Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons. This lesson summarises our first enquiry Question: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?* Clear teaching PPT introducing a range of Anglo-Saxon past times with opportunity to solve some Anglo-Saxon riddles as a whole class. Carousel of activities: Beowulf storytelling activity, Tafl game and riddle solving. Whole unit planning. Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture. Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study. They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons. Enquiry Question: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?* Clear teaching PPT introducing Anglo-Saxon defences. Main activity: create an Anglo-Saxon burh. Whole unit planning. Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture. Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study. They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons. This lesson summarises our first enquiry Question: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?* Engaging teaching PPT discussing the ways Anglo-Saxon have influenced modern day Britian. This PPT explores how language has been influenced with a fun flashcard activity. Main activity: find the Anglo-Saxon place names, based on their suffixes. Whole unit planning. Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture. Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study. They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons Thorough teaching PPT explaining definition of climate, weather and biome and modelling the main activity. Engaging create your own weather forecast activity with climate tables to support children completing their weather forecasts. Whole unit planning. Geography Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle. Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities.

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons Detailed PPT discussing the needs of different animals and why the different layers may suit them, using the living things fact files to support learning. Creative and fun main activity with 3 levels of differentiation, students will create their own rainforest animal or plant depending on the layer they live in, some will move on to work out the layer in which a brand new animal lives in, based on their features. Interesting and beautifully presented living things fact files to support students independent learning. Whole unit planning. NC objective: Science Y3: explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons Detailed and interesting teaching PPT detailing the different layers of the rainforest: including how their features make them suitable for different animals and the animals which live there. Interesting and fun ‘lift the flap’ book activity for students to add information about each layer of tropical rainforests to. NC objectives: Science: Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle. Y3: explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant Y3: identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat Y4: recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons Detailed teaching PPT detailing the largest tribe in the Amazon, the Yanomami. Explore their way of life, focus on the food they eat and how they source it with the help of this resource. An engaging main activity with 2 levels of differentiation, students will identify the foods that tribal people eat and how they source them, some will compare it to food that we eat and how we source it. Whole unit planning. NC Objectives: Geography Describe and understand human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water

Eleven weeks of morning task activities, four activities per week. These morning activities are perfect for the start of the day, after break or lunch. We know how these times of the school day can be tricky and there’s a lot going on, each day’s activity focuses on one objective with a challenge for any students who need it. They are designed to review curriculum knowledge that students have already learnt about, so are a perfect way to warm up for the day. These activities are prepared for the second term of Year 4 but can be used whenever, keep an eye out for morning tasks for the rest of the year or buy our Autumn and Spring Bundle here. Objectives and activities include: Multiplication and division facts Multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100 Multiplying 2 and 3 digit numbers by 1 digit Perimeter Recognising fractions and their equivalents Writing decimals Sequences and patterns Adjectives, nouns, verbs and adverbs Spelling Following instructions to create an image Speech Writing stories and letters Reading comprehensions Try the first week of Autumn morning activities for free here.

Seven weeks of morning work tasks, four tasks per week. These activities are ideal for Year 5s in the Autumn term as it focusses on what is commonly taught in the first term of the year, they can also be used at any point of the year for recap and consolidation. Each week consists of two Maths based activities and two English based activities, covering the following: Addition and subtraction. Multiplication and division, including multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. Times tables facts, including factors. Multiplication and division. Place value. Rounding. Roman numerals. Fractions. Modal verbs. Relative clauses. Creative writing. Determiners. Understanding the meaning of words. Punctuation. Parenthesis.

Fourteen weeks of morning task activities, four activities per week. These morning activities are perfect for the start of the day, after break or lunch. We know how these times of the school day can be tricky and there is a lot going on, each day’s activity focuses on one objective with a challenge for any students who need it. They are designed to review curriculum knowledge that students have already learnt about, so are a perfect way to warm up for the day. These activities are prepared for the first term of Year 4 but can be used whenever, keep an eye out for morning tasks for the rest of the year or buy our Autumn and Spring bundle here. Objectives cover: Times tables Writing numbers in words and digits Roman numerals Addition and subtraction Adjectives, nouns, verbs and adverbs Spelling Writing instructions, play scripts and cartoon strips Editing writing Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions. Try the first week’s morning activities for free.

