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14 weeks of short term plans Great for cutting and pasting into your own personal school timetable. I’ve included a sample week in the visible upload. The zip contains the lot. sample year 2. Register Activity Chn finish work from Meet Your New Teacher day. 9am: Input: Welcome the children to their first day of year 2! Talk about how we were feeling before coming into school, did we get very much sleep last night? Share with the children how you were feeling too! Introduce the chn to the text of the week: First day jitters by Julia Danneberg. Read the story together and discuss the twist at the end. (Ask questions throughout) T focus for morning: x2 groups of 6 L.O. To use features of a non-chronological report W.I.L.F I can… Include a heading Use subheadings to organize my writing Talk about the difference between facts and fiction (All about me) Chn create a 3D profile, including a self-portrait drawing of their head, to be used for display. Chn complete section boxes all about their family, friends, hobbies etc. Cut out the sections and arrange them inside the folded top. Put together the body parts on colored backing card, ready for the head to be attached later. Label with name sticker. 9am: Input: Quickly recap the story for this week and remind ourselves of the main character, how she was feeling and why? Introduce class bear, explain that he was also feeling very nervous about meeting new chn and starting year 2. Display a page from (bear’s) diary, ask the chn to highlight the adjectives they can see. (perform an action when they hear an adjective word) T to highlight them in a colour as they read. Explain the independent challenge is to match up the adjective words to the different emotion cards. T focus for morning: x2 groups of 6 L.O. To use adjectives W.I.L.F I can… Use capital letters and full stops Use first person Use commas between adjectives Check my sentences make sense (Writing it in the present tense) Chn to write a short diary entry about how they were feeling the night before they came back to school, include adjectives to describe how you were feeling. *Have Monday’s 3D profiles out on a table to finish off. TA focus for first thing: To assess SPP chn against current targets, make notes and set up folders for works to begin.

Couple of weeks planning. sample; Genre: Narrative Unit 4 ‘Older Literature’ Focus Texts: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare. (Adapted for children by Andrew Matthews and Tony Ross – Orchard classics). Begin by introducing the new topic and the learning outcome. We will be studying ‘older’ literature. Explain that older literature is defined as anything written before 1914 but we are going to look at much older than this! Show a picture of William Shakespeare: children to TTYP – Who is this man? What is he famous for? Can you name any of his works? Come back together and elicit that William Shakespeare was an author – not of stories but of plays and sonnets (poems). Talk about some of his more famous work and explain that he wrote 38 plays and over 160 sonnets. Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died in 1616. He produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613 – why do you think he wrote mostly plays rather than stories? Elicit that he was an actor so he loved the stage and he intended his works to be acted out rather than just read and also because of the times. TV and film were not entertainment options and the majority of people couldn’t read so going to the theatre or watching an outside performance was very popular. Explain that Shakespeare’s plays can be broadly split into tragedies and comedies. TTYP – what does this mean? Show a list including some of Shakespeare’s most famous comedies and tragedies. Talk about our recent history topic – who would have been on the throne when Shakespeare was writing (Elizabeth I until 1603 and then James I start of the Stuart dynasty). Talk briefly about the context to Shakespeare’s plays – Elizabeth I ruled over a very successful empire, England was starting to explore and find new shores and arts & culture were becoming more important and sought after. Link to previous unit. Children to take a whole page in their literacy books to design an advert/poster to be put up around a Tudor town. It should advertise an exciting new play by William Shakespeare (give children a few to choose from). Talk about the different language used for a comedy or a tragedy. CN with target group. CS with JD group. Start to read the children’s adapted version of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Success Criteria: I recognise William Shakespeare and I know what he did for a living. I can start to understand what England was like when Shakespeare was writing.

