PowerPoint on whale facts and types of whales. Sea and seashore, ocean, creatures, underwater.

After reading the story of the first Christmas, I got the children to recount the story in comic strip form to assess their understanding. Can be used with younger children as a story and sentence activity or in greater depth higher up the school.

This is a writing frame for a missing person poster. It can be used to encourage character description using adjectives and similes.

Writing frame for planning a letter of complaint. Features criteria for success.

Recipe Card format that could be used to show sequence as a graphic organizer.

Power point on different shark types and facts.

A scary story planning frame to help children work on characters and setting. Also to help structure a story with a beginning, middle, build up and change in atmosphere and conclusion.

Powerpoint using pictures to inspire creative writing. setting, visual, space, planets, description, senses.

This is a report frame for a Chocolate science experiment. The children test three types of chocolate - milk, white and dark and each of these has a piece at room temp, fridge temp and freezer temp. The children time how long it takes each to melt in their hands or their mouths!

Here is a planning handout and activity handout for creating a new room for Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This activity is to encourage children's writing to become more descriptive especially with the setting. It can also be ta

Story starter for children to continue about a haunted house.

This is a template for a science report based on an insulation experiment. The experiment is using different types of cups (plastic, ceramic, wooden, polystyrene, glass etc.) to see which one keeps water hottest the longest. Children have to test the water temperature at timed intervals and write up an experiment report.

This is a powerpoint to accompany the novel, Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo. It leads to a discussion on why setting is important to a story.

Writing frame for a message in a bottle letter. Sea and Seashore, pirates, letters

A writing frame for children to invent their own superhero and write a descriptive piece about the character.There is also an accompanying planning sheet to get children thinking about ideas for their superhero.

Planning frame to go with Journey to another Planet Powerpoint. Creative writing, setting, space.

This is a science report frame for the three little pigs experiment. Basicaly groups have a time limit to build a house from straw (either real (messy!) or art straws), wood (lollipop sticks or twigs) and brick (lego ones!). You can then test each house to see which material is the strongest. We have tested with a hairdryer and a fan before!

This is a planning sheet I created to help children to consider their ideas for a comic strip. It looks at characters and events.

Children must choose objects from around the classroom and test them to see whether they float or sink in water. This recording sheet lets them think how to fairly test this and to predict their results first.

I created this sign and laminated it. There is a space to stick on the photo of the pupil of the week and a space for them to write on why they have achieved pupil of the week.