Introducing our comprehensive KS2 Hinduism study resource, designed to make teaching this complex religion accessible and engaging. This package includes a Smart Notebook slideshow and a host of supporting resources for an immersive learning experience. Over the course of six detailed lessons, your students will delve into the fascinating world of Hinduism. Our interactive whiteboard slides, meticulously crafted lesson plans, and daily differentiated activities are all designed to support your class through this journey. The key learning objectives for your pupils include: Understanding the relationship between Hindu stories like those of Krishna and Rama, and the belief that God descends to Earth when evil threatens good. Recognizing the connection between Hindu stories and the concept of a personal, devotional relationship between God and the individual. Comprehending the significance of service (seva) to others in expressing devotion to God. Learning about the existence of well-established Hindu communities in Britain and their traditionally-designed mandirs in cities like London. Grasping the importance of devotion in Hindu worship practices at home and in the mandir, such as puja, arti, prashad. Appreciating the belief that God is in everyone and everything, and its implications on how Hindus lead their lives. Drawing parallels between Hindu narratives about gods and human experiences in striving to live a good life. Our resource also focuses on developing students’ skills in: Utilising specialist vocabulary to communicate their understanding of Hindu beliefs, teachings, practices, and symbols. Using and interpreting various sources — including Hindu scriptures, traditional stories, murtis, the mandir, artefacts, pictures, symbols, songs, music, festival food, media, and ICT/the internet — to gain insight into Hindu beliefs, teachings, and practices. With our KS2 Hinduism study resource, we aim to provide a rich, engaging, and informative exploration of Hinduism for your students. Let’s embark on this enlightening journey together.

This unit pack contains plans, IWB, resources, differentiation ideas and key questions. This unit could be edited easily to have just a focus on the UK or just a focus on Greece. In this 10 lesson Geography unit the class will learn about: 1 Name and locate cities of the United Kingdom and their identifying human and physical characteristics L.O: I am learning to name and locate cities in the UK 2 Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe concentrating on their key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities L.O: I am learning to identify the human and physical features of the UK. 3 Use the 8 points of a compass, 4 figure grid references, symbols and key to build their knowledge of the United Kingdom and the wider world L.O: I am learning about the 8 points of a compass and 4 figure grid references 4 Explain weather patterns around the UK and a studied area. L.O: I am learning about weather patterns around the UK 5 Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe concentrating on their key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities L.O: I am learning to identify countries and their capital cities in Europe. 6 Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe concentrating on their key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities L.O: I am learning to locate Greece and identify the physical and human features of modern day Greece 7 Identify the position and significance of the Equator, Arctic and Antarctic Circle L.O: I am learning about the significance of the Equator, Artic and Antartic circle 8 Recognise that there are similarities and differences between regions L.O: I am learning to understand the similarities and differences between London and Athens. 9 Identify key aspects of human geography and how the land is used 9.L.O: I am learning to explain why Greece is a popular tourist destination 10 Identify key aspects of human geography and how the land is used 10.L.O: I am learning about how Greece is fighting climate change (Eco Focus)

Introducing our Year 3/4 Religious Education unit on Diwali! Over the course of six enlightening lessons, your students will explore the key elements of this Hindu festival and its role in fostering a sense of belonging among its observers. The primary learning objective is: How does the celebration of Diwali contribute to the sense of belonging in the Hindu community? Our areas of inquiry include AT1 Strands A, B, C, and AT2 Strands D, E, F, with a particular emphasis on the theme of ‘Belonging’. The teaching and learning activities are divided into two steps: Step 1: Engagement (2 lessons) - AT2 § We start by engaging students in a group challenge. Each group will form an identity around a belief they unite on, such as ensuring all dogs have good homes. They’ll create a group name, identity, logo, and the three most important actions for their cause. Through this activity, we aim to help students understand the concept of belonging driven by shared beliefs and missions. We’ll discuss questions like: How do shared missions foster a sense of belonging? How would you celebrate your achievements? What feelings arise from contributing positively to the world? Step 2: Investigation (3 lessons) - AT1 We dive deeper into the story of Rama and Sita, highlighting the theme of Good vs Evil. We’ll explain how this victory of good over evil is celebrated during Diwali, reflecting Hindus’ commitment to spreading goodness. Students will watch a DVD extract or online clip showcasing Diwali celebrations, including the worship of the goddess Lakshmi for prosperity. We’ll explore how celebrations like Diwali enhance the sense of belonging among participants. Students will understand the significance of various Diwali practices through hands-on activities like creating Rangoli patterns, diva lamps, making sweets, and more. We’ll discuss how these activities, often carried out with family and community members, foster a sense of belonging. We’ll also consider inviting a Hindu guest to provide first-hand insight into the religious significance of these practices. Our aim is to help students grasp how shared activities and beliefs during Diwali contribute to a strong sense of belonging in the Hindu community.

