An excellent lesson jam packed with time saving goodies: Animated Powerpoint, Have-a-go AFL questions, fluency, problem solving and reasoning worksheets, lesson plan and all answers included. Download this effortless lesson which teaches children how to multiply and divide decimals to save hours of your planning and marking time. Be confident in your pupils understanding as the engaging PowerPoint covers these key teaching points: An explanation of decimals A review of place value titles and how they work Visual examples of when we need to multiple and divide decimals An interactive, step by step animation of how to do the written method for multiplication An interactive animation of the division written method (bus stop) A reminder of how to solve word problems Clues for if the operation is multiplication or division Enjoy using these helpful slides showing the written methods clearly using colour, arrows and reminders to make it easy to understand. Print our these interesting and realistic word problems so your pupils can consolidate their learning in real life contexts. Extend your pupils with multi step problems for a challenge and a page of higher level questions for quick finishers. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular maths word problem packs: Adding and Subtracting Fractions Converting Fractions to Decimals Factors, Multiples, Squares and Cubes

A lesson pack teaching the physical features of Russia. Includes a teaching PowerPoint, photo analysis, paired and group activities, differentiated written work, all printables and a plenary. Highlights: Starter activity Odd one out photo analysis Videos and information on each biome Varied outcomes The Powerpoint takes you through photo and map analysis of Russia and a range of activities to give the children a deep and rounded understanding of this place. A reasoning plenary brings the lesson together. Resources Maps, videos, images and fact slides show the various biomes, animals, landscapes and weather of Russia. All printable resources included and ready-to-go. Activities Differentiated activities cover three ability groups with a reasoning challenge activity. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in these high quality Geography lessons: Tour Breathtaking Scandinavia Visit the Grand Yosemite National Park Uncover UK Coasts

Engaging lesson pack teaching children how to solve area and perimeter word problems. Includes a detailed PowerPoint, worksheets, multi step questions, real world scenarios, differentiation, consolidation of key number skills and all the answers. Use the step by step input which explains this skill whilst developing independence, confidence and enables pupils to reach the challenge activities. Delight in seeing your class tackle and solve an extensive bank of questions set in real world contexts. Most are multi step and cover key KS2 number skills. Develop mastery as this lesson caters to every child, the differentiated worksheets will ensure that every child moves on and that every child makes progress. Print all the answers included for quick and easy marking. Hand out the challenges provided so your pupils really master the concepts of area and perimeter. Finish with an open ended plenary discussion to enhance their reasoning skills and give children the opportunity to discuss and consolidate their learning. All reviews welcome. You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 maths resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy You might also be interested in: - Calculating the perimeter of regular and irregular shapes - Calculating the perimeter of composite shapes - Converting fractions to decimals word problems

Over 500 powerful adjectives for creative writing. Grouped into synonyms to aid understanding and save time. Use these 7 A4 page adjective banks to expand the vocabulary of your pupils. A bright and colourful pack of lists of adjectives for KS2. Designed to cover your needs for all your English units. 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. Words are clearly grouped under synonyms so all ability children can benefit from these. Contains: - Persuasive Adjectives - Adjectives to describe monsters - Adjectives to describe a hero - Adjectives for a spooky setting description - Adjectives for a positive setting description - Adjectives to describe different characters -Adjectives to describe different objects All reviews welcome.

Increase awareness of mental health in your school with a week of 5 engaging and beneficial circle time sessions. Designed for a Mental Health Awareness Week in a primary school or to be used at any time you need to develop your pupil’s emotional wellbeing. Written for years 3-4 they cover these key issues: Feelings of doubt and building self esteem Identifying bullying and solutions Overcoming and sharing strong feelings Dealing with negative reactions and asking for help Finding trusted adults This week of circle time will develop your pupil’s awareness of these issues whilst improving their understanding of their feelings and how to cope with them. The children will be supplied with strategies to: Identify feelings Communicate feelings Notice warning signs Use coping strategies Ask for help Every session includes a starter, paired and group discussion, activities and a calm reflective plenary. These effective sessions will develop your pupil’s wellbeing in 30 minute slots (they could easily be extended or shortened as necessary with no extra planning). Why not use my Emotion Cards to further develop your pupils EQ. Or download a Year 5 and 6 CircleTime Activity Week. You can find more high quality KS2 resources at my shop.

