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.
A list of ideas for planning cross-curricular lessons based around a history topic. Included are ideas of how this could be linked to English, D.T, Art, Science, History, Geography, Music and Computer Science.
Areas included so far:
Battle of Britain
Nottingham - A local history study
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.
A scheme of learning with planning and worksheets included for Year 5 Maths. Included are 30 lessons that cover:
Place Value
Rounding
Negative Numbers
Roman Numerals
Powers of 10
Inverse operations
Written addition and subtraction
Mental addition and subtraction
Worksheets are differentiated three ways with a mastery aim running throughout. Having used a similar format in my own lessons, these sheets often provide enough challenge for two days lessons, with children taking on the easier work then moving on to harder challenges within the other sheets.
These have all been made with mastery in mind and so follow this pattern.
Worksheet One - Works on practise and fluency (LA)
Worksheet Two - Practise, fluency and reasoning (MA)
Worksheet Three - Practise, fluency, reasoning and problem solving (HA)
Worksheet Four - Same as worksheet three as a spare for anybody who finishes problem solving
Answers are included for each sheet.
A PowerPoint that looks at St David's Day including: what the day is, who St David is, how the Welsh people celebrate and traditions that have come as a result.
This is great to use for an assembly introducing St David's Day to children or as a presentation during a class assembly/ tutor time.
Attached are a number of resources to try and help in the build up to SAT's.
This includes 36 fully planned lessons to run from February half term with planning, slides and worksheets attached that operate on a mastery basis to develop children's reasoning and problem solving. These are for children to pick between based on confidence.
The reason for 36 lessons is so that you can also focus on other areas such as angles, graphs and rotation as desired or key target areas within your class. Where lessons are repeated, worksheets are repeated as purely revision. Within the presentation are slides for other lessons as a starting point.
Also included are mini-arithmetic tests and problem solving task cards children can work through and a revision mat of key facts.
Included are one off lessons/ starter resources that can be used in those times where someone isn't in/ if you're a supply teacher who hasn't been left any planning. These are aimed at Key Stage Two, particularly for 5/6 with more lessons added as it develops.
A bundle full of resources including planning, slides and worksheets for English, Maths, Science and a History topic. Also included is a grammar and punctuation booklet, a KS2 Maths intervention programme and a big activity book for mastering times tables.
Make Maths Matter is a 12 week intervention that is designed to build children's number confidence in Key Stage Two. Within the scheme is an explanation of the thinking behind the way it has been planned out and why it is important to start with the basics.
There is then a mini plan for the three sessions each week to be led by either a teacher or teaching assistant that explains the purpose of each session.
This is finished off by an Appendix that explains particular concepts in more details and gives a brief description of how each resource is to be used.
Complete set of planning, slides and worksheets to provide 5 follow up lessons on number and place value. This has been written with Year 6 in mind but the resources are easily adaptable for other year groups.
The worksheets have written with mastery in mind and so follow the following structure:
Worksheet One - Works on practise and fluency (LA)
Worksheet Two - Practise, fluency and reasoning (MA)
Worksheet Three - Practise, fluency, reasoning and problem solving (HA)
All worksheets include answers.
Differentiation is achieved through self-assessment of own abilities to choose which worksheet they do.
Lesson 1 - Place Value
Lesson 2 - Prime Numbers
Lesson 3 and 4 - Rounding
Lesson 5 - Negative Numbers
These have had great success in previous lessons and challenge and stretch children of all abilities.
Six sets of different resources to quickly check pupils understanding during lessons. Included are instructions about what they are/ potential ways they can be used to check understanding. Simply print, laminate and use them to get a quick visual snapshot of where your children are at.
A set of lesson slides and differentiated worksheets that focus on abstract nouns as well as recapping other nouns. Written for Year 5 but easily adaptable for other year groups.
56 different questions for Chapter Two of Billionaire Boy. These can be used for guided reading sessions or to give children as activities. To support guided reading sessions, all questions have the relevant page numbers (paperback) and answers at the end.
N.B. You will need to provide the text itself.
80 different questions for Chapter One of Billionaire Boy. These can be used for guided reading sessions or to give children as activities. To support guided reading sessions, all questions have the relevant page numbers (paperback) and answers at the end.
N.B. You will need to provide the text itself.
Six fully planned and resourced lessons for upper KS2 looking at different aspects of digital media and their content.
Lessons include looking at staying safe online and finding report functions, looking at information on the internet and whether it is completely factual or not, the importance of copyright and respecting it followed by referencing sources accurately from the internet, in addition to being able to use search engines effectively.
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.
Complete set of planning, slides and worksheets to provide 10 lessons on area, perimeter and volume. This has been written with Year 6 in mind but the resources are easily adaptable for other year groups.
The worksheets have written with mastery in mind and so follow the following structure:
Worksheet One - Works on practise and fluency (LA)
Worksheet Two - Practise, fluency and reasoning (MA)
Worksheet Three - Practise, fluency, reasoning and problem solving (HA)
Worksheet Four - Practise, fluency, reasoning and problem solving (This is a spare worksheet should children finish problem solving on worksheet three)
All worksheets include answers except for the variables lesson as answers vary too much.
Differentiation is achieved through self-assessment of own abilities to choose which worksheet they do.
Lesson 1 and 2 - Perimeter
Lesson 3 and 4 - Area of quadrilaterals
Lesson 5 and 6 - Area of triangles
Lesson 7 and 8 - Same area, different perimeter and vice versa
Lesson 9 and 10 - Volume
These have had great success in previous lessons and challenge and stretch children of all abilities.
Also included is a mixed perimeter and area worksheet.
A range of activities related to Christmas/ to help keep children focussed nearer the holidays.
These include:
An acrostic poem activity for the word Christmas
Christmas Bingo
Christmas Colouring Sheets
Christmas Coordinates - Identify where the pictures are on the grid
Define Christmas Words
Adjective activities - Think of adjectives to describe the Christmas Tree, Santa or a Reindeer
The Christmas Truce Poem with three differentiated sets of questions and answers included
A definition activity for the poem
Santa Dash - Plan the quickest way around the world for Santa
Comma Claus - Identify where the commas should go
Claus Clauses - Identify and add different clause structures to sentences to improve writing
Three sets of storyboards - Can be used for a range of ideas but created with the Nativity story in mind - Find a great example through Lego here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/nativity-story-3009639
Facts for Christmas around the world with three differentiated sets of questions and answers included
A 24 day Advent Calendar that looks at 24 different countries and whether they celebrate Christmas/ how they celebrate Christmas. The PowerPoint is hyperlinked up so that you can jump to the correct day from the main page with a bauble that then takes you back to the home page.
Attached is a full set of differentiated planning and resources for six lessons for electricity that cover the curriculum aims for Year 6. Included within this are tips for writing scientifically, looking at what needs to be included as well as a model example of a conclusion and what makes it good.
Lesson One - The history of electricity - Reading Comprehension with answers included
Lesson Two - Staying safe with electricity
Lesson Three - What make good conductors
Lesson Four - Circuits and symbols
Lessons Five and Six - Conducting an experiment into variations in how components function
During the unit of planning children will get to work on different skills including practising their reading comprehension, creating posters and writing scientifically.
These writing help mats have been made for Year 6 in mind but can easily be used with other children.
Simply print out the two pages and laminate them back to back to give children a work mat to help their writing and ensure they are addressing a number of the statements required for end of Key Stage writing assessments.
Included are:
The spelling word list for Year 5/6
Help for when to use paragraphs
Prepositions
Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
Modal and passive verbs
Cohesive devices
Punctuating Speech
Some areas of punctuation