We are a team of two sisters who specialise in primary education. We are determined to create resources of the highest standard that can be used without further preparation. Our lessons and assemblies have been designed to challenge children of all levels within a creative, engaging and inspiring context. Explore our shop to find lesson packs for languages, art and religious education, plans for assemblies and numerous high-quality resources to help you teach phonics, mathematics and literacy
We are a team of two sisters who specialise in primary education. We are determined to create resources of the highest standard that can be used without further preparation. Our lessons and assemblies have been designed to challenge children of all levels within a creative, engaging and inspiring context. Explore our shop to find lesson packs for languages, art and religious education, plans for assemblies and numerous high-quality resources to help you teach phonics, mathematics and literacy
A 20 page Football World Cup themed phonics booklet, containing a wide range of activities to help children revise phases 3 - 5.
Perfect for children to work on independently during phonics lessons, as a start of day activity, or as a filler for the busy end-of-term period. Alternatively, send home for parents to work on with children as a homework task.
Activities range from filling in initial sounds, to sorting real and fake words, to filling in missing words.
Each page indicates which phase is included so you will know what your children are covering. Answers are included at the end where applicable.
Just print and staple!
PDF file format.
A collection of 20 football maths activities, perfect for using with year 1 during World Cup 2022!
The booklet contains 20 activities that children can complete on their own as a start of day activity, a filler or a whole lesson. The tasks cover all areas of the year 1 curriculum, including addition, subtraction, counting, time, mass, height, capacity, shape, fractions and money.
A colour and black & white version of each booklet is included. Answers are also included.
The booklets are in the zip file.
PDF file format
No further preparation needed.
This interactive PowerPoint quiz is perfect for using in the 2022 Australian CBCA Book Week. It contains 76 questions. The first 70 questions cover famous books from Australia and around the world. This is followed by one question on each of the books in the CBCA 2022 short list for ages 7-12.
You can use this as a starter, an assembly, a filler or a main activity. All questions are multiple choice and focus on popular modern books as well as classics. After you have chosen an answer for each question, click again and the correct answer changes colour. The PowerPoint is not editable. Please click ‘read only’ to open. Some of the images are only revealed when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations.
Example questions include:
Who visits Narnia first? Peter, Edmund or Lucy
Which of these books does Hermione Granger like to read? Albus Dumbledore’s Guide to Magic, The History of Hogwarts or Hogwarts: A History
Where do Jane, Michael and Mary Poppins have a tea party? On the ceiling, In the nursery or In Wonderland
What is the name of The Magic Pudding that always reforms after being eaten? Arthur, Albert or Alexander
A separate answer sheet is also included.
You might be interested in our 2023 book quiz:
Quiz for CBCA Book Week 2023
This interactive PowerPoint quiz is perfect for using in the 2022 Australian CBCA Book Week. It contains 76 questions. The first 70 questions cover famous books from Australia and around the world. This is followed by one question on each of the books in the CBCA 2022 short list for ages 7-12.
You can use this as a starter, an assembly, a filler or a main activity. All questions are multiple choice and focus on popular modern books as well as classics. After you have chosen an answer for each question, click again and the correct answer changes colour. The PowerPoint is not editable. Please click ‘read only’ to open. Some of the images are only revealed when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations.
Example questions include:
Who visits Narnia first? Peter, Edmund or Lucy
Which of these books does Hermione Granger like to read? Albus Dumbledore’s Guide to Magic, The History of Hogwarts or Hogwarts: A History
Where do Jane, Michael and Mary Poppins have a tea party? On the ceiling, In the nursery or In Wonderland
What is the name of The Magic Pudding that always reforms after being eaten? Arthur, Albert or Alexander
A separate answer sheet is also included.
You might be interested in our 2023 book quiz:
Quiz for CBCA Book Week 2023
This resource is a reading comprehension activity covering the part of the Christmas story when the Wise Men visit Jesus. I have adapted the bible story to create a descriptive passage for Grade 5 or 6. It is split into three differentiated levels.
Higher Ability
There is a reading booklet of 3 pages (1132 words), followed by 4 pages of questions (14 questions). The passage is very descriptive and includes some advanced vocabulary. The questions are varied and include finding the meaning of words and phrases, drawing inferences, describing characters, ordering the story, true or false questions and multiple choice tick questions.
Middle Ability
There is a reading booklet of 3 pages (965 words) followed by 4 pages of questions (14 questions). This passage is slightly shorter and simpler than the higher ability passage. The questions are varied and include finding the meaning of words and phrases, drawing inferences, describing characters, ordering the story, true or false questions and multiple choice tick questions.
Lower Ability
There is a reading booklet of 3 pages (837 words) followed by 4 pages of questions (12 questions.) This is the shortest, simplest passage, while still challenging the kids. The questions are varied and include finding the meaning of words and phrases, drawing inferences, describing characters, true or false questions and multiple choice tick questions.