An engaging and detailed week taking children through the process of writing a discussion text. Each day there are engaging starters, main activities and plenaries. Every teaching point comes with at least one modelled text with analysis. Sequenced learning Starters review key spellings and grammatical terms from the new curriculum. Plenaries are written to encourage higher order thinking skills and encourage peer and self assessment. The main teaching points are: Writing a high quality introduction, Structuring a paragraph with PRE Using facts and opinions in discussion texts, Using modal verbs and sentence openers, Ideas of for and against points Writing a high quality conclusion. The success criteria are differentiated for three ability groups: Green - LA Blue and Yellow - MA Red - HA All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in Exploring and Planning a Discussion text Discussion text Openers

A whole week of year 2 reading comprehension lessons on The Giraffe And The Pelly And Me. Includes teaching PowerPoint, paired and group activities, scaffolding, differentiation, sequenced learning, challenge and answers. Five complete lessons which develops the children’s understanding of the book and their ability to answer comprehension questions. Every lesson includes: Starter Teaching points Pages to read Independent activities Challenge Plenary This week focuses on the comprehension questions which ask you to find a word with a similar meaning to a quote from the text. The teaching points emphasise the importance of looking back over what you have read and using what you know. Colonel Code Breaker appears everyday to give the children handy tips and help them become confident at decoding tricky words. All activities are differentiated into 3 ability groups, with printable sheets provided separately to support every child. Enjoy teaching reading with this accessible and engaging famous book by Roald Dahl, excite your pupils with the charming characters whilst they expand their vocabulary. You can find lots more useful resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop Or you might be interested in these handy resources: Year 2 Reading Corner Display Year 2 Reading Assessment Questions

A complete year 5 Science lesson, ready to download and teach about Spencer Silver. Enjoy using the detailed PowerPoint to lead you easily through the lesson. Also included is a helpful video link, differentiated activities, all the necessary resources and the complete lesson plan. Easily teach this new curriculum KS2 Science learning objective: They should find out about how chemists create new materials, for example, Spencer Silver, who invented the glue for sticky notes Use the detailed powerpoint to explain the science behind the post it notes invention of Spencer Silver and the helpful video to explain it in further detail. Give the children a range of activities differentiated for ability - a flow chart, an explanation using analysing skills and a scientific experiment making and testing glue. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in my other popular science resources: Lessons on Famous Scientists Bundle 5 Easy To Do Mini Investigations UKS2 KS2 Forces Unit

A complete lesson on the famous scientists Isaac Newton and Galileo Galilei. Includes an engaging PowerPoint to lead you through the lesson, hands on activities, small investigations and differentiated written work. Support and extensions tasks also provided, along with a detailed lesson plan. Engage your pupils with this informative lesson on the famous scientists Isaac Newton and Galileo Galilei. Linked together with the easy to understand theme of ‘falling’ your class will enjoy finding out and testing common scientific theories. Full of hands on activities, small investigations and differentiated written work this lesson will delight your afternoon and save you time. Support and extension resources provided, so every child will be on task and able to complete the work without asking questions. Handy links to an interesting video on the PowerPoint, which explains the scientific theories in entertaining and clear ways. Covers these learning objectives from the National Curriculum for year 5 science. Explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object. Identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces. Pupils might find out how scientists, for example, Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton helped to develop the theory of gravitation. Check out my other high quality science lessons: KS2 Forces Unit Jane Goodall Famous Scientist British Science Week Resource Bank

An inspiring CPD pack for refreshing and updating your behaviour management toolkit. Extensive word document, bright and clear PowerPoint and survey included. Understand how to manage a class in a low energy, effective and long term way. Make small changes to your teaching to have a big impact on the focus, concentration and progress of your pupils. Download a clear, visual and easy to understand 10 page word document explaining fundamental aspects of teaching: Laying the foundations of behaviour management Explaining expectations and consequences 4 behaviour management essentials 10 top behaviour strategies Teaching for engagement alongside behaviour management Walking around school as role models Table Plans for minimum disruption Playground behaviour management Practical subjects, rewards and tidying up a classroom Evaluating and changing your practice Enjoy a 29 slide PowerPoint for training others, covering key techniques and strategies to update teaching methods. Within this there are moments to discuss, reflect and evaluate your practice. Also included is an optional anonymous survey you can give your class to find out what they think about your strengths and weaknesses - a daring but effective way to move your skills forward. This would be helpful for any NQTs and other teachers looking to refresh and update their behaviour management. Useful for individual personal CPD or to provide whole school CPD. All reviews welcome. You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 resources, lessons and plans at my shop: Teachallenjoy You might also be interested in these inexpensive and free resources Noisemeter Seating Plan Pack Dreams and Aspirations Lesson

