An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
Over 260 differentiated geography comments for boys and girls, covering 10 key areas for your primary KS2 reports. Create your report comments quickly this year by simply choosing a collection of comments to suit each child, one from each section. There are enough comments to create different personalised paragraphs of comments for a whole class of 30 children.
Written for the whole of KS2 focusing on learning aptitudes and the general areas covered so perfect for years 3, 4 , 5 and 6.
Save Time
Teaching is busy enough without report writing as well, save time whilst doing a good job. Easily copy and paste these original comments to create personalised and thoughtful reports.
Differentiated
264 comments overall, divided into high, middle and low ability groups. Each group contains 10 sections with enough comments to make 30 personalised reports. 65 low ability, 76 middle ability and 85 high ability statements altogether. There are also 30 next steps included, 10 for each ability group.
High Quality
Use these high quality geography report comments, covering:
Summary
Continents
World Biomes
Physical features
Human features
Major countries
Major cities
UK
Technical terms
Geographical fieldwork
Easy to Use
They all come in a girl and a boy version saving you having to change any pronouns. Collect statements for each child to make a paragraph then simply add in their name a few times to polish off your work.
Just highlight the comments you have used to make sure all your 30 geography reports are quickly made and completely different.
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Check out my other handy end of year resources:
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320+ English Report Comments
280+ Maths Report Comments
Report Comments MEGA BUNDLE
A complete bundle of lessons for a whole KS2 Geography unit on Europe. Includes 6 complete lessons, each with input, starter activities, paired and group work, range of differentiated written tasks, extensions and plenaries.
Written for years 3 and 4, easily adaptable for years 5 and 6.
Covering physical and human geography, locational knowledge and landforms and processes. All the objectives from the National Curriculum.
Cross curricular skills also linked; such as diary writing, graphing, Venn diagrams, Carroll diagrams etc.
All lessons complete with a thorough and engaging teaching PowerPoint, printable worksheets, answers, challenges and video links.
Use and enjoy.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular KS2 Geography units:
Scandinavia 7 Lesson Pack
Yosemite 8 Lesson Pack
An engaging KS2 assembly to celebrate World Poetry Day in your school.
Includes a 36 slide PowerPoint, 8 famous poets from around the world, 8 poems, map skills, higher level thinking questions and role models.
This assembly teaches the children about 8 famous poets from around the world introduced with a short biography and a famous poem they have written. All the poems are short, relevant for KS2 and inspiring. Includes map skills, higher level thinking questions and inspirational writing role models.
Each country has a map, flag and landscape picture to develop geographical understanding as well.
Reasoning questions and answers about each poem are provided and time at the end of the assembly to reflect and look forwards.
Celebrate World Poetry Day every year on March 21st to encourage diversity, a shared understanding and endangered languages around the world.
Use this assembly to inspire your pupils to become writers whilst developing their understanding of how everyone in the world has the same questions and feelings. Show them how poetry can capture the creative spirit of the human mind.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in my packs of poems and lessons:
India Culture Poem Collection
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5 Reading Lessons on Writing Poetry
5 Reading Lessons on Performing Poetry
An engaging and detailed week taking children through the process of writing a discussion text. Each day there are engaging starters, main activities and plenaries. Every teaching point comes with at least one modelled text with analysis.
Sequenced learning
Starters review key spellings and grammatical terms from the new curriculum.
Plenaries are written to encourage higher order thinking skills and encourage peer and self assessment.
The main teaching points are:
Writing a high quality introduction,
Structuring a paragraph with PRE
Using facts and opinions in discussion texts,
Using modal verbs and sentence openers,
Ideas of for and against points
Writing a high quality conclusion.
The success criteria are differentiated for three ability groups:
Green - LA
Blue and Yellow - MA
Red - HA
All reviews welcome.
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Discussion text Openers
A lesson pack teaching the physical features of Russia. Includes a teaching PowerPoint, photo analysis, paired and group activities, differentiated written work, all printables and a plenary.
