Bright and colourful resource pack, designed to cover your needs for all your English units. Includes our 3 most popular word banks: adjectives, verbs and adverbs. You can use on a display, in a writer’s toolkit, as part of a PowerPoint or simply printed on tables in order to expand vocabulary. High quality word banks build confidence, improve writing, save time, enhance progress and aid differentiation. Words are clearly grouped under synonyms so all ability children can benefit from these. For a pack of KS2 grammar word searches click here to further engage your class!

A complete 2 week English planning pack for KS2. Download engaging PowerPoints leading you through each of the 10 lessons, differentiated resources and 2 detailed weekly plans. Enjoy teaching these full lessons which are ready to pick up and go. Each containing engaging starters, short text extracts, paired and group discussion, word banks, challenges and quick and easy plenaries. Improve your pupil’s writing whilst enjoying this festive season. Read them the Nisse story, a Scandinavian Christmas folk tale and watch as they are inspired to write about Christmas. Use the peer and self assessments so your marking is quick and effortless. Have time for family this Christmas. All reviews are welcome. Check out My Shop for more high quality resources.

4 Engaging and animated assemblies, explaining and bringing to life 4 important days in our year. Each one full of information, video links, fun facts, higher level reasoning questions, interactive elements and discussion opportunities. World Poetry Day - 21st March Celebrate famous poets from around the world, amaze your pupils with their culture, story and achievements. Share some thought provoking poetry and inspire them to write their own poetry. World Kindness Day - 13th November Celebrate this day or use on Random Acts of Kindness Day (17th February) or Random Acts of Kindness Week (February). Enthuse children to be kind by sharing how it is celebrated around the world, what is kindness, who is the kindest person you know, famous influential kind people, why it is difficult to be kind sometimes, how to overcome this, ideas for being kind and how to pledge for kindness. Includes activities to use in the classroom. National Speech and Debate Day - 1st March This animated presentation takes the pupils through how to debate, the purposes of public speaking, famous speeches, famous speakers, famous debaters and famous debates. International Day for the Abolition of Slavery This thought provoking and interesting assembly explains the history of slavery, how it has changed and what we know of slavery today. Discuss some famous quotes about this subject and encourage pupils to think about how their generation could make positive changes to the world.

All the new curriculum writing objectives on one handy sheet for every year group. Separated clearly into transcription, composition and grammar so you can quickly see a child’s strengths and areas for development. Useful for remembering what to cover, assessing work and for planning for progress. You could have one sheet for each child or use as a resource on its own. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in these resources for the New Curriculum: Whole School SMART Targets Whole School English Writing Assessment Guidance Whole School Guided Reading Questions

A bundle for whole school English leaders. Use these resources to write Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound writing targets in years 2-6. Useful for teachers when writing targets so you can narrow down the statements from the National Curriculum into small steps which the children can understand. Broken down into targets for punctuation, handwriting, grammar and composition. You could print out one for each child and use as an assessment tool. Or just use when marking to save time so you can quickly choose a high quality target personalised for each child. All reviews welcome.

Relax in March and use these fantastic assemblies to enthuse your pupils about learning. 4 complete engaging assemblies for the month of March. Includes video links, writing activities, inspirational role models, healthy eating tips, fun facts and much more. All within a science theme they build on each other effectively and enhance your pupil’s enthusiasm and love of science. KS2 British Science Week Assembly 9th-17th March This is a detailed 28 slide PowerPoint ideal for an assembly or lesson or both for this special week. Could also be a useful PSHE lesson on scientific careers and role models. Takes the children through key questions covering there understanding of science, its impact on our lives, how to be a scientist and what scientists are like including famous scientists and their achievements. Download the 3 compelling activities to extend the pupil’s interest in the subject of science. Albert Einstein’s Birthday Assembly - 14th March Celebrate a great scientist with this detailed and interesting 30 slide PowerPoint on the inspirational scientist Albert Einstein. Covering: Themes of the assembly A memory game Young life Family life Working life Fun facts Images of his life Scientific Research Einstein quotes to inspire Why was he such a great scientist? Summary Farmhouse Breakfast Week Assembly 4th-8th March Download this engaging primary assembly to enthuse your pupils and increase their achievements. Explain through fun farm animals the many reasons why breakfast is good for you. Many stimulating activities inspire the children to want to eat breakfast, including choosing their favourite breakfast plate and discussing which one is the best, healthiest and the most balanced. Teaching Points Covered about Breakfast: What Farmhouse Breakfast Week is all about Local UK farms involved Why breakfast is so good for us What we can eat for breakfast and why How to make a balanced breakfast How we can be organised in the morning This assembly also explains classic options for breakfast and tasty new ideas to try. There are many discussion opportunities for children so they are involved in the assembly and accept responsibility for making a change, eating a better breakfast and doing well in school. Print the high quality resources and use the fun video link to ensure all the children enjoy learning about breakfast and are able to explain their understanding to others. World Poetry Day - 21st March Celebrate famous poets from around the world, amaze your pupils with their culture, story and achievements. Share some thought provoking poetry and inspire them to write their own poetry.

