In this resource, the child is asked to carry out a number of writing activities based around the Rushford Village Fair. For example, they are asked to write persuasive posters advertising the fair, a detailed program and plan for the day, formal letters asking people to donate items to sell and to make up some competitions. The child is then asked to read the newspaper article written the day after the fair and to find facts and opinions and direct and reported speech. Lastly, they should write their own newspaper report about the fair, for the school magazine. They should write in third person. The child should use all the prompts given to help them write their report. This series provides prompts to encourage children to write. It provides starting points, to encourage even the most reluctant writers. In fact, the writer regularly dips into these packs for her own tutorial classes. With their lively ‘magazine style’ format, they are an ideal study aid to consolidate work on planning and writing stories and non fiction articles, expanding vocabulary and include many examples of children’s work. As well as this, the packs contain some very useful tips on writing techniques (as in writing simple, compound and complex sentences). The work in these packs will inspire children, who are practicing for exams, to write, and provide starting points for even the most reluctant writer, including those children with special educational needs and where English is a second language. 19 pages

Part 2 of the “Looking Back: Child Labour” resource focuses on children who worked down the coal mines in Victorian Britain. It is an informative and interactive teaching tool for children aged 8-13. This pack is perfect for reinforcing key historical skills and helping children acquire important knowledge about what life was like for the many children who worked in the nineteenth century. This resource contains a total of 41 pages and covers the topics of: the jobs children did in the coal mines; their hours of work; the treatment of children in the mines; what t was like in a coal mine; the health risks and dangers involved in mining; why children were employed to work in the coal mines; and the Acts of Parliament introduced.

Part 3 of the “Looking Back: Child Labour” resource focuses on children who worked on the land, in agriculture, and in domestic service in Victorian Britain. It is an informative and interactive teaching tool for children aged 8-13. This pack is perfect for reinforcing key historical skills and helping children acquire important knowledge about what life was like for the many children who worked in the nineteenth century. This resource contains a total of 34 pages and covers the topics of: the typical jobs children did on the land; what the working day was like for children employed in agriculture; why children worked on the land; the Agricultural Children Act; and what life was like as a maid-of-all-work. Part One - Looking Back: Child Labour - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13111442 Part Two - Looking Back: Child Labour - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13112787 To find out about child labour in the factories see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12938508

The child is asked to read the text, to put Grace’s story in order and then to answer some questions. The last question focuses on the meaning of words used in the text and the child then writes his or her own non fiction piece about Grace Darling and another famous person. The child also works through punctuation exercises - putting in capital letters, full stops and question marks. Let’s Practise Our Reading Comprehension Packs are a valuable resource to help the child practise essential reading comprehension skills. Each pack includes an article for the child to read and then a series of questions. They are ideal for use with 6-9 year olds, who have reached some degree of reading fluency. The articles ask the child to retrieve facts, explain information and develop their own ideas as to what the writer is implying. Each pack contains vocabulary exercises, encouraging the child to search for words or phrases with the same meaning. Each pack takes the form of a mini topic or project. 17 pages

Improve Your English Work Packs teach the child good English. They help improve the child’s punctuation, spelling and grammar skills. There are a wide range of packs to choose from, providing practice in sentence writing, use of connectives and parts of speech. The child will also be introduced to literary techniques - similes, metaphors and other stylistic devices. The format of each pack is so simple. The pages are quick and easy to work through, so the child will learn fast and remember skills taught easily. Each pack includes a lesson plan, with structured exercises, including answer pages. Improve Your English Work Packs save hours of time when preparing lessons or homework tasks. Included in this series, there are eight structured assessment tests, to test vocabulary, capital letters, punctuation, spelling and use of English language with answers.

19 pages A series of work packs called ‘Read, Write And Play’, for children of 3-7 years. For young children of 3-5 years, read the stories aloud and discuss the content of the story with the child, answering the questions. Get the child to draw a picture from the story. Help him or her write a sentence about it, so they can trace or copy over the letters. Make the puppet and act out the story. For older children, aged 5-7 (who have some reading skills), get the child to read the story and answer the questions in sentences. The questions cover comprehension skills, retrieving information, using language and inference. Colour the pictures and then draw your own picture and write your own version of the story. Make the puppet and then act out the story with your child.

