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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 beginner’s French lesson to use with KS2. It would be perfect to use as a third or fourth French lesson, after children have learnt to say hello and talk about how they are feeling. The focus in this lesson is on how to ask someone their name and to reply.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the ‘name’ vocabulary, a whole class game, a speaking and listening activity, reading/writing activity and plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
There is a PowerPoint which includes an audio version of each French word or phrase to make it easier for anyone to be able to teach the lesson. You can also play the PowerPoint without the audio.
All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. They are in a zip file. These are:
The 4 page PDF lesson plan
A 10 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click the ‘Read Only’ button to open. Some of the images are only revealed when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations.)
1 PDF sheet for the speaking/listening activity
2 PDF sheets for the Reading/Writing activity (A worksheet and answers are included)
All you need to take with you is a ball or beanbag for the whole class game.
This is lesson 4 of Unit 1 French designed by Blossoming Minds.
Unit 1 French is available here:
Beginners French - Greetings and introductions lesson bundle
Unit 2 French is available here:
French 5 lesson bundle - All About Me - Age and Appearance
This is a 5 lesson Spanish unit for total beginners to use with KS2. It teaches children greetings, feelings, how to say their name and how to talk about where they live. The lessons are highly interactive and allow children to practise a range of language skills.
Lesson 1 - Greetings
In this lesson children learn to say hello and goodbye.
The plan gives details of a group starter, how to teach the ‘greetings’ vocabulary, a whole class game, a speaking and listening activity, a simple reading and writing activity and a plenary.
All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are:
4 page PDF Lesson Plan
A 10 slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is non-editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open.)
Starter activity (1 PDF page)
Reading and writing activity and answers (3 PDF Pages) (Colour and Black & White)
Lesson 2 - Emotions and Feelings
The focus in this lesson is how to ask ‘how are you’ and reply.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the ‘feelings’ vocabulary, a speaking and listening activity, paired game, reading/writing activity and plenary discussion.
All the resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. They are in a zip file. These are:
The 4 page PDF Lesson plan
A 21 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click the ‘Read Only’ button in the centre of the page to open it. Some of the images only appear when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow.)
5 PDF pages of resources for the speaking activity
2 PDF pages for the paired game
3 PDF pages for the Reading/Writing activity. There is a colour and black & white version of the worksheet and an answers sheet.
Lesson 3 - Greetings for different times of day
The focus in this lesson is how to greet people at different times of the day.
The plan gives details of a starter game, how to teach the ‘greetings’ vocabulary, a whole class game, a speaking and listening activity, simple reading/writing activity and final whole class activity.
All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. They are all in a zip file. These are:
The 4 page PDF lesson plan
A 15 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click the ‘Read Only’ button in the centre of the page to open it. Some of the images only appear when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow.)
3 PDF pages of pictures for the game
3 PDF pages for the Reading/Writing activity. There is a colour and black & white version of the worksheet and an answers sheet.
Lesson 4 - Introducing yourself / Saying your name
The focus in this lesson is on how to ask someone their name and to reply.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the ‘name’ vocabulary, a whole class game, a speaking and listening activity, reading/writing activity and plenary.
All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. They are in the zip file and are:
The 4 page PDF lesson plan
A 10 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.)
1 PDF sheet for the speaking/listening activity
2 PDF sheets for the Reading/Writing activity (a worksheet and answers)
All you need to take with you is a ball or beanbag for the whole class game.
Lesson 5 - Where you live
The focus in this lesson is on how to ask someone where they live and reply.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the ‘countries’ vocabulary, a whole class listening activity, a speaking activity, writing activity and plenary.
All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are:
The 4 page PDF lesson plan
A 23 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open. Some of the images only appear when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations.)
5 PDF sheets for the speaking activity
8 PDF sheets for the Writing activity (A worksheet and answers)
No further preparation needed.
This is Unit 1 Spanish designed by Blossoming Minds.
You might also be interested in Unit 2 Spanish All About Me 5 lesson bundle:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11706377
Units 1 and 2 are available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-lesson-bundle-1-term-beginners-11710541
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** A Midsummer Night’s Dream**. The story is a romance and comedy and covers the themes of love, mistaken identities and magic. 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.