All you need to write your English, Maths, Science and General comments for your primary reports. Over 1400 different high quality differentiated comments to save you time. Save time and energy this year when writing your primary KS2 reports. Use these extensive report banks to quickly whip up a class full of personalised English, maths, science and general comment paragraphs. Simply copy and paste a selection of thoughtful comments to suit each child, choosing from each large subject bank. Speedily create fluent paragraphs describing the whole child. Each subject is divided into sections, in total there are enough sentences to create different paragraphs for every child in your class. All appropriate and relevant to your pupils. Ideal for years 3,4,5 and 6, easily adaptable for KS1. Impress your pupils, your parents and your head teacher with articulate and positive comments for these subjects. Show your pupils and their families you do know them well by choosing comments to suit each child. End the year knowing you’ve valued and helped each pupil in your class, whilst saving time for the wellbeing of yourself outside of school. You can also find lots of other handy end of year resources at my shop. Why not use my SMART targets to choose next steps for your pupils? Or use my Assessment Guidance to speed up your end of year data decisions.

30 spelling lessons to cover 6 weeks in term 2, years 5 and 6. This extensive pack includes daily lessons on PowerPoints, spelling rules, engaging activities, dictations and all the resources you will need. Teach spellings for a whole term to boost your pupil’s achievement in year 5 and 6. Lessons suit all learning styles, with a range of activities such as active, written, oral etc. This bundle also includes a visual display of the spelling words to pop up on the wall so you can easily refer to them throughout each week. Find easy to use PowerPoints and lessons all ready to go, be organised every day for 6 weeks! Use these engaging and memorable sessions to make your pupils confident with their spellings and successful in their assessments! Enjoy teaching the words from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling list in a logical and well planned way. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy term. Quickly print the dictation to assess each week and be amazed at the progress and capability of your spellers! All reviews welcome. All other terms also available on tes by Teachallenjoy.

Useful documents for assessing your pupil’s writing for every year group. Make the new curriculum and assessment system easy to understand and fluid within your teaching. Use your assessments to enhance your planning and teaching, notice where your children are at and know what small steps they need to take in order to move on and make progress. Don’t be overwhelmed by all of the statements, look at them sorted into three steps: - Beginning/Entering - Within/ Developing - Secure You can use these for one child or for the whole class to track their progress throughout the year. These are guidance for you to have a better understanding of assessing with the new curriculum. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in these high quality resources for the New Curriculum: Whole School SMART Targets Whole School Writing Assessment Sheets Whole School Guided Reading Questions

10 engaging and ready-to-go English lessons responding to and exploring the powerful video clip ‘The Piano’ by Aidan Gibbons found on the Literacy Shed. Lots of high level questioning to probe deeper into this interesting clip and opportunities for paired, individual and group work. Week 1 - Explore and respond to the story whilst developing writing skills (Talk for Writing -Imitate and Innovate). Written for KS2 it covers many relevant teaching points: relative clauses, expanded noun phrases, editing and improving language, parenthesis, creating an atmosphere, showing change within characters, describing settings, building suspense, summarising, identifying word classes, complex sentences. Week 2 - Children write their own version of this story using and building on the writing skills learnt in the first week (Talk for Writing - Invent). The week takes the children through writing the opening, middle and end of their memory story, then editing and publishing it. Starters include: spellings, adding description, handwriting, editing punctuation and improving words. Many more teaching points covered: types of sentence openers, how to start a story, building suspense, writing effective phrases to show change, using synonyms using a thesaurus peer assessment editing punctuation editing for sense editing to improve Mixture of starters covering key SPAG elements from the New Curriculum. There are resources to support the lower ability and daily challenges for the higher ability. Ability groups in plan: Green - Low ability Yellow - Mid/low ability Blue - Mid ability Red - High ability. All reviews welcome. All resources, plans, PowerPoints and display included. Display includes: Title Short explanation of the movie Images from the movie Powerful descriptive vocabulary cards Features list of this genre Sentence Opener ideas Paragraph Opener ideas Key events of movie on arrows for ordering Modelled examples of creating an atmosphere Modelled examples of expanded noun phrases Modelled examples of relative clauses Higher level thinking questions

