Where the Wild Things AreQuick View
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Where the Wild Things Are

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Two notebooks to support work over two weeks on 'Where the Wild Things Are&'. Includes fantasy settings, character description and other immersion tasks.
'The Doorbell Rang' KS1 Maths InvestigationQuick View
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'The Doorbell Rang' KS1 Maths Investigation

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A downloadable investigation lesson pack including notebook, student worksheet, cookie cut-outs, assessment foci sheet for adults and an extension prompt sheet.<br /> The lesson uses P4C principles to encourage learners to create and agree upon a question for investigation though the story's focus is on sharing.
Fairytales Philosophy for Children ActivityQuick View
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Fairytales Philosophy for Children Activity

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Philosophy for learning activity in which children discuss whether it would be better to live in the witch's gingerbread house or the king&'s castle, before using an image of Rumplestiltskin as a stimulus for discussion.
'Snore!' Ear defenders investigationQuick View
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'Snore!' Ear defenders investigation

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Investigation using Michael Rosen's &'Snore as a starting point with children creating ear defenders from different recycled materials. Includes planning sheet for recording results and writing conclusion.
Mr Archimedes' Bath KS1 maths investigationQuick View
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Mr Archimedes' Bath KS1 maths investigation

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A downloadable lesson pack including notebook, student worksheet, adult questioning prompt sheet and assessment foci sheet.<br /> The investigation is a open-ended, aiming to use some P4C techniques to encourage children to set their own question for investigation though is linked to the unit on measuring.
Sketching TeddiesQuick View
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Sketching Teddies

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Art lesson on still life sketching techniques. Children look at famous sketched bear (Winnie the Pooh, Rupert) and test out different sketching techniques before they try their own still-life bear sketch.
Designing toys for the futureQuick View
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Designing toys for the future

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Notebook lesson activity looking at toys from the past before children then work in groups to design a new toy and present it to the class using a writing frame.
The Doorbell Rang HalvingQuick View
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The Doorbell Rang Halving

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Notebook with sharing activities linked to the story 'The Doorbell Rang&' and finding half of a given shape.
Unit 5 Film Narrative: 'Lifted'Quick View
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Unit 5 Film Narrative: 'Lifted'

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IWB flipchart looking at how different camera angles are used in the Pixar Short Film 'Lifted' and encouraging children to think about the effect they have on the audience.
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Las Fallas Festival

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Powerpoint on the Las Fallas festival in Valencia, focusing on the 'f' sound with key vocabulary and images from the festival.<br />
Rumplestiltskin P4C ActivityQuick View
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Rumplestiltskin P4C Activity

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Notebook asking children to think about whether or not any of the characters in Rumplstiltskin need to learn from their actions and explain why. Is it right to make promises you can't keep?
Design and make bike wear (sustainability)Quick View
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Design and make bike wear (sustainability)

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Workbook for pupils to investigate features of children's bike wear before designing and making an item of bike wear (such as a sash or jersey). We upcycled old clothes and linked this to a project on sustainability.
Ordering Inventions in timeQuick View
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Ordering Inventions in time

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Children order inventions according to number of years ago (1) to most (200 years ago). The dates range from 2013 to 1813.
Olympic SculpturesQuick View
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Olympic Sculptures

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A powerpoint looking at sculptures created for the Olympics in different host cities to inspire children to create their own Olympic sculpture. It also links to Anish Kapoor's website where you can watch a video of his changing designs for &'The Orbit&';.
Handling Data: ToysQuick View
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Handling Data: Toys

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Flipchart to accompany a week's work on data handling and measuring (block C unit 2). Linked to toys year 1 planning.
Me llamo 'Quien es?' lessonQuick View
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Me llamo 'Quien es?' lesson

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A lesson for lower KS2 on 'me llamo' followed by a exercise in which children have to listen out for key new vocabulary to help work out which celebrity is 'speaking'.
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Y5_Dramatic Conventions_TV

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This lesson was focusing on scripted questions used in television interviews. The children watched an interview with the author of 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' and then write questions for JLS before using drama to hot seat the interview in class.