This is a set of three lesson plans and resources to teach children about the Jewish holiday of Passover. It is suitable for ages 7 - 11. There is also a 41 slide PowerPoint presentation to accompany the lessons which includes a topic introduction, the Passover story and details of how Jewish people celebrate Passover today.
Lesson 1 teaches children about the story of Passover and includes a drama activity and a literacy task.
Lesson 2 covers the theme of freedom in the Passover story and includes a drama activity and a poem writing task.
Lesson 3 teaches children about Passover celebrations today and includes an art and a literacy activity.
Each lesson starts with an introductory session and finishes with a plenary session. The plan includes three differentiated levels of objectives.
These lessons could be taught at any time of the year.
All necessary resources are included. No further preparation required.
This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning how to label parts of the body in French.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a listening game, a speaking game, a written worksheet 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:
The plan
A PowerPoint presentation
Starter resources
Resources for speaking game
Written worksheet
(This plan is Lesson 1, Unit 10 by Blossoming Minds, but can be used as an individual plan.)
This is a presentation on the inspirational pilot, Amelia Earhart.
The presentation covers Amelia’s childhood, her early flying experiences, her flying records, what happened to her in the end and how she is remembered. The last part of the presentation includes some interesting questions to provoke discussion.
Use this as part of a lesson or for an assembly for ages 7 - 14.
This is a plan and resources for a beginner’s French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for different fruit and vegetables in French. 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.
Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These 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 French, but can be used individually.
You might be interested in Units 1-3:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11769397
This is a plan and resources for a beginner’s French 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 whole class 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 16 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.
No further preparation needed.
This is lesson 5 of Unit 3 French designed by Blossoming Minds.
Unit 1 Beginners French - Greetings and introductions lesson bundle is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11631397
Unit 2 French 5 lesson bundle - All About Me - Age and Appearance is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11707339
Unit 3 French Lesson Bundle - Family members, clothes and pets is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-lesson-bundle-family-members-clothes-and-pets-11769370
A fully interactive PowerPoint quiz which contains 60 questions on books and authors suitable for KS2.
Use 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.
Example questions include:
Where does Heidi go to live? The seaside, On a canal boat or In the mountains
What sort of animal is Esio Trot? Snake, Tortoise or Toad
Who is headmaster at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Professor Dumbledore, Miss Cackle or Professor Trelawny
The PowerPoint is not editable. Please click ‘Read Only’ to open it. Some of the images only appear when the PowerPoint is played with the animations.
A separate answer sheet is included.
No further preparation needed.
This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning 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. The plan could be used for an individual lesson, or as part of a longer unit on France and French speaking regions.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a whole class listening game, a speaking activity, a reading and writing activity, a speaking task and a plenary whole class game. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. They are in the zip file and are:
Lesson Plan - 4 pages (PDF)
An animated PowerPoint presentation - 20 pages (This is not editable. Please click ‘Read Only’ to open.)
Resource for listening game - 8 pages (PDF)
Resources for Reading and Writing activity - 3 pages (PDF)
No further preparation needed.
It would be helpful but not essential if your class have completed our French countryside lesson:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12667431
This is Lesson 3, Unit 12 French by Blossoming Minds, but can be used as an individual lesson.
You might be interested in Units 1, 2 and 3:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11769397
This is a plan and resources for a beginners Italian lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for different pizzas in Italian. The plan could be used for an individual lesson, or as part of a food unit.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a whole class listening game, a speaking and listening activity, a reading/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. They are in the zip file and are:
Lesson Plan - 4 pages (PDF)
A 12 slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open.)
Resources for listening game - 4 pages (colour and black & white) (PDF)
Resources for speaking and listening activity - 2 pages (colour and black & white) (PDF)
Reading/Written activity - 3 pages (colour and black & white and answers) (PDF)
This lesson made me hungry!
This plan is Blossoming Minds’ Italian Lesson 2 Unit 4, but can be used individually.
You might be interested in Units 1-3:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12590110
These Year 2 SATs style fractions revision problems are split into 3 differentiated levels. Each level contains 20 reasoning and 10 arithmetic questions with answers.
