A unit based on area and perimeter (Year Five). Linked to housing plans for The Tudors and the book ‘The Secret Diary of a Tudor Boy Spy’. Objectives cover include: Cold Task LI: To explore position and direction, area and perimeter. LI: To calculate the perimeter of different shapes. LI: To calculate the perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes.* LI: To collaboratively plan and design a Tudor house and gardens. LI: To calculate the area of rectangles. LI: To calculate the area of compound shapes. * LI: To design and present my Tudor House demonstrating my understanding of measurement, area and perimeter. Hot Task LI: To explain Tudor houses and gardens. *This lessons require Twinkl worksheets (not included) or a different type of worksheet (not provided). All over necessary worksheets/resources are included.

Link to history/The Ancient Egyptians. Investigate the mummification process and consolidate understanding of mummification. Children get to mummify their own apples, making predictions, comparing the experiment to what the Ancient Egyptians did and evaluating the experiment at a later date. (Can leave the apples as long as you like - we left them for 10 days!) Children love completing this experiment and are engaged the entire time! Materials needed: Small apples, antibacterial hand gel, table salt, bicarbonate of soda, plastic cups, paper towels, vegetable peeler, labels.

8 lessons focusing on WWII poetry. This is used with my Year Sixes but could work across KS2. Starters range from games to recapping nouns, synonyms and expanded noun phrases. Additional handwriting agreement lesson included. Lessons include: LI: To write a piece of poetry (cold task) LI: To explore a range of poems. LI: To use a thesaurus to find synonyms and antonyms. LI: To explore and use figurative language. LI: To class write a poem. LI: To plan a WWII inspired poem. LI: To write a WWII inspired poem. LI: To publish and perform a poem. Please note these lessons are in SMARTnotebook format. I have also included a PDF version of the slides.

Balloon tray labels and subject labels inspired by Up the movie. Two different sized subject labels.

‘Our Work is on Point’ display. Display lettering reads: Sharp Work Our Work is on Point and there are several different cactus patterns that can be printed and laminated ready for work to be pinned on. My kiddies loved this display and I added real succulents on the table near the display for added wow factor.

Unit of work aimed at Year Three - time. Differentiated resources for each lesson and lots of opportunity for AFL/talk partner work. Unit starts with a cold task that can be repeated at the end of the unit. Children make their own clocks at the start of the unit to help build familiarity. Before each lesson is a teacher slide with information about each lesson. Lots of extra activities and further extensions/probing questions. :) Cold Task – Time LI: To know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month and year. Success Criteria: -I know how many minutes are in an hour. -I can calculate how many hours in a week. -I can calculate how many days in a month. LI: To estimate a period of time. Success Criteria: -I know what estimate means. -I can make relevant estimations. I can justify my reasoning. LI: I can create and label a clock. Success Criteria: -I can label the hands on a clock. -I know what the marking on a clock are. -I can represent given times on my clock. LI: To read and write the time to quarter of the hour. Success Criteria: -I know how many minutes are in one hour. -I can recognise quarter past and quarter to on a clock. I know that the small hand is the hour hand. I know that the long hand is the minute hand. LI: To tell and show the time to the nearest minute using analogue clocks. Success Criteria: -I know what the different numbers and hands represent. -I can explain whether it is ‘past’ or ‘to’. -I can show the correct time on an analogue clock. LI: To read and show time on 12-hour and 24-hour clocks. Success Criteria: -I know there are 24 hours in a day. -I know that digital time has hours first, then minutes. -I can explain what time is shown on a digital clock. LI: To convert between digital and analogue clocks. Success Criteria: -I know the difference between analogue and digital. -I can explain how to convert between different clocks. I can successfully read different clock faces. LI: To solve problems involving time. Success Criteria: -I know what the word problem is asking me to do. -I can use a number line to see how much time has elapsed. -I can carefully check my answers. LI: To solve problems involving time. Success Criteria: -I can read a timetable. -I can answer simple questions. -I can use a number line to solve problems.

Covers all Year Five place value objectives. Three weeks worth of lessons and resources. A few lessons require Twinkl tasks (not included) but can be adapted. These lessons are used to consolidate learning from the lesson before so are not 100% necessary but supplement the learning nicely. Most tasks offer a range of ‘mild’, ‘warm’ or ‘spicy’ tasks with an added option for an extension or probing question. Those three lessons which would benefit from a Twinkl membership are - Roman Numerals, Compare and order numbers, Place Value problems. Lessons are: Cold task LI: To represent numbers up to 1,000,000. LI: To add powers of 10, 100, 1000 and 10,000. LI: To subtract powers of 10, 100, 1000 and 10,000. LI: To compare and order numbers up to 1,000,000. x2 LI: To read and interpret negative numbers. LI: To round a number to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. x2 LI: To read and write Roman numerals to 1000. x2 LI: To solve problems involving place value. x2 Hot task - Please note this is the same as the cold task, the title just needs to be changed.