Dive into the Art of Poetry with Our ‘Cinquain Poem’ Unit for Year 3/4 Unlock the beauty and brevity of poetry with our one-week ‘Cinquain Poem’ unit, tailored for Year 3/4 students. This educational journey introduces the unique structure and linguistic elements of a Cinquain poem, providing pupils with the chance to create their very own poetic masterpieces. Throughout the week, your class will not only learn the intricacies of crafting a Cinquain poem but also explore other poetic techniques to enhance their creative expression. Engaging games and activities are integrated to spark their imaginations and encourage the use of vivid language. Leverage the engaging content from Simon Mole’s YouTube channel as specified in the lesson plan, including the interactive ‘Yes and…’ game, to further inspire your students’ poetic endeavors. Weekly Timetable: Day 1: Students will learn to identify the key features of a Cinquain poem, setting the foundation for their understanding of this poetic form. Day 2: The focus will be on incorporating alliteration to add a lyrical twist to their Cinquain poems, enriching the sound and rhythm of their words. Day 3: Students will gather a palette of language ideas, collecting words and phrases that evoke emotion and imagery for their Cinquain poem. Day 4: The culmination of the unit sees students applying their newfound knowledge and creativity to write their very own Cinquain poem. This ‘Cinquain Poem’ unit is a fantastic way to immerse Year 3/4 students in the world of poetry, fostering a love for language and encouraging them to express their thoughts and feelings through this concise and impactful poetic form. Get ready to witness the blossoming of young poets in your classroom!

How to run Sports Day! In this resources pack you have everything you need (minus the actual equipment and children) to run an extremely exciting and fun sports day that parents and children will enjoy. Resource pack includes: Pictures to go alongside events Carousel of activities for KS1 Carousel of activities for KS2 Staff information sheets Letter home to parents Scoring sheets for staff for each event Any questions, please do not hesitate to comment below or email me directly.

Immerse your students in imaginative storytelling with this 1-week narrative writing unit inspired by the short film “Space Monkey” from The Literacy Shed. Through vivid character development, figurative language, and purposeful story structure, young writers will blast off into outer space to craft their own stellar sci-fi tales. Overview Day 1: Describe the main character using expanded noun phrases and rich details. Day 2: Use figurative language like similes and metaphors to portray the character. Day 3: Plan the story structure - opening, build-up, problem, resolution, ending. Day 4: Write a draft, focusing on past tense, description, and literary techniques. Day 5: Revise and polish the story. Share with peers for feedback. Toolkit for Budding Authors Your students will learn to: Select precise nouns, classifiers, and describers in expanded noun phrases Enliven their writing with powerful verbs, adverbs, similes, metaphors Write in the past tense with consistency Use literary techniques like personification and fronted adverbials Convey not just actions but feelings, observations, and inner dialogue Organize ideas into a compelling narrative arc Let their imaginations blast off! This unit will develop key writing skills while unleashing your students’ creativity. Their space monkey stories are sure to be out of this world.

History Timeline for Display: This timeline goes from the dinosaurs to Modern Britain. Each page comes with a colour picture and date.