Writing Letters And Using The Correct Terminology In English: Read The Examples And Write Your Own Version ‘Improve Your English As A Foreign Language’ Work Packs save hours of time when preparing lessons for students where English is a second language . The packs are suitable for intermediary speakers of English, who want to improve their written English. Each work pack uses our humorous comic character ‘the alien Zoggy’ to guide the student. They provide a fun light hearted approach to learning English (suitable for young learners of 8 years plus through to adult). The work packs help the student: To learn idioms and colloquial phrases used by fluent English speakers (which often catch the foreign speaker out) To use the right preposition after the verb To set out and write formal letters in English To expand their vocabulary for speaking and writing, by replacing boring words with more interesting words To improve their skills in English grammar Each pack includes tuition pages and follow up exercises to practice the skills learnt. By the time the student has worked through each pack, their command of English will be at a much higher standard.

Use Better Vocabulary In Your Writing (walk) ‘Improve Your English As A Foreign Language’ Work Packs save hours of time when preparing lessons for students where English is a second language . The packs are suitable for intermediary speakers of English, who want to improve their written English. Each work pack uses our humorous comic character ‘the alien Zoggy’ to guide the student. This provides a fun, light hearted approach to learning English (suitable for young learner of 8 years plus through to adult). The work packs help the student: To learn idioms and colloquial phrases used by fluent English speakers (which often catch the foreign speaker out) To use the right preposition after the verb To set out and write formal letters in English To expand their vocabulary for speaking and writing, by replacing boring words with more interesting words To improve their skills in English grammar Each pack includes tuition pages and follow up exercises to practice the skills learnt. By the time the student has worked through each pack, their command of English will be at a much higher standard.

Use The Right Prepositions In English ‘Improve Your English As A Foreign Language’ Work Packs save hours of time when preparing lessons for students where English is a second language . The packs are suitable for intermediary speakers of English, who want to improve their written English. Each work pack uses our humorous comic character ‘the alien Zoggy’ to guide the student. They provide a fun light hearted approach to learning English (suitable for young learner of 8 years plus through to adult). The work packs help the student: To learn idioms and colloquial phrases used by fluent English speakers (which often catch the foreign speaker out) To use the right preposition after the verb To set out and write formal letters in English To expand their vocabulary for speaking and writing, by replacing boring words with more interesting words To improve their skills in English grammar Each pack includes tuition pages and follow up exercises to practice the skills learnt. By the time the student has worked through each pack, their command of English will be at a much higher standard.

16 pages A series of work packs called ‘Read, Write And Play’, for children of 3-7 years. For young children of 3-5 years, read the stories aloud and discuss the content of the story with the child, answering the questions. Get the child to draw a picture from the story. Help him or her write a sentence about it, so they can trace or copy over the letters. Make the puppet and act out the story. For older children, aged 5-7 (who have some reading skills), get the child to read the story and answer the questions in sentences. The questions cover comprehension skills, retrieving information, using language and inference. Colour the pictures and then draw your own picture and write your own version of the story. Make the puppet and then act out the story with your child.

A fun Christmas writing and drawing activity pack. To be completed at the level your child is at. Includes a story to read and fun activities, such as puzzles, games and drawing activities. 38 pages

A series of work packs called ‘Read, Write And Play’, for children of 3-7 years. For young children of 3-5 years, read the stories aloud and discuss the content of the story with the child, answering the questions. Get the child to draw a picture from the story. Help him or her write a sentence about it, so they can trace or copy over the letters. Make the puppet and act out the story. For older children, aged 5-7 (who have some reading skills), get the child to read the story and answer the questions in sentences. The questions cover comprehension skills, retrieving information, using language and inference. Colour the pictures and then draw your own picture and write your own version of the story. Make the puppet and then act out the story with your child. 20 pages

The Looking Back: Victorian Fashion resource is an informative and interactive teaching tool for children aged 8-13. This pack is perfect for reinforcing key historical skills and helping children acquire important knowledge about how men and women’s fashion changed in the Victorian Period, for both the rich and poor. Content: This resource contains a total of 44 pages and covers the topics of: the changes in the shape and style of women’s clothes in each decade between 1840 and 1900; the working lives of dressmakers and seamstresses; how new inventions and technology changed fashion for men and women; aesthetic dress; the clothes worn by Victorian men; the second-hand clothes markets; and the rise of ready-made clothing. In this pack, children will learn how to: engage with the past and get excited about history. This pack is rich in detail. Historical facts are presented in a fun and engaging manner, surrounded by colourful illustrations, making the information easy to remember and recall. Children will get to read fascinating imaginary interviews with real and fictional characters of the times, newspaper reports, magazine articles, and adverts; as well as look, at lots of original cartoons and illustrations. This pack includes lots of interesting firsthand source material. do research and find information. For some of the topics, children will have to find out the answers for themselves to specific set questions and look for pictures. In order to do this, they’ll need to investigate and retrieve the relevant information in books or on online websites. This will help them learn how to ask their own questions and think about what they want to know. explain, or interpret, evidence and information. Many of the set questions and creative writing exercises will encourage children to thoughtfully consider the evidence before them. They will be asked to look for clues in texts and pictures, to describe, to explain, to reason, to draw conclusions, to think critically and form their own opinions. communicate historical information in an exciting way. This pack includes lots of different sorts of activities: from answering questions and writing diary entries, to dressing up a male and female figure with the typical garments worn by men and women in the 1860s. These fun tasks will help children learn how to write their own narratives about each topic; how to recall, select and organise relevant historical knowledge; how to empathise and imagine how people from the past might feel and act; and how to present their ideas in a manner that is memorable and appeals to the intended reader. This pack is designed to help support your children as they explore the Victorian era, deepen their understanding of this historical time period, and ignite their interest in history. However, many of the tasks would also make wonderful themed creative writing activites for english lessons and it also contains lots of information that would be ideal