Fourteen weeks of morning task activities, four activities per week. These morning activities are perfect for the start of the day, after break or lunch. We know how these times of the school day can be tricky and there is a lot going on, each day’s activity focuses on one objective with a challenge for any students who need it. They are designed to review curriculum knowledge that students have already learnt about, so are a perfect way to warm up for the day. These activities are prepared for the first term of Year 3 but can be used whenever, keep an eye out for morning tasks for the rest of the year. Objectives cover: Adding 10 and 100 Times tables Mental addition and subtraction Spelling, including common exception words Word classes Number sequences Ordering and comparing numbers and more! PPT and worksheets. Answers/examples provided where appropriate. Try the first week’s morning activities for free.

A bundle of 34 resources aimed at Year 3 or suitable in Y4 for consolidation. 34 short grammar activities that can be used in grammar sessions, plenaries or interventions. Can be used independently or as part of paired or group work. Answers included Resources for: Punctuation Inverted commas Possessive apostrophes Subordinating and coordinating conjunctions Subordinate clauses Verbs, nouns and adjectives Statements, questions or commands. Activities include identifying grammar within sentences/paragraphs, explaining how it has been used, marking and correcting sentences/paragraphs and improving sentences/paragraphs.

A bundle of 35 resources aimed at Year 6 but suitable across Upper KS2. 35 short grammar activities that can be used in grammar sessions, plenaries or interventions. This bundle is also ideal for SATs revision. Can be used independently or as part of paired or group work. Answers included Resources for: Correct and incorrect punctuation Semi-colons and colons Commas for clarity Word types including determiners, pronouns, prepositions, adverbs, adjectives, hyphens, punctuation for parenthesis, inverted commas, modal verbs Using a word as a noun and a verb Noun phrases Tense Prefixes and suffixes and word meanings Contractions. Activities include identifying grammar within sentences, explaining how it has been used, marking and correcting sentences, matching meanings and improving sentences.

A fifteen-lesson writing unit, leading students towards writing their own information text based on Anglo-Saxon society. Students spend time at the start of the unit researching the different ranks of Anglo-Saxon society so they can write a text comparing and contrasting two ranks. This would make a great unit to be taught alongside a History unit on Anglo-Saxons, or as a way to revisit Historic knowledge. This unit begins with ten lessons exploring the text type and sentence level work. The final five lessons allow them to write their information text. The unit uses three differentiated example text types about Anglo-Saxon society to supports students’ understanding. Where appropriate, each lesson is differentiated and carefully planned to suit different students’ needs. Lesson order: Hook lesson: introducing information texts, what they are and their purpose. Students read information texts with key information crossed out, allowing them to work out what the texts are about and reinforce the idea that information texts need to be clear for anyone to read. Key features, students highlight features in differentiated texts. Research Anglo-Saxon society, students will record what they find on mind maps. You will need access to topic books and/or the internet for this lesson. Answering questions about Anglo-Saxon society, students engage in a fun chatterbox activity to make sure they know everything about the ranks of Anglo-Saxon society they are researching. Tense, students explore the tense the texts are written in and practise writing in both the past and present tense. Writing with conjunctions, students will explore a range of conjunctions and their purposes to compare and contrast in the sample texts. They will then have time to write their own sentences comparing and contrasting using different conjunctions. Using appropriate language, students explore the tone of the sample texts and re-write very informal extracts. Relative clauses, explore how relative clauses are used and practise changing their position within a sentence. Students cut out main and relative clauses and arrange them to make the most effective sentences. Using parenthesis, students will look at how parenthesis has been used in the sample texts before practising writing their own sentences using parenthesis. Planning the information texts. Writing the text - the final five lessons give students chance to write their text looking back at the examples, modelling writing and editing what they have written. Lesson activities will be downloaded as PDF files

A fifteen-lesson writing unit, leading students towards writing their own explanation text based on a fictional product: telescopic glasses! Students spend time at the start of the unit designing their own telescopic glasses. This allows them to focus on how to write an explanation text, without becoming bogged down in learning exactly how a specific product works, they can tell us! This would make a great unit to be taught alongside a Science unit on Space, or as a way to revisit Scientific knowledge. This unit begins with ten lessons exploring the text type and sentence level work. The final five lessons allow them to write their explanation text. The unit uses three differentiated example text types about telescopic glasses to supports students’ understanding. Where appropriate, each lesson is differentiated and carefully planned to suit different students’ needs. Lesson order: Hook lesson: introducing the telescopic glasses and their purpose. Students design their own telescopic glasses. Creating diagrams with technical language, students draw and label diagrams of their glasses using technical language. Identify features of explanation texts, students explore the key features of explanation texts and find examples in the texts provided. Using parenthesis, students will look at how parenthesis has been used in the sample texts before practising writing their own sentences using parenthesis. Using relative clauses, students will look at how relative clauses have been used in the sample texts before practising writing their own sentences or paragraphs using relative clauses to describe their glasses. Writing with conjunctions, students will explore a range of conjunctions and their different purposes in the sample texts. They will then have time to complete sentences or write their own sentences using conjunctions: comparing, contrasting, explaining and describing more than one. Using cohesive devices, students explore how repeated words/phrases, rhetorical questions and conjunctions are cohesive devices. Activities include highlighting cohesive devices in sample texts and editing paragraphs to make them more cohesive. Lesson activities will be downloaded as PDF files

