Lancashire Professional Development Service helps educational settings like schools and academies to realise the full potential of their children and young people, by providing professional training, bespoke consultancies and inspiring resources. All of our curriculum resources are designed by highly experienced teaching and learning consultants.
Lancashire Professional Development Service helps educational settings like schools and academies to realise the full potential of their children and young people, by providing professional training, bespoke consultancies and inspiring resources. All of our curriculum resources are designed by highly experienced teaching and learning consultants.
The Key Learning documents are based on the programmes of study from the National Curriculum and pinpoint the key pieces of learning in each year group for Y1 to Y6.
They build upon the statutory elements to provide teachers with more specific guidance, further examples or additional and relevant objectives to ensure clarity, cohesion and continuity.
This package will enable you to identify the Key Learning within Science and the Foundation subjects. The subjects included are as follows:
Art and Design
Computing
Design and Technology
Geography
History
Languages
Music
Physical Education
Science
This is to allow you to purchase all six publications in one click, instead of adding them individually to the shopping cart.
This publication includes:
Reception into Year 1 - Harry the Happy Mouse
Year 1 into Year 2 – The Way Home for Wolf
Year 2 into Year 3 – A Bear Called Paddington
Year 3 into Year 4 – Loch Ness Monster
Year 4 into Year 5 – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Year 5 into Year 6 – The Nowhere Emporium
For the full descriptions please see the individual publications.
Themed around magic, mystery and much more, both the narrative and non-fiction units within this publication, interweave reading and writing skills from Year 5 and Year 6.
Children will be taken on a magical journey whilst reading Ross MacKenzie’s award-winning The Nowhere Emporium. Regular short and long writing opportunities are embedded throughout the sequence - with opportunities for further challenge and independent writing also signposted – whilst the final written outcome is an extended narrative based around the plot of The Nowhere Emporium.
This is followed by a non-fiction unit, flexibly themed around magic or the circus – it’s your choice! Following research, children will work towards producing a hybrid information text in the form of a magazine page. This includes a mini biography, a discussion text and a non-chronological report. The children could be finding out about the history of magic, researching a famous magician or discussing whether animals should be allowed to perform in a circus. Lots of interesting facts to find and discussions to have!
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
This publication of 7-8 weeks focusing on Year 4 and Year 5 reading and writing skills, includes both narrative and non-fiction opportunities, all based around the classic children’s novel The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
Using film clips, websites and a range of texts, including those themed around evacuation and mythical creatures, this unit will immerse the children in themes central to the novel.
A variety of short and long writing opportunities are embedded throughout the unit as the children analyse the story, gather content on mythological creatures and develop an extended narrative based upon The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
The Loch Ness Monster
Reading and writing skills for Year 3 and Year 4 are interwoven throughout these two units of work lasting 3-4 weeks for narrative and 2-3 weeks for non-fiction, all based around the theme of the Loch Ness Monster.
The first unit focuses on exploring and researching the infamous legend using film clips, websites, texts and news sources, before children write their own non-fiction article for a children’s magazine.
Following this, a narrative unit is provided which includes developing a new Loch Ness monster character based on a plot pattern inspired by the classic cartoon, The Family-Ness! Enjoy singing along to the theme tune with your class!
A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
Year 2 and Year 3 reading and writing skills are interwoven throughout both narrative and non-fiction units in this publication, all themed around one of our favourite bears from children’s literature – Paddington!
The first unit explores Michael Bond’s classic text, alongside the use of more recent film material. Regular short and long writing opportunities are embedded throughout the sequence as the children work towards an extended narrative of their own Paddington adventure.
This is followed by a non-fiction unit, in which children will explore a range of non- fiction sources, websites and clips, before writing their own tourist guide to either London or your local area. Be prepared for your classroom to be transformed to a tourist destination, complete with regular tours!
Applying skills from both Year 1 and Year 2, this publication is based around the theme of wolves and integrates both narrative and non-fiction in a 5-6 week sequence.
Children will share in the delights of The Way Home for Wolf by Rachel Bright and Jim Field, before taking on the role of researchers to find out more about wolves and other animals.
Using their newly found facts, children will produce an information leaflet to inform an audience. The unit concludes with a return to fiction, where children will create an innovation based on the original story.
Harry the Happy Mouse by N.G.K and Janelle Dimmett
Based around the heart-warming story of Harry the Happy Mouse, this integrated unit supports the application of Reception to Year 1 phonics, reading and sentence construction skills.
The half termly unit is designed to include a focus on rhymes, poems and songs, followed by both a fiction unit (2-3 weeks) and a non-fiction unit (1-2 weeks).
Within the narrative unit, children will be engaged with an oral retelling of the story of Harry and his walk, making people happy along the way. (Be sure to pack your walking boots!) Children will engage in short writing opportunities, including thought and feeling bubbles, lists and thank you notes/letters, in addition to an extended retelling of the story.
Following on from the narrative, an information sequence of work is also provided, in which children will create information posters on one of the focus animals.
The aim of these documents was to specify the key learning in reading and writing for each year group and match statements to show progression from Year a into Year b. The Key Learning statements should help to focus whole class teaching and could be considered as unit objectives. They will enable teachers to plan for mixed age classes by examining the progression and match of statements.
This bundle includes the following documents: Mixed age Key Learning in Reading and Writing for Years 1-2, Years 3-4, Years 4-5 and Years 5-6.