There is also a set of answers for each level.
Standards Covered by this Resource:
Grade 5
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.1
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.2 (summarize the text)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3 (Higher Ability)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.5 (ordering the story question)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.10 (Higher Ability)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.4
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5 (synonyms)
Grade 6
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.1
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4
These Year 3 Euro 2024 and football themed maths questions are split into 3 differentiated levels. Each level contains 30 problems with answers. The questions cover all areas of the curriculum and are perfect for celebrating Euro 2024 with your class!
The higher level (Super Super Challenge) contains questions covering the Year 3 curriculum and some questions from the Year 4 curriculum.
The intermediate level (Super Challenge) contains questions covering the Year 3 curriculum.
The lower level (Challenge) contains questions covering the Year 2 curriculum.
A colour and black & white version of each booklet is included.
All of the booklets are in the zip file.
PDF file format.
No further preparation required.
You might also be interested in our
Year 3 Summer Olympics Maths : All Topics
End of term Summer themed Year 3 Maths - all topics
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Year 2 Euro 2024 Football Maths
Year 2 Euro 2024 Footballers Comprehension
This is a pack of four RE plans, perfect for using during the Christmas season.
The lessons are aimed at KS2 and are all highly interactive, using a range of enjoyable activities to teach the Christmas story and its messages. The themes that are covered include trust, refugees, spreading the word of God and similarities and differences.
Each lesson includes a detailed PDF lesson plan with learning objectives, as well as a PowerPoint presentation telling the story. The PowerPoints are not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open. Some of the images are only revealed when the PowerPoints are played as slideshows with the animations.
The Christmas story is split into the following lessons:
Angel Gabriel visits Mary
The birth of Jesus
The shepherds visit Jesus
The Wise Men visit Jesus
In total there are 28 pages of lesson plans, games and worksheets (pdfs) and 97 slides of animated PowerPoints. All of the lessons are in zip files.
No further preparation needed.
Versions of the PowerPoints are also available separately:
Christmas Story Presentation Pack
You might also be interested in our KS1 lessons on the Christmas story:
KS1 Christmas RE Unit - 4 lessons
A collection of 20 football maths activities, perfect for using with year 1 during Euro 2024!
The booklet contains 20 activities that children can complete on their own as a start of day activity, a filler or a whole lesson. The tasks cover all areas of the year 1 curriculum, including addition, subtraction, counting, time, mass, height, capacity, shape, fractions and money.
A colour and black & white version of each booklet is included. Answers are also included.
The booklets are in the zip file.
PDF file format.
No further preparation required.
You might also be interested in our
Year 1 number and place value booklet
We also have:
Year 2 Euro 2024 Football Maths
Year 2 Euro 2024 Footballers Comprehension
These Year 2 Summer Olympics themed maths questions are split into 3 differentiated levels. Each level contains 30 problems with answers. The questions cover all areas of the curriculum and are perfect for celebrating the Paris Olympic Games with your class!
The higher level (Super Super Challenge) contains questions covering the Year 2 curriculum and some questions from the Year 3 curriculum.
The intermediate level (Super Challenge) contains questions covering the Year 2 curriculum.
The lower level (Challenge) contains questions covering the Year 1 curriculum.
There is a colour and black & white version of each booklet.
PDF File Format. All of the documents are in the zip file.
No further preparation required.
You might also be interested in our:
Year 2 Euro 2024 Football Maths
End of term Summer themed Year 2 Maths - all topics
Year 2 Dinosaur Maths - All Topics
We also have:
Year 3 Summer Olympics Maths : All Topics
These Year 3 Summer Olympics themed maths questions are split into 3 differentiated levels. Each level contains 30 problems with answers. The questions cover all areas of the curriculum and are perfect for celebrating the Paris Olympic Games with your class!
The higher level (Super Super Challenge) contains questions covering the Year 3 curriculum and some questions from the Year 4 curriculum.
The intermediate level (Super Challenge) contains questions covering the Year 3 curriculum.
The lower level (Challenge) contains questions covering the Year 2 curriculum.
A colour and black & white version of each booklet is included.
All of the booklets are in the zip file.
PDF file format.
No further preparation required.
You might also be interested in our
Year 3 Euro 2024 Football Maths : All Topics
End of term Summer themed Year 3 Maths - all topics
We also have:
Year 2 Summer Olympics Maths : All Topics
These Year 2 Euro 2024 and football themed maths questions are split into 3 differentiated levels. Each level contains 30 problems with answers. The questions cover all areas of the curriculum and are perfect for celebrating Euro 2024 with your class!
The higher level (Super Super Challenge) contains questions covering the Year 2 curriculum and some questions from the Year 3 curriculum.
The intermediate level (Super Challenge) contains questions covering the Year 2 curriculum.
