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This outstanding PE unit has been planned by PE experts and tried in primary schools with real children! Through this unit, children will learn fundamental skills, such as running, jumping and balancing. Each lesson comes with at least two different games for children to play and apply their skills and a warm up and cool down. There are also resource listings so you can ensure you are prepared for each lesson. Learning objectives include: ✸ Develop awareness of speed and distance ✸ Develop fluency, rhythm and balance in running over obstacles ✸ Take off in different ways and land in a coordinated way ✸ Use different jumps to make jumping sequences ✸ To complete a running and jumping course. Have any issues with this resource or a request? Contact us directly for the quickest response at: explore_education@outlook.com

Get your KS1 students excited about physical activity with this fun and engaging 5-lesson unit on bat and ball games! Designed to develop fundamental movement skills and hand-eye coordination, this resource is perfect for introducing young learners to the joy of sports and games. What’s Included: ✰ 5 Detailed Lesson Plans: Step-by-step guidance for each lesson, including clear learning objectives, warm-up activities, skill-building exercises, and fun games. ✰ Differentiated Instruction: Activities are adaptable to various skill levels, ensuring all students feel successful and challenged. ✰ Focus on Fundamental Skills: Develop essential skills like throwing, catching, striking, and teamwork through a variety of engaging activities. ✰ Creative Themes: Each lesson is themed to capture children’s imaginations and make learning fun (e.g., jewellers, cave people, chefs, ants). ✰ Progression of Skills: Lessons build upon each other, gradually increasing the complexity of skills and game play. Key Learning Outcomes: ✰ Movement Skills: Students will develop fundamental movement skills like throwing, catching, striking, running, and dodging. ✰ Hand-Eye Coordination: Students will improve their hand-eye coordination through practice with bats, balls, and other objects. ✰ Teamwork: Students will learn to cooperate and communicate effectively with their peers during team games. ✰ Sportsmanship: Students will develop good sportsmanship and fair play through positive reinforcement and encouragement. Why Choose This Resource? ✰ Engaging and Fun: Children will love the variety of activities and the creative themes, making learning active and enjoyable. ✰ Easy to Implement: Lesson plans are clear, concise, and require minimal preparation. ✰ Curriculum-Aligned: Meets the national curriculum objectives for KS1 PE. ✰ Teacher-Approved: Created by experienced educators with a passion for physical education. Spark a lifelong love of sports and physical activity in your KS1 students with this fantastic bat and ball games unit! Ideal for: KS1 PE, physical education, bat and ball games, movement skills, hand-eye coordination, teamwork, sportsmanship, primary school, elementary school.

This two Year 3/4 English interview lesson about sentence types and effective writing has been rated Outstanding by Ofsted inspectors. They can be flexibly used alone or together. Children will use a picture prompt to create a paragraph of writing in lesson 1 and in lesson 2 they will produce a storyboard based on a film clip about Aladdin, learning how to use a compound and complex sentences effectively. It includes: two lesson plans, two PowerPoint presentations, differentiated tasks and extra resources (such as word banks). Children discuss the differences between simple, compound and complex sentences and will reflect upon their writing. Lesson 1: L.O. To understand how to use a range of sentence types. Lesson 2: L.O. To use different types of sentences in my writing. Files included: ✸ x2 lesson plans ✸ x2 PowerPoints ✸ Banned words bank ✸ Picture prompt (easier activity) ✸ Picture prompt worksheet (medium level) ✸ Picture prompt worksheet (harder level) ✸ Conjunctions word bank ✸ Aladdin storyboard (easier level) ✸ Aladdin storyboard (medium level) ✸ Aladdin storyboard (harder level) ✸ Character adjective table year 5 year 6 KS2 Y5 Y6 UKS2 outstanding interview lesson ofsted English mastery SPAG observation Have any issues with this resource or a request? Contact us directly for the quickest response at: explore_education@outlook.com

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This Gymnastics pack includes 9 lesson plans, an expectations sheet that differentiates three ways and flashcards for different moves that can be demonstrated in this unit. Perfect for Lower Key Stage 2, each lesson plan contains learning objectives, a warm up, development task and composition task before a cool down activity. Each section also has tips for the teacher in red italics. The 28 flashcards have images and descriptions of different movements they might want to cover in the unit. All files are in PDF format. lks2 ks2 year 3 year 4 outstanding key stage two

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Are you teaching year 5 or 6 children (UKS2) about obtuse, acute, and right angles and how to use protractors to measure angles in math? This outstanding interview lesson plan is perfect for you! This outstanding interview lesson teaches year 5 and year 6 children about obtuse, acute and right angles and using protractors to measure angles in maths is designed to showcase your mastery of subject knowledge and effective teaching techniques, impressing any Ofsted inspector. Using the principles of mastery learning and reasoning, this lesson is differentiated to meet the needs of all learners. The learning objective is to accurately use a protractor, with success criteria that include lining up the bottom of the protractor with one of the lines, making sure the corner (vertex) of the angle is in the middle of the protractor, and looking at where the 0 is on the line to use the correct set of numbers. The starter activity invites the children to look at the success criteria and complete a cold task on the screen, while the main activity provides teacher input on what angles are, as well as a discussion of real-life examples and different types of angles, such as right angles, obtuse angles, and acute angles. Children also have the opportunity to play “Simon Says” to identify whole turns, half turns, and 90-degree turns, shouting out the degrees of each angle as they do it. To engage higher ability children, they can complete the Hot Task (input) silently and independently while the rest of the class receives input. Differentiated activities include using angle eaters to measure and identify different types of angles, estimating and measuring angles on worksheets, and exploring the patterns and relationships between angles in different shapes. In the plenary, students will review the success criteria and reflect on their learning, sharing which part of the lesson was the easiest or hardest. The resources for this lesson include a PowerPoint, protractors, angle eaters, cold task, show it tasks, table display, and challenge tasks. Overall, this lesson is a strong example of how to teach a complex mathematical concept while promoting mastery and reasoning skills, making it an excellent choice for showcasing your teaching abilities during an interview or impressing an Ofsted inspector or SLT observer. Ideal for a 30 minute-1 hour lesson. uks2 ks2 problem solving reasoning finishing exit tickets greater depth exceeding observation