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.
Very popular Christmas resource! Get sorted for the festive season with three fun Christmas literacy activities for primary classrooms.
1. Christmas Riddles - a fun activity lesson where pupils write riddles about Christmas presents and then make a lift-the-flap present.
2. Christmas Tree Kennings - pupils learn what kennings are and use them to make a Christmas tree poem.
3.Christmas Performance Poetry - a five-day literacy unit leading up to a poetry performance, adaptable to different age groups.
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Download this popular two-week unit for Year 5/6 based on 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' and other poetry by Tennyson.
In this unit, pupils will read and listen to the dramatic poems 'The Kraken' and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by the Victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. Pupils will consider how the sounds and language patterns come alive when the poems are read aloud. Children will work towards creating their own poems about heroic battles and then they will perform them aloud.
The aims of the unit for pupils are:
• To listen to classic and narrative poems by Tennyson
• To identify poetic devices and to explain their effects
• To research the literary influences of classic poetry
• To prepare and perform a poem to an audience
• To engage with a poet’s use of imaginative language to create battle scenes.
The PDF file contains 10 full literacy lesson plans, copies of the poems and all accompanying pupil resources. Perfect for National Poetry Month!
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Two of our popular All About Me Activities for primary pupils:
1. Fidget Spinner Theme All About Me Pack
2. All About Me Time Capsules.
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End of Term Iphone Activity Booklet
Perfect for Anti-Bullying Week 2018! This Anti-Bullying iPhone Booklet makes a fun activity that helps pupils to think about some of the key issues about bullying and this year’s theme ‘Choose Respect’. All templates and Powerpoint slides required are included.
Pupils will create an iPhone-shaped booklet in which they write or draw to answer text messages about different issues relating to bullying.
The Powerpoint provided guides you though different discussion points and offers 3 different challenge levels for each question, allowing you to easily adapt this resource for your year group. Then pupils can use the templates provided to create their own antibullying booklets, making an excellent classroom display or handheld project to take home!
This resource includes:
- A full lesson powerpoint including differentiated discussion points
- A resource pack including teacher instructions and templates for the activity.
This is a fun and through-provoking activity easily adapted across KS1 and KS2.
Please note that due to terms of use in the images used, the Powerpoint file is not editable.
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.
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.
A fully-resourced unit of 10 history lessons for KS2, covering the Anglo-Saxon topic. This KS2History planning pack includes 10 detailed lessons plans, each with accompanying pupil resource sheets and Powerpoint slides.
The ten sessions in this unit aim to give an overview of the Anglo-Saxon period in Britain and to highlight some of the major changes during this period. There is an emphasis on allowing pupils to consider the sources of evidence that form our understanding of this period of British history.
The aims of the unit for pupils are:
To gain an overview of the significant people and events during the Anglo-Saxon period in Britain.
To contrast everyday life during the Anglo-Saxon period with modern British lifestyles.
To consider broader historical themes of invading and settling before a time when Britain was unified under a single monarch.
To become familiar with historical sources and accurate vocabulary relating to the Anglo-Saxon period.
This pack contains everything you need to teach this unit, including differentiated activity ideas so that it can be adapted to the needs of your class. The Powerpoint text is also editable.
The planning pack covers the following lessons:
Who were the Anglo-Saxon invaders?
Why did the Anglo-Saxons want to settle in Britain?
What was it like in an Anglo-Saxon village?
What kind of clothes did the Anglo-Saxons wear?
How was Anglo-Saxon Britain ruled?
Who was Alfred the Great?
What was Anglo-Saxon food and drink like?
How did the Anglo-Saxons write things down?
How did the Anglo-Saxons find out about Christianity?
What was the mystery of Sutton Hoo?
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A FREE full lesson for KS2 introducing the Victorian period, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets. This is the first lesson from our Victorians Planning Pack for KS2.
Introduction to the Victorians
This lesson introduces the Victorian period and helps pupils to set it into its wider context in British history. After completing a timeline activity, pupils will gain an overview of facts about the period and then engage with a set of historical sources to make deductions about life in Victorian times.
Objectives:
To put the Victorian period into historical context
To use historical sources to find out about the Victorian period
The lesson plan includes differentiation ideas to adapt the activities for the needs of your class.
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FREE lesson for KS2 introducing the Ancient Greeks, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and printable activity sheets.
