I am a primary school teacher working for a home school and tutor online with a passion for children to be engaged in learning. The resources in my shop include lesson plans, PowerPoint Presentations, and hands-on activities with many cross-curricular links.
I am a primary school teacher working for a home school and tutor online with a passion for children to be engaged in learning. The resources in my shop include lesson plans, PowerPoint Presentations, and hands-on activities with many cross-curricular links.
This lesson about the digestive system follows on from ‘How the digestive system works’
Giving opportunities for pupils to explore questions that help to give an understanding of the functions of the digestive system and to use stem sentences to answer in detail how the digestive system works.
Reinforce learning parts of the digestive system and placing them correctly in the body is one activity.
It has been written aimed for upper ks2 answering questions. asking for pupils to give explanations using stem sentences.
The power point presentation is a lesson plan and teaching resource for the lesson.
KS2 English - By Invitation Only!
This unit of work is suitable for upper KS2.
The learning in these four lessons gives pupils opportunities to research different styles and formats of invitation cards to design their own; composing an invitation to Inform and provide information about an event. Also to think about the language and the descriptive style and charisma that is used to persuade the audience.
Pupils will focus on researching and designing their own invitation card for an event; the remaining lessons are using prior knowledge in designing a dinner menu for an event Produce a final menu outlining the courses, using descriptive language, punctuation to persuade and inform. Then to design a menu that has the same style and effect as the invitation.
The English unit of work is based on a number of other lessons in this topic- Food For Thought; it brings together all pupils learning in this twelve week unit of work. There are links to the Design Technology unit of work designing a menu for a final presentation evening inviting family members and sharing all work produced in the topic over the term.
Science Bundle suitable for KS 2 & KS 3
9 science lessons with ppp and resources.
A mix of lessons ranging from understanding the human body and how organs & systems function; to storing foods correctly, how and why bacteria forms in bad ways, and how medicines have been discovered from bacteria and viruses.
Recognizing food groups on the Eat well plate and leading a healthy lifestyle.
This lesson is an informative lesson with many facts about the skeletal system and its role in supporting the major organs in the body. Giving opportunities for pupils to ask specific and indepth questions using stem sentences in their answering.
The learning objectives for this lesson is to ask own questions about the scientific phenomena of the skeletal system and to name and describe the functions of the skeletal system.
The lesson is suitable for upper ks2 and year 7 and year 8 in ks3. Grades 7-8
Lesson file includes a lesson plan and ppp
A lesson for Ks 3 all about slavery, when the trade routes emerged and the Africans that became slaves and were sold and travelled on the trade routes.
This resource is great for home schooling as an activity to practice high frequency words and spelling them, putting knowledge of grammar and punctuation and being creative in tour writing into practice.
This lesson about the digestive system is an advanced lesson carried on from The digestive system part 1 and part 2 for Ks 2 children.
It has been written aimed for lower ks3 answering questions, giving explanations using stem sentences.
The power point presentation is a lesson plan and teaching resource for the lesson.
This science lesson has been written to follow on from ‘nutrients found in water’. part one that expands the children’s knowledge in how water is used within the body and the function of the muscles when there isn’t enough water in the body.
This lesson has been written primarily for KS 3, however can be taught to upper ks 2 to advanced pupils who have a in depth knowledge of the human body.
These units of work are suitable for upper KS2.
The learning in these five lessons offers pupils to research and read different newspapers and distinguish between factual information and opinions based on factual information; Read and explore a range of journalistic writing and identify how a newspaper reports on specific events. Leading on to comparing and contrasting journalistic articles using the 5w’s and how and evaluating the effectiveness and impact different journalistic articles have on its target audience.
Lesson one starts with distinguishing between facts and opinions in the newspapers and answering questions with the importance of answering questions with the 5 W’s. The weeks focus is all about when the sugar tax was first introduced and how the sugar tax has impacted on reducing the obesity of the nation.
These newspaper articles will be evaluated and questions will be answered –
Q. what type of language is used? Q. What’s it purpose/impact on audience?
Q. is formal or informal language used? Q. Is all the information needed?
Q. Is anything missing? Q. Who is the intended audience?
By the end of the week pupils should be able to identify the key language features, the structure and layouts features and explain what the differences are between fact and opinion. A following week’s planning leads into writing own newspaper reports.
Hot of the Press is a unit of work suitable for upper KS2.
The learning in these five lessons gives pupils opportunities to identify the features of note taking on a health topic for a news article and write own newspaper reports; understand the concepts of journalism and how to take notes as reporters by planning a news article using key language and structure layout for own news paper report.
This unit of work follows on from ‘What’s in the News’
Hot of the Press unit of work begins with scanning and skim reading an article to take notes which leads on to skills activities in subordinate clause at the beginning at the end of sentences, embedded clauses., Semi-colon separating two main clause, simple sentences and rhetorical question in a news article. By the end of the week pupils will use their scan and skim reading skills to take their own notes before composing a newspaper article on food, nutrition or health successfully using all criteria from the class checklist and use editing skills to produce a final news article.
As a mum myself of a two and a half year old I have put him a weekly timetable together for his preschool learning. The daily activities cover areas of the early learning goals, websites to refer to the activities set and templates to use for the activities.
A ideal resource for home schooling preschool children.
Includes resources for the activities