A complete unit of art, based around the underground railroad/freedom quilt tradition. Perfect for a cross curricular topic on the Caribbean and its history (linked to the slave trade) Children learn about the underground railroad movement, its songs and also its symbolic artwork. They go onto make quilt squares depicting these symbols. Please comment and let me know if this has been useful to you :)

This is the second upload for this unit. Please see the other upload for further details. A 3 week unit based around the brilliant book, Street Child by Belie Doherty.

A Complete ART lesson, which includes a detailed PowerPoint, resources and planning. FULLY UPDATED FOR 2023 Perfect for meeting your new class. 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 strengths, skills and hobbies- before creating a Lego (figure) Portrait in their own image. Ideal for KS1/2 or 3 as the art activity is easily differentiated. IMAGES FROM PIXABAY AND PEXELS OR AUTHORS OWN. Please leave feedback.

A Complete ART lesson, which includes a detailed PPT, resources and planning. 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) Ideal for KS2/3 Please leave feedback.

A Complete ART lesson, which includes a detailed PPT, resources and planning. COMPLETELY 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) Great for transition day too! Based around the work of artist Lichtenstein, the children will produce a portrait for display. Ideal for KS2/3 Please leave feedback.

A full week of planning for year 5. All resources and presentations are included. The planning is fully differentiated 3 ways and includes mastery extension tasks. Written because I could not find anything like it out there (and needed it!) Please leave feedback

A Complete POETRY lesson, which includes a detailed PPT, resources and planning. Children write a poem to describe themselves using precise adjectives and similes. Clear 3 way differentiation. UPDATED FOR 2019 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) Also suitable as part of a poetry unit, or for a PHSCE lesson. Ideal for KS2/3 Please leave feedback.

2 weeks planning for persuasive speech writing. Written for my Year 6 class but could be adapted. My class found it challenging but loved it - some great writing came from it too. All resources have been included, I have also made 2 prezi presentations available on-line. (link is in the resources) Please comment if useful. It would be lovely to know if my hard work has helped someone :)

I have run a very successful spelling bee at my school for over 5 years now. These are copies (adapted and improved year on year) that I use to organise and implement it. Includes word lists, instructions for teachers and parents, certificates, power point score board and proformas of letters to parents and teachers etc.. Any questions or queries, please just ask, I am happy to explain and/or clarify anything Please leave feedback.

A complete lesson based around David Dadau’s inspirational’SLOW WRITING’ technique. Aimed at upper KS2 and differentiated fully (3 ways) The lesson develops children’s ability to write precisely and consciously to create a vibrant and vivid description of a suspenseful scene in a story. 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

i have written this 5 week plan, and gathered/made resources for it for my year 6 class. This is in preparation for this years SPAG test. I will need to upload the other resources in a separate post. The videos referred to are the grammaropolis songs available on u tube Please comment ... It is polite as they are hard work :)

How networks (including the internet) work. A Half term planning unit and all resources for the new curriculum. Written for year 6 but could be adapted. Please leave a comment! I would love to know if you have used/adapted it for your own use.

A 2 week plan, based on ancient greek play scripts. All of the resources are also here for you. Some have been adapted from elsewhere so thank you in advance for any inspiration received! I wrote this plan for my year 4 class but it is easily adapted for other year groups. Please comment if you have used it !

2 week unit planned for year 6. Based on the Jabberwocky and other poems by Lewis Carroll. All of week 1 resources are included.

The last 2 weeks of resources for the planning previously uploaded.

A second week of narrative revision for upper KS2, based on The Immortal Monkey (a short animation available on the literacy shed WEBSITE) Includes all of the resources that I have made/gathered too. Written for year 6 but could easily be adapted Please comment if you use it :)

A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’ PIG HEART BOY’ by Malorie Blackman. Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on adapting writing for impact and effect This is lesson 10 in a series of 14. The whole scheme of work is available here: The whole scheme includes a cold and a hot task, and culminates in the class writing a dilemma story This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing. All images sourced from Pixabay.

A 3 week fully resourced Shakespeare unit based on Richard the third. I have written it for upper KS2 but it could be adapted for any age or key stage, Each day is differentiated and resourced. This is linked to the SOW for the wars of the Roses (also available on TES) and was taught as part of a cross-curricular unit All the resources are included and there is a link for adaptable prezi presentations for each lesson. Here is a sneaky peek at the first one:https://prezi.com/tkkv-eemcyk4/shakespeare-opening-day/ Please leave feedback and enjoy :)