A KS1 history lesson which teaches children about the life of Ibn Battuta and why he was a significant individual. Ibn Battuta was an Islamic explorer in the 1300s and travelled more than 72,000 miles in his lifetime. Although Ibn’s journey started with his Hajj to Mecca, he continued to see lots of Africa and Asia. This resource is a powerpoint presentation which discusses with children Ibn Battuta’s life as well as making links to the prior lesson which was based on what an explorer is. Within this lesson there are links to the Islamic faith and explanations on key vocabulary. How I use this resource: This resource is a powerpoint which is shared at the front of the class with the children. The worksheet can be completed in small groups or completed whole class.

A KS1 (Year 1 and 2) history lesson which teaches children about the history of Teddy Bears. This lesson teaches children about the history of Teddy Bears and how they have changed over time, this includes their design and materials. The lesson also teaches children about the origins of the Teddy Bear and why they were first created. This resource is a powerpoint presentation and is a useful resource in teaching the history of Teddy Bears as it chronologically examines a teddy bear on each slide. For each slide there are opportunities for children to discuss and for teachers to lead the conversation. This resource also includes a PDF worksheet for children to order which Teddy Bears were made first. There are different versions of this worksheet as some children find it hard to cut and stick so there is one version where the picture is already on the timeline. How I use this resource: This resource is a powerpoint which is shared at the front of the class with the children. The task is to be completed in small groups so children can complete their sentences with an adult. If you are interested in the complete unit of Toys past and present planning click the link below! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12978657

A set of worksheets on fractions for Year 6 with the aim to prepare them for their maths SATS assessment. The worksheets are in a booklet so they can be printed as homework or be used in class as revision or in normal lessons. This resource has 25 pages of questions related to the Year 6 curriculum. This work booklet covers: Finding equivalent fractions Finding simplified fractions Comparing fractions Adding and subtracting fractions (with the same and different denominator) Finding fractions of amounts Multiplying fractions Dividing fractions Improper fractions and mixed numbers For each of the above objectives this resource has lots of fluency questions for children to practice each skill. As well as this there is reasoning questions for those children who finish so that they can develop their understanding and achieve Greater Depth! How I use this resource: This resource has 25 pages and can be used in different ways. This can be used when teaching fractions, a revision tool in class or as a homework pack for children before their SATS. If you like this resource and want more Year 6 Fractions resources click here for a free fractions guide! Alternatively, if you are looking for history resources a great starting point for whole school planning is here

A primary history lesson which teaches children about modern day toys from the present. This lesson to investigate different toys in this lesson by looking at their materials and the use of technology in current toys. In future sessions these toys will be compared to old toys with comparisons drawn to different materials and colours used. This resource is a powerpoint presentation and is a useful resource in exploring modern day toys through questioning of the pupils. It is a discussion led lesson. It also includes a task which asks children to pick a toy which is their favourite and explain why. To support in this task there is a scaffold of different sentence stems which provide children with a starting point to their sentence. How I use this resource: This resource is a powerpoint which is shared at the front of the class with the children. This lesson works best if you ask children to bring in toys or provide toys as a school, this would allow a more hands on feel to the lesson. The task is to be completed in small groups so children can complete their sentences with an adult. If you are interested in the complete unit of Toys past and present planning click the link below! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12978657

A KS1 history lesson which explains to children what firefighters are like now to draw comparisons to the 1600s. From the first session of this unit the children know how firefighters were not established in 1600s London and where they did exist they made little impact due to poor equipment. This lesson looks at firefighters now and the impact they have on modern day as well as comparing them to the 1600s. This resource is a powerpoint presentation which includes a worksheet. How I use this resource: This resource is a powerpoint which is shared at the front of the class with the children.

A KS1 history lesson which teaches children what an explorer is. This lesson is crucial to further lessons about significant individuals like Neil Armstrong and Amelia Earhart. To prepare children to learn about these key individuals, this lesson focusses on what an explorer is, explaining that it is someone who travels into the unknown or does something they don’t know a lot about. With this lesson the concept of a smaller world view is introduced and explicit links are made to today’s technology and how it allows us to travel the world. This resource is a powerpoint presentation which discusses with children what an Explorer is. With this resource is a travel guide for this unit of work, children complete a page a session in this. How I use this resource: This resource is a powerpoint which is shared at the front of the class with the children. The worksheet can be completed in small groups or completed whole class.