A target sheet for a year 4 child, includes all of the objectives for this year group in child speak. Children can track their targets in the table and teachers can tick in the columns when these are evidenced and then achieved. The rocket sheet is an extra fun way for children to remember which target they are working on. Learning Objectives for year 4 in easy to understand short phrases. Can be stuck in the front of English books so children can refer to this in lessons or kept in a teacher’s file. Teacher can choose how much evidence needs to be collected before the children achieve the target. You can show recognition of the target achieved in their work with a sticker/star/symbol. Encourages responsibility for learning and ensures the children know their targets. All reviews welcome. Check out my other resources for teaching and assessing primary English: Year 3 Writing Assessment Guidance Year 3 Reading Assessment Questions Year 4 Writing Assessment Guidance Year 4 Reading Assessment Questions Whole School SMART Target Packs

An essential resource for teaching expanded noun phrases. Includes an engaging PowerPoint and complete word bank kits. This pack teaches how to construct expanded noun phrases. Grouped word banks scaffold the learning. It teaches children how to start with a simple noun phrase such as 'the dog' or 'the lady' and add in 8 new elements to the phrase. 3 simple noun phrases are modelled with the 'machine'. Used in year 5, also appropriate for all other KS2 classes. A|l reviews welcome.

98 Videos of every letter of the alphabet as a capital and lowercase in cursive handwriting. Example sentences and words for pupils to copy containing the focus letters. Large selection of phonic digraphs for handwriting practice as well. Have the best handwriting class in school! All reviews welcome. Check out my Teachallenjoy Shop for more amazing resources.

5 complete lessons teaching the story of Beowulf. There are engaging starters, inputs, differentiated activities and plenaries in a clear and easy to use Powerpoint. Slides cover key writing skills such as relative clauses, openers, word classes, sentence structure, linking sentences for cohesion and expanded noun phrases. Covers the innovate and invent phases of Talk for Writing. There are clear explanations and modelling of how to create suspense for the tense parts of the story and a grammar activity on the different types of nouns. Useful for any class in KS2, differentiated success criteria Green - LA Blue and yellow - MA Red - HA All reviews welcome.

A week’s plan, 76 slide powerpoint and complete resources for KS2 reading focusing on the comprehension skill of understanding and identifying figurative language. Written for UKS2 but easily adaptable for all other KS2 classes. Engaging and relevant starters, main activities and plenaries planned for everyday. Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA). Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results. Each lesson 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. You might also be interested in my other popular reading lessons: Identifying Themes Summarising Texts Predicting When Reading

An excellent lesson teaching KS2 how to calculate the perimeter of squares and rectangles. Plan, worksheets, PPT, answers, challenges and extensions included. Lesson then challenges children with learning how to find the perimeter of composite shapes and triangles. Complete high quality resources provided: Interactive and Engaging PowerPoint Lesson Plan Independent, paired and group activities Worksheets for lower/mid and mid/higher Challenge for every ability Answers for quick and easy marking A visual, logical and memorable presentation clearly explaining the different perimeter formulas. Enjoy the 22 slide PowerPoint teaching and enhancing your pupil’s understanding of perimeter. Lesson Content: Doubling numbers starter, Perimeter of squares, Reasoning shapes questions, Perimeter of rectangles, Perimeter of composite shapes, Perimeter of triangles. A differentiated lesson of two halves - Middle and Higher ability can independently tackle perimeter reasoning questions while you teach the lower and middle ability. Then they can be independent while you talk through the reasoning and main activity with the higher ability pupils. Or this can be easily taught to a whole class if you prefer. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in these high quality KS2 maths resources: Calculating Perimeter of Composite Shapes Lesson Area and Perimeter Word Problems Measuring Angles Lesson Drawing Angles Lesson

A week’s plan, powerpoint and resources for year 5 reading focusing on the skill of prediction. Includes 5 engaging starters, main activities and plenaries. Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA). Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results. Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one. All reviews welcome.

Use this resource to write Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound year 3 writing targets. Useful for teachers when assessing so you can narrow down the statements from the Curriculum into small next 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. 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 English Writing Assessment Guidance Whole School Guided Reading Questions