A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources based around Greta Thunberg’s Ted Talk on climate change. This lesson begins by looking at the recent ‘School strike for climate change’ movement. It then moves on to explore the features of Persuasive Speeches and the students will annotate the speech to show their understanding. The lesson uses AFORRESTPIE as a vehicle for exploring the features. All images sourced from Pixabay.

A whole week of planning, with resources and PPT’s. The children will explore the life of a Roman soldier, before performing and writing their own cadence calls and marching songs. These look brilliant in class assemblies or filmed for a blog or website. Please leave feedback.

A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat's Emotion word, comma Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated 3 ways) This lesson is designed as a standalone grammar/sentence skills lesson. However it would also fit neatly into a grammar or narrative unit based on sentence construction. Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways. Where possible, all resources and PowerPoint's are fully editable. The lesson has an alien/space theme. All images are sourced from PIXABAY.

A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’Holes’ By Louis Sachar This is lesson 1 in a series of 6. The whole scheme of work is available. The whole scheme includes 6 full lessons, each fully resourced, and including a detailed PPT. The scheme culminates in the class writing a description of a setting using all of the descriptive techniques learned and developed during the series of lessons. There are also 2 additional lessons that complete the scheme ( a hot and a cold task) This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing. Images sourced from Pixabay.

A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat's 2a Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated) Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways. The lesson has a dragon/monster theme. All images are sourced from PIXABAY.

A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for a unit on PERSUASIVE SPEECHES in Upper KS2 (Year 6 This lesson explores repetition in Persuasive Speeches by exploring 'I have a dream ’ by Martin Luther King. The lesson uses AFORRESTPIE as a vehicle for exploring the features. This is lesson 4 in a series of 7. The whole scheme of work is also available as a bundle The whole scheme includes a cold and a hot task, and culminates in the class writing a perusaive speech based on animal rights. This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing. All images sourced from Pixabay.

A scheme of poetry, across 7 lessons for Upper KS2. The unit is based around the iconic poem 'The Kraken' by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Each lesson is fully resourced, and includes full planning and a PowerPoint presentation. Fully differentiated 3 ways. The lessons explore figurative techniques and word effects. They then create a poem based around a sea monster of their own creation. All images from Pixabay, pexels and openclipart.org.

A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat’s '‘many question?’ Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated) Would fit neatly into a grammar or narrative unit based on sentence construction. Also works very well as a standalone skills lesson. Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways. The lesson has a dragon theme. All images are sourced from PIXABAY.

A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources based around Leonardo DiCaprio’s 2014 speech on climate change. This lesson begins by exploring the features of Persuasive Speeches and the students will annotate the transcript of the speech to show their understanding. The lesson uses AFORRESTPIE as a vehicle for exploring the features. The students are also asked to analyse the impact of the techniques, and relate them to the audience and purpose of the speech. All images sourced from Pixabay.

A complete set of plans for year 4. Written to last 1 week but could be stretched into 2 quite easily - at the end of which, the class will write an explanation text linked to the process of mummification (however, this could be linked to any process EG: opening a tomb, getting through the afterlife, becoming a Pharoah etc ) Written and taught as part of a wider topic on Ancient Egypt. Please leave feedback.

A complete week of English planning, presentations and resources. written for year 3/ 4 but very easy to adapt for other age ranges. Every resource needed is included. Links with an Olympic and/or Ancient Greek topic. Perfect unit when preparing for a class or sharing assembly, as chdn create a performance poem at the end of the week. Objectives covered: Explore concrete (shape) poetry. Learn about the events at the ancient Greek games. Write poems using the laurel wreath shape (about Olympic events) Perform the poems in groups, creating a collaborative poem by combining your work. You could even create a laurel wreath to wear that also contains your poem! (great for class assemblies) Please leave feedback.

A complete English lesson, based on Alan Peat's 'Double LY ending' Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated) Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways. Lesson has a monster/beast theme All images are sourced from PIXABAY.

A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat's Some ; others Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated 3 ways) This lesson would fit neatly into a grammar or narrative unit based on sentence construction. It would also work very well as a standalone skills lesson. Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways. Where possible, all resources and PowerPoint's are fully editable. The lesson has an alien/space theme. All images are sourced from PIXABAY.

A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’ PIG HEART BOY’ by Malorie Blackman. Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on the correct use of punctuation dialogue. This is lesson 6 in a series of 14. The whole scheme of work is available here: The whole scheme includes a cold and a hot task, and culminates in the class writing a dilemma story This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing. All images sourced from Pixabay.

A complete lesson based on the features of the Cinderella Fairy Tale. This is lesson 7 of 7 in a unit that explores a variety of Cinderella stories from around the world. This lesson works well as a standalone lesson too. This lesson explores the whole genre and the children plan and write their own version of Cinderella set in a different time or culture. The class plan and write a story based on the Fairy Tale of Cinderella The planning for the whole 7 sessions is included in the download. Please take a look at the full lessons for the prepared resources and PowerPoints. The whole unit is also available as a bundle. Images from Pixabay

A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’Holes’ By Louis Sachar This is lesson 6 in a series of 6. The whole scheme of work is available. The whole scheme includes 6 full lessons, each fully resourced, and including a detailed PPT. The scheme culminates in the class writing a description of a setting using all of the descriptive techniques learned and developed during the series of lessons. There are also 2 additional lessons that complete the scheme ( a hot and a cold task) This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing. Images sourced from Pixabay.

A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the poem - THE JABBERWOCKY, by Lewis Carroll. This lesson focuses on the poetic devices used in the poem. This is lesson 3 in a series of 5. The whole scheme of work is available here: The whole scheme includes a cold and a hot task, and culminates in the class writing a narrative poem in the style of the original. All images sourced from Pixabay or authors own.