A medium term plan for KS1 children for the toys past and present unit of planning which covers changes within living memory. Within this medium term plan lessons such as modern day toys, parents toys and grandparents toys are covered. This resource features 6 lessons in the unit and includes for each: Teacher Information Historical Concepts Key Vocabulary Hook Learning Task Plenary How I use this resource: This resource can be printed or used online. This resource is to be used as an outline for the planning you make around the topic of toys past and present. If you are looking for toys planning and want to save time doing your planning then click on the link below for our complete toys unit! [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12978657]

A primary history lesson which teaches children about their grandparents toys from the past. This lesson to investigate different toys in this lesson by looking at their materials and the use of technology in past toys. This lesson explicitly looks at the changing of materials from the different eras as children should have looked at modern toys and their parents toys. This resource is a powerpoint presentation and is a useful resource in exploring grandparents’ toys through questioning of the pupils. It is a discussion led lesson. It also includes a PDF worksheet for children to draw a toy and explain why they would want to play with that given toy. This worksheet is differentiated and scaffolded through the support of sentence stems and has a different version with a crinkly newspaper background. How I use this resource: This resource is a powerpoint which is shared at the front of the class with the children. This lesson works best if you ask children to bring in toys or provide toys as a school, this would allow a more hands on feel to the lesson. The task is to be completed in small groups so children can complete their sentences with an adult. If you are interested in the complete unit of Toys past and present planning click the link below! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12978657

A KS1 history lesson which teaches children about the life of Ernest Shackleton and why he was a significant individual. Ernest Shackleton was an explorer of the South Pole in the early 1900s. Ernest tried to reach the South Pole on many occasions but failed. His most famous attempt was in 1915 aboard the Endurance but his ship got stuck in the ice. Heroically, Ernest and his colleagues managed to reach mainland safe. This resource is a powerpoint presentation which discusses with children Ernest Shackleton’s life as well as making links to the prior lesson which was based on what an explorer is. How I use this resource: This resource is a powerpoint which is shared at the front of the class with the children. The worksheet can be completed in small groups or completed whole class.

A set of differentiated worksheets for children in KS2 (mainly Year 3 and Year 4) to practice their ability to subtract 1,10 and 100 to a number. Subtracting a number can be a difficult skill for the children to master so this resource is differentiated to meet all the children’s needs. Each skill of Subtracting 1, 10 and 100 is broken down into: Subtracting with base ten below 100. Subtracting below 100. Subtracting above 100. Subtracting crossing a 100. Focused on the challenge of the inverse operation - children having the output but not the input. This booklet asks these questions for: Subtracting 1. Subtracting 10. Subtracting 100. This resource has 19 pages worth of questions: 6 for each objective and a bonus page at the end with assessment questions on all three skills. Each page features at least 4 questions on each page (with the exception of the first page) to ensure that children have enough chance to be fluent in the skill. Since the worksheets sequence each other children can easily finish one worksheet and move onto another worksheet without any low-level disruption in the class. How I use this resource: This resource has 19 pages so prior to the lesson I would assess the children’s knowledge and print off each page accordingly. Remember that children may finish one page and want to progress onto another page. Alternatively, this resource could be used as a booklet and all the booklet could be printed for the children to work in independently as an assessment tool. If you want a taster of this worksheet the adding 10 worksheet is the same format. To assess this learning you may enjoy this resource - a Google Form which assesses children’s knowledge of subtraction without marking!

A KS1 history lesson which teaches children about who Samuel Pepys was, his diary and why he is so important in recounting the Great Fire of London. Samuel Pepys’ diary is a key source for historians today in knowing what happened during the Great Fire of London. Pepys was able to describe the feel of London at that time and it is crucial that children learn about him. In this session we have taken extracts of Samuel’s diary for the teacher to read to the children for them to hear first hand what Samuel wrote. Prior to this it is clearly explained to the children what a diary is and why it is important that we have Samuel’s diary today. This resource is a powerpoint presentation and gives children extracts of Samuel Pepys’ diary. Alongside the powerpoint presentation is a worksheet which children have to use to recount in simple sentences what Samuel saw. How I use this resource: This resource is a powerpoint which is shared at the front of the class with the children. The worksheet can be completed in small groups or completed whole class.

