I work in KS2 and love creating engaging lessons and resources for my children, as well as making my classroom a happy and positive learning environment!
I work in KS2 and love creating engaging lessons and resources for my children, as well as making my classroom a happy and positive learning environment!
Harry Potter themed tray labels.
Including resources, subjects & blank ones. Perfect to be laminated to be used time and time again.
PDF format means they are ready to print and go!
LI: To know the names and order of the planets.
Success Criteria:
I can name all of the planets.
I can find a way to help me remember them.
I can identify and label the different planets.
LI: To learn about the planets in our solar system.
Success Criteria:
I can identify the different planets.
I can research facts about the different planets.
I can present my research in a fact file.
LI: To describe the movement of the Earth and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system.
Success Criteria:
I know the names and order of the planets in our Solar System.
I can explain the difference between rotation and revolution.
LI: To participate in a debate using my scientific understanding to explain my reasoning.
Success Criteria:
I can form an opinion based on research.
I can share my ideas with others.
I can listen and reflect on other peoples point of view.
LI: To understand about gravity and its effects on Earth. #
A Twinkl PPT for the debate lesson is useful to download if you have a Twinkl account, otherwise different sheets, books, internet for research.
16 different circuit activities.
Including russian twists, sit ups, dinosaur nest, diy, skipping, sprinting, plank.
Cards are ideal to be laminated and put across the playground or hall to create different circuit ‘stations’.
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 of work looking at the formal written method for multiplication (2D number x 1D number) and using a place value grid to multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000.
Objectives covered:
LI: To multiply by 10, 100 and 1000.
LI: To divide by 10, 100 and 1000.
LI: To use the formal written method to multiply a 1-digit number with a 3-digit number.
LI: To use my knowledge of other multiples to answer questions.
LI: To use the formal written method to multiply a 2-digit number with a 3-digit number.
Five lessons with some room to expand.
Aimed at Year Five.
All work on slides with opportunities to class mark to reduce marking load!
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.
Covers all Year Five place value objectives.
Three weeks worth of lessons and resources.
A few lessons require Twinkl tasks (not included) but can be adapted. These lessons are used to consolidate learning from the lesson before so are not 100% necessary but supplement the learning nicely.
Most tasks offer a range of ‘mild’, ‘warm’ or ‘spicy’ tasks with an added option for an extension or probing question.
Those three lessons which would benefit from a Twinkl membership are - Roman Numerals, Compare and order numbers, Place Value problems.
Lessons are:
Cold task
LI: To represent numbers up to 1,000,000.
LI: To add powers of 10, 100, 1000 and 10,000.
LI: To subtract powers of 10, 100, 1000 and 10,000.
LI: To compare and order numbers up to 1,000,000. x2
LI: To read and interpret negative numbers.
LI: To round a number to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. x2
LI: To read and write Roman numerals to 1000. x2
LI: To solve problems involving place value. x2
Hot task - Please note this is the same as the cold task, the title just needs to be changed.
‘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 fun way to end the week and encourages the children to reflect on the week/their learning and set a target for the following week.
Slips could go home at the end of the day as a discussion point, stay in the classroom to be referred to or recycled!
Large and small tray labels with a marble effect.
General classroom resources and subjects.
Available as word document and pdf version for easy scaling/editing.
‘Sharp Work
Our Work is on Point’ display lettering with several different A4 prints that are perfect to be laminated and used to pin children’s best work on.
My kiddies love this display and I added real succulents on the table infront of the display board.
‘Our Work is on Point’ display.
Display lettering reads:
Sharp Work
Our Work is on Point
and there are several different cactus patterns that can be printed and laminated ready for work to be pinned on.
My kiddies loved this display and I added real succulents on the table near the display for added wow factor.
‘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!
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.
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!
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.
A lesson about where Egypt is in the world.
Children identify which continent Egypt is in and looks at the key geographical features of Egypt.
Children can use air dry clay to create the shape of Egypt and then paint on the features.
Suggested resources:
Google Earth, atlas, globe.