A set of display resources and word mat looking at castle life and people living in castles. CASTLE ATTACK AND DEFENCE - 9 A4 sheets with pictures and titles: trebuchet, catapult, battering ram, coat of arms, bow and arrow, shield, sword, cannon, and chain mail. CASTLE BUILDINGS - 15 A4 sheets with pictures and titles: Motte and bailey, castle, tower, gatehouse, moat, drawbridge, turrets, portcullis, loophole, flag, castle ruins, wall walk, drum tower, inner ward, and curtain wall. CASTLES A4 HEADER - an A4 printable sheet with the title 'Castles'. CASTLES LETTERING - Large lettering that can be printed out as a banner, or the letters can be cut out. CASTLES WORD MAT - Castle vocabulary for spelling / writing prompts. MEDIEVAL ACTIVITIES - 8 A4 sheets with pictures and titles: Banqueting, jousting, hunting, praying, dancing, hawking, fairs, music. MEDIEVAL PEOPLE - 24 A4 sheets with pictures and titles: Lord, lady, priest, scribe, knight, squire, page, guard, archer, crossbowman, swordsman, soldier, messenger, porter, blacksmith, cooper, musician, jester, maid, laundress, cook, peasants, embroiderer, and servant. MEDIEVAL PEOPLE WORD MAT - 12 different medieval people.

A set of images, headings, borders lettering, posters, a map of Florence's journey to Scurari and a word mat. 2 x versions of Florence Nightingale title: Prints out onto an A4 sheet Florence Nightingale banner: prints on to 4 A4 sheets, or you can cut out the letters. Artefacts: 5 A4 pages, with descriptions, including Florence Nightingale's lamp, owl and medicine chest. Key vocabulary: 25 words the children may need to refer to. Florence Nightingale: A timeline of her life - A detailed timeline, with pictures and text, beginning in 1820 when she was born. Prints onto 10 A4 pages to display horizontally on the wall. Florence Nightingale border: to cut up and use as a display border (in 4 different colours, blue, black, brown, green and grey. Florence Nightingale's life in pictures: 14 pictures at different stages in her life. (Can be used as display, or for the children to sort into date order. Florence Nightingale picture timeline: as above, but dated. Florence Nightingale word mat: with key vocabulary and corresponding pictures to help children in their writing. Hospital before and after: 2 pictures of the hospital in Scutari with questions. Also included is a picture of a modern day hospital for comparison. Journey to Scutari: the route that Florence took. Nurses booklet - packing list: text from the actual pamphlet that the nurses travelling to Scutari received.

A pack of resources to teach the science topic Rocks following the new science curriculum.

A set of resources to help children understand about sounds and how they are made. It follows the objectives of the 2014 curriculum. POWERPOINTS: LISTENING TO EVERYDAY SOUNDS: Twelve everyday sounds to listen to as an introduction to the topic HOW WE HEAR: Explains how we hear and looks at different parts of the ear and what happens when sound enters it. It asks questions to encourage the children to think about sound and hearing. WHAT ARE SOUNDS: Explains that sounds are vibrations, discussing how sounds are made and how vibrations travel through air and through solids. Discusses loud sounds, the effects of wind, and how light and sound travel at different speeds, giving examples. PROPERTIES OF SOUNDS: Explains pitch and volume; how volume changes with distance but pitch does not unless the source of sound is moving. It ends with an activity to describe a selection of sounds. THE VOLUME OF SOUNDS: Activity to listen to sounds and think about distance and volume. MAKING SOUNDS: A look at different musical instruments and how they make sounds. Includes drums, piano, and guitar. Suggests different objects the children cound use to create different sounds. SOUND - MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: Pictures of different instruments for the children to look at and work out how they make sounds. WORKSHEETS: SOUND CONCEPT MAP: For the children to record what they already know and what they would like to find out LISTENING TO SOUNDS SHEET: To use on listening activities TOPIC COVER X 2: With 'Sound' title; one with a picture, the other without. DISPLAY: A4 Sound title A-Z lettering, with Sound title, one letter per A4 page INVESTIGATION SHEETS: A set of different sheets for investigations and recording PLUS a medium term plan with activities and web links

A look at the life and discoveries of Claudius Ptolemy

A powerpoint about the life and discoveries of Copernicus, with a quiz about his seven assumptions.

A powerpoint looking at his life and discoveries.

Explanations of the terminology letter, capital letter, words, singular, plural, sentence, punctuation, full stop, question mark and exclamation mark.

A set of resources looking at the spelling guidelines for: The /ɒ/ sound spelt a after w and qu The /ɜ:/ sound spelt or after w The /ɔ:/ sound spelt ar after w There is a powerpoint for each sound, a bingo game containing all the spellings, plus a word list and outline plan.