Part 1 of the “Looking Back: Child Labour” resource focuses on children who worked as climbing boys, for master chimney sweeps, in the early nineteenth century. It is an informative and interactive teaching tool for children aged 8-13. This pack is perfect for reinforcing key historical skills and helping children aquire important knowledge about what life was like for children who worked in the Victorian period. This resource contains a total of 29 pages and covers the topics of: what the job of a climbing boy involved; why children were employed to clean chimneys; the working and living conditions of the child chimney sweeps; and the new Acts of Parliament introduced to improve the lives of child sweeps.

The “Looking Back: Victorian Crime and Punishment” resource is an informative and interactive teaching tool for children aged 8-13. This pack is perfect for reiniforcing key historical skills and helping children acquire important knowledge about the Victorian police, as well as common crimes and punishments in the nineteenth century. Content: This resource contains a total of 65 pages and covers the topics of: the establishment of the Metropolitan Police; the public reponse to the New Police; what the job of a Victorian policeman entailed; common types of crime; the cause of crime; the expansion of the police force outside of London; how Victorian criminals were punished; life in a Victorian prison; and hard labour. In this pack, children will learn how to: engage with the past and get escited about history. This pack is rich in detail. Historical facts are presented in a fun and engaging manner, surrounded by colourful illustrations, making the information easy to remember and recall. Children will get to read fascinating imaginary interviews with real and fictional characters of the times, newspaper reports, posters, pages from a policeman’s notebook, court records and criminal registers. It includes lots of interesting firsthand source material. do research and find information. For some of the topics,

This workbook is packed full of information about the workhouse system in Victorian Great Britain. It is your job to finish the research and complete the various activities.  You will need to ask questions, find information and interpret the evidence you discover.  It includes lots of firsthand source material. The topics covered include: The New Poor Law Building design and layout of workhouses Staffing the workhouse Workhouse orders and rules Clothing The sorts of jobs workhouse inmates had to do Workhouse diet Living conditions in the workhouse Common diseases in the workhouse Poor Law Guardians Reasons why people may have gone into the workhouse Elizabeth Twining and the Workhouse Visiting Society Written accounts of the time about what life was like in the workhouse What happened to the workhouses Each topic is broken down so that it is easy to understand and all the information is presented in an engaging manner. The historical subject matter being taught is written up in the form of imaginary interviews, newspaper articles, letters, diary entries, posters etc. for the children to read. There are lots of questions to answer that will encourage your children to thoughtfully consider the evidence before them. They will be asked to look for clues in texts and pictures, to describe, to explain, to reason, to draw conclusions and to think critically. There are also creative writing exercises to do that will help children write their own narratives about each topic and to recall, select and organise relevant historical knowledge. Where information is missing, your children will be required to make their own enquiries and look up the answers to the questions online and in books. This pack is designed to help support your children as they explore the Victorian era, deepen their understanding of this historical time period, and ignite their interest in history. It is suitable for children age 8-13. 54 pages. PDF This is a digital download. Please be aware, there are no answers, but all the missing information is provided in bullet points at the end of the pack.

