I currently work at the top end of Primary school in Year 5/6. I create resources for a range of subjects and am always open to suggestions for resources people require.
I currently work at the top end of Primary school in Year 5/6. I create resources for a range of subjects and am always open to suggestions for resources people require.
Attached are 5 lessons based on using map skills and linking them to the Industrial Revolution. These have been written with Year 5/6 in mind but are easily adaptable.
Included are the slides, resources and differentiated lesson plans.
Lesson 1 - Identifying UK cities on a map
Lesson 2 - Identifying rivers in the UK
Lesson 3 - Identifying how the UK changed during the Industrial Revolution
Lesson 4 - Identifying the Luddites area of operations
Lesson 5 - British Empire during the period and identifying countries around the world
N.B. You will need atlases for the general atlas activities.
A range of quizzes that are useful for the end of the year or as general activities.
Quizzes include:
A quiz that gets children to try and identify 30 different flags from around the world. A fun geography activity for the end of the year or as a general activity to check knowledge of different flags.
A British History quiz that includes 20 questions about British history, including a range of topics and spanning over 1000 years. Also included is a bonus round worth up to an extra 23 points. This is useful for some end of term fun or as a general quiz to check children's general knowledge of British history and can be done individually or in teams.
A European History quiz that includes 20 questions about European history, including a range of topics and spanning over 2000 years. Also included is a bonus round worth up to an extra 28 points. This is useful for some end of term fun or as a general quiz to check children's general knowledge of European history and can be done individually or in teams.
A multiple choice quiz that children can do in teams as a fun end of year activity looking at various events in 2016-2017.
Round One- Sporting events
Round Two- Film questions
Round Three- Picture Round
Round Four- Song Round - Name the artist and name of the song with a point for each (Freedom in this round of selecting a number of songs yourself from 2016-2017 to quiz children on)
Round Five- Music Round
Round Six- Television Round
A multiple choice general knowledge quiz that has 26 questions before finishing with 2 bonus rounds with a point per answer available.
Three Year 5 grids for below, at and expected standard for writing. These have been based on the national curriculum expectations as well as using the current interim Year 6 documents as a starting point for creating them.
A breakdown of all the questions from the KS2 2017 Maths papers, split in to the various year group strands they have come from. Some questions overlap as they share curriculum strands from two different year groups.
Included is also a breakdown of the questions in statistical form to show what each year group contributed in terms of marks.
These are useful for sharing with staff in KS2 to show the types of questions children are expected to do for each year group as well as breaking questions down if people wish to practise easier or more challenging questions.
A lesson that focuses on time zones, including a look at GMT/ UTC as well as looking at the history of time zones. Included is everything that is needed to run the lesson including: the lesson plan, differentiated resources and the presentation PowerPoint. Good to use as part of a series of lessons looking at longitude and latitude or a useful one off lesson to practise some key skills and gaining a deeper understanding.
An activity made for the start of the new school year.
This activity is made to get children to think about rules that they think are important as classroom rules. There are 15 different rules that children will need to cut out. In groups, get children to pick the five rules they think are most important, getting them to justify why they think they are the five most important.
This can then lead in to a classroom discussion looking at each groups selection and getting them to discuss why they picked them.
These can also be used to then create the class rules for the year if their is a clear set of favourite rules or by voting on each one.
A workbook suitable for children in Year 5 and 6. This 22 page booklet looks at a range of aspects, getting children to work through questions related to areas of grammar and in being able to use a dictionary accurately. It is perfect for 5-10 minute bursts during register time or can be used as an extended activity for a lesson if plans have fallen through/ changed, with children able to pick it up as and when.
An activity for children to do at the start of a new school year/ for class swap days. Get children to draw themselves, describe themselves, identify their favourite subjects and activities outside of school as well as getting children to set three targets (for in or out of school) and think of one thing new they would like to do in the next year.
A Maths game that works on revising some key vocabulary such as prime numbers, multiples and using the greater than and less than symbol as well as opening up varied discussion about why particular numbers fit where they do or why they should be used elsewhere. Everything needed to play this is attached including an explanation of the rules. Perfect for a starter, plenary or just for a 5-10 minute break where they can practise some reasoning activities.
This is a helpful presentation looking at how to use the Singapore Bar Model. Singapore Bar is growing in popularity in this country due to the success of Singapore in the PISA tables for Maths, with the methods shown helping children break down problems in a much simpler way. This presentation goes through different models of the bar and how to apply it to a range of problems with step by step details for each problem. It can be used to help individuals become more confident with the methods and applying them or could also be used to help begin to lead staff training on the method.
A display poster for the order of operations (BIDMAS) that shows the order operations should be completed in as well as giving a little information for each such as what to do if number sentences are just multiplication and divisions.
28 page Powerpoint that introduces the continent of South America to children.
Within the Powerpoint, the 12 sovereign states of South America are included. Included are the flags for every country, the capital city and main language for each country as well as two to three facts for every country in South America.
Useful for introducing South America or countries within South America as well as being able to create a fact file using the slides.
A powerpoint that looks at both colons and semi-colons. This identifies what they are and how they can be used in different ways. These are backed up with examples of colons and semi-colons in use and also include activities to do as a class discussion about where colons or semi-colons should go within the activity questions.
A quiz that gets children to try and identify 30 different flags from around the world. A fun geography activity for the end of the year or as a general activity to check knowledge of different flags.
Five display posters full of facts to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II celebrating her official 90th birthday in June. All facts are on silhouette backgrounds of the Queen and include a range of facts for children to learn.
A Powerpoint that looks at the relationship between addition and subtraction and between multiplication and division.
Useful as an introduction or a recap for children, exploring the links between operations as well as introducing algebraic links for children and the way in which the equals sign can move about fluidly. Includes questions for children to try and solve, with some being more complex than others.
Five of the key parts of Bloom's Taxonomy. For each one there is a brief introduction of what it looks like for children, key words that can be used to check how children are performing against it and then actions and outcomes for each one.
Writing moderation grids that include all the statements for the three standards from the newly released writing assessment framework for the 2017-18 academic year for Key Stage Two.
A simple set of letters that can be used as a peer marking code for children to use when assessing others writing. These are basic but are effective for getting children to consider the key elements of the writing and being able to mark it quickly and effectively.
They could also be used for staff to mark writing with children then responding to these to improve their own, whilst saving time writing lengthy comments.
Attached are mini-skill sessions for History. These are 30 minute sessions planned for mixed Year 5/6 children but are easily adaptable to Year 7.
Each week a new session will be added that looks at a particular skill or area of knowledge that is then followed up by a differentiated mini-activity/ assessment activity for children to complete.
1st session - Time - Look at the different ways of judging time, ordering these before then looking at a timeline. Finish by looking at the years that make each Century.
2nd session - Sources - Looking at the difference between primary and secondary sources as well as then briefly looking at bias and getting children to look at example sources.
3rd session - Sources - Analysing sources for validity and also what they literally show us and what we can infer from them.
4th session - Sources - Analysing sources with prompt sheets to help children.
5th session - Chronology - Being able to place events in chronological order on a timeline/ consider when events may have happened.