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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 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.)
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.)
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.)
This is a 5 lesson French unit for KS2. It teaches children vocabulary around the theme of ‘My Town.’ The topics covered include types of home, landmarks around town, directions, environments and describing a scene.
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. These PowerPoints are not editable. Please click ‘Read Only’ to open. Some images only appear when the PowerPoints are played with the animations.
(This unit could be combined with other Blossoming Minds’ French units. This is unit 8 in the sequence.)
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
This resource is a comprehension booklet aimed at Lower Key Stage 2 (7-9 yrs). It is a story adapted from Shakespeare’s play of Macbeth. The story is a tragedy and covers the themes of ambition, fate and guilt 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.
A bundle of 6 reading comprehension booklets that tell the stories of some of Shakespeare's most popular plays.
All the booklets are aimed at Lower Key Stage 2, with each story adapted to be suitable for this age range, with a range of interesting questions. All six stories are differentiated for three different ability levels.
The following are included:
- Macbeth (story format)
- Twelfth Night (story format)
- Much Ado About Nothing (story format)
- Romeo and Juliet (play format)
- Hamlet (play format)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (play format)
Perfect for a Shakespeare unit, a unit on play writing or for Shakespeare Week in March.
PDF file format
This is a plan and resources for a beginner’s Spanish lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for different forms of transport. 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 reading 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 reading activity
Written worksheet
(This is Lesson 2, Unit 6 by Blossoming Minds, but can be used individually.)
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!)
A collection of 10 worksheets, 10 activities and 10 starters (in the form of a PowerPoint) to use with your year 6 class in the run-up to SATs. The ten topics covered are those that my class were finding difficult, so I decided they needed a bit of extra revision!
The worksheets use questions that are based on the SATs SPaG papers, plus a few extras.
The activities are perfect for group work and prepare your class for SATs in a more interactive way.
The slideshow can be used for fillers, starters or plenaries.
You can also put the three together to make 30 minute lessons on these tricky topics! For example, start with the slideshow to recap prepositions, before splitting your class into groups to do the interactive activity. Finish with an individual worksheet to check each child’s understanding.
The topics included are:
Brackets
Hyphens
Prefixes
Root words
The subjunctive
Prepositions
Pronouns
Tenses
Adverbs
Main and subordinate clauses
This is a plan and resources for a beginner’s Italian lesson to use with KS2. It involves children talking about how old they are and could be used after children have learnt numbers to 10.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the ‘ages’ vocabulary, a whole class game, a speaking activity, 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. They are in the zip file. These are:
5 page PDF Lesson Plan
A 20 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open. Some of the images are only revealed when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations.)
2 PDF pages of resources for speaking activity
6 PDF pages for the written activity (Colour and Black & White worksheets and answers)
No further preparation needed.
This is the second lesson in Unit 2 designed by Blossoming Minds.
Unit 1 is available on Blossoming Minds’ shop on the TES:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12397072
Unit 2 is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12516804
This is a plan and resources for a beginner’s Italian lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for eight different colours in Italian. The lesson could be used as an individual lesson or as part of a unit.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the ‘colours’ vocabulary, a whole class listening activity, a game, reading 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. They are in the zip file. These are:
4 page PDF Lesson Plan
A 12 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open. Some of the images are only revealed when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations.)
2 PDF pages of resources for the game
2 PDF pages for the written activity (a worksheet and answers)
No further preparation needed.
This is lesson 3 from Unit 2 Italian designed by Blossomingminds.
Unit 1 is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12397072
Unit 2 is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12516804
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.)
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
This is a plan and resources for a beginner’s Italian lesson to use with KS2. It is a revision lesson that allows children to recap vocabulary used to talk about themselves.
The plan gives details of a whole class starter, a recap of the vocabulary, a whole class listening and reading 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:
Starter template (1 PDF page)
Lesson Plan (5 PDF pages)
A 14 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open)
Resource for reading/listening activity (7 PDF pages)
Writing activity (2 PDF pages - colour and black & white versions)
Plenary ideas (1 PDF page)
The language covered in the lesson includes saying your name, age and where you live, describing yourself, describing family members and pets and talking about clothes. It would be useful if your class have already covered these topics, but not essential.
This is lesson 5 of Unit 3 Italian designed by Blossoming Minds.
Unit 1 Beginners Italian - Greetings and Introductions Bundle is available here:
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
This is a 5 lesson Italian unit for beginners, perfect for using with KS2. It teaches children family members, clothes, pets and pet descriptions. The final lesson in the unit revises lots of ‘All About Me’ vocabulary. All the lessons are highly interactive and allow children to practise a range of language skills.
Lesson 1 - Family Members
Children learn the vocabulary for grandad/grandmother/mother/father/brother and sister.