nice easy lesson. sample: TTYP – why do authors use descriptive vocabulary? Take feedback and jot down ideas for the working wall – elicit the idea that, as a writer, it is our job to create an image in the reader’s mind. Show the part of ‘Matilda’ where the main character approaches Crunchem Hall for the first time. 22 min 30 to 24 min 30. Take part in ‘Book Talk’ on this visual text: How did we feel about Matilda when we watched her walk into the school under the arch? How did we feel about the school buildings and environment? What impressions have we made about Miss Trunchbull? How were we made to feel like that? How did the director manipulate our emotions? Show the ‘Likes, dislikes, patterns and puzzles’ board and explain the task . Task 1 11am-11.10am Engaging with the visual text. A – Australia group (Level 3a/4c): Children to fill in an individual ‘like/dislikes’ board. Children to focus particularly on the ‘patterns and puzzles’ sections. Working independently. Extension task – children to annotate a still from the film with adjectives to describe the setting. BA – Brazil group (Level 3b/c): Miss Greenwood to support and extend. Children to fill in an individual ‘like/dislikes’ board. SEN/BA – Mexico group (Level 2): Working with Miss Noble on a guided like/dislikes board. Extending children to talking about the atmosphere. Main Teaching 2 10 minutes (11.10am – 11.20am) Share some ideas from the task and explain that now we are fully immersed in the text, we are going to start to transfer the clip into a written text. TTYP – what does ‘atmosphere’ mean? Talk and agree that it means: a feeling or mood created by a particular place. I am going to attempt to describe the setting AND the atmosphere to the reader. I am going to write in third person and past tense. Elicit the use of the senses for a setting description. Model write with reference to s/c and sentence trick cards.

Planning for this interesting book. sample Show chn the front cover of The Hodgeheg and say that we will be working on this book. Read blurb on back then ask chn what type of story they think this is? Establish that it is a Quest or Adventure story with a problem, journey and resolution. Ask chn what else the blurb tells us and note their ideas for Working Display notes. (E.g. the main character is Max who is a hedgehog, he has a family and he wants to cross the road…). Explain that today we are going to be Sentence Detectives as we read the story. We are looking for sentences which have adverbs in them. Revise the fact that an adverb modifies a verb, telling us how something was done: She went happily to see her granny. Develop this to talk about fronted adverbials, phrases at the start of a sentence which act like an adverb, telling us how, where or when something is done or happened, e.g. In total silence, the girls tiptoed along the corridor. Comprehension 1/ Grammar 1 Display extract from Hodgeheg (see resources). Read it out loud together. Briefly revise the rules for writing dialogue: (1) Speech marks around direct speech; (2) new speaker = new line; (3) Punctuation (question marks, exclamation marks, commas, full stops) that goes within the speech marks. Point out that if the dialogue finishes but it’s not the end of a sentence, then a comma goes at the end of the dialogue within the speech marks. See resources for marked up example. Then make-up physical signs for each type of punctuation, e.g. speech marks = hands held up, 2 fingers on each hand bent; comma = one finger drawing it in the air; full stop = pointing gesture, etc. Draw a map of the passage together, (look at the example map resource to guide you). Ask chn for suggestions for each element. Spoken language 1

Three weeks planning. Dramatic conventions. Pupils write a news report and tv script. sample: Chn to complete new KWL and explain that we are starting a new unit called dramatic conventions. What do you think this means? (Dramatic conventions may be categorized into groups, such as rehearsal, technical or theatrical. Rehearsal conventions can include hot seating, role on the wall and still images. Technical conventions can include lighting, dialogue, monologue, set, costuming and entrances/exits. Theatrical conventions may include split focus, flashback/flashforward, narration, soliloquy and spoken thought) Explain that we will be focusing on the technical conventions side especially the dialogue/script As a class watch part of this news round clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xb387rEINs How do they know what to say? How do they know what to do? How would this be scripted? What do you think it would be like? Discuss how this would have to be scripted just like in the news etc without being a play – explain that this can sometimes look similar to a play script but not always as they will see tomorrow. What do you think you would need to include in script writing?