We are delighted to offer two mini publications as an extension of the EYFS: A Framework to Support Curriculum Planning publication.
They will further enhance the ideas provided in the publication, however they can also be used in isolation to provide inspiration for the teaching of ‘using loose parts’ and ‘painting’ within the expressive arts and design part of the EYFS curriculum.
The Key Learning documents are based on the programmes of study from the National Curriculum and pinpoint the key pieces of learning in each year group for Y1 to Y6.
They build upon the statutory elements to provide teachers with more specific guidance, further examples or additional and relevant objectives to ensure clarity, cohesion and continuity.
This package will enable you to identify the Key Learning within English and Mathematics. The subjects included are as follows:
English (Reading)
English (Writing)
Mathematics
Spoken Language
These on–entry assessment materials will support practitioners to set up relevant and appropriate provision, including resources, within the nursery classroom, to enable them to make relevant observations of what children know, understand and can do on entry to nursery. The materials offer prompts across all seven areas of learning and development and the characteristics of effective learning.
Sample activities are provided across ten areas of provision to support practitioners to choose from and engage children in open-ended but purposeful activities.
These materials can be used alongside other baseline assessment activities and will support practitioners in making an accurate judgement of a child’s skills, knowledge and understanding on entry to nursery. For five term Nursey children you could focus on the prime areas and three term Nursery children both the Prime and Specific areas.
The Key Learning in Spoken Language document is based upon the expectations outlined in the National Curriculum 2014. It will support teachers to plan spoken language opportunities in English and across the curriculum.
The key learning statements have been identified primarily from the National Curriculum 2014 (pg 17) - spoken lanaguage, years 1 to 6. In addition, EYFS Early Learning Goals 2021, and expertise from the Primary English and Literacy team at the LPDS, around speaking and listening, has informed the expectations for all years groups.
Skills, knowledge, Concepts – what children can do, know and understand.
This document has been updated to support the EYFS Statutory Framework in light of the forthcoming changes to the Early Learning Goals in 2021-2022. The document now includes the Educational Programmes and Early Learning Goals.
The purpose of this publication is to support practitioners in EYFS (nursery and reception) with planning a curriculum to meet the learning needs of the children in their school or setting. The document identifies an overview of the key learning (skills, knowledge and concepts) across all seven areas of learning and development to support learning within the EYFS phase to prepare children for their next stage of education.
Schools can reflect on the key learning outlined in this document and identify those which are appropriate for the needs of their children and, if necessary add additional skills, knowledge and concepts specific to the context of the school or a particular cohort.
As the Early Learning Goals are used to assess a child’s attainment at the end of EYFS, this document will support practitioners in planning and providing a curriculum which goes beyond that which is assessed.
Pupil attainment is dependent upon good quality teaching in the classroom.
This resource focuses on different aspects of teaching and has been produced to help your school identify strengths and areas for development in the drive towards quality first teaching and learning. It focuses on formative assessment practices and aspects of great teaching which will have a positive impact on your pupils’ learning and outcomes. It is designed to be flexible and easy to use by both senior leaders and classroom practitioners to develop practice.
The aim of these documents was to specify the key learning in reading and writing for each year group and match statements to show progression from Year a into Year b.
The Key Learning statements should help to focus whole class teaching and could be considered as unit objectives. They will enable teachers to plan for mixed age classes by examining the progression and match of statements.
The aim of these documents was to specify the key learning in reading and writing for each year group and match statements to show progression from Year a into Year b.
The Key Learning statements should help to focus whole class teaching and could be considered as unit objectives. They will enable teachers to plan for mixed age classes by examining the progression and match of statements.
The aim of these documents was to specify the key learning in reading and writing for each year group and match statements to show progression from Year a into Year b.
The Key Learning statements should help to focus whole class teaching and could be considered as unit objectives. They will enable teachers to plan for mixed age classes by examining the progression and match of statements.
The aim of these documents was to specify the key learning in reading and writing for each year group and match statements to show progression from Year a into Year b.
The Key Learning statements should help to focus whole class teaching and could be considered as unit objectives. They will enable teachers to plan for mixed age classes by examining the progression and match of statements.
A systematic, synthetic phonics catch up planning programme following on from Red Rose Letters and Sounds.
This planning programme has been developed, evaluated and refined, using the expertise of effective classroom practitioners and phonics experts at LPDS.
The intent behind the programme is to provide rigorous and thorough planning to enable children in Year 2 and KS2, who are falling behind, to catch up with their phonic knowledge and application in reading and writing.
The programme includes:
• a baseline diagnostic screening for blending and segmenting sentences;
• an overview of the Phase 4 and Phase 5 Grapheme Phoneme Correspondences covered;
• carefully sequenced 12 weeks planning focusing on Phase 4 and the high value Grapheme Phoneme Correspondences from Phase 5;
• comprehensive daily lesson planning following the revisit/review, teach, practise and apply phonic teaching sequence;
• an opportunity to revisit all of Phase 2, 3, 4 and 5 Tricky Words, High Frequency Words and Common Exception Words (both decodable and non-decodable);
• word banks that directly match the teaching of focused graphemes. Plus, additional words to broaden vocabulary and to provide stretch and challenge;
• application opportunities planned throughout to ensure blending and segmenting of words and sentences;
• a detailed games document; and
• a comprehensive assessment tool which includes frequent reflection checkpoints.