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We are a team of two sisters who specialise in primary education. We are determined to create resources of the highest standard that can be used without further preparation. Our lessons and assemblies have been designed to challenge children of all levels within a creative, engaging and inspiring context. Explore our shop to find lesson packs for languages, art and religious education, plans for assemblies and numerous high-quality resources to help you teach phonics, mathematics and literacy
This resource is a bundle of activities perfect for using with your year 2 class during the 2018 football World Cup. All activities are football and World Cup themed.
The bundle contains:
Spag Booklet x 3
Maths Booklet differentiated 3 ways
Footballers comprehension booklet differentiated 3 ways
PDF file format
This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning how to talk about the types of music they enjoy in French, such as classical, rap and pop.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a listening game, a speaking and listening activity, a written worksheet and a plenary game. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are in the zip file and are:
5 page PDF Lesson Plan
A 13 slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open.)
Resource for starter (4 PDF pages)
Resource for speaking and listening activity (2 PDF pages - colour and black & white versions)
Writing template (2 PDF pages - colour and black & white versions)
No further preparation needed.
This plan is Lesson 2, Unit 11 French designed by Blossoming Minds, but can be used on its own.
You might be interested in some of our other French units including Units 1, 2 and 3:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11769397
This set of comprehensions is about the world’s top footballers! It covers seven top footballers. The comprehensions are aimed at Year 2 (ages 6-7).
There are three differentiated booklets. There are a range of ‘what’, ‘where’, ‘who’, ‘which’ and ‘why’ questions, some multiple choice tick questions and some that require more detailed answers. The activity contains a title page with useful words followed by five pages with short written extracts to read and 3-5 questions per page. The higher ability booklet has 20 questions. The middle ability has 18 questions and the lower ability has 15 questions. Answers are also included.
All of the PDF booklets are in the zip file. There is a colour and black & white version for each level.
No further preparation required.
The comprehensions were updated in May 2024.
You might also be interested in our Year 2 World Cup 2022 Football Maths:
Year 2 World Cup 2022 Maths : All Topics
A bundle of SPaG papers, worksheets, interactive whole class activities, group activities and more to help prepare your year 6 class for SATs.
Included in the bundle are:
3 original SATs SPaG papers
50 question PowerPoint covering ALL SPaG topics
A collection of 10 worksheets, 10 activities and 10 starters (in the form of a PowerPoint) covering some of the trickiest SPaG topics.
All answers are included.
A great revision tool to use with your year 6 class in the run-up to SPaG SATs. This resource is a PowerPoint containing 50 SPaG questions based on past test papers.
I have used this with my class to revise difficult topics, for fillers and in a quiz format. Revise one question a day or use for one long SPaG lesson.
Each slide contains one question, with answers appearing in an animated form.
This PowerPoint is included in our:
Year 6 Spag Revision Pack
A collection of 10 worksheets, 10 activities and 10 starters (in the form of a PowerPoint) to use with your year 6 class in the run-up to SATs. The ten topics covered are those that my class were finding difficult, so I decided they needed a bit of extra revision!
The worksheets use questions that are based on the SATs SPaG papers, plus a few extras.
The activities are perfect for group work and prepare your class for SATs in a more interactive way.
The slideshow can be used for fillers, starters or plenaries.
You can also put the three together to make 30 minute lessons on these tricky topics! For example, start with the slideshow to recap prepositions, before splitting your class into groups to do the interactive activity. Finish with an individual worksheet to check each child’s understanding.
The topics included are:
Brackets
Hyphens
Prefixes
Root words
The subjunctive
Prepositions
Pronouns
Tenses
Adverbs
Main and subordinate clauses
This is a 5 lesson Spanish unit for beginners, perfect for using with KS2.
The Lessons are:
Lesson 1 - Fruit and Vegetables
Lesson 2 - Bread and Cakes
Lesson 3 - Drinks
Lesson 4 - Breakfast
Lesson 5 - Dinner (including several dishes from Spain)
The plans (pdfs) all give details of a starter, how to teach the new vocabulary, followed by a combination of listening activities, speaking activities, reading/writing activities and a plenary. Each lesson is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills, making the unit perfect for young language learners.
All resources needed for the lessons are included in the price. This includes a PowerPoint for each containing the new vocabulary. The PowerPoint presentations are not editable. Click the ‘Read Only’ button to open them. Some of the images only appear when the PowerPoints are played as slideshows with the animations.
In total there are 72 pages of lesson plans, games and worksheets (pdfs) and 59 slides of animated PowerPoints. All of the lessons are in zip files.
No further preparation needed.
This is Unit 4 Spanish designed by Blossoming Minds.
This unit could be combined with the ‘Greetings and Introductions’ unit and ‘All About Me,’ unit and ‘Family Members, Clothes and Pets’ unit, all created by ‘Blossoming Minds.’
Beginner Spanish / 15 lessons
This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning how to talk about the types of books they enjoy in French. For example, they learn to say they prefer adventure stories among many others.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a listening game, a writing game, a further written activity and a plenary game. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
All the resources needed for the lesson are included in the price.
These are in the zip file and are:
The lesson plan (6 PDF pages)
A 13 slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open. Some of the images only appear when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations.)
Resources for the writing game (1 PDF page)
Writing template (2 PDF pages - colour and black & white versions)
Please note: It would be helpful if the children can already name some hobbies prior to this lesson, but not essential.
This plan is Lesson 1 of Unit 11 French designed by Blossoming Minds, but can be used on its own.
You might be interested in some of our other lessons including Units 1, 2 and 3:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11769397
This is a 5 lesson French unit for KS2. It teaches children vocabulary linked to the body. The topics covered include parts of the body, parts of the head, injuries, illnesses and healthy living.