Resources to teach the spelling rules for: Adding ing, ed, er, est and y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter POWERPOINTS Adding suffixes to one syllable cvc words: Explains what a root word and a suffix is, and shows the addition of -ed and -ing, explaining the spelling rule, and the rule for words ending in c and x. It ends with a quick write activity to add ing or ed and er, est or y to different root words. Quick write - Adding ed and doubling Quick write - Adding ing and doubling Recap of the three suffix rules (includes adding suffixes to words ending in y following a consonant, and words ending in e following a consonant, plus the doubling rule) Quick write activities show firstly the the root word, then how it changes/stays the same when the suffixes are added. ACTIVITIES Words ending in a consonant then e matrix: to fill in TEACHER RESOURCES Y2 Spelling Appendix: Adding suffixes and doubling: An adaptable outline plan Word List - With relevant words

3 powerpoint lessons looking at how to add -es to nouns and verbs, with activities, planning and word list. ADDING -ES TO NOUNS: POWERPOINTS Adding es to nouns ending in y Plurals recap - adding es ACTIVITIES Adding es to nouns ending in y worksheet Singular and plural cards ADDING -ES TO VERBS: POWERPOINT Adding es to verbs ending in y ACTIVITIES Adding es to verbs ending in y worksheet TEACHER RESOURCES Y2 Spelling Appendix: Adding es to nouns and verbs ending in y- An adaptable outline plan Word List - With relevant words ending in y.

Resources to teach a variety of homophones and near homophones POWERPOINT Introduction to homophones: Explains why the English language has so many homophones Year 2 Homophones with pictures: Includes be/bee, been/been, bare/bear, blew/blue, for/four, here/hear, knew/new, night/knight, know/no, one/won, pair/pear, plain/plane, quite/quiet, red/read, right/write, sea/see, where/wear, so/sew/saw, some/sum, son/sun, tail/tale, their/they're/there, through/threw, to/too/two, week/weak and which/witch Writing sentences with homophones: Activity for sentence writing The following powerpoints look at individual pairs/trios of homophones, explaining the differences, and giving sentences at the end to choose which one is the correct word: Homophones they're their there Homophones hear and here Homophones son and sun Homophones to two and too Homophones be and bee ACTIVITIES Homophone cards with pictures Homophone cards (just words) TEACHER RESOURCES Y2 Spelling Appendix: An adaptable outline plan Word List - With relevant words

2 powerpoint lessons and a worksheet: THE USE OF LY TO TURN ADJECTIVES INTO ADVERBS POWERPOINT Using ly to turn adjectives into adverbs: Explains what adverbs are and how to make them by adding ly to adjectives.Gives a list of words to add ly to. ACTIVITY Making adverbs worksheet: Writing sentences with adverbs USING THE SUFFIXES ER AND EST IN ADJECTIVES POWERPOINT Suffixes er and est as comparatives: Explains how they change the meaning of words. Gives a list of words to add the suffixes to and think of sentences with them in.

5 powerpoint lessons for a recap of the rules learnt in Y2 for adding suffixes to different types of words.

POWERPOINT:Explains what they are and how to use them then finishes with an activity to reword sentences and put the apostrophe in the correct place. PDF (PRINTABLE) RESOURCES: Possessive apostrophes plurals worksheet PLURAL POSSESSIVE APOSTROPHES POSTERS A set of posters for display TEACHER RESOURCES: Adaptable outline plan

A powerpoint lesson and a jigsaw activity to teach the spelling guidelines: Hyphens can be used to join a prefix to a root word, especially if the prefix ends in a vowel letter and the root word also begins with one.

A set of powerpoints and activities to teach verb prefixes such as dis-, de-, mis-, over- and re-, with a recap of previously learnt prefixes. POWERPOINTS: Prefixes un- dis- and mis-: Looks at the 3 prefixes; how they change the meanings of words; and words they can be added to. Changing words into negatives with prefixes: un, de, anti, dis and il Prefix meanings: 9 prefixes and their meanings Prefixes dis, de, mis, over, re and pre: Looks at each prefix and words containing them individually, so one can be taught per session. PRINTABLE FILES (PDF): Prefix list and meanings Prefix word list dis de mis over & re (word file) Wordsearch x 6 (un-, dis-, de-, mis-, pre- and re-) Change the paragraph to the opposite meaning using prefixes worksheet Definitions worksheets x 4 Definitions matching cards Extension work - more prefixes x 3 worksheets Negatives

A mixture of powerpoints and printable activities to encourage sound discrimination by listening to sounds in the environment.

MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION LO: solve one-step problems involving multiplication and division, by calculating the answer using concrete objects, pictorial representations and arrays with the support of the teacher. POWERPOINT ACTIVITIES: Introduction to doubles: An explanation of doubles with visuals Doubles: To 10 with visual cues Sets of 2 rap: introduction to remembering multiplication facts Grouping and sharing - twos: introduction to sharing objects between children so that they have 2 each. PDF PRINTABLE RESOURCES Array: In twos to 10 Array: In twos to 20 Array: In fives to 50 Array: In tens to 50 Flip flap twos Flip flap fives (2 versions) Flip flap tens

A story in powerpoint, sequencing cards, heading, lettering, retelling pages, story sequencing and characters for role play.