KS2 English - Persuasive Writing In this 1 week unit your class will write a persuasive letter to the Headteacher of your school persuading them of the value of swimming, and to Henry persuading him to buy our listening device . This 1 Week lesson unit pack includes interactive whiteboard slides, detailed lesson plans, and daily differentiated activities to support your class. Main Learning Outcomes: (This should be progressive but each stage can be revisited in the teaching cycle.) Familiarisation with text: I am learning to understand the purpose and styles of a persuasive text Analysing Text, language features and organisation: I am learning to understand the language and structural features of a persuasive text Capturing ideas: I am learning to role-play, plan, orally rehearse a persuasive text Demonstration/Shared/Supported/Joint Construction Writing: I am learning to jointly construct a persuasive text End of topic (Big Writing) I can write a persuasive text independently

In this unit children will be re-introduced to the topic of electricity. This 7 lesson unit pack includes interactive whiteboard slides, detailed lesson plans, and daily differentiated activities to support your class. Pupils will be taught to: • identify common appliances that run on electricity • construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers • identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery • recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit • recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors. Working scientifically skills to be worked on: • asking relevant questions and using different types of scientific enquiries to answer them • setting up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests • making systematic and careful observations and, where appropriate, taking accurate measurements using standard units, using a range of equipment, including thermometers and data loggers • gathering, recording, classifying and presenting data in a variety of ways to help in answering questions • recording findings using simple scientific language, drawings, labelled diagrams, keys, bar charts, and tables • reporting on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations of results and conclusions • using results to draw simple conclusions, make predictions for new values, suggest improvements and raise further questions • identifying differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientific ideas and processes • using straightforward scientific evidence to answer questions or to support their findings.

English - Persuasive Letter Year 4/5 - Persuasive Letter - 1 week unit. In this 1 week unit your class will write a persuasive letter to Horrid Henry about the benefits of reading. Lesson LO’s: Main Learning Outcomes: (This should be progressive but each stage can be revisited in the teaching cycle.) Familiarisation with text: I am learning to understand the purpose and styles of a persuasive text Analysing Text, language features and organisation: I am learning to understand the language and structural features of a persuasive text Capturing ideas: I am learning to role-play, plan, orally rehearse a persuasive text Demonstration/Shared/Supported/Joint Construction Writing: I am learning to jointly construct a persuasive text End of topic (Big Writing) I can write a persuasive text independently This unit pack includes interactive whiteboard slides, detailed lesson plans, and daily differentiated activities to support your class.

Year 4 - Computing - E-safety This 5 Week plan focuses on E-safety, a core issue highlighted in our current National Curriculum. Objective: Use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly; recognise acceptable/unacceptable behaviour; identify a range of ways to report concerns about content and contact. LO: I can understand how to keep myself safe when using technology LO: I can understand how to keep myself safe when using technology LO: I can use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly

Guided Reading - Fantastic Mr Fox 6 Week Plan This 6 week guided reading plan focuses on The Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl. This plan follows group-based guiding reading approach meaning that each /table or group will complete a different activity on each day. This package includes a detailed plan that lays out the schedule for the whole 6 weeks, alongside this there are follow-up tasks that relate to each weeks activities. Example Plan: Book Intro/ recap: (5 mins) Introduce new text (chn should have listened to ebook Chapters 1 The Three Farmers and 2 Mr Fox prior to session) Read chapters 1 and 2 to the children. What were the farmers’ name? Challenge pwb: Collect all the adjectives and adverbs that describe the farmers. What kind of an impression do these words make together? Which farmer would you rather work for? Explain your answer. Strategy Check: (5 mins) Explain that when reading you will always encounter new words. What can we do if we find a word we don’t understand? Elicit use a dictionary. How will this help us when reading a text? State LO. Explain that today we will learn to use a dictionary accurately to look up tricky words and find their definitions. Independent reading: (5 mins) Chn read extract/ area of focus. Response to the text: (10 minutes) Model process thinking aloud using alphabetical order to find a tricky word. Read the meaning. Discuss. Put into a sentence. Ask chn to put inot a sentence of their own (using context in book to help them) In pairs, chn to repeat for another word. Then independently when reading the text. Feedback at end. Was it useful? How did it help you to understand the text? Do you like the text so far? Introduce follow up task.

