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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

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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
French lesson and resources - Types of holiday (vacations)
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French lesson and resources - Types of holiday (vacations)

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This is a plan and resources for a beginner’s French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for different types of holiday, such as holidays by the sea or in the mountains. The plan could be used for an individual lesson, or as part of a longer holidays/vacations unit. The plan gives details of a game for a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a whole class listening game, a speaking and listening activity, a written activity and a plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills. Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are: Plan A PowerPoint presentation Resources for listening activity Resources for speaking and listening activity Written worksheet (This is Lesson 3, Unit 6 by Blossoming Minds, but can be used individually.)
French lesson and resources - Holiday/Vacation Accommodation
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French lesson and resources - Holiday/Vacation Accommodation

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This is a plan and resources for a beginner’s French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for different types of holiday accommodation, such as hotels and tents. The plan could be used for an individual lesson, or as part of a longer holidays/vacations unit. The plan gives details of a game for a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a whole class speaking and listening game, a reading activity, a reading and writing activity and a plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills. Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are: Plan A PowerPoint presentation Resources for speaking and listening activity Resources for reading activity Written worksheet (This is Lesson 4, Unit 6 by Blossoming Minds, but can be used individually.)
French Musical Instruments Lesson and Resources
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French Musical Instruments Lesson and Resources

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This is a plan and resources for a beginner’s French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for different musical instruments they might play. The plan could be used for an individual lesson, or as part of a longer hobbies and interests unit. The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a whole class listening game, a reading game, a reading and writing activity and a plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills. All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are in the zip file and are: Lesson Plan (5 pages PDF) A 12 slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘read only’ to open.) Resources for reading activity (4 pages PDF - colour and black & white versions) Written worksheet (3 pages PDF - colour and black & white and answers) No further preparation needed. This is Lesson 4, Unit 5 French by Blossoming Minds, but can be used individually. You might be interested in units 1-4: Beginner French 20 lesson bundle
Spanish Fruit and Vegetables lesson and resources
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Spanish Fruit and Vegetables lesson and resources

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This is a plan and resources for a beginner’s Spanish lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for different fruit and vegetables in Spanish. The plan could be used for an individual lesson, or as part of a food unit. The plan gives details of a paired game to use as a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a group speaking activity, a reading game, a written activity and a paired plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills. All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are in the zip file and are: Lesson Plan (PDF) 5 pages An animated PowerPoint presentation - 11 slides (This is not editable. Please click ‘Read Only’ to open.) 2 x resources for reading activity (PDF) 4 pages (colour and black & white) Templates for the written activity (PDF) 2 pages (colour and black & white) Please note: You will need a few chopped up fruits and vegetables for the lesson. Details are included in the plan. This plan is Blossoming Minds’ Lesson 1 Unit 4 Spanish, but can be used individually. You might be interested in Units 1-3: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11762039
French lesson and resources - Daily Routine
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French lesson and resources - Daily Routine

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This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for their daily routine in French. The plan could be used for an individual lesson, or as part of a longer schools unit. The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a whole class listening game, a group speaking game, a reading activity and a plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills. Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are: Plan A PowerPoint presentation Speaking resource Reading worksheet (This plan is Lesson 5, Unit 7 by Blossoming Minds, but can be used as an individual plan.)
French lesson and resources - Places around school
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French lesson and resources - Places around school

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This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for different rooms around school. The plan could be used for an individual lesson, or as part of a longer schools unit. The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a whole class listening game, a speaking and listening game, a writing activity and a plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills. Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are: Plan A PowerPoint presentation Starter cards Resources for listening game Resources for speaking and listening game Written worksheet (This plan is Lesson 1, Unit 7 by Blossoming Minds, but can be used as an individual plan.)
French lesson and resources - Types of home
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French lesson and resources - Types of home

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This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for different types of home in French. For example, an apartment, a bungalow or a terrace. The plan could be used for an individual lesson, or as part of a longer ‘my town’ unit. The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a whole class listening game, a group reading game, a writing activity and a plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills. Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are: Plan A PowerPoint presentation Starter flashcards Speaking and reading resources Writing worksheet (This plan is Lesson 1, Unit 8 by Blossoming Minds, but can be used as an individual plan.)
French lesson and resources - Directions - KS2
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French lesson and resources - Directions - KS2