Highlights:
Starter activity
Odd one out photo analysis
Videos and information on each biome
Varied outcomes
The Powerpoint takes you through photo and map analysis of Russia and a range of activities to give the children a deep and rounded understanding of this place.
A reasoning plenary brings the lesson together.
Resources
Maps, videos, images and fact slides show the various biomes, animals, landscapes and weather of Russia. All printable resources included and ready-to-go.
Activities
Differentiated activities cover three ability groups with a reasoning challenge activity.
All reviews welcome.
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A set of 19 Arctic poems written for children to understand, enjoy and learn from. Perfect for teaching a topic on the Arctic. All written in different styles; to engage, inspire and teach about the Arctic whilst developing key reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.
The poems are descriptive whilst using facts to educate and inspire.
Each poem could spark a whole lesson, they start discussions on important geographical issues about the Arctic:
What is the Arctic? What is it like there?
Global warming,
The future of the Sami people,
Understanding Inuit life,
Living with the polar night,
Taking responsibility for our world
Ice burgs
Glaciers
The Inuit Language
Arctic animals
Winter
Each poem comes with a simple explanation of its essential components. The children could use these as a scaffold before going on to write their own poem about the Arctic, or respond in a different way with a letter/poster/story/newspaper article etc.
A range of engaging but easy to imitate poetry styles are used:
Cinquains
Didactic Poems
Etherees
Free Verse
Ghazal Poems
Haikus
All the poems are written by me and the images are copyright free.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in my poems about India
7 Quality lessons covering all aspects of life in Scandinavia and National Curriculum Geography learning objectives.
Powerful images, video links, resources, detailed plans and no preparation needed.
Enjoy my other Scandinavian Units:
Scandinavian Art Unit
Writing Scandinavian Christmas Stories
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Yosemite
Europe
An eye-catching reading corner display for years 5 and 6, complete with titles, bunting, images, interactive elements, vocabulary, skills, book covers and extra free resources. Perfect for display boards, book shelves, ceiling mobiles and libraries.
A giant space themed reading display and reading resource pack to promote the love of reading. Glitter text, classic books and move-able elements, this display will save you time.
A useful display for teachers, children, parent helpers and visitors. It includes the year 5/6 reading learning objectives, so they’re accessible to everyone.
All the year 5 & 6 reading statements are simplified to child speak. This helps everyone to feel confident with knowing the learning objectives. Adults involved with the class will be able to ask effective questions when listening to children read. Assessments of children will be more accurate and relevant.
Children could also use the reading statements on an interactive display to self and peer assess and prompt reading discussions.
Whole package includes:
A large title
Year 5 and 6 New Curriculum reading Skills in bubbles
3 large space images
6 interactive doors to open to see new books
12 Reading Questions - linked to the curriculum
12 Bunting Triangles - with famous inspirational quotes about reading
16 Key Reading Vocabulary - cards to complete your display
Top Book Trump review cards
Book Recommendation sheets
A Reading Challenge
Easily adaptable to fit your space, could also be used in a library to prompt whole school progression.
All reviews welcome.
You might be interested in my other popular reading resources for yr 5/6:
Year 5 Reading Assessment Questions
Year 6 Reading Assessment Questions
Whole Term Yr 5/6 Reading Lessons
Teach your class how to identify and explain themes within stories when reading. This pack includes 5 lessons, the week’s plan, a 75 slide PowerPoint, 5 short engaging texts, differentiated activities, starters and plenaries.
Use the detailed Powerpoint which leads your class through 5 lessons on themes so they are confident and independent with identifying themes when reading.
Small extracts of the texts are used as a guided model to support and scaffold pupils before their independent work.
Engage your class with the quick and relevant starter activities which build their vocabulary and consolidate their understanding of themes.
Identifying Themes Pack
Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one.
All of the texts are provided, a range of interesting genres and styles.
Modeled answers to comprehension assessment questions are included.
Written and detailed plan included .
Prompt higher order thinking skills using the questions and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results.
Include and challenge every child with the main activities which fit children of all learning styles.
Cover these teaching points:
What themes are.
How and why we can group themes.