The plans all give details of a starter, how to teach the new vocabulary, followed by a combination of listening activities, speaking activities, reading/writing activities and plenary. Each lesson is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
All resources needed for the lessons are included in the price. This includes a PowerPoint for each containing the new vocabulary.
(This unit could be combined other Blossoming Minds’ French units. This is unit 10 in the sequence.)
This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning how to talk about healthy and unhealthy living in French. For example, they learn to say that vegetables are healthy and junk food is unhealthy.
The plan gives details of an active starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a listening game, a reading activity, a written activity and a plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are:
The plan
A PowerPoint presentation
Resources for reading activity
Writing template
Please note: It would be helpful if children can already name parts of the body before this lesson.
You can buy Blossoming Minds’ Lesson 1, Unit 10, to teach them this.
(This plan is Lesson 5, Unit 10 by Blossoming Minds, but can be used on its own.)
This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning how to talk about illnesses in French. e.g. ‘I have a headache.’
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a speaking game, a speaking and listening activity, a reading worksheet and a plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are:
The plan
A PowerPoint presentation
Starter activity
Resources for speaking and listening activities
Reading worksheet
Please note: It would be helpful if children can already name parts of the body before this lesson.
You can buy Blossoming Minds’ Lesson 1, Unit 10 to teach them this.
(This plan is Lesson 4, Unit 10 by Blossoming Minds, but can be used on its own.)
This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning how to talk about injuries in French. e.g. ‘I broke my arm.’
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a speaking game, a speaking and listening activity, a reading worksheet and a plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are:
The plan
A PowerPoint presentation
Resources for speaking game
Reading worksheet
Please note: It would be helpful if children can already name parts of the body before this lesson.
You can buy Blossoming Minds’ Lesson 1, Unit 10 to teach them this.
(This plan is Lesson 3, Unit 10 by Blossoming Minds, but can be used on its own.)
This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning how to label parts of the head in French.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a listening game, a song, a written worksheet and a plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are:
The plan
A PowerPoint presentation
Written worksheet
Please note: The children should be able to name other parts of the body before this lesson. e.g. the knees, the feet etc.
You can buy Blossoming Minds’ Lesson 1, Unit 10 to teach them this.
(This plan is Lesson 2, Unit 10 by Blossoming Minds, but can be used on its own.)
This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning how to label parts of the body in French.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a listening game, a speaking game, a written worksheet and a plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are:
The plan
A PowerPoint presentation
Starter resources
Resources for speaking game
Written worksheet
(This plan is Lesson 1, Unit 10 by Blossoming Minds, but can be used as an individual plan.)
This is a 5 lesson French unit for KS2. It teaches children vocabulary around the theme of ‘Seasons, Dates and Weather.’
The plans all give details of a starter, how to teach the new vocabulary, followed by a combination of listening activities, speaking activities, reading/writing activities and plenary. Each lesson is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
All resources needed for the lessons are included in the price. This includes a PowerPoint for each containing the new vocabulary.
(This unit could be combined with other Blossoming Minds’ French units. This is unit 9 in the sequence.)
This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning how to talk about the seasons in French.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a listening game, a reading game, a reading worksheet and a plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are:
The plan
A PowerPoint presentation
Resources for listening game
Resources for reading game
Reading worksheet
(This plan is Lesson 5, Unit 9 by Blossoming Minds, but can be used as an individual plan.)
Please note: Children should be able to talk about the weather in French prior to this lesson. You can buy a weather lesson from the Blossoming Minds website.
This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning how to talk about the weather in French.
The plan gives details of a starter spelling game, how to teach the vocabulary, a listening game, a whole class speaking and listening activity, a written worksheet and a plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are:
The plan
A PowerPoint presentation
Resources for listening game
Writing worksheet
(This plan is Lesson 4, Unit 9 by Blossoming Minds, but can be used as an individual plan.)
This is a plan and resources for a beginner’s Spanish lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for eight different Easter and spring related words in Spanish and using them within a context.
The plan gives details of a whole class game to use as a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a whole class speaking activity, whole class listening activity, a written activity and challenging plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. They are in the zip file. These are:
5 page PDF Lesson Plan
A 14 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open. Some of the images only appear when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations.)
16 PDF pages for the starter (Colour and Black & White versions are included.)
3 PDF pages for the Written activity (Colour and Black & White versions and answers are included.)
Enjoy!
No further preparation needed.
This is a plan and resources for a beginner’s French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for eight different Easter and spring related words in French and using them within a context.
The plan gives details of a whole class game to use as a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a whole class speaking activity, whole class listening activity, a written activity and challenging plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. They are in the zip file. These are:
5 page PDF Lesson Plan
A 13 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open. Some of the images only appear when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations.)
16 PDF pages of resources for the starter (colour and black & white versions)
3 PDF pages for the written activity (colour and black & white worksheets and answers)
No further preparation needed.
This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning how to write the date in French. They learn the numbers up to 31 and recap the months of the year. The plan could be used for an individual lesson, or as part of a longer ‘calendar’ or ‘dates’ unit.
The plan gives details of a starter game, how to teach the vocabulary, a speaking game, an individual writing activity, a reading worksheet and a rhyme plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are:
Plan
A PowerPoint presentation
Reading worksheet
(This plan is Lesson 3, Unit 9 by Blossoming Minds, but can be used as an individual plan.)
Please note: Children should already know French vocabulary for days of the week and months before this lesson. It would also be helpful if they know some numbers.