Reading Folder great to have lots of important information all in one place! In PDF (not editable), Word and Pages format. Please note - fonts and pages will look different due to font types. Font types used are Shella Clean and KG Second Chances Sketch I laminate the front and back pages and then bind to make a super little booklet. Pages include: Front cover/back cover Daily reader checklist / frequent reader checklist Reader checklist (class) Reading Assessment (key curriculum objectives with checklist per term) - I use one per child. Guided Reading grouping Example guided reading rotations Key texts pages to record key books per term

Superhero tray labels (Marvel themed) for subjects and a wide array of classroom supplies.

A ‘Stig of the Dump’ inspired character description used as a model text to help demonstrate sentence starters, sentences of three, fronted adverbials and powerful verbs/adjectives. Links with topic work based on the stone age. "Stumbling to his feet, the musty, stale smell of damp clung to Barney’s nostrils. "

Maths speech bubbles with different sentence stems/questioning prompts. Based on Blooms Taxonomy.

Watercolour ‘splatter’ growth mindset quotes - 13 in total.

Aimed at Year 5/6, this unit or work looks at a range of skills needed to compose effective non-chronological reports. Includes an example NCR on Hippogriffs to be used as a model text, hot and cold task unit targets, Smart Notebook slides. 12 lessons in this unit for Non-Chronological Reports. Content can be tweaked to focus on certain aspects of HP. We used a trip to the Warner Bros Studio Tour to research and collect information about Harry Potter. You may wish to add an extra lesson or two creating a lesson through research of books/internet to help develop note taking, etc. Lessons/LIs: Cold task: To write a NCR. To explore a non-chronological report (ERIC) To explore language and structural features of a non-chronological report. To compose effective and concise introductory paragraphs. To construct compound sentences using coordinating conjunctions. STAND ALONE ‘Extended Write’ - (focus on modal verbs) To start my sentences in different ways. To write well structured paragraphs. To plan a NCR. Hot Task: To write a NCR. (You may want to do this over two lessons to ensure content and quality). To edit and improve my writing. To publish a piece of work.

Knowledge organiser suitable for year six science learning.

Set of four differentiated worksheets to allow children to practise reading and writing time in analogue and digital to o’clock and half past.

A unit of work looking at the formal written method for multiplication (2D number x 1D number) and using a place value grid to multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000. Objectives covered: LI: To multiply by 10, 100 and 1000. LI: To divide by 10, 100 and 1000. LI: To use the formal written method to multiply a 1-digit number with a 3-digit number. LI: To use my knowledge of other multiples to answer questions. LI: To use the formal written method to multiply a 2-digit number with a 3-digit number. Five lessons with some room to expand. Aimed at Year Five. All work on slides with opportunities to class mark to reduce marking load!

A song written for my class assembly about the Ancient Egyptians. Sang to the tune of Uptown Funk, it mentions stages of the mummification process and talks about how Pharaoh’s were the rulers of the land. Enjoy! x

LI: To know the names and order of the planets. Success Criteria: I can name all of the planets. I can find a way to help me remember them. I can identify and label the different planets. LI: To learn about the planets in our solar system. Success Criteria: I can identify the different planets. I can research facts about the different planets. I can present my research in a fact file. LI: To describe the movement of the Earth and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system. Success Criteria: I know the names and order of the planets in our Solar System. I can explain the difference between rotation and revolution. LI: To participate in a debate using my scientific understanding to explain my reasoning. Success Criteria: I can form an opinion based on research. I can share my ideas with others. I can listen and reflect on other peoples point of view. LI: To understand about gravity and its effects on Earth. # A Twinkl PPT for the debate lesson is useful to download if you have a Twinkl account, otherwise different sheets, books, internet for research.

A noise-o-meter to ‘measure’ the noise in the classroom. Four choices: ninja mode whisper voice partner voice teacher voice

7 Lessons exploring: -Recap the digestive system -The cardiovascular system -Muscles -Knowledge sharing -Exercise -Healthy eating Lots of videos and opportunities for discussion and group work. Files are as SMART Notebooks or PDFs. You can enrich, adapt or expand on these lessons. If you also have a Twinkl account, their diagram worksheets are fab to go alongside! Used for Year Six science lessons exploring the human body.