A great month of planning. lots of powerpoints. Pupils have to use persuasive language to make a chocolate bar. sample Adverts will be up on the board. Introduce topic by asking what it is… (5mins)Asked to identify the aim of the advert (using mini whiteboards). Teacher leads discussion through the answers e.g. “what made you think it was that purpose?” (10mins) Then asked to go to tables and work in mixed ability groups to identify the aims of adverts on their tables – recording this info(15mins). Extension work – to write the features as to how they knew it was that purpose. class discussion as to the aims of the adverts – questioning how they know that(5mins)etc Discussion to lead onto ‘who is the intended audience’, again using mini whiteboards at first(5mins), then back to groups to identify the audience of the adverts they had seen before – recording this information(10mins). Discuss the audience – recap with new adverts asking pupils to identify both purpose and audience as plenary. (10mins) Starter – to recap on purpose and audience of adverts quickly on the board, using adverts seen yesterday then new advertisements that weren’t seen yesterday (5mins). Put cadburys cream egg advert on board and ask the children to point out some of its features. Ask questions like ‘what makes this advert stand out’ talk about the colour, the slogan, the brand, the image. Put up some other advertisements and ask them to point out the slogan, talk about how slogans rhyme, have a play on words, are short, use alliteration etc (10mins). Go back to their tables where there will be some recognisable products (coca-cola, mars bar, bouncy ball, yazoo milkshake), where children have to come up with a slogan for each. Extension work – come up with more than one slogan and they have to pick their favourite. (15mins) Children then share their slogans with the rest of the class. Table points for the best. Point out that slogans are in big bold fonts and match the phrase e.g. the Cadbury one is ‘gooey’, Children draw out their favourite slogan on A4 paper – to colour in too (20mins). Children asked to explain why they used certain colours or style of writing for their slogans for that product. (5mins). Homework – find 5 slogans from ads.

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Great little lesson or short set of lessons for persuasive writing. Couple of nice powerpoints. Endangered Pandas Pandas are rare today and are protected by law in China. In 1963, the first panda was exhibited in a zoo outside of China. Today, there are more than a dozen pandas in most zoos. Pandas can be seen in zoos in Washington D.C, Mexico City, London, Tokyo, Madrid, Paris, and Berlin. All pandas in zoos are given double names; this is a Chinese custom, which indicates affection. Scientists study the zoo pandas in hope to learn how to save wild pandas from extinction. There are only about 700 to 1000 pandas alive in the world today. Imagine you are one of the scientists that are researching pandas and a philanthropist has come to you and offered you a substantial research grant if you can persuade him that your research deserves. He asks you, “What makes a Panda so special that it should be saved?”…. your response is crucial!!! In both short and extended texts, I can use appropriate punctuation, vary my sentence structures and divide my work into paragraphs in a way that makes sense to my reader. Tools LIT 2-22a Throughout the writing process, I can check that my writing makes sense and meets its purpose. Tools LIT 2-23a I am learning to use language and style in a way which engages and / or influences my reader. Creating Texts ENG 2-27a Learning Intention ~ I can use personal research to create a persuasive piece of writing. Success Criteria – have you… (Tick as you have achieved) ???  I have used emotive and descriptive language to engage the reader’s emotion  I have punctuated accurately  I have used paragraphs effectively to organise my ideas  I have proof read and self-corrected using a variety of resources

Lots of English and Maths. Tremendous amount of stuff on World War 2. Text: Room on the Broom. We will also share a variety of Julia Donaldson texts with the children at the end of each day to support and promote new learning and understanding. Genres covered in this unit: Non-Narrative. Grammar focus: Monday: Using a capital letter to start a name: Julia Donaldson. Tuesday: Using a question mark at the end of a question. “How many books have you written?” Wednesday: Writing a clear sentence using a capital letter and a full stop. Thursday: Writing a clear sentence using a capital letter and a full stop. Friday: Writing a clear sentence using a capital letter and a full stop. Key teaching input/texts/questions/ clips etc Steps to Success Teacher to display a picture of Julia Donaldson on IWB. Q: Who do you think this is? What do you think she does for a living? Why? - Teacher to encourage pupils to expand on their answers/thinking. Teacher to explain that this woman is called Julia Donaldson and she is a children’s author. Class to work together to list stories from this author using reading area to support. E.g. The Gruffalo, The stick man, Room on the Broom… TTYP: Can you think of 3 questions that you would like to find out about this author? – Class to share ideas and Teacher/TA to scribe to support future learning. Using the following website, Teacher to carry out shared reading with the class to discover new information/answer any questions e.g. “How many books have you written” : http://www.juliadonaldson.co.uk/index.php Mild: state something you would like to find out about Julia Donaldson. Spicy: use phonetic knowledge to segment and blend CVC/ CVCC words Hot: share an interesting fact you have found out about Julia Donaldson. Extra Hot: Would you like to be an Author? Why?

