6 weeks short term plans. sample What newspapers and magazines can the pupils name? What are the articles usually about? Discuss the purpose of a newspaper. WALT – know the features of a newspaper text. WILF – good expression Read through the opening paragraph of a newspaper article. Children to discuss the features and the structure of the opening paragraph. Newspaper articles have all of the important information in the opening paragraph. The opening paragraph is not overly descriptive. This information includes who, what, when, where, why and how. (It is written this way because most people do not read an entire newspaper article all the way through. So newspaper writers put the most important information at the beginning). Children wrote learn the opening paragraph of a newspaper article. Firstly as a class, followed by group work. Recap the features of an opening paragraph of an article. SW – target group to discuss the features of the article.

Short of ideas for year two Autumn term? Put my planning from different schools together. It’s all in the zip file. I’ve put some examples in the general upload but there is TONS more in the included zip file. Lots of different types of planning as my schools were all different. There’s lots of free stuff too that is adaptable e.g. year 1 work. Sample : Teacher to explain that they will be focusing their learning this week on an author called Beatrix Potter (in both English and Creative Curriculum). Teacher to introduce the story of Peter Rabbit to the class (PowerPoint- shared area). Teacher to pause shared reading at regular intervals to challenge thinking and AF reading skills. Q: Do you think this story is non-fiction or fiction? Why? – Group to discuss. Whilst reading, teacher to model how to break down tricky words using phonetic knowledge. Group to discuss the text together; thinking about the characters and setting. Teacher to scribe thoughts onto flip chart for class to refer back to throughout the week. Mild: I can recall the main characters from a given text and can describe them using appropriate adjectives. Spicy: I can use phonics to form a sensible sentence. I can add full stops and capital letters when writing a book review. Hot: I can sequence events of the story; identifying what happened in the beginning, middle and end. Extra Hot: I can write/draw a picture to show my favourite part of the story and can verbally give reasons as to why.

sample planning Introduce the section of work. Explain that we are going to use a very interesting focus text to complete some narrative writing, art work and drama. Have a photocopy of the front cover and blurb for ‘The Savage’ by David Almond. TTYP and discuss “What are your initial responses?” (Ask children who may have read the book, not to give it away). Come back together and discuss children’s ideas from the blurb and front cover. What sort of story is it going to be? What genre? What age group/gender do you think it may be aimed at? Does anyone know anything about David Almond? His style of writing? His previous work? Share that he was born into a large family in Newcastle; his books are very popular and critically acclaimed (what does this mean?). His books are very philosophical (meaning) and often appeal to both adults and children. Share with children that ‘The Savage’ deals with issues of loss, sadness, bullying and love. Read the first two chapters of the focus text. Come back together and discuss. What does the use of two different fonts tell us? Discuss how this is a story within another story. Why is Blue writing about ‘The Savage’? What is it helping him to do? Might there be something of Blue in ‘The Savage’? Might he be expressing his anger at what has happened to his family?

Nice little unit on modern history. Some nice powerpoints. Sample: Using Notebooks – answer questions. Who was John Lennon? What can you find out about him? Birthday Family Friends Community Music Is he still alive? If not, when, where and how did he die? Why is he famous? Rdg AF 2 WALT investigate the life of John Lennon WILF you can record information carefully about J L. Using questions, investigate life of J L What kind of childhood did John Lennon have? Recall information we know about Lennon so far. Establish that when Lennon was the children’s age it was around 1948/9. He was a teenager in the Mid 1950’s and grew into adulthood in the 1960’s. So his ‘era’ was the 1950’s and beyond. What do you think life was like for a child growing up in the 1950’s? How can we find out what it was like for children of your age at that time? Rdg AF 2 AF 3 WALT select information from books and the internet WILFcompare and contrast life in the 1950’s to life today. Give each group their focus area to research:- School in the 1950’s; Home Life in the 1950’s; Food in the 1950’s; Leisure Activities in the 1950’s; Fashion in the 1950’s Technology in the 1950’s and key questions you want them to find answers to. Children will record their findings on a Compare and Contrast Table the 1950’s v. 2010

Three notebooks. Two weeks of plans. Some worksheets. Nouns ending in a consonant and y (e.g. party, army) change y to i and add es. Nouns ending with a vowel and y (e.g. day, boy) just add s. Whole Class Shared Reading - Mister Monday Read Chapters 1 - 3 S & L opportunity Pupils will discuss what a fantasy setting is. Most will have seen or read Harry Potter for example. The theme for lots of them is that the central character enters another world but lives in a world we can all relate to. Pupils to give their opinion. What do they think is going to happen? How do they feel about the characters Irregular plurals: goose, man, mouse, woman, tooth, child, person, foot test understanding of different endings during morning work Read chapter 4 WALT: know how an author creates mood and atmosphere. Pupils will focus on a passage of text that creates mood and atmosphere. What does the author do to build tension? How does he make us empathize with the character and be interested enough to want him to be safe. CT to work with MA to encourage deep thinking about language and sentence structure

