Planning and resources for primary teachers from http://www.ks2history.com. Our history topics include Stone Age to Iron Age, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Victorians, Shang Dynasty etc and the list is expanding each month, with literacy units to link to the topics too.
Our popular resources have been tried and tested in hundreds of classrooms.
Planning and resources for primary teachers from http://www.ks2history.com. Our history topics include Stone Age to Iron Age, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Victorians, Shang Dynasty etc and the list is expanding each month, with literacy units to link to the topics too.
Our popular resources have been tried and tested in hundreds of classrooms.
A bundle of seasonal resources for primary classrooms to take you through November and December!
Including:
- Christmas Literacy Activity (Riddles Lesson)
- Anti-Bullying Activity
- 3d Bonfire Poems
- Autumn Performance Poetry
- Christmas Performance Poetry
- Christmas Tree Kenning Poems
Very popular! This is a great one-off literacy activity and a wonderful teamwork project to help your class work together to make a class poem. You could use this as a great way to start a new year, as pupils come together in unity to create a new class poem using the letters in the name of their class.
The pack contains a Powerpoint lesson, teacher instructions and pupil resources - everything you need for this fun poetry lesson, including warm up/getting to know you games and a fun teamwork project based on making and performing a class poem.
The activity allows pupils to work together to make a class poem that spells out the name of their new class. The session is based around Edward Lear’s ‘Alphabet Poem’ and the activities include suggestions for adapting the lesson for KS1 or KS2.
This resource is structured in the following way:
1. Fun warm up activities and games including name games, a classroom hunt activity, a paper-chain race and ‘Find Someone Who’ bingo.
2. A poetry time activity following the lesson Powerpoint to help the class to become familiar with Edward Lear’s ‘Alphabet Poem’. There are different options to adapt this for different age groups.
3. A group activity in which pupils create their own stanzas for the alphabet poem, using the letters that spell out your class name or their new teacher’s name.
4. A whole class performance of the new poem.
Check out our other popular resource packs:
All About Me Time Capsule
Recipe for a Great School Year!
Autumn Poetry Pack KS1
All About Me Fidget Spinner Pack
Stone Age Boy Pack
Please follow the steps below to access your files:
1. Return to this page.
2.Further down the page you’ll see the files included within the Resource listed under the header ‘Files Included’. You may need to click on the ‘See all Resources’ to view them all.
3. Use the download arrow icons found to the left of each of the file names for each separate file.
Please note that due to terms of use in the images used, the Powerpoint file is not editable.
Download these popular ‘All About Me’ activities with a fidget spinner theme! Great for back to school or getting to know you transition activities!
The pack contains activities that can be used in the following ways:
1. An All About Me sheet for pupils to fill in the sections of the fidget spinners with pictures or words about their favourite foods, people, school activities etc.
2. A blank version of the above activity for teachers pupils to choose their own categories.
3. A game using real fidget spinners (if they have not been banned!) where pupils have until the spinner stops to talk about each category.
4. A multiple-choice quiz for pupils to make real and false answers about themselves using the fidget spinner templates.
5. A design-your-own fidget spinner activity.
Check out our other popular resources:
All About Me Time Capsule
Summer Performance Poetry
[Transition Day Activity Pack
](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/transition-day-activities-11605239)End of Term Iphone Activity Booklet
Get 50% off this resource if you buy today by using code INNOVATE at checkout!
End of School Year Activities.
A bundle of three of our popular end of term activities!
1. End of term iPhone activity booklet.
2. Fidget Spinner All About Me activities (end of term/transition).
3. All About Me time capsules - fill these in at the end of term and pass on to the next teacher to be opened in a year's time!
3 great activities to have up your sleeve for the end of term!
BONUS FREEBIE: Recipe for a Great School Year!
Looking for activities for the first week back with your new class? Updated for 2019.
Download this bundle of popular back to school activities for primary teachers getting to know their new classes!