Lots of planning for Maths and English year 3 sample: Text: ARCHIES WAR – Marcia Williams Genres covered in this unit: 2 weeks - character descriptions – to include descriptive settings Letter writing, information texts and propaganda posters. (Propaganda posters are covered in the topic books) Children have white boards. I will describe a person and you must draw them From the twits Roald dahl(Mr Twits). Children share ideas from the first opening paragraph. What made this so visual. LANGUAGE Look at a series of images. Witch, doctor, pirate. Look at the features, are there similarities. Elaborated pictures of people. Famous and non famous. Discussion and focal point. Play head band with the children. They have to describe the person they are holding and the partner has to guess who it is. Expanding on words to describe Resources: prefixes http://www.bigbrownbear.co.uk/demo/prefix.htm Starter - Use facial pictures for images. What may they be thinking? Do they look different now you out them in the picture. What about when they are wearing a certain clothing. Build the character in stages. Describe the physical appearance and the mental one. What may they be thinking? We can see their face and if they are smiling. Do they look different in different surroundings?

Three great powerpoints. Two great flipcharts. Planning. Sample: Discuss fantasy settings we know so far as a whole class using Fantasy PP 1. Reinforce the concept of a fantasy setting by showing lion, witch and wardrobe where child walks into Narnia clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMYU5vSaal8 In talking partners discuss adjectives describe the setting. Beach ball/Bean bag ideas. Feedback to group. Recap yesterday’s learning. Then use the Fantasy PP 2 and go through with the children how to create their own fantasy world. Explain the activity – children to create on paper their own fantasy world and label it. Must include: Setting Characters Magical objects Watch the clip from Harry Potter in the magic shop and encourage the children to look out for all the magic objects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDR5XgHHLBY and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szEFdhOHtrI (0-40 seconds) Make a list of all the objects they could see, what they could be for, using Fantasy PP 3. Explain the activity; children will be creating a magic object from their setting they created yesterday or a new one. What does it look like? What is it called? Etc

Planning for English and Maths. 56 files. sample: Text: This is the bear and the scary night Genres covered in this unit: Narrative SPAG focus: Monday: spelling patterns Tuesday: use and to join clauses Wednesday: high frequency words Thursday: high frequency words Friday: time connectives Key teaching input/texts/questions/ clips etc Steps to Success Read the story This is the Bear and the scary night Discuss character, setting, key events etc… Discuss what happened in the beginning, middle and end of the story. Explain to the children that this week they are going to write their own story similar to the bear and the scary night. Ask children to describe their character to their partner (can be their favourite toy or the teddy they bought into school on Friday). Ask children to share their ideas about their story. What is the setting? What are the characters doing? What is the problem? How are the characters feeling? How does your story end? Mild: describe your main character Spicy: share your ideas with your partner Hot: listen attentively to your partner Extra Hot: Act out key events from your story LA Activities MA Activities HA Activities Read to Write Mrs Preston Phonics Mrs Simpson Talk for writing and act out their story Photos for books Resources: The bear and the scary night book, cards with questions Give 3 minutes for children to recap their story. Who is their main character? What happens at the beginning, middle and end of the story? Model how to put key ideas onto their plan. Steps to Success Mild: recap your story with your partner Spicy: Identify the beginning, middle and end of your story Hot: Write key ideas onto your story plan for the beginning, middle and end. Extra Hot: Check your partner’s plan is sequenced correctly

English and maths planning. 39 files Text: ARCHIES WAR – Marcia Williams Genres covered in this unit: 2 weeks - character descriptions – to include descriptive settings Letter writing, information texts and propaganda posters. Children have white boards. I will describe a person and you must draw them From the twits Roald dahl(Mr Twits). Children share ideas from the first opening paragraph. What made this so visual. LANGUAGE Look at a series of images. Witch, doctor, pirate. Look at the features, are there similarities. Elaborated pictures of people. Famous and non famous. Discussion and focal point. Play head band with the children. They have to describe the person they are holding and the partner has to guess who it is. Expanding on words to describe Steps to Success Mild: To review characters Spicy: To recognise features of a character Hot: To describe your character Extra Hot: How could you describe yourself? Tell me.