The higher level (Super Super Challenge) contains questions covering the Year 2 and Year 3 curriculum and is in the style of a SATs paper.
The intermediate level (Super Challenge) contains questions covering the Year 2 curriculum and is based on past SATs papers.
The lower level (called Challenge) contains questions covering the Year 1 curriculum.
No further preparation required.
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 ‘igh.’ 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 ‘igh’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘igh’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘igh’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘igh’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘igh’ sound
- Revision of common exception words
This resource contains 3 comprehension activities suitable for using with year 1.
The theme in this pack is spring. The three topics are:
What can I do in the spring?
What happens in the spring?
Spring animals
Each comprehension contains 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’ ‘who’ and ‘when’ questions and some multiple choice questions.
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.
Answers are also included.
PDF file format.
These comprehensions are included in our:
Year 1 Easter End of Term Activity Bundle
An animated 23 page PowerPoint presentation retelling the story of God creating the universe. This is an old testament Bible story. It covers the Bible story from Genesis 1 up to the end of Genesis 2:3. The presentation is not editable. Please click the ‘Read Only’ button to open. Some of the images only appear when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations. The PowerPoint is in the zip file. This could be used a part of a lesson or for an assembly for children aged 4 -11.
The PowerPoint is also included in:
Creation / Our World RE unit KS2
This is a plan and resources for a beginner’s French lesson to use with KS2. It would be perfect to use as a fourth or fifth French lesson, after children have learnt to say hello and talk about how they are feeling. The focus in this lesson is on how to ask someone where they live and reply.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the ‘countries’ vocabulary, a speaking activity, writing activity and plenary whole class game. It is highly interactive and allows children to practice a range of language skills.
There is a PowerPoint which includes an audio version of each French word or phrase to make it easier for anyone to be able to teach the lesson. You can also play the PowerPoint without the audio.
All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. They are in the zip file and are:
The 4 page PDF lesson plan
An 18 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 sheets for the speaking activity
6 PDF sheets for the Writing activity (answers are included)
No further preparation needed.
This is lesson 5 of Unit 1 French designed by Blossoming Minds.
Unit 1 French - Greetings and introductions lesson bundle is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11631397
Unit 2 French - All About Me - Age and Appearance is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11707339
This is a presentation on the explorer, Christopher Columbus, who discovered the ‘New World.’
Use it as part of a lesson or for an assembly. The presentation covers Christopher’s childhood, his early sailing years, his voyage and his discovery. The last part of the presentation includes some interesting questions to provoke discussion or for further exploration.
Columbus is one of the key historical figures mentioned in the KS1 curriculum, so this presentation would be perfect for introducing the explorer.
This is a plan and resources for a beginner’s French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary to describe different pets in French.
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 whole class 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
18 slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Please click ‘Read Only’ to open.)
1 PDF page for the listening activity
3 PDF pages for the written activity (colour and black & white worksheet and answers)
No further preparation needed.
The plan would work well coming after a lesson on the words for pets. Our French lesson on pets is available here:
French lesson and resources : Pets
This is lesson 4 of Unit 3 French designed by Blossoming Minds.
You might be interested in Units 1-3
French Lesson Bundle : 15 lessons
A collection of five non-fiction comprehension activities for year 2. Each booklet comes in 3 differentiated levels and includes answers. They are all based on the reading SATs paper, containing a similar style of questions. There are a range of ‘what,’ ‘how,’ and ‘why’ questions, some multiple choice tick questions and some that require more detailed answers. They are also laid out in the same way as a SATs booklet to provide the children with greater experience.
Each booklet contains a title page with helpful words followed by 4 or 5 pages of text with several questions after each piece of information.
All of the booklets are in zip files.
These are the 5 different topics explored in the comprehensions:
Dinosaurs
Castles
Animal Superpowers
Living in Space
The Human Body
PDF file format
There are colour and black & white booklets for the dinosaurs, castles, living in space and human body topics.
An animated 21 page PowerPoint presentation retelling the story of Pentecost, which comes 50 days after Easter. The presentation is not editable. Please click the ‘Read Only’ button to open it. Some of the images only appear when the PowerPoint is run as a Slideshow with the animations. This could be used as part of a lesson or for an assembly for children aged 4 -11.