The lower level (Challenge) contains questions covering the Year 1 curriculum.
A colour and black & white version of each booklet is included.
All of the booklets are in the zip file.
PDF file format.
No further preparation required.
You might also be interested in our
Year 2 Euro 2024 Footballers Comprehension
End of term Summer themed Year 2 Maths - all topics
Year 2 Dinosaur Maths - All Topics
Year 2 Summer Olympics Maths : All Topics
We also have
Year 1 Euro 2024 Football Maths Booklet
Year 3 Euro 2024 Football Maths : All Topics
This interactive PowerPoint quiz is perfect for using in the 2024 Australian CBCA Book Week. It contains 54 questions. The first 48 questions cover famous books from Australia and around the world. The theme this year is ‘Reading is Magic’ and so I have chosen books that have a magical element or are from the fantasy genre. These are followed by one question on each of the books in the CBCA 2024 short list for ages 7-12.
You can use this as a starter, an assembly, a filler or a main activity. All questions are multiple choice and focus on popular modern books as well as classics. After you have chosen an answer for each question, click again and the correct answer changes colour. The PowerPoint is not editable. Please click ‘read only’ to open. Some of the images are only revealed when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations.
Example questions include:
What is Matilda’s third and final miracle? Making a glass tip over, Writing on the chalkboard or Making a child fly
What are Mildred Hubble’s best friends called? Ethel and Margot, Maud and Enid or Esmerelda and Mirabelle
In Enid Blyton’s book, what do you climb to find different worlds at the top? The Distant Bush, The Magical Moon or The Faraway Tree
Who are the Pudding Thieves who are trying to steal The Magic Pudding? A kangaroo and an alligator, A possum and a wombat or A platypus and a dingo
A separate answer sheet is also included. The quiz and the answers are in the zip file.
No further preparation needed.
This interactive PowerPoint quiz is perfect for using in the 2024 Australian CBCA Book Week. It contains 54 questions. The first 48 questions cover famous books from Australia and around the world. The theme this year is ‘Reading is Magic’ and so I have chosen books that have a magical element or are from the fantasy genre. These are followed by one question on each of the books in the CBCA 2024 short list for ages 7-12.
You can use this as a starter, an assembly, a filler or a main activity. All questions are multiple choice and focus on popular modern books as well as classics. After you have chosen an answer for each question, click again and the correct answer changes colour. The PowerPoint is not editable. Please click ‘read only’ to open. Some of the images are only revealed when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations.
Example questions include:
What is Matilda’s third and final miracle? Making a glass tip over, Writing on the chalkboard or Making a child fly
What are Mildred Hubble’s best friends called? Ethel and Margot, Maud and Enid or Esmerelda and Mirabelle
In Enid Blyton’s book, what do you climb to find different worlds at the top? The Distant Bush, The Magical Moon or The Faraway Tree
Who are the Pudding Thieves who are trying to steal The Magic Pudding? A kangaroo and an alligator, A possum and a wombat or A platypus and a dingo
A separate answer sheet is also included. The quiz and the answers are in the zip file.
No further preparation needed.
This is a set of comprehensions about the celebrations for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. They are aimed at Year 2 (ages 6-7). The comprehensions cover what a Platinum Jubilee is, how the queen and others are celebrating, ways that children can get involved and green projects.
There are three differentiated booklets. There are a range of ‘what,’ ‘where,’ ‘when,’ and ‘which’ questions and some multiple choice tick questions. The activity contains a title page with useful words followed by four pages with short written extracts to read and 3-4 questions per page.
The higher ability booklet has 14 questions and the middle and lower ability booklets each have 12 questions. Answers are also included.
All of the PDF booklets are in the zip file. There is a colour and black & white version for each level.
Perfect for using around the Platinum Jubilee celebrations or for a topic on Queen Elizabeth II.
You might also be interested in our Year 2 comprehension on the Platinum Jubilee covering 70 years of British history:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12664654
You might be interested in our Year 3/4 comprehensions on the Platinum Jubilee:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12661262
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12664009
This is a bundle of comprehensions for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. They are aimed at Year 2.
The bundle contains two sets of booklets. There is one set of comprehensions about the celebrations for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee which cover what a Platinum Jubilee is, how the Queen and others are celebrating, ways that children can get involved and green projects.
The second set of comprehensions cover 70 years of British history and the history of the Queen’s reign. There is a section on each decade.
There are three differentiated booklets for each topic. There are a range of ‘what,’ ‘where,’ ‘who, ’ ‘which’ and ‘when’ questions and some multiple choice tick questions. Each activity contains a title page with useful words followed by four pages with short written extracts to read and 3-4 questions per page.
The higher ability booklets have 14 questions and the middle and lower ability booklets each have 12 questions. Answers are also included.