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This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for giving directions in French. The plan could be used for an individual lesson, or as part of a longer ‘my town’ unit. The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a whole class listening activity, a speaking activity, a writing activity and a plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills. Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are: Plan - 4 pages (PDF) A PowerPoint presentation - 12 pages (This is not editable. Please click ‘Read Only’ to open.) Resource for listening activity - 1 page (PDF) Writing worksheet - Colour and Black & White - 1 page (PDF) (This plan is Lesson 3, Unit 8 by Blossoming Minds, but can be used as an individual plan.)
French lesson and resources - Where I live
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French lesson and resources - Where I live

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This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the French vocabulary for different environments you might live in. For example, the town or the desert. The plan could be used for an individual lesson, or as part of a longer ‘my town’ unit. The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a whole class listening activity, a speaking activity, a writing activity and a plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills. Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are: Plan A PowerPoint presentation Resources for listening and speaking activities Writing worksheet (This plan is Lesson 4, Unit 8 by Blossoming Minds, but can be used as an individual plan.)
French lesson and resources - Places around town / en ville
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French lesson and resources - Places around town / en ville

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This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for different places around town French. For example, the supermarket or church. The plan could be used for an individual lesson, or as part of a longer ‘my town’ unit. The plan gives details of a singing starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a whole class listening game, a speaking activity, a writing activity and a plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills. Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are: Plan A PowerPoint presentation Resources for listening and speaking activities Writing worksheet (This plan is Lesson 2, Unit 8 by Blossoming Minds, but can be used as an individual plan.)
Spanish Breakfast Lesson and Resources
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Spanish Breakfast Lesson and Resources

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This is a plan and resources for a beginner’s Spanish lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for ordering different breakfast items in Spanish. The plan could be used for an individual lesson, or as part of a food and drink unit. The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a listening activity, a speaking game, a reading activity and a plenary game. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills. All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. They are in the zip file and are: Lesson Plan (PDF) 4 pages An animated 12 slide PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Please click ‘Read Only’ to open.) Starter ideas (PDF) 1 page Resource for listening activity (PDF) 16 pages colour and black & white Resource for speaking activity (PDF) 2 pages colour and black & white Reading activity (PDF) 3 pages colour and black & white and answers No further preparation needed This plan is Blossoming Minds’ Lesson 4 Unit 4, but can be used individually. You might be interested in units 1-3: Beginner Spanish / 15 lessons
Spanish Unit - Holidays / Las vacaciones
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Spanish Unit - Holidays / Las vacaciones

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This is a 5 lesson Spanish unit for beginners, perfect for using with KS2. It teaches children vocabulary all linked to **holidays, **covering countries, transport, types of holidays, accommodation and holiday activities. 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. (This unit could be combined with the five previous Blossoming Minds’ Spanish units to create an entire year’s lessons for your KS2 class!)
Italian Lesson Bundle (1 term) Beginners
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Italian Lesson Bundle (1 term) Beginners

10 Resources
This bundle contains 10 Italian lessons for beginners, perfect for using with KS2. The Lessons are: Lesson 1 - Greetings Lesson 2 - Emotions and Feelings Lesson 3 - Greetings for different times of day Lesson 4 - Introducing Yourself Lesson 5 - Where you live Lesson 6 - Numbers Lesson 7 - How old are you? Lesson 8 - Colours Lesson 9 - What do I look like? (eye and hair colour) Lesson 10 - Describing myself (height and size) The plans (pdfs) 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 a 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 PowerPoint presentations are not editable. Click the ‘Read Only’ button to open them. Some of the images only appear when the PowerPoints are played as slideshows with the animations. In total there are 44 pages of lesson plans (pdfs), 146 slides of animated PowerPoints and 75 pages of games and worksheets (pdfs). All of the lessons are in zip files. No further preparation needed. (These lessons are also available as individual lessons or as smaller units.)
Italian lesson and resources : Pet descriptions
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Italian lesson and resources : Pet descriptions

