Outstanding teaching resource for teaching year 6 children about salary, tax and wages.
Includes teaching slides for four high quality lessons.
Lesson 1: Defining salary, tax and wages
Gives visual representations for net and gross salary
Lesson 2: Calculating wages based on hourly rates
Lesson 3: Calculating tax deductions from salary
Lesson 4: Calculating net pay
Throughout each lesson their is ping pong slides for “I do, you do”
The lessons include sentence stems and steps to calculating net pay and tax deductions.
Small steps with differentiated questions.
The purple questions are the easier questions and each slide progresses in difficulty.
Visual representations for the difference between net and gross salary.
This unit allows children to practice their calculator skills ready for year 7.
This is also an appropriate resource for Key stage 3 and year 5 depending on the ability of the children.
Based on “The lighthouse keeper” animation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HfBbSUORvo
Newspaper report plan:
5 day lesson plan aimed at writing a newspaper report based on the incident.
Aimed at upper Key stage 2 but could be differentiated for year 3 and 4.
2 week literacy setting desciption writing unit
WAGOLL
Modelled slides
Edit lesson
Publish lesson
Hook lesson
Success criteria
Lesson 1
Understand how an author can effectively describe a setting
Lesson 2
-Use show not tell to effectively describe a setting
Lesson 3
-Use figurative language within parenthesis and fronted adverbials
Lesson 4
-Plan my setting description
Lesson 5
Write my first two paragraphs for the setting description
Lesson 6
Write my third and fourth paragraph for the setting description
Lesson 7
-Edit my writing
Lesson 8
-Publish my writing
3 lesson bundle
suitable for year 5 and year 6
engaging maths lessons based on saving for a holiday.
lesson 1: Pupils must pick flights and hotels
lesson 2: Pupils must pick items they are taking on holiday
lesson 3: Pupils must pick the activities that they are completing on the trip
pupils have a budget and they must then calculate the total cost
Includes:
Teaching slides
differentiated questions
modeled questions
answers for questions
Writing unit based on making a set of instructions on training a dragon:
Lesson 4: Understanding complex sentences
Lesson 5: Using imperative verbs with adverbs
Lesson 6: Using time adverbials
Lesson 7: Writing an introduction using compound and complex sentences
Lesson 8: Writing the first part of the instructions
Maths lesson based on planning a holiday
TASK 1: Children have to calculate the cost of the flights, choose their seats and then choose their destination.
Challenge: Calculate added tax
Cost of the plane journey is calculated based on hours on the plane.
TASK 2: Children have to calculate the cost of the hotel choosing one hotel per destination.
Challenge: Calculate added cost for all inclusive package
Modelled ping pong
Teaching slides to go alongside the input.
Fun RE lesson looks at forgiveness and reconciliation.
Looks at Elton John and Cher songs to engage children
Looks at quotes from the song and children are asked to draw illustrations based on the quotes.
Followed by a story analysis about forgiveness linked to religion.
Story board activity to follow.
How to train your dragon isntructions writing unit
Can be adapted for year 3- year 5
Features:
Time conjunctions
Compound sentences
Complex sentences
Sub headings
Adverbs
Imperative verbs
Week 1 Wolves in the walls pack
Includes:
Teaching slides
Resources
Can be differentiated for B squared and lower KS2.
Lesson 1: Make inferences from the Wolves in the walls
Prediction based on the book cover and images from the text
Role play activities with image prompts
Lesson 2: Analyse a descriptive piece of writing
WAGOLL included
With the following success critieria:
Success criteria for Descriptive writing
Powerful adjectives
Expanded noun phrases
Fronted adverbials
Different conjunctions
Present tense
Paragraphs
Statements, exclamations and questions
Lesson 3: Write sentences that include statements, explanations and questions
Teaching input for each one plus whiteboard work
Followed by a quiz
Followed by task
Lesson 4: Research Wolves for creative writing
Research based lesson to aid their writing
Lesson 5: Writing sentences about the 5 senses that include nouns
Worksheet that aids this lesson for descriptive writing
Year 5 Autumn 2 Physical health and well being lesson
Lesson analyses media influences on products such as mars bar and red bull
Discussion based activity
Followed by some drama
Planning a holiday on a budget
Engaging lesson where children have to pick excursions for their chosen destination
Teaching slides
3 worksheets with added challenges including:
Calculating VAT
Lesson 2: luggage
Children must choose the items that they are bringing on the plane in their luggage
They must calculate the total cost of the weight and the suitcase
They must also calculate the total cost of the items that they need to purchase.
Year 5 PSHE Career unit
Lo: What influences peoples decision about careers
Starter: Match up salaries to careers
Discussion around the influences on peoples career choices
Main task: Continuum of whats most important and least important to people
Extension: Write down skills, attributes, knowledge and qualifications for their chosen career path.
Complete unit of planning
Small steps
Bar models
Sentence Stems
Mastery style of teaching
Differentiated worksheets for each step
Matches Whiterose maths style of teaching
Year 5,6 Guided reading and English planning
Based on the jungle book
Researching Rudyard Kipling
Making inferences of characters from the text
Making predictions based on what I have read
Understanding playscripts
Creating dialogue for characters in a narrative