New Class Activity Pack - pupils bond by working together to make a class poem
Time Capsule - pupils make an ‘All About Me’ time capsule to be sealed and opened again at the end of the school year
Recipe for a Great School Year - these recipes make a perfect classroom display.
The resources contain ideas for adapting the activities to suit older or younger classes in Ks1 or Ks2. Great for getting to know your new class in a fun and hands-on way.
Three fun new year resources for primary classrooms! Start 2018 off in style with these fun activities that help pupils to think about the year ahead.
1. Recipe for a Happy New Year - a fun activity lesson where pupils reflect on what will make a successful year and creative a recipe to display.
2. Our Class Poem - a teamwork activity to bring your class together at the start of the year. They will create and perform a class poem.
3. Time Capsule - pupils create an ‘All About Me’ time capsule envelope to seal up and open again at the end of the year!
Please follow the download instructions at the bottom of the page to make sure you get all of the files included in this resource. Problems downloading? Click here for download help.
Please follow the steps below to access your files:
1. Return to this page and click on each resource to go to the product listing.
2. Scroll to the files included within the resource listed under the header ‘Files Included’/‘All Files’. You may need to click on the ‘See all Resources’ to view them all.
3. Use the download arrow icons found to the left of each of the file names for each separate file.
PRIMARY back to school activities for meeting a new class.
This is a great one-off literacy activity and a wonderful teamwork project to help your new class work together to make a class poem. In this getting to know you activity pupils work together to create a new class poem using the letters in the name of their class.
The pack contains a Powerpoint lesson, teacher instructions and pupil resources - everything you need for this fun poetry lesson, including icebreaker games and a mini class performance at the end.
The activity allows pupils to bond as they make a class poem that spells out the name of their new class. The session is based around Edward Lear’s ‘Alphabet Poem’ and the activities include suggestions for adapting the lesson for different ages and abilities across KS1 or KS2.
This resource is structured in the following way:
Fun teamwork activities and games including name games, a classroom hunt activity, a paper-chain race and ‘Find Someone Who’ bingo.
A poetry time activity following the lesson Powerpoint to help the class to become familiar with Edward Lear’s ‘Alphabet Poem’. There are different options to adapt this for different age groups.
A group activity in which pupils create their own stanzas for the alphabet poem, using the letters that spell out your class name or their new teacher’s name.
A whole class performance of the new poem.
Ideal for the first week back!
Check out our other popular resource packs:
All About Me Time Capsule
Recipe for a Greatr School Year!
Autumn Poetry Pack KS1
All About Me Fidget Spinner Pack
Stone Age Boy Pack
The resource contains 2 PDF files and 1 PPT. Please note that due to terms of use in the images, the Powerpoint file is not editable.
Download our popular performance poetry units as a mega bundle!
This bundle is a great investment for school leaders and literacy co-ordinators to support teachers in teaching classic poetry eel across the school. Each unit builds up to a poetry performance.
Each of these planning packs includes full lesson plans and accompanying resources and is designed for the 2014 National Curriculum, with integrated SPAG objectives. All of our lessons are written by literacy experts and outstanding teachers.
This bundle contains all of our downloadable planning units, bundled together at a discount price!
A great resources for schools, history co-ordinators or home educators looking to build a supply of tried-and-tested history resources.
The following packs are included:
Anglo-Saxons KS2 Pack
Victorians KS2 Pack
Stone Age to Iron Age KS2 Pack
Romans in Britain KS2 Pack
Benin Kingdom KS2 Pack
Shang Dynasty KS2 Pack
Stone Age Boy Literacy KS2 Pack
How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth KS2 Pack
Escape from Pompeii KS2 Pack
Romans Instructions KS2 Pack
Beowulf KS2 Pack
The Great Kapok Tree KS2 Pack
The Egyptian Cinderella KS2 Pack
Download our most popular and well-loved planning packs from primary school, all in one brilliant mega bundle!
This is an excellent investment for primary teachers, subject co-ordinators and school leaders. All of our lessons are planned by outstanding teachers.