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This is a plan and resources for a beginner’s Italian lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary to describe different pets in Italian. The plan gives details of a whole class starter, an introduction to the vocabulary, a whole class listening activity, a speaking and listening activity, a written worksheet and a plenary game. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills. All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. They are in the zip file. These are: 5 page PDF Lesson Plan An 18 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open.) 1 PDF page resource for listening activity 3 PDF pages of resources for the writing activity (colour and black & white worksheet and answers) The plan would work well coming after lessons on the words for pets, describing myself and colours. Our Italian lessons on pets, describing myself and colours are available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12584397 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12514759 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12509405 This is lesson 4 of Unit 3 Italian designed by Blossoming Minds. You might be interested in Unit 1 Beginners Italian - Greetings and Introductions Bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12397072 Unit 2 Italian All About Me 5 lesson bundle is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12516804 Unit 3 Italian Lesson Bundle : Family members, clothes and pets is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12589727
Spanish Eye and Hair Colour Lesson
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Spanish Eye and Hair Colour Lesson

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This is a plan and resources for a beginners Spanish lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for describing eyes and hair in Spanish. The plan could be used for an individual lesson, but would work well if children have learnt some colours in Spanish first. The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the eyes and hair vocabulary, a whole class listening activity, a game, written activity and plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills. All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price in the zip file. These are: 5 page Lesson Plan (PDF) A 14 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open. ) Resource for the speaking activity (1 PDF page) Written activity (1 PDF page) No further preparation needed. This is lesson 4 of Unit 2 Spanish designed by Blossoming Minds. You might be interested in Unit 1 Spanish Greetings and Introductions: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11651388 Unit 2 Spanish All About Me is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-all-about-me-5-lesson-bundle-beginners-11706377 Units 1 and 2 are available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-lesson-bundle-1-term-beginners-11710541
Christmas in France Comprehensions - Year 1
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Christmas in France Comprehensions - Year 1

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This resource contains 4 comprehension activities suitable for using with year 1 or lower ability year 2. They each contain a short piece 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. The text is followed by 5 simple questions. The theme in this pack is ‘Christmas in France.’ There are four different comprehensions: St Nicholas’ Day Nativity Scenes French Christmas Food Epiphany 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 and editable Microsoft word format included in the price.
Christmas in Germany presentation
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Christmas in Germany presentation

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A 21 page presentation describing the traditions of Christmas in Germany. It covers Christmas markets, decorations, food and Christmas trees. Each slide has a short piece of text accompanied by a picture. It could be used as part of a lesson or for an assembly for children aged 4 -11.
Italian Christmas lesson and resources
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Italian Christmas lesson and resources

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This is a Christmas plan and resources for a beginner’s Italian lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for ‘Happy Christmas,’ as well as six decorations in Italian. The plan gives details of a whole class game to use as a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a paired reading activity, whole class listening activity, a writing activity and plenary game. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills. All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are in the zip file and are: Lesson Plan (4 page PDF) An 11 slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Please click ‘Read Only’ to open) Resources for paired activity (4 pages PDF colour and black & white) Written activity (3 pages PDF colour and black & white and answers) You might also be interested in our beginners Italian lessons. Beginner Italian 3 units : 15 lessons
Hamlet Reading Comprehension - Shakespeare - Year 3 and 4
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Hamlet Reading Comprehension - Shakespeare - Year 3 and 4

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This resource is a comprehension booklet aimed at Lower Key Stage 2 (7-9 yrs). It is a playscript adapted from Shakespeare’s play of Hamlet. The story is a tragedy and covers the themes of revenge and justice. The story has been adapted so that is is suitable for ages 7-9. There are three differentiated booklets. The higher booklet has three pages of text for the children to read before they complete a range of questions based on a mixture of the KS1 and KS2 SATs. The middle and lower ability booklets have the text split into separate pages with questions on each page. Perfect for using during** Shakespeare Week** (12th March) or for a Shakespeare or playwriting topic. PDF file format.
Romeo and Juliet Reading Comprehension - Shakespeare - Year 3 and 4
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Romeo and Juliet Reading Comprehension - Shakespeare - Year 3 and 4

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This resource is a comprehension booklet aimed at Lower Key Stage 2 (7-9 yrs). It is a playscript adapted from Shakespeare’s play of** Romeo and Juliet**. The story is a romance and tragedy and covers the themes of love, family and loyalty among others. The story has been adapted so that is is suitable for ages 7-9. 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 based on a mixture of the KS1 and KS2 SATs. The middle and lower ability booklets have the text split into separate pages with questions on each page. Perfect for using during** Shakespeare Week** (12th March) or for a Shakespeare or playwriting topic. PDF file format.