30 spelling lessons to cover 6 weeks in term 1, years 5 and 6. This extensive pack includes daily lessons on PowerPoints, spelling rules, engaging activities, dictations and all the resources you will need. Teach spellings for a whole term to boost your pupil's achievement in year 5 and 6. Lessons suit all learning styles, with a range of activities such as active, written, oral etc. This bundle also includes a visual display of the spelling words to pop up on the wall so you can easily refer to them throughout each week. Find easy to use PowerPoints and lessons all ready to go, be organised every day for 6 weeks! Use these engaging and memorable sessions to make your pupils confident with their spellings and successful in their assessments! Enjoy teaching the words from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling list in a logical and well planned way. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy term. Quickly print the dictation to assess each week and be amazed at the progress and capability of your spellers! All reviews welcome. All other terms also available on tes by Teachallenjoy.

Includes 30 lessons, displays, engaging activities, dictations, all answers and all resources needed. Save time and download these six detailed and useful PowerPoints leading you through a term of daily spelling lessons. All words are from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling list. Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Short easy to resource spelling activities to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way. Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome.

Includes 30 lessons, displays, engaging activities, dictations, all answers and all resources needed. Six engaging PowerPoints leading you through a term of weekly spelling lessons. All words are from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling list. Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Short easy to resource spelling activities to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way. Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome.

30 spelling lessons to cover 6 weeks in term 5, years 5 and 6. This extensive pack includes daily lessons on PowerPoints, spelling rules, engaging activities, dictations and all the resources you will need. Teach spellings for a whole term to boost your pupil’s achievement in year 5 and 6. Lessons suit all learning styles, with a range of activities such as active, written, oral etc. This bundle also includes a visual display of the spelling words to pop up on the wall so you can easily refer to them throughout each week. Find easy to use PowerPoints and lessons all ready to go, be organised every day for 6 weeks! Use these engaging and memorable sessions to make your pupils confident with their spellings and successful in their assessments! Enjoy teaching the words from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling list in a logical and well planned way. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy term. Quickly print the dictation to assess each week and be amazed at the progress and capability of your spellers! All reviews welcome. All other terms also available on tes by Teachallenjoy.

Includes 30 lessons, displays, engaging activities, dictations, all answers and all resources needed. Six engaging PowerPoints leading you through a term of daily spelling lessons. All words are from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling list. Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Short easy to resource spelling activities to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way. Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome.

6 weekly plans, 6 teaching Powerpoints and all the resources needed for teaching key stage two reading for a whole term. Includes effective starters, main activities and plenaries for everyday. Each lesson in the week builds and expands on the previous one. All texts provided, a range of interesting genres and styles with modelled answers to comprehension assessment questions. Highlights Easy to use Organised Ready-to-go Engaging Scaffolds learning Ensures progression Saves time Questions prompt higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results. Focusing on the comprehension skills of: Asking questions Identifying themes Making comparisons Predicting Understanding and identifying figurative language Summarising main ideas Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA). All reviews welcome.

All the resources needed for teaching KS2 reading for a whole term. Detailed plans and PowerPoints lead you through the lessons, focusing on the comprehension skills of: predicting, creating images, comparing, recommending books, rereading and performing poetry, making connections. Engaging and relevant starters, main activities and plenaries planned for everyday. Differentiation Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA). ** Challenge** Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results. Progression Each lesson in the week builds and expands on the previous one. All texts provided, a range of interesting genres and styles with modelled answers to comprehension assessment questions. All reviews welcome.