Year 4 - Guided Reading - The Reluctant Dragon This two week guided reading plan focuses on The Reluctant Dragon by David Lucas. This plan follows a whole class guided reading approach meaning that all children are required to do the same activity on each day. The activities are differentiated. The activities include a follow up task, comprehension, language activity and spelling focus. Example Plan: Text: The Reluctant Dragon Day 1: Children to have the front cover of the text and first page and complete table What techniques can you see? Is the Reluctant Dragon going to be a villain or a hero? What tells you this? Children to read pages 1 - 11 in pairs. Content Domain: Identifying, discussing and collecting effective words and phrases which capture the reader’s interest and imagination e.g. metaphors, similes Making predictions based on information stated and implied Possible Questions: pp2-5 What is the difference between “terrible” and “terrified”? Does the shepherd’s wife look frightened? What about his son? p8 The boy says “Don’t worry.” Do you think his parents are: very worried – a little bit worried – not at all worried? p11 What kind of questions would you ask a dragon? Activity: Make a prediction about what might happen in the story Day 2: Follow Up Task Content Domain: Identifying main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarising these Children to read pages 12 - 30 in pairs. Activity: Look at pages 12- 30 in pairs. Write down any figurative language. Pick out similes, metaphors adjectives that evoke the scene. e.g I suppose the Earth sneezed or shook itself. Day 3: Spelling Focus: [SHORT ACTIVITY] See Slides on IWB Day 4: Comprehension Children to read pages 31 - 40 in pairs. Content Domain: Analysing and comparing a range of plot structures. Activity: Children to complete a range of questions using different skills. True/False, matching different sentence starters and endings, ordering the story. Day 5: Free reading – any text Free writing – writing a new introduction to The Reluctant Dragon. Challenge: Can they include any of the spelling words we have focused on?

Year 4: Electricity Follow Up Task: Circuits Follow-up task: LO: I can ask relevant questions and predict what might happen. This is a follow up task to check children’s understanding around circuits. The activity requires children to predict what will happen for a particular circuit and explain why.

Year 4 - Electricity - Cloze Activity This is a short activity where children need to fill in the gaps about electricity. This could be used as an AFL activity completed at the end of a unit to check understanding.

Year 4 - PSHE - Needs and Wants. In this lesson the class will learn about the difference between needs and wants. I recommend using a circle time to discuss how there are things in life that we cannot do without (air, food, shelter etc) and there are those things in life we want (Xbox, Macdonalds etc). This worksheet then provides a table for children to write down a list of needs and wants, and then reflect on the difference between the two. This is a perfect opportunity to assess whether they have truly understood.

Year 4 - PSHE - Researching different celebrations and cultures. In this lesson you will give your class the opportunity to research different prominent celebrations from around the world There are 6 celebrations but you could add more. I have used Eid, Chinese New Year, The Sabbath, Thanksgiving, Diwali and Easter. An example of the type of questions asked are below: What celebration am I researching? Eid Who celebrates it? Where is it celebrated? How do people celebrate it? What do I need to join in the celebration? When is it celebrated? What feelings are felt during this celebration? Happiness Thoughtfulness Sadness Hope Remembrance Why?

LO: I can identify the differences between rights and responsibilities. This activity has the class using a Venn diagram to show the responsibilities they had when in year 1 vs year 4. Then they mind map the different rights they have as both a student and a young person. Lastly they reflect on the difference between rights and responsibilities.

This activity focuses on tally charts, pictograms and block diagrams. Learning Outcome: To interpret and construct simple tally charts, pictograms and block diagrams. First they must create a tally chart using the information given, then turn this tally chart into a pictogram. Part of this also requires them to create a key which links a symbol to represent 2 sandwiches. Next they use the block diagram and tally chart to create a block diagram. Lastly there are some questions that help them to interpret the data.