Collected together my year 4 lesson planning from outstanding academy. Mainly English and Maths. sample: Tuesday 31.01.12 LO: To understand how the use of expressive and descriptive language can create effects or generate emotional responses. Read a descriptive/emotive poem ( Poems Not To Missed) JBA & JP to model how to express how the poem made us feel and what impact the vocabulary choices had on us and why? Read two poems that are expressive and descriptive. Ask chn What was your immediate reaction? Which vocabulary choices were effective and had impact? Why? What emotions do you get from the poems? What images did you get from the poems? Wednesday 01.02.12LO: To plan an ICT-based poetry presentation that involves each member of the group Recap leaning - What are they learning? What have they learnt about poetry texts? Why is learning about poetry important? How could you use what you have learnt about performing poetry? Inform chn that they are going to plan a poetry presentation. Discuss What is a poetry presentation? What is the purpose of a poetry presentation? How are poetry presentation put together? Explain that they are going to promote a poem using key language/emotions from the poem. In talk partners discuss what makes ‘good’ poetry? JP/JBA to scribe chn ideas on ‘working wall’ Using visual Literacy watch clips from poetry readings that the chn have watched previously. Ask: What makes the poem a ‘good’ poem and why? Can you identify key language/emotions/rhythm in the poem that would entice others to read the poem and why? How would you go about putting the key language/emotions together to create a poetry presentation? JP/JBA to scribe chn ideas on ‘working wall’ JBA & JP model how we plan to put together a poetry presentation for a poem we have read. Explain that a presentation is to demonstrate the understanding of a poems’ key message. Show what we are thinking when planning a poetry presentation. Which parts of the poems’ language was effective? What was the most emotional verses and why? Which verse has rhythm? How could we present this poem through drama? Thought shower ideas on working wall.

Two weeks Planning. the powerpoint is a sample. There’s other files in the planning Great powerpoint on the work of Kit Wright. The magic box really inspires kids. Sampl planning Ask children to remind you about what a simile is and discuss why it is effective to use when writing. Explain that today we will be creating some poems of our own by creating some similes. Write ‘as thin as’ on the board and ask everyone to think of very thin things. Push children to think harder past the more obvious objects. Prompt them if necessary ‘what part of an animal is very thin?’ and so on. Write other prompts such as ‘as tall as, as large as, as hot as’. Draw some circles on the board and write a prompt above them ‘The sun is like…’ See how many other things they can think of that are round like the Sun. Turn the circles into objects they suggest. Now encourage children to extend their ideas further. Explain that today children will be making some simile poems of their own about a monster. List some features of a monster and some adjectives that describe a monster. HA work alone to create a simile poem about a monster. MA supported by KB, use a writing skeleton for their poem which has some features already listed. LA supported by AS, use a writing skeleton for their poem which has the features already listed, make a list of adjectives that might describe a monster. Read through some of children’s poems together. Discuss what similes they have used and the effect it has on their writing, why is it more effective? Can children compare objects? Can they use adjectives? Can they extend their own ideas and thinking? Can they choose effective similes?

Some nice planning. Plenty of questions on this great book. sample Look carefully at the book cover, what do you think this book is going to be about? What kind of story do you expect it to be (i.e. crime, fantasy, sci-fi)? Why do you think this? Look back over the chapter you are reading. Can you select five powerful words that you could use in your own writing? Write them down. At the beginning of ‘Chilblains and Semolina Pudding’, the narrator talks of the Butterfly Lion. Draw a picture of what you imagine him to look like.

Nice little unit on modern history. Some nice powerpoints. Sample: Using Notebooks – answer questions. Who was John Lennon? What can you find out about him? Birthday Family Friends Community Music Is he still alive? If not, when, where and how did he die? Why is he famous? Rdg AF 2 WALT investigate the life of John Lennon WILF you can record information carefully about J L. Using questions, investigate life of J L What kind of childhood did John Lennon have? Recall information we know about Lennon so far. Establish that when Lennon was the children’s age it was around 1948/9. He was a teenager in the Mid 1950’s and grew into adulthood in the 1960’s. So his ‘era’ was the 1950’s and beyond. What do you think life was like for a child growing up in the 1950’s? How can we find out what it was like for children of your age at that time? Rdg AF 2 AF 3 WALT select information from books and the internet WILFcompare and contrast life in the 1950’s to life today. Give each group their focus area to research:- School in the 1950’s; Home Life in the 1950’s; Food in the 1950’s; Leisure Activities in the 1950’s; Fashion in the 1950’s Technology in the 1950’s and key questions you want them to find answers to. Children will record their findings on a Compare and Contrast Table the 1950’s v. 2010