The plan gives details of a whole class game to use as a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a paired speaking and listening activity, a whole class listening activity, a reading/writing activity and plenary.
All resources needed are included:
5 page PDF Lesson Plan
11 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open.)
34 PDF pages of Resources for listening activity (Colour and Black & White versions)
2 PDF pages for the Reading/Written activity (Colour and Black & White worksheets)
Lesson 2 - Clothing
Children learn the vocabulary for different items of clothing.
The plan gives details of a whole class game to use as a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a whole class listening activity, a paired speaking and listening activity, a reading/writing activity and plenary.
All resources needed are included:
5 page PDF Lesson Plan
A 12 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open.)
3 PDF pages of resources for the speaking and listening activity (Colour and Black & White versions and answers)
3 PDF pages for the reading/writing activity (Colour and Black & White worksheets and answers)
Lesson 3 - Pets
Children learn the vocabulary for different pets in Italian.
The plan gives details of a whole class starter, an introduction to the vocabulary, a whole class writing activity, a speaking and listening activity, a reading activity and a plenary.
All resources needed are included:
4 page PDF Lesson Plan
A 13 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open.)
2 PDF pages of resources for the speaking and listening activity (colour and black & white versions)
3 PDF pages for the reading activity (colour and black & white worksheet and answers)
Lesson 4 - Pet Descriptions
Children learn 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.
All resources needed are included:
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)
Lesson 5 - All About Me Revision
This is a revision lesson that allows children to recap vocabulary used to talk about themselves.
The plan gives details of a whole class starter, a recap of the vocabulary, a whole class listening and reading activity, a speaking and listening activity, a written worksheet and a plenary game.
All resources needed are included:
Starter template (1 PDF page)
Lesson Plan (5 PDF pages)
A 14 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open)
Resource for reading/listening activity (7 PDF pages)
Writing activity (2 PDF pages - colour and black & white versions)
Plenary ideas (1 PDF page)
This is Unit 3 Italian designed by Blossoming Minds.
Unit 1 Beginners Italian - Greetings and Introductions Bundle is available here:
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
This bundle contains 15 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 (countries)
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)
Lesson 11 - Family Members
Lesson 12 - Clothing
Lesson 13 - Pets
Lesson 14 - Pet Descriptions
Lesson 15 - All About Me Revision
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 205 pages of lesson plans, games and worksheets (pdfs) and 214 slides of animated PowerPoints. All of the lessons are in zip files.
No further preparation needed.
This is Units 1, 2 and 3 Italian designed by Blossoming Minds.
(These lessons are also available as individual lessons or as smaller units.)
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This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning how to talk about their favourite genre of films in French, such as comedies, westerns and musicals.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a speaking activity, a speaking and listening activity, writing task and 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 in the zip file and are:
4 page PDF Lesson Plan
A 15 slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open. Some of the images are only revealed when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations.)
Resources for the written activity (2 PDF pages - colour and black & white versions)
No further preparation needed.
This plan is Lesson 3, Unit 11 French designed by Blossoming Minds, but can be used on its own.
You might be interested in some of our other French units including Units 1, 2 and 3:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11769397
This is a lesson plan and resources for a beginner’s Italian lesson to use with KS2. It would be perfect to use as a first Italian lesson, as it involves children learning the most basic vocabulary of ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye.’
The lesson plan gives details of a group starter, how to teach the ‘greetings’ vocabulary, a whole class game, a speaking and listening activity, simple reading/writing activity and plenary. It is highly interactive and allows the children to practise a range of language skills.
All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. The resources include:
a 4 page PDF lesson plan;
a 10 slide animated PowerPoint presentation containing the vocabulary to act as a visual aid (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open.);
a sheet for the starter; and
colour and black & white versions of the reading activity.
This is lesson 1 of Unit 1 Italian designed by Blossomingminds.
Unit 1 is available here:
Beginners Italian - Greetings and Introductions Bundle
Unit 2 is available here:
Italian All About Me 5 lesson bundle
This is a plan and resources for a beginner’s Spanish lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning numbers up to 10 and could be used as an individual lesson or following a few lessons on basic vocabulary.
The plan gives details of a whole class starter, how to teach the ‘numbers’ vocabulary, a paired speaking game, a reading game, simple written activity and whole class 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. They are in the zip file. These are:
4 page pdf Lesson Plan
A 23 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open. Some of the images are only revealed when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations.)
4 pdf pages of resources for the reading game (colour and black & white versions)
5 pdf pages for the written activity (colour and black & white versions and answers)
No further preparation needed.
This is the first lesson in Spanish Unit 2 designed by Blossoming Minds.
Unit 1 Spanish Greetings and Introductions is available here:
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