This lesson is part of our popular Ancient Greece Pack for Key Stage 2.
Lesson 1. Who were the Ancient Greeks?
This lesson introduces the who, when and where of the Ancient Greek civilisation. Pupils will look at maps and timelines to place Ancient Greece in context and then zoom in to find out more about key events from the five distinct time periods associated with Ancient Greece . Pupils will engage with historical sources to find out clues about life in Ancient Greek times.
Objectives:
To find out when and where the Ancient Greeks lived
To make a timeline of key events
To use historical sources to infer information about the past
The lesson plan includes differentiation ideas to adapt the activities for the needs of your class.
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Ancient Greeks Lessons Pack for KS2: A fully-resourced unit of 10 history lessons for KS2, covering the Ancient Greece topic.
A lesson for KS2 about the Ancient Greek Olympic Games, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and printable activity sheets.
This lesson is part of our popular Ancient Greece Pack for Key Stage 2.
Lesson: What happened at the Ancient Greek Olympic Games?
In this lesson, pupils will find out about the Ancient Greek Olympic games. After matching up ancient and modern events, pupils will find out about the why, what, who and when of the Ancient Games and may be surprised to learn that competitive sport was not the main purpose of the games. Pupils will make a sample 5-day programme to show the balance of sporting, religious and social activities before taking part in a Classroom Olympic Games of their own, complete with its own winners’ ceremony.
Objectives:
To explain the importance of the Olympic Games in Ancient Greek culture
To explore the balance of religious, social and sporting activities at the Ancient Greek Olympics
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This primary history resource has been created by KS2History.
A lesson for KS2 looking at the story of Boudica’s rebellion against the Romans - including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and printable activity sheets.
This lesson is part of our popular Romans unit for Key Stage 2.
Lesson: Who was Boudica and how did she rebel against the Romans?
In this lesson, pupils will develop their skills of working with historical sources in order to find out about the character of Boudica. They will be introduced to primary and secondary sources to help them to learn the story of Boudica’s rebellion against the Romans. Then they will have the opportunity to make a comic strip of the story and to learn a humorous song about Boudica.
Objectives:
To use historical sources to find out about Boudica
To explore the story of Boudica’s rebellion against the Romans.
This primary history resource is created by KS2History.
You may also like our other Romans topic resources:
Roman Britain Planning Pack
Escape from Pompeii Literacy Planning Pack
Romans Literacy Pack (Instructions Unit)
Romans Planning Bundle of all three planning packs
A full lesson for KS2 about Stonehenge, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets (including instructions to make a biscuit henge model).
Why are there so many mysteries about Stonehenge?
In this lesson pupils take a virtual tour of Stonehenge and suggest answers to some related questions that still puzzle historians today. Pupils will explore different theories about why Stonehenge was built and then they will construct their own models of Stonehenge using biscuits, clay or boxes.
Objectives:
To understand what Stonehenge looks like
To explore different theories about the building of Stonehenge
The lesson plan includes differentiation ideas to adapt the activities for the needs of your class.
This is the sixth lesson in the popular Stone Age to Iron Age Unit for KS2..
This primary history resource was created by KS2History.
Prehistory Timelines (Lesson for KS2)
Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers (Lesson for KS2)
Stone Age Cave Art (Lesson for KS2)
Stone Age Artefacts & Evidence (Lesson for KS2)
Skara Brae (Lesson for KS2)
Bronze Age (Lesson for KS2)
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Stone Age to Iron Age Planning Bundle for KS2
A lesson for KS2 introducing Britain just before the time of the Roman invasion - including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and printable activity sheets.
This lesson is part of our popular Romans unit for Key Stage 2 and helps to set the context for the Roman invasion of Britain.
Lesson: What was Britain like before the Romans invaded?
This lesson explores what Britain looked like just before the Roman invasion and it provides a key background before analysing the impact of the Roman invasion in subsequent lessons. Pupils will explore an Iron Age tribal map and consider how the geography affects invasion strategies. Then pupils will become Roman ‘spies’, reporting on key aspects of the culture, landscape and lifestyle of Iron Age Britain.
Objectives:
To explain what Britain looked like just before the Romans invaded
To evaluate how different aspects of life in Iron Age Britain might have affected the success of the Roman invasion
This primary history resource is created by KS2History.