How we can find themes.
How to use inference to find themes.
How to explain themes.
How to use evidence to prove your themes.
How to use 4 different types of evidence as proof.
Quickly print the differentiated resources for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA).
Summarise and extend each lesson using the plenaries planned for everyday.
All reviews are welcome.
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All you need to teach the first week of the Autumn term place value unit, week 1 in year 3. A colourful, engaging Powerpoint using some of the questions and images from White Rose. All worksheets, extensions, challenges and answers included. Also in this extensive pack is a detailed plan for the week.
4 lessons included as most people have an INSET the first week back.
Small Steps Covered:
Counting in 100s
100s, 10s and 1s
Place Value up to 1,000
Problem Solving with place value
Highlights of this week 1 pack:
Range of activities
Simple games
Links to useful interactive activities on PPT
Visual and colourful
Designed to enable mastery
Supports variation theory
Special Features:
Starter activities are building blocks for the lesson
Reasoning and Problem Solving questions for every lesson
Fast finisher activities for every lesson
All reviews welcome.
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Place Value Display
A detailed lesson covering coasts and how they can change. Includes a 38 slide PowerPoint, a detailed plan, 2 writing templates and a challenge activity including another writing template. Covers the impact of tourism, shipping, urbanisation, overfishing and communities on the coast.
Written for UKS2 but can easily be used by all year 3, 4, 5 and 6.
An engaging starter, mixture of independent, paired and group work.
Plenty of opportunities for discussion and for children to share ideas.
Full of lots of interesting images to prompt discussion about geographical features.
An extension activity to challenge the higher ability.
Plenary for children to move on in their learning.
Covers national curriculum learning objectives:
Learn about diverse places, people and resources
Learn about natural and human environments
Learn about the interaction between physical and human processes
Learn about the formation, use of and change of landscapes and environments
All resources included.
All reviews welcome.
A complete geography lesson teaching the countries of Europe. Includes a thorough teaching PowerPoint, interactive activities, worksheets, answers, extensions and videos.
Follow the ready-to-go PowerPoint to teach about using an atlas, Europe, European languages and flags.
Use the differentiated map worksheets to enable success for every child. Extensions are provided for fast finishers and those hungry for even more.
Highlights:
Interactive
Ready-to-go
Answers on PPT
Editable
Teach as part of a geography unit on Europe. Check out the other lessons:
Where is Europe?
Compare Cities of Europe
Climate of Europe
Mountains of Europe
Rivers of Europe
A complete geography unit teaching about the wonders of Yosemite National Park in America. Includes 8 compelte lessons, 8 PowerPoints, 8 resource packs, 8 plans, 8 starters, 8 inputs and 8 plenaries.
Highlights
Nationals Curriculum learning objectives
Quality Teaching Inputs
Geography skill focused
Real life images
Video links
Differentiated
Resources all included
High quality outcomes
Cross Curricular links
Easy to use
Save time, reduce stress and enjoy teaching with this unit. No preparation needed.
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A visual and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons. Teach your class short and effective sessions to enable them to learn their spellings and succeed in a dictation. Give spellings a high profile and provide strategies for every child to access the curriculum.
All words have the -ant, -nce or -ation endings from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Short easy to resource spelling activities to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way.
Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings.
A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week.
Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books.
Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day.
All reviews welcome.
For a whole year of spelling lessons follow these helpful links:
Term 1 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 2 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 3 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 4 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 5 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 6 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
A complete and colourful display for a KS2 maths unit on place value. Includes 3 titles, vocabulary cards, fluency, reasoning and problem solving questions, interactive activities and concrete images of this concept.
Quickly pop up on your display board to start the term organised.
Contains:
Place Value titles (3 formats)
Place value chart
Place value vocabulary cards
Fish theme images
Fluency questions
Reasoning questions
Problem solving questions
Abacus images
Interactive activities
Provided in a beach theme, this will spark, support and extend your topic in an engaging and effective way.
Enjoy the cheerful summer theme of the seaside and brighten up your room.
Ideal for KS2.