Three weeks of planning. Plus you can use other planning included for free from different years. Example To analyse and create a character and setting description for 23 Degrees 5 Minutes North. I can express verbally what a character may be feeling, thinking or doing I can explain why I think a character may feel, think or do something I can describe a setting using figurative language Starter 5 mins Pen portrait of key characters in 23 Degrees 5 Minutes North: Children mind map/annotate information about the key characters that they know so far around an image of The Adventurer and Professor Erit. They add information about the internal feelings, thoughts and emotions within and the external information such as physical description, or known facts Activity 1 5-10 mins Use key questions and discussion in groups to think about answers to questions such as: When is this story set? Who am I? Where am I? Why am I here? Will I be able to find Professor Erit? How will I find him? Emphasise the importance of chn giving evidence to support their opinion when they give a response to these questions. Activity 10 mins Return to image of the Adventurer and Professor Erit. Using a different coloured pencil, chn should add information about these characters Main 20 mins Give chn an image of the setting and ask them to mind-map descriptive words, phrases or sentences they could use to describe the narrative setting. Model using the different kinds of sentence-types to record a setting description, using the vocabulary recorder in the mind-map. Chn use sentences to build suspense if they can.

Lots of planning for all three terms. Maths and English mainly but arts stuff and History too. sampl: Text: The Gunpowder Plot Genres covered in this unit: • Predictions • Inference (How? Why?) • Newspaper features • Journalistic writing • Letter writing Key teaching input/texts/questions/ clips etc BOOKS Display an image from the front cover of the book and discuss what children already know. What does it look? What do you think will happen? What can you see in the picture? Share and discuss, make notes for working wall. Show children the entire cover of the book. Identify the 5Ws; who? What? Where? When? Why? What is the title? What do you think will happen? Note 5ws for working wall. Show children the grid for likes, similarities and puzzles, Identify one for each section and explain why I chose it. Whole class discussion of extra hot challenge. Resources: Book cover Images from book cover Grid sheet JOTTERS Review previous learning – refer to working wall. What do you think will happen? Who will be involved? Where will it happen? Why does it happen? When does it take place? Share predictions. Introduce the text to the children. Read first 4 pages and ask questions linked to the text. Children to read through/skim read to identify the 5Ws – record for the working wall and compare with predictions. Was anyone close with their prediction? Why might this be? Share video with children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YptNONmnXH0 Discuss key events. What do you think will happen next? Make predictions in jotters and share.

Lots of planning for Maths and English year 3 sample: Text: ARCHIES WAR – Marcia Williams Genres covered in this unit: 2 weeks - character descriptions – to include descriptive settings Letter writing, information texts and propaganda posters. (Propaganda posters are covered in the topic books) Children have white boards. I will describe a person and you must draw them From the twits Roald dahl(Mr Twits). Children share ideas from the first opening paragraph. What made this so visual. LANGUAGE Look at a series of images. Witch, doctor, pirate. Look at the features, are there similarities. Elaborated pictures of people. Famous and non famous. Discussion and focal point. Play head band with the children. They have to describe the person they are holding and the partner has to guess who it is. Expanding on words to describe Starter - Use facial pictures for images. What may they be thinking? Do they look different now you out them in the picture. What about when they are wearing a certain clothing. Build the character in stages. Describe the physical appearance and the mental one. What may they be thinking? We can see their face and if they are smiling. Do they look different in different surroundings?

English and maths planning. 39 files Text: ARCHIES WAR – Marcia Williams Genres covered in this unit: 2 weeks - character descriptions – to include descriptive settings Letter writing, information texts and propaganda posters. Children have white boards. I will describe a person and you must draw them From the twits Roald dahl(Mr Twits). Children share ideas from the first opening paragraph. What made this so visual. LANGUAGE Look at a series of images. Witch, doctor, pirate. Look at the features, are there similarities. Elaborated pictures of people. Famous and non famous. Discussion and focal point. Play head band with the children. They have to describe the person they are holding and the partner has to guess who it is. Expanding on words to describe Steps to Success Mild: To review characters Spicy: To recognise features of a character Hot: To describe your character Extra Hot: How could you describe yourself? Tell me.

Planning from an academy. Spread over the three terms. Lots of planning. Worksheets. Powerpoints. Mainly English and Maths. Zip has the lot. ive included plenty in the general download to give you an idea of content. sample : Explore children’s understanding of the term angle and record on working wall. Where have they seen angles? What do angles look like? What are they measured in? Following knowledge harvest, explain that this term will focus on measuring, drawing, classifying angles. Ensure children can identify the key features of a protractor. Use enlarged version and annotate key features on WW. Ensure that the children can explain angle types and their properties. This will be useful when checking measurements. Explore strategies for measuring angles using enlarged models and enlarged protractor. Have the children measure angles to the nearest 10, 5 and degree. Identify difficulties when alignment is inaccurate. Model the use of known angle types to check accuracy of measurement. Discuss with pupils what they now know about the structure and style of a haiku poem. Model for pupils a haiku poem based upon the topic of water (links to Rivers topic, Finding Nemo setting and this week’s setting work) Then re write after making changes. Pupils to share their completed work Steps to Success Mild- to record ideas for a Haiku poem about water Spicy- present poem in the form of a Haiku Hot- to read over my own work and propose changes to grammar and vocabulary, spelling and punctuation ( CAGS 3 / 4) Extra Hot- selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary and understand how such choices can change and enhance meaning. ( CAG 5/6)