You may also like our other Romans topic resources:
Roman Britain Planning Pack
Escape from Pompeii Literacy Planning Pack
Romans Literacy Pack (Instructions Unit)
Romans Planning Bundle of all three planning packs
Reading comprehension based on visiting a Iron Age Hillfort. Great alongside the Stone Age to Iron Age topic or for a guided reading text!
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This pack contains the information text, two pages of questions, an additional challenge and an answer key.
The questions are aimed at Year 3 and Year 4 but could be used by other year groups too. This is a useful resource for English lessons, guided reading, independent research or homework.
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Check out our other popular Stone Age resources:
Stone, Bronze & Iron Age Reading Comprehension Pack
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SATS - 100 reading questions organised by content domain, created for SATS revision. This is a popular revision tool for the Y6 Reading SATS test! The resource can be used all year round to help prepare pupils for the requirements of the KS2 test or as a last minute revision tool.
Get ready for the KS2 reading assessments with this SATS Question Generator! Covering all of the reading content domains, you can use this SATS revision resource to practise the different types of questions that might come up in the KS2 SATS paper.
Select one of the following modes:
- Choose a particular reading content domain to revise
- Practise those tricky 3-mark questions where pupils often lose marks
- Revise fiction/non-fiction/poetry questions
- Random mode, giving you a mixture of all types of questions
The SATs revision resource also includes handy hints and tips to help pupils in the test. Perfect for teachers to use as morning work, lesson starters or revision sessions or alternatively for pupils to practise independently at school or at home. Each slide contains a short passage in the style of the reading SATS papers and then a question to answer.
This is a must-have resource for Y6 pupils working towards their reading SATS tests!
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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
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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.
A full lesson for KS2 introducing the British prehistoric period covering the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
What does prehistory mean?
This lesson introduces the period of British history from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. Pupils will make a timeline to set this period into the wider context of British History and they will discover how we break up this period into distinct ages.
Objectives:
To put events in chronological order
To understand how the period from the Stone Age to the Iron Age fits into a wider picture of British history
The lesson plan includes differentiation ideas to adapt the activities for the needs of your class.
This is the first lesson in the popular Stone Age to Iron Age Unit for KS2..
This primary history resource was created by KS2History.
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A full lesson for KS2 introducing the Bronze Age, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
How did bronze replace stone in the Bronze Age?
This lesson looks at the changes between the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, including the implications of the discovery of bronze and the process of how bronze was made. Pupils will find out why bronze was so important and they will create their own flowcharts to record the ‘smelting’ process of how it was made.
Objectives:
To know how the Bronze Age was different to the Stone Age
To explain how the smelting process was used to make bronze
The lesson plan includes differentiation ideas to adapt the activities for the needs of your class.
This is the seventh lesson in the popular Stone Age to Iron Age Unit for KS2..
This primary history resource was created by KS2History.
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A full lesson for KS2 introducing the topic of Skara Brae. The resource includes a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
What was Skara Brae?
In this lesson pupils will find out how things changed in Britain in the Stone Age when people began to settle in farming communities like Skara Brae. This lesson allows pupils to conduct their own research online about the discovery of Skara Brae and helps them to systematically organise their notes so that they can make a presentation.
Objectives:
To research the history of Skara Brae
To find out about the way people lied in the Neolithic period
The lesson plan includes differentiation ideas to adapt the activities for the needs of your class.
This is the fifth lesson in the popular Stone Age to Iron Age Unit for KS2..
This primary history resource was created by KS2History.
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Stone Age to Iron Age Planning Bundle for KS2
Download our popular Stone Age to Iron Age lesson planning bundle containing 10 full lesson plans for KS2.
This resources contains a bundle of history lessons that make up a complete unit covering the topic ‘Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age’. Each file contains a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint slides and pupil resource sheets. There are also there extra comprehension resources included.
Lessons in this unit include:
Prehistory Timelines (Lesson for KS2)
Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers (Lesson for KS2)
Stone Age Cave Art (Lesson for KS2)
Stone Age Artefacts & Evidence (Lesson for KS2)
Skara Brae (Lesson for KS2)
Stonehenge Mysteries (Lesson for KS2)
Bronze Age (Lesson for KS2)
Bronze Age Grave Goods (Lesson for KS2)
Iron Age Hillforts (Lesson for KS2)
Iron Age Art (Lesson for KS2)
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