‘Tweet about your learning’. Fantastic as an end of unit summary or stuck on a class noticeboard for children to add to during the week to celebrate the weeks learning and achievements. Available as editable word document or ready to print PDF.

A knowledge organiser appropriate for year 5/6 learning on the Maya.

A 3-4 week unit based on the book ‘The Egyptian Cinderella’. Great cross curricular links to Ancient Egypt. The final outcome is the children writing their own traditional tale set in a different culture. Follows the T4W approach of immitation/innovation. Includes: -T4W/story map to learn the text -Boxing up the text/five-part story structure Inverted commas for dialogue Paragraphs Comprehension (ERIC) Similes Fronted Adverbials Complex sentences (FANBOYS) Writing a story opening, build up, problem, resolution and ending My children loved learning about this story and writing their own traditional tales.

‘Teacher Noticeboard’ lettering - Harry Potter/Daily Prophet themed. Includes ‘messages’ and ‘to do’ list sheets, perfect for laminating and popping on your noticeboard next to a dry wipe marker!

A short poetry unit which we are using to start off our WWII history topic. Looking at some example war poems including ‘Flanders Fields’, ‘Christmas Truce’, ‘The Wound In Time’, ‘High Flight’ & ‘A Gunner’s Day’. COLD TASK - Write a poem about Life in Lockdown LI: To analyse and comment on a poem. (ERIC) LI: To use a thesaurus to find antonyms and synonyms. LI: To use similes and metaphors. LI: To use personification for effect. LI: To plan and write a poem. LI: To edit and perform a poem. COLD TASK - Narrative

Two week unit based on ‘Ning Nang Nong’ but a Stone Age take on the poem. Main focus is on language - prepositional phrases, noun phrases, rhyme. Touches on onomatopoeia/alliteration when looking at features - this could be expanded and be two separate lessons if you wanted to make the unit longer. We’ve used this as a stepping stone to historical fiction. Cold task - writing a poem based on The Stone Age Learn ‘On a Grassy Hill’ - story map Identifying key features Noun phrases Prepositional phrases Rhythm and rhyme (creatiing a whole-class rhyming dictionary) Planning a poem (with scaffold) Writing Stone Age poem Perform poem to class. Each day there is a ‘teacher slide’ to explain each lesson. All resources included. PLEASE NOTE: I do not have PPT on my mac. I have copied the pages from the Smart Notebook file onto Keynote and have exported this into ppt. I therefore do not know what the formatting is like in this format. -This works best if you are able to use the Notebook file-

A short one week unit looking at diary entries inspired by Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. This could be expanded by using separate lessons to draft and then write their entries and then an extra lesson to edit and ‘publish’. Aimed at KS2, went down a hit with my Year Six class. Lessons include: Cold task - To write a diary entry. To explore the features of a diary entry. To explore a characters thoughts and feelings. To write a setting description Hot task - To plan and write a diary entry. Files include the Smart Notebook file, a pdf version of these slides, an example diary entry, unit targets for cold and hot tasks.

Drawing inspiration from Letters from the Lighthouse and Goodnight Mr Tom, the outcome of this unit is to write a story containing a flashback. LI: To write a story with a flashback (cold task) LI: To investigate and use a range of fronted adverbials. LI: To write a story opening. LI: To evoke an emotive response through my writing. LI: We are accurately punctuating dialogue. LI: To write a flashback. LI: To create a character description (missing person poster) LI: To plan a story with a flashback. LI: To draft a story with a flashback. LI: To edit and improve my work. LI: To publish my work. Work format is as a smart notebook file. I have provided a PDF of the slides also.

A Year Five unit of work on quest stories inspired by Beowulf. (We used a short copy in class as our model text, and read the book by Michael Morpurgo alongside the unit). Three weeks worth of lessons as we used two lessons to write the story, one to edit and improve, and one to write a final copy. Please note For two of the lessons, one on dialogue and one on character description, I used Twinkl PPTs (NOT included) so a Twinkl subscription is beneficial, however you can always just add to the slides. Lesson objectives as below… LI: To write a story with an imaginary creature. (cold task) LI: To memorise a text to help support my writing. (T4W) LI: To understand the meaning, structure and features of a story. LI: To identify the 5 part story structure. LI: To write different story openings using description, action and dialogue. x2 LI: To develop a character description. x2 (TWINKL PPT ON SUPERLATIVE/COMPARATIVE) LI: To create atmosphere through my use of language. LI: To use dialogue in my writing. (INVERTED COMMAS PPT) LI: To plan a quest story. LI:To write a quest story. LI: To edit and improve a quest story. The slides are a Smart Notebook file, not a PPT. There is also a PDF version of the slides but this is, of course, not editable.

A unit exploring flashbacks within stories, drawing inspiration from the Harry Potter books. Taught to our Year Sixes as a three week unit. Lessons include: Cold Task - Write a story with a flashback To define and identify a flashback To write a flashback To write sentences containing relative clauses. To use a range of adverbials. To plan my own pensive memory. To write an example story opening. To accurately punctuate dialogue. To explore the language and techniques used within the Harry Potter books (ERIC/reading comp task) To include emotive language and memories. To include emotive language and memories. To plan a story opening. To write a story. To present my work in a different way/to edit.

A set of lessons for DT explaining how to design, make and paint canopic jars. Includes: looking at patterns, shapes of jars and colours the Ancient Egyptians used. Making a jar using papermache and mod roc. Painting the jar. Super, hands on lessons inspiring creativity. Goes well after looking at the mummification process!