All of the PDF booklets are in the zip files. There is a colour and black & white version for each level.
Perfect for using around the Platinum Jubilee celebrations or for a topic on Queen Elizabeth II or the history of Britain.
You might also be interested in our Year 3/4 comprehension bundle for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/queen-s-platinum-jubilee-comprehension-bundle-year-3-4-12676022
This is a 5 lesson French unit for beginners, perfect for using with KS2. It teaches children about France and French speaking regions.
The lessons are:
Lesson 1 - French Countryside - The children learn the vocabulary for places in the countryside in French e.g. lavender fields, rivers and mountains.
Lesson 2 - Regions of France - The children learn the vocabulary to describe different regions of France e.g. In the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, there are mountains. The lesson teaches children sentences to describe seven different regions.
Lesson 3 - French Speaking Countries - The children learn the vocabulary to describe the landscape in different French speaking countries e.g. In Guadeloupe there are beaches. The children are taught sentences to describe eight French speaking countries or regions.
Lesson 4 - Paris - The children learn about tourist sites around Paris and how to describe in French places they would like to visit e.g I would like to visit the Eiffel Tower. There is also a bit of information in English about each of the eight places that are mentioned.
Lesson 5 - French Festivals - The children learn about six festivals. There is the French word for each festival, a little bit of information in English and two more French phrases linked to the festival.
The plans all give details of a starter, how to teach the new vocabulary, followed by a combination of listening activities, speaking activities, reading/writing activities and plenary. Each lesson is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
All resources needed for the lessons are included in the price. This includes a PowerPoint for each containing the new vocabulary. The PowerPoints are not editable. Please click ‘Read Only’ to open them.
In total there are 21 pages of lesson plans (PDFs), 88 PowerPoint slides and 32 pages of resources for the activities (PDFs).
This is Unit 12 French designed by Blossoming Minds but could be used individually.
This unit could be combined with units 1-5, all created by ‘Blossoming Minds.’
Beginner French 25 Lesson Bundle
This resource is a fictional comprehension activity for year 2. It tells the traditional tale of Beauty and the Beast and includes 3 differentiated levels.
The style and questions are based on the KS1 SATs reading paper. There is a colour and black & white version of each booklet.
There are a range of ‘what,’ ‘where,’ ‘why,’ ‘when’ and ‘how’ questions, some multiple choice tick questions and some that require more detailed answers. There are four pages of pictures with short written extracts to read and 3-5 questions per page. The higher ability booklet has 18 questions in total. The middle ability has 15 questions and the lower ability has 13 questions. Answers are included. All of the booklets are in the zip file.
PDF file format.
This resource is a fictional comprehension activity for year 1. It tells the traditional tale of Beauty and the Beast and includes 3 differentiated levels. There is a colour and black & white version of each level.
Each level contains three short pieces of text with words that can be sounded out. There are three trickier words which have pictures to help children work out what they say. Each passage is followed by 5 simple questions.
There is also a PowerPoint included in the pack containing a slide for each text from the middle ability so that you can go through the comprehensions before the children complete them. Each slide also contains 3 words that are trickier to sound out, with sound buttons underneath them. This is not editable. Please click the ‘Read Only’ button to open it.
Answers are also included.
All of the documents are in the zip file.
No further preparation needed.
PDF file format.
This is a set of comprehensions about the celebrations for King Charles III’s Coronation. They are aimed at Lower Key Stage 2 (ages 7-9). The comprehensions cover what a coronation is, a short history of Charles’s life, how Charles and others are celebrating, ways that children can get involved and the King’s charitable projects.
There are three differentiated booklets. The higher ability booklet has three pages of text for the children to read before they complete a range of questions that are aimed at extending more able readers. (18 questions)
The middle and lower ability booklets have the text split into five separate pages with questions on each page. The middle ability has 14 questions and the lower ability contains 12 questions.
There are colour and black & white versions of each booklet. Answers are also included. All of the documents are in the zip file.
Perfect for using around the Coronation celebrations or for a topic on King Charles III. I’m looking forward to using these with my Year 3 class!
PDF file format.
You might also be interested in our year 2 comprehensions on the Coronation:
King Charles III’s Coronation Comprehensions Year 2
This resource is a non-fiction comprehension activity for lower key stage 2 (ages 7-9). There are three differentiated sets of instructions on how to cook a Christmas dinner - Turkey with stuffing balls. It is perfect for using in the weeks before Christmas.
The higher ability booklet has two pages of information for the children to read before they complete 3 pages of ‘what,’ ‘where,’ ‘which,’ ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions. There are also true or false, multiple choice questions and some that require more detailed answers. There are 15 questions in total. The middle and lower ability booklets have the information split into four separate pages with questions on each page. The middle and lower ability each have 14 questions in total.
There is a colour and black & white booklet for each level. Answers are also included.
PDF file format.
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