This fascinating workbook is packed full of information about working conditions in Victorian textile factories.  It is your job to finish the research and complete the various fun activities.  You will need to ask questions, find information and interpret the evidence you discover.  It includes lots of interesting firsthand source material. The topics covered include: Why factories were built? Who worked in Victorian textile factories? Child labour in the factories Working and living conditions of factory workers Factory reforms Factory workers on strike In this resource, your children will be introduced to Samuel Courtauld, a successful silk mill owner, in Halstead Essex. They will discover who Mr. Courtauld employed in his factory; the working and living conditions of his factory workers; how he responded to the Factory Acts and the strikes at his mill; and the local societies he established to try and improve the lives of his workers. At the same time, your children will be encouraged to find out for themselves about life in the cotton factories. They will have to imagine that they are the owner of a cotton mill in an industrial town in the north of England. They’ll need to write their own job adverts, create posters to highlight the factory rules, and explain what the working conditions are like for workers in their factory. Each topic covered in this pack is broken down so that it is easy to understand and all the information is presented in an engaging manner. The historical subject matter being taught is written up in the form of imaginary interviews, newspaper articles, posters and as speech etc. for the children to read. There are lots of questions to answer that will encourage your children to thoughtfully consider the evidence before them. They will be asked to look for clues in texts and pictures, to describe, to explain, to reason, to draw conclusions, to think critically and make their own interpretations. There are also creative writing exercises to do that will help children write their own narratives about each topic and to recall, select and organise relevant historical knowledge. Where information is missing, your children will be required to make their own enquiries and look up the answers to the questions online and in books. This pack is designed to help support your children as they explore the Victorian era, deepen their understanding of this historical time period, and ignite their interest in history. It is suitable for children age 8-12. 47 pages. PDF This is a digital download.

This fascinating workbook is packed full of information about Queen Victoria, who ruled in Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 to 1901, and the royal family of the time.  It is your job to finish the research and complete the various fun activities.  You will need to ask questions, find information and interpret the evidence you discover.  It includes lots of interesting firsthand source material. In this resource, your children will learn about important moments in Queen Victoria’s life and reign. The topics covered include: Her childhood Her coronation Her early years as Queen Her marriage Her family The royal houses The Great Exhibition Her relationship with Prince Albert Her position in the British Empire The royal jubilees Her death and funeral Each topic is broken down so that it is easy to understand and all the information is presented in an engaging manner. The historical subject matter being taught is written up in the form of imaginary interviews, newspaper articles, letters, diary entries, statements etc. for the children to read. There are lots of questions to answer that will encourage your children to thoughtfully consider the evidence before them. They will be asked to look for clues in texts and pictures, to describe, to explain, to reason, to draw conclusions and to think critically. There are also creative writing exercises to do that will help children write their own narratives about each topic and to recall, select and organise relevant historical knowledge. Where information is missing, your children will be required to make their own enquiries and look up the answers to the questions online and in books. This pack is designed to help support your children as they explore the Victorian era, deepen their understanding of this historical time period, and ignite their interest in history. It is suitable for children age 8-12. 53 pages. PDF This is a digital download. Please be aware, there are no answers, but all the missing information is provided in bullet points at the end of the pack.

This fascinating workbook is packed full of facts about Christmas celebrations in nineteenth century Great Britain. It is your job to finish the research and complete the various fun activities. You will need to ask questions, find information and interpret the evidence you discover. It includes lots of interesting firsthand source material. In this resource, your children will learn about a number of Victorian Christmas customs and traditions, many of which are still popular today. The topics covered include: Christmas cards Christmas shopping Christmas food Christmas crackers Christmas decorations Christmas charity Carol Singing The origin of Father Christmas Each topic is broken down so that it is easy to understand and all the information is presented in an engaging manner - written up as newspaper articles, imaginary interviews, letters, diary entries etc. There are also lots of creative writing exercises and questions to answer that will encourage your children to thoughtfully consider the evidence before them. Where information is missing, your children will be required to do their own research and look up the answers to the questions online and in books. This pack is designed to help support your children as they explore the Victorian era, deepen their understanding of this historical time period, and ignite their interest in history. It is suitable for children age 8-12. 60 pages. Please be aware, there are no answers, but all the missing information is provided in bullet points at the end of the pack.

A short play script for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, based on the original book by L. Frank Baum, for you to adapt for your class or school performance. School plays are an incredible platform to introduce children to drama, to music, to theatre skills. The school play enables a group, or class of children, to interact together and to work in a team. There is a role for everyone, whether the child: is an actor, who is comfortable learning lines and being on the stage loves singing and dancing enjoys making props, costumes, or helping with technical skills backstage, in sound or lighting A positive experience in a school play boosts confidence and helps a child to feel valued. They can be performed at any time of the year and not just at Christmas. It is a good way to end a term and get parents more actively involved. They can be elaborately staged events, or just a simple assembly. If you have read our book Park Lane School Presents… The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, why not put on your very own school production, using our play script as a starting point. 35 pages