This was part of a festival topic we did in year 6 where the children imagined going round the UK to different festivals. In the first two lessons the children plan what they would need to take on a trip and design their own vehicle (DT). They begin in Norwich at the Dragon Festival and then move on to Birmingham for the Sikh New Year festival (Vaisakhi). Then they pop over to India! Then return for the Festival of Speed and the Welsh Music festival.The Smart Boards are detailed and can be followed without a lesson plan. Then they travel to Northern Ireland.

This Smartboard was designed for the whole junior school to use as the end of term writing assessment. You will need to colour photocopy different STORY scenes and I have included the list of picture books I took mine from in the SB. This was a chance for the children to show off their writing. If you don't know what ISPACE is, it is an excellent tool to use to teach children to vary their sentence structure. (look it up on the net!) PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

These lessons explore the question ‘If everyone followed the Middle Way, would there be a perfect world?’ The children do not have to know anything about Buddhism. The lessons explore the meaning of this question and look at what The middle Way means and at the Eightfold Path. Children gain a good understanding of this and also reflect on their own ideas of what a perfect world would be. This leads to a debate about the question which can be recorded as evidence.

The smartboard has a video on it and the reading comprehension is a transcript from it. The SB recaps who the Axis powers were and who the Allies were.If you do not have Smartboard software you can still use the reading comprehensions. There are 2 levels of questions.

This focuses on the non-Jews who helped to save Jewish people in the war. These are some of the unsung heroes of World War II who stood up for what was right. The first lesson looks at the concept of hiding and why people hid. The second lesson looks at heroes who are not well known but who saved many Jewish men, women and children. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK.

Read the very simple instructions. This will help the children to learn key times tables like 7x8, 7x7, 9x6 etc. There is an easier and harder game. The harder one includes some negative numbers to times. This is easy to use because all the children have the same bingo card. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

Halloween word problems including percentages, range, mode, median, multiplication and fractions. With scary pictures too! This can be adapted and made easier/harder.

Help your children to remember to use the correct spelling in their writing with these bright posters which can be laminated and displayed. Includes saw/sore hear/here right/write because said there/their/they're won/one where/we&'re/were loose/lose, ways to remember because, said and &';ould' words.

These writing tips are posters/reminders designed to be placed around the classroom. They include synonyms for nice, beautiful, don't like, angry and really/very so you can teach children to avoid the most obvious &'every day&'; words. There is also one which encourages them to extend their sentences. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

You need to have Smart board software to access this lesson as it is all on the slides. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK! There is a drama activity first where the children act out what they would do if there was an air raid. There are sound effects to play as they do this. Make the classroom as dark as possible. Then there is a structured poem that they can create based on their experiences and what they heard.

There is a lesson plan to follow. The children read the first hand accounts of real evacuees and have to sort them into positive or negative experiences. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK! They can highlight the words that tell them whether the experience was good and bad. They can order them from most negative to most positive. Finally they can take a scene from one of the accounts and illustrate it with speech bubbles.

This is suitable if you have a Smartboard.The slides take you through the debate. The children do not have to know a lot about WWI. This could be seen as a philosophy, Literacy, PSHE or history lesson. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

A simple concise Smartboard to introduce the build up to war and the causes. There is a video link to Horrible Histories. There are three levels of reading comprehension for the children. Most suitable for year 6+.PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

You will need a Smartboard. Follow the slides to create a factory poem based on pictures and photographs focusing on the outside features of the factory. The slides take you though how to teach it. Create 5 or more lines following a structure e.g. The + adjective + noun + verb e.g. 'The callous chimney smoked..&' Then complete the line with a simile (like or as) or something else. This encourages them to use alliteration and personification. Use the useful adjectives sheet to extend their vocabulary. Please leave feedback!

Use the SB to briefly introduce Queen Victoria. Prior to the lesson sort out a set of photos/pictures for each group with the writing underneath the picture cut out so they do not know which photo and description go to together, Then hand out a set of the pictures and descriptions to each group and see which group can match each picture to its description first. This way they can find out more about her without the teacher telling them everything!

This teaches children how to write 'spine' poems which I learned how to do on a Pie Corbett course. The Smart board explains exactly how to structure it and once you know how to write a spine poem it can be used to describe most things including animal and insects etc. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK! I have included pictures of the scare crows to print out and stick in their books with the poem.

Use the Smart board to take you through explaining the four games. Use the web link to download the free games: Pig, Boxes, Thirty up and Four Star. The idea is that they work strategically and use their knowledge to win! It should be a fun lesson. They can work with different partners. There is a plenary/reflection sheet at the end that can be stuck in their books.PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

This Smart board introduces The Globe theatre and includes photos and interesting facts about it. The children could do some writing afterwards, including some of the new facts they have found out. They could draw the outside or inside the theatre and label it. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

Photocopy and cut up the 18 questions on to card and place on each table. The children will need to know about compass points including NW, NE etc. This lesson helps them to understand quarter turns, half turns and three-quarter turns, compass points and anti-clockwise and clockwise. Practise with the children and see if they can follow instructions themselves, getting them to e.g. face North, turn a quarter turn anti-clockwise. The Smart board introduces the lesson and there is a quiz. The children can mark their work at the end.PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

All children can have the same card. Words include right/left/clockwise/anti-clockwise/N/E/S/W etc with a little arrow or symbol next to each. Highlight or circle 4/5 words. Teacher mimes the word and children put their hand up to guess which word it is. If they have it tick or put a counter on it. Winner is first to get all 4/5 and stand up and shout BINGO!. Sticker for winner! Ideal starter/ plenary game. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!