Inside Out inspired emotions thermometer. Great to use for all ages. Relatable characters great to help the children pin point how they are feeling and start to use the language of different emotions. anger, disgust, fear, sadness & joy. Emotion labels, thermometer and arrow. Great to be laminated and placed on a desk or wall.

Link to history/The Ancient Egyptians. Investigate the mummification process and consolidate understanding of mummification. Children get to mummify their own apples, making predictions, comparing the experiment to what the Ancient Egyptians did and evaluating the experiment at a later date. (Can leave the apples as long as you like - we left them for 10 days!) Children love completing this experiment and are engaged the entire time! Materials needed: Small apples, antibacterial hand gel, table salt, bicarbonate of soda, plastic cups, paper towels, vegetable peeler, labels.

Unit of work aimed at Year Three - time. Differentiated resources for each lesson and lots of opportunity for AFL/talk partner work. Unit starts with a cold task that can be repeated at the end of the unit. Children make their own clocks at the start of the unit to help build familiarity. Before each lesson is a teacher slide with information about each lesson. Lots of extra activities and further extensions/probing questions. :) Cold Task – Time LI: To know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month and year. Success Criteria: -I know how many minutes are in an hour. -I can calculate how many hours in a week. -I can calculate how many days in a month. LI: To estimate a period of time. Success Criteria: -I know what estimate means. -I can make relevant estimations. I can justify my reasoning. LI: I can create and label a clock. Success Criteria: -I can label the hands on a clock. -I know what the marking on a clock are. -I can represent given times on my clock. LI: To read and write the time to quarter of the hour. Success Criteria: -I know how many minutes are in one hour. -I can recognise quarter past and quarter to on a clock. I know that the small hand is the hour hand. I know that the long hand is the minute hand. LI: To tell and show the time to the nearest minute using analogue clocks. Success Criteria: -I know what the different numbers and hands represent. -I can explain whether it is ‘past’ or ‘to’. -I can show the correct time on an analogue clock. LI: To read and show time on 12-hour and 24-hour clocks. Success Criteria: -I know there are 24 hours in a day. -I know that digital time has hours first, then minutes. -I can explain what time is shown on a digital clock. LI: To convert between digital and analogue clocks. Success Criteria: -I know the difference between analogue and digital. -I can explain how to convert between different clocks. I can successfully read different clock faces. LI: To solve problems involving time. Success Criteria: -I know what the word problem is asking me to do. -I can use a number line to see how much time has elapsed. -I can carefully check my answers. LI: To solve problems involving time. Success Criteria: -I can read a timetable. -I can answer simple questions. -I can use a number line to solve problems.

Three different worksheets. 1.) partitioning and representing numbers. 2.) 10 more/10 less and 100 more/100 less 3.) number lines to 1000. PDF format so ready to print and go. Pitched at Year Three.

A song based on The Stone Age, sang to Queen’s We Will Rock You. Perfect for a bit of fun, or in our case, our class assembly!

A unit based on area and perimeter (Year Five). Linked to housing plans for The Tudors and the book ‘The Secret Diary of a Tudor Boy Spy’. Objectives cover include: Cold Task LI: To explore position and direction, area and perimeter. LI: To calculate the perimeter of different shapes. LI: To calculate the perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes.* LI: To collaboratively plan and design a Tudor house and gardens. LI: To calculate the area of rectangles. LI: To calculate the area of compound shapes. * LI: To design and present my Tudor House demonstrating my understanding of measurement, area and perimeter. Hot Task LI: To explain Tudor houses and gardens. *This lessons require Twinkl worksheets (not included) or a different type of worksheet (not provided). All over necessary worksheets/resources are included.

Aimed at Year Three, this Instructions unit is based on T4W’s ‘How to Build A Pyramid’. It includes learning the text, boxing up, experimenting with different instructions (I used examples of Twinkl instructions, but you could just google ‘origami instructions’ and see what comes up. Includes: Prepositions, Time conjunctions, Inperative verbs, Introduction, Exploring different instructions, Memorising a text, Planning/Writing. MTP contains key objectives and some notes. Notebook has slides, learning intentions and content, resources included.

Aimed at Year 5/6, this unit or work looks at a range of skills needed to compose effective non-chronological reports. Includes an example NCR on Hippogriffs to be used as a model text, hot and cold task unit targets, Smart Notebook slides. 12 lessons in this unit for Non-Chronological Reports. Content can be tweaked to focus on certain aspects of HP. We used a trip to the Warner Bros Studio Tour to research and collect information about Harry Potter. You may wish to add an extra lesson or two creating a lesson through research of books/internet to help develop note taking, etc. Lessons/LIs: Cold task: To write a NCR. To explore a non-chronological report (ERIC) To explore language and structural features of a non-chronological report. To compose effective and concise introductory paragraphs. To construct compound sentences using coordinating conjunctions. STAND ALONE ‘Extended Write’ - (focus on modal verbs) To start my sentences in different ways. To write well structured paragraphs. To plan a NCR. Hot Task: To write a NCR. (You may want to do this over two lessons to ensure content and quality). To edit and improve my writing. To publish a piece of work.

‘The adventure begins here’ lettering in a cloud-coloured font Balloons and hot air balloon basket to create a colourful door display or noticeboard for your classroom. Words on balloons include: readers mathematicians scientists explorers historians artists musicians writers learners sporty teamwork thinkers a friend respected important inspired risk takers dreamers supportive the future