully editable.
The lesson has an alien/space theme.
All images are sourced from PIXABAY.
A complete scheme of work, presentations and resources for the story of ** ’ KING KONG by ANTHONY BROWNE.** Aimed at Upper KS2 but easily adaptable. Each lesson is differentiated at least 3 ways.
All lessons are ready to go (the only thing missing is the book!). This unit is genuinely ready to reach and planned to a high quality.
Editable versions of ppts and activity sheets are included wherever possible. The scheme starts and end with a cold and hot task to aid assessment and show clear progression of skills.
**There is a free sample lesson available here:**https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/king-kong-lesson-2-expanded-noun-phrases-free-sample-lesson-11877353
Lessons are based on the understanding of the text and its themes, as well as key narrative, and descriptive writing skills. Coverage includes: cohesion, conjunctions, Precise language choices, adverbials, sentence variety and structure, figurative devices and more.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay. CLips and images from king kong are sourced from Publicdomain.com
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources based around Greta Thunberg’s Ted Talk on climate change.
This lesson begins by looking at the recent ‘School strike for climate change’ movement. It then moves on to explore the features of Persuasive Speeches and the students will annotate the speech to show their understanding. The lesson uses AFORRESTPIE as a vehicle for exploring the features.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A bundle of 3 complete lessons based around David Dadau’s inspirational**’SLOW WRITING’ **technique.
Aimed at upper KS2 and differentiated fully (3 ways) Each lesson develops children’s ability to write precisely and consciously to create a vibrant and vivid description.
lesson 1 - CHARACTERS
lesson 2 - SETTINGS
lesson 3 - SUSPENSE
Resources includes a full lesson plan, detailed PowerPoint and three levels of task based around a series of images. All resources and PowerPoint are fully editable.
All images and video clip are sourced from PIXABAY
A descriptive writing scheme of work, presentations and resources for a series of 8 lessons. Aimed at Upper KS2 but easily adaptable. Each lesson is differentiated at least 3 ways.
All lessons are ready to go. This unit is genuinely ready to reach and planned to a high quality.
Each lesson is also available separately and includes a presentation and all resources.
Editable versions are included wherever possible.
Lessons are designed to teach children how to write in a clear and concise way. In grammar starters and individual lessons there is a focus on editing basic errors and writing sentences that make sense.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’Holes’ By Louis Sachar
This is lesson 3 in a series of 6. The whole scheme of work is available.
The whole scheme includes 6 full lessons, each fully resourced, and including a detailed PPT. The scheme culminates in the class writing a description of a setting using all of the descriptive techniques learned and developed during the series of lessons. There are also 2 additional lessons that complete the scheme ( a hot and a cold task)
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
Images sourced from Pixabay.
A set of 6 individual, standalone lessons. Each lesson has been written to teach 1 of the fantastic sentence types from Alan Peat.
Each lesson is fully resourced- including Powerpoint, plan and 3 way differentiation.
I have used the lessons very successfully in upper KS2, taught as part of wider units and for standalone lessons where sentence skills need to be developed.
All lessons have a monster/beast theme. All images sourced from PIXABAY
A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat's 2 pairs sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated 3 ways) This lesson is designed as a standalone grammar/sentence skills lesson. However it would also fit neatly into a grammar or narrative unit based on sentence construction.
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways. Where possible, all resources and PowerPoint's are fully editable.
The lesson has an alien/space theme.
All images are sourced from PIXABAY.
A complete poetry skills lesson, based around SONNET 18 by William Shakespeare.
Planned for year six, and fully differentiated - so could easily be adapted up or down.
A detailed PPT and all resources are included.
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A whole week of planning, with resources and PPT’s.
The children will explore the life of a Roman soldier, before performing and writing their own cadence calls and marching songs. These look brilliant in class assemblies or filmed for a blog or website.
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A complete unit of work (8 days) for newspaper reports linked to the Tudors.
Presentations and resources included. Aimed at year 3 or 4, fully differentiated 2 or 3 ways in each lesson.
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