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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
This is a set of 24 PowerPoint presentations covering all the high frequency words for phonics phases 2, 3, 4 and 5.
For each phonics phase there are 6 PowerPoint presentations. Each PowerPoint includes all the high frequency words for that phase. There is one word on each slide and the words are in a different order on each PowerPoint. Each PowerPoint has images with a different theme that is unconnected to the words. There are 6 themes - birds, minibeasts, seasons, pirates, dinosaurs and transport.
Get your class to call out together or choose targeted children to decode the words.
Use throughout the year - fit in during gaps or use during a phonics lesson.
A selection of 6 presentations on a variety of black figures from the past two centuries, perfect for using during Black History Month.
The slideshows cover prominent figures who have had a variety of roles in history.
Included are:
Benjamin Zephaniah
Mary Seacole
Mo Farah
Nelson Mandela
Rosa Parks
Serena Williams
This is a set of 6 PowerPoint presentations. Each PowerPoint includes all the Phase 2 high frequency words. There is one word on each slide and the words are in a different order on each PowerPoint. Each PowerPoint has images with a different theme that is unconnected to the words. There are 6 themes - birds, minibeasts, seasons, pirates, dinosaurs and transport.
Get your class to call out together or choose targeted children to decode the words.
Use throughout the year - fit in during gaps or use during a phonics lesson.
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
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 plan for KS1 Literacy that I used when we were learning about Britain and Ireland. There are 11 lessons in the Learning Journey that lead towards the children making their own leaflets. The children examine a range of leaflets about the local area so that they develop their awareness of what a leaflet actually is. They then experience different types of information text about the British Isles, with each mixed ability group focussing on a different country or city. Three days are reserved for the children to actually make their own leaflets.
We invited year 5 to visit at the end of the topic to read our leaflets and vote about which country they would visit. The children loved that part! The children worked in mixed ability groups and each group at some point had the opportunity to work in the role play corner, where they have to do some independent writing.
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘ear.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 and 3 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘ear’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘ear’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘ear’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘ear’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘ear’ sound
- Revision of common exception words
This resource is a non-fiction comprehension activity for year 2.
It is based on the KS1 SATs reading paper and includes 3 differentiated levels.
There are a range of ‘what’ and ‘how’ questions, some multiple choice tick questions and some that require more detailed answers. The activity is also laid out in a similar way to the SATs booklets, with four pages of pictures and short written extracts to read and 3-4 questions per page. Answers are also included.
This comprehension is about animals with incredible powers.
All of the PDF booklets are in the zip file.
A collection of non-fiction comprehension activities for year 2, all with the theme of pioneering nurses. Each booklet comes in 3 differentiated levels. They are all based on the reading SATs paper, containing a similar style of questions. They are also laid out in the same way as a SATs booklet to provide the children with greater experience.
The 3 nurses explored in the comprehensions are:
Florence Nightingale
Edith Cavell
Mary Seacole
All of these nurses are also mentioned in the KS1 History Curriculum.
This resource is a comprehension activity for year 2. It is a fictional newspaper report, which I have written from the point of view of a reporter the day after Edith Cavell was shot. It is based on the KS1 SATs reading paper and includes 3 differentiated levels.
There are a range of 'what' 'where' and 'when' questions, some multiple choice tick questions and some that require more detailed answers. There is a one page newspaper report, followed by two pages of questions. Answers are also included.
PDF file format.
This comprehension is also included as part of the 5 lesson year 2 literacy unit on Edith Cavell:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-2-literacy-5-lesson-plan-edith-cavell-history-11541732
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘ur.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 and 3 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘ur’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘ur’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘ur’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘ur’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘ur’ sound
- Revision of common exception words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘zz.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 and 3 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘zz’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘zz’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘zz’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘zz’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘zz’ sound
- Revision of common exception words
This resource contains 4 comprehension activities suitable for using with year 1.
They each contain a short piece of text (about 5 sentences) with words that can be sounded out. There are three trickier words which have pictures to help children work out what they say.
The text is followed by 5 questions, containing ‘what’ ‘why’ and ‘where’ questions and some multiple choice questions.
The theme in this pack is ‘minibeasts/creepy crawlies/invertebrates.’ There are four different texts:
Minibeasts
British minibeasts
Hunting minibeasts
Minibeasts around the world
There is also a powerpoint included in the pack containing a slide for each text 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.
PDF file format
This bundle contains a selection of interactive lessons aimed at whole class or group phonics. The bundle covers all phase 3 consonant digraphs.
Each lesson takes 15-20 minutes.
The powerpoint lessons are split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 and 3 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to the new sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Segmenting and blending words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with consonant digraph sound
- Writing a sentence
- Revision of common exception words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘v.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘v’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘v’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘v’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘v’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘v’ sound
- Revision of common exception words
The words included rely primarily on knowledge of phase 2 phonemes, with a few trickier words.
The lesson can be bought on its own or as part of a bundle.
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘w.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘w’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘w’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘w’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘w’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘w’ sound
- Revision of common exception words
This bundle contains a selection of interactive lessons aimed at whole class or group phonics. The lessons cover early phase 3 - the individual alphabet sounds.
Each lesson takes 15-20 minutes.
The powerpoint lessons are split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to the new sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Segmenting and blending words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with focus sound
- Writing a sentence
- Revision of common exception words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘x.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘x’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘x’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘x’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘x’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘x’ sound
- Revision of common exception words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘y.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘y’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘y’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘y’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘y’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘y’ sound
- Revision of common exception words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘z.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘z’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘z’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘z’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘z’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘z’ sound
- Revision of common exception words