A detailed and engaging fifteen-lesson writing unit, guiding learners towards writing a persuasive letter, convincing their headteacher to change the school week to four days. Throughout the unit, students read and refer to differentiated example texts to support their learning and understanding of what a persuasive letter is. The first ten lessons explore the text type and sentence level work. The final five lessons allow time to write the persuasive letter, one step at a time. Where appropriate, each lesson is differentiated and carefully planned to suit different students’ needs. Answers (or example answers) are provided, where appropriate. Lesson order: • Hook lesson: students will be given the chance to practise persuading each other to do simple tasks to understand what persuasion is. They will then read the example text, ending the lesson by exploring pros and cons for the idea of a four-day school week. • Identifying the key features of a persuasive letter, sorting and highlighting the features. • Speaking and listening lesson on exaggerating, students will explore what it means to exaggerate, and the language features used. Then practise exaggerating different reasons for having a four-day school week in pairs or groups. • Power of three, students learn what the power of three is, how it is used in the example texts and practise using it. • Talking directly to the reader using first and second person pronouns, students learn what first and second person pronouns are using a snap game. The independent activities include finding pronouns in the example texts, creating a word mat and re-writing sentences using incorrect pronouns. • Writing opinions as facts. Students learn the effect of writing opinions as facts to be persuasive and have the chance to practise writing some. • Fact finding lesson to create simple statistics, students create questions and poll class/staff members to create their own simple statistics for their letters. • Conjunctions to extend ideas, students explore how different conjunctions are used before the main activity, a matching card game where students need to match two parts of a sentence with a conjunction. • Understanding what rhetorical questions are and how they are used in persuasive letters, students either fill in the blank on an example text with rhetorical questions or create a word mat for rhetorical questions. • Planning our persuasive letter. • Writing the introduction and first paragraph, looking at examples and exploring the language used. • Writing the third paragraph, shared write to support students writing. • Writing the conclusion. • Students can practise editing using our ‘persuasive letter to edit’ before editing their own work. • Publishing texts. Lesson activities will be downloaded as PDF files

A fifteen-lesson writing unit, leading students towards writing their own information text about two rainforest creatures. This unit of writing is ideal for students who have already studied the rainforest or to be taught alongside a rainforest topic (try ours here!). Students spend time at the start of the unit reading sample information texts to understand their purpose and structure. They then research two rainforest creatures to write their own texts about, they can use the rainforest fact files provided and we strongly advise also using textbooks or the internet to support their research. The first ten lessons explore the text type and sentence level work. The final five lessons allow time to write the information text. The unit uses three differentiated example text types about giant anteaters and red-eyed tree frogs to support students’ understanding. Where appropriate, each lesson is differentiated and carefully planned to suit different students’ needs. Answers (or example answers) are provided, where appropriate. Lesson order: • Hook lesson: read through the sample information texts with parts missing, students can try to work out what the texts are about and gain an understanding of the purpose of information texts. • Identify key features, students use the sample texts to understand and identify the key features in information texts. • Sorting information, students begin researching their rainforest creatures using the rainforest fact files provided and class books/the internet. Students complete a mind map to sort the information they find. • Answering questions in more detail, students use a chatterbox to answer questions about their creatures in more detail. • Using present tense, students will learn how information texts use present tense and practise writing in the present tense. • Using third person pronouns, students will learn how information texts use third person pronouns and practise using them to avoid repeating nouns. • Comparing and contrasting the two rainforest creatures using conjunctions and adverbials. • Writing a glossary for the information texts. • Exploring how rhetorical questions are used in information texts and practise writing them, • Introducing headings and sub-headings, students will use these to plan their information texts in preparation for writing. • Writing the introduction, looking at examples and creating a shared write as a class. • Writing the second and third paragraphs, more detail about the rainforest creatures. • Writing the conclusion. • Students can practise editing using our ‘information text to edit’ before editing their own work. • Publishing texts. Looking for more? Try our newspaper writing units, available for Years 3&4 and Years 5&6. Or our Year 3&4 explanation text.