A primary history lesson which teaches children about their parents toys from the past. This lesson to investigate different toys in this lesson by looking at their materials and the use of technology in past toys. These include toys like football and building toys like blocks. From this unit and lesson the children should know about modern toys and their parents’ toys so that next lesson when they look at their grandparents toys they can see the change and continuity in toys. This resource is a powerpoint presentation and is a useful resource in exploring parents’ toys through questioning of the pupils. It is a discussion led lesson. It also includes a worksheet which children are to complete with their favourite toy, and how the toy was treated. How I use this resource: This resource is a powerpoint which is shared at the front of the class with the children. This lesson works best if you ask children to bring in toys or provide toys as a school, this would allow a more hands on feel to the lesson. The task is to be completed in small groups so children can complete their sentences with an adult. If you are interested in the complete unit of Toys past and present planning click the link below! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12978657

A KS1 history lesson which teaches children about the Great Fire of London and how it started. Within this lesson children will learn how the Great Fire started on Pudding Lane in Thomas Farriner’s bakery. This lesson will ask the children to act as historical detectives and work out the clues as to why they think the bakery was the cause of the fire. Children will link their prior knowledge of London, the fact it was overcrowded and buildings were made out of wood, to draw conclusions to the start of the fire. This resource is a powerpoint presentation and gives hints/clues as to why people believed that the fire started on Pudding Lane in a fun and engaging way. Alongside the powerpoint presentation is a differentiated worksheet which children have to complete to write down what caused the fire. This worksheet is also differentiated to include colourful semantics as a word mat to help support all learners. How I use this resource: This resource is a powerpoint which is shared at the front of the class with the children. The worksheet can be completed in small groups or completed whole class.

A KS1 history lesson which teaches children about the Great Fire of London and the events that happened during the Great Fire. Having already learnt that the Great Fire started on Pudding Lane in lesson 2, children will know learn what happened during the Fire. This includes the Mayor going back to sleep as he thought that the Fire was small as well as people escaping into the River Thames. Within this lesson children will learn the sequence of these events and how, after several days, the fire was put out. This resource is a powerpoint presentation and tells the story of the Great Fire in a fun and engaging way. Alongside the powerpoint presentation is a worksheet for children to order the events given in chronological order. How I use this resource: This resource is a powerpoint which is shared at the front of the class with the children. The worksheet can be completed in small groups or completed whole class.

A set of differentiated worksheets for children in KS2 (mainly Year 3 and Year 4) to practice their ability to add 10 to a number. Adding 10 to a number can be a difficult skill for the children to master so this resource is differentiated to meet all the children’s needs. The worksheet has four pages which are: Adding 10 below 100 using base ten as a reference point Adding 10 below 100 Adding 10 above 100 Adding a hundred figure Focused on the challenge of the inverse operation - children having the output but not the input. This resource features at least 4 questions on each page (with the exception of the first page) to ensure that children have enough chance to be fluent in the skill. Since the worksheets sequence each other children can easily finish one worksheet and move onto another worksheet without any low-level disruption in the class. How I use this resource: This resource has five pages so prior to the lesson I would assess the children’s knowledge and print off each page accordingly. Remember that children may finish one page and want to progress onto another page. Alternatively, this resource could be used as a booklet and all the booklet could be printed for the children to work in independently as an assessment tool. If you like this resource make sure you give it a review and if you are interested in continuing with this resource there is a resource including this and adds 10 and 100 to a number too. You may also enjoy the adding 1, 10 and 100 Google Form Quiz to assess the children’s knowledge of this skill.

Found a great Google Form but don’t know how to share it with your children? Look no further! This resource is a step by step guide on how to insert a Google Form onto the Google Classroom in 8 simple steps!

Needing an adding and subtracting fractions worksheet in the run up to SATS 2024? Look no further! This helpful worksheet has over 50 questions on assessing children’s knowledge of adding and subtracting fractions. Within this worksheet there are 3 pages, each aimed at a different skill: adding fractions, subtracting fractions and problem solving within this skill. There are two pages within this resource on adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator, 2 pages with different denominators and a problem solving page. If you are interested in any more fraction worksheets in the run up to SATS, see our Fractions guide which breaks down each of the Year 6 fraction National Curriculum objectives. This resource is aimed at completing the following objective in the National Curriculum: Add and subtract fractions with different denominators and mixed numbers, using the concept of equivalent fractions.