All reviews welcome.
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All you need to write your English, Maths, Science and General comments for your primary reports. Over 1400 different high quality differentiated comments to save you time.
Save time and energy this year when writing your primary KS2 reports. Use these extensive report banks to quickly whip up a class full of personalised English, maths, science and general comment paragraphs.
Simply copy and paste a selection of thoughtful comments to suit each child, choosing from each large subject bank. Speedily create fluent paragraphs describing the whole child.
Each subject is divided into sections, in total there are enough sentences to create different paragraphs for every child in your class. All appropriate and relevant to your pupils.
Ideal for years 3,4,5 and 6, easily adaptable for KS1.
Impress your pupils, your parents and your head teacher with articulate and positive comments for these subjects. Show your pupils and their families you do know them well by choosing comments to suit each child. End the year knowing you’ve valued and helped each pupil in your class, whilst saving time for the wellbeing of yourself outside of school.
You can also find lots of other handy end of year resources at my shop.
Why not use my SMART targets to choose next steps for your pupils?
Or use my Assessment Guidance to speed up your end of year data decisions.
A complete lesson pack on UK coastal areas and change over time. Includes lesson plan, starter activity, 34 slide PowerPoint, photo analysis, written activity, plenary and challenge.
Download this detailed and engaging lesson covering the physical and human features in UK coastal areas and how they change over time.
Whole Lesson
Teach KS2 with this easy-to-use lesson containing a thought provoking starter and an interesting input full of images to prompt high quality dialogue about geographical features.
Use the mixture of independent, paired and group work to provide opportunities for discussion, in depth reflection and evidence for assessment.
Enjoy some free time while the children enthusiastically get on with the written activity and question each other when completing the challenge activity.
Finish the lesson with an effortless plenary for children to share their learning and present the challenge work, this lesson is all ready to go to enthuse your pupils about UK coasts.
Resources
Find all the physical and human features of coasts explained clearly and reinforced with images and diagrams. Read and print a detailed lesson plan and all the resources needed.
Activities
Consolidate the children’s learning using ICT. Offer two reasoning extension activities to challenge the children and deepen their understanding of Geography.
National Curriculum Objectives:
Learn about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments,
Learn about the interaction between physical and human processes, formation, use of and change of landscapes and environments.
All reviews welcome.
A logical follow up lesson would be here covering human impact on coasts.
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One of seven engaging lessons which bring Scandinavia into the classroom. Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
This lesson teaches important map skills and an understanding of the world, key continents and oceans.
All resources are included, so just print the map template and detailed lesson plan and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to link to and extend work in English with challenges linking to English objectives, e.g. persuasive writing features.
All reviews welcome.
To teach Scandinavia throughout the curriculum, download my English and art units:
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30 spelling lessons to cover 6 weeks in term 1, years 5 and 6. This extensive pack includes daily lessons on PowerPoints, spelling rules, engaging activities, dictations and all the resources you will need.
Teach spellings for a whole term to boost your pupil's achievement in year 5 and 6. Lessons suit all learning styles, with a range of activities such as active, written, oral etc.
This bundle also includes a visual display of the spelling words to pop up on the wall so you can easily refer to them throughout each week.
Find easy to use PowerPoints and lessons all ready to go, be organised every day for 6 weeks! Use these engaging and memorable sessions to make your pupils confident with their spellings and successful in their assessments!
Enjoy teaching the words from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling list in a logical and well planned way. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy term.
Quickly print the dictation to assess each week and be amazed at the progress and capability of your spellers!
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A complete set of targets for year 6 children. Covers all areas of the national curriculum. Includes at least 52 targets ability grouped and colour coded for the areas of English.
Use this resource to write Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound year 6 writing targets.
Useful for teachers when assessing so you can narrow down the statements from the New Curriculum into small next steps which the children can understand.
Broken down into targets for punctuation, handwriting, grammar and composition.
You could print out one for each child and use as an assessment tool.
Or just use when marking to save time so you can quickly choose a high quality target personalised for each child.
All reviews welcome.
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