This is a word document all about general garden snails. It includes many subheadings including why are snails pests? Life cycles? How does it eat? Why are they in danger? Pond Snails. What is the largest African Snail? This information text is suitable for research purposes in science to answer questions that have been generated by the children. It can also support writing own information about an other animals such as owls because children apply the skills of features they have learnt.

Before children can estimate, they need to be able to round up or down. This is a great introduction to rounding to the nearest multiple of 10 up to 100. The children can practice identifying which multiple of ten is on either side of a given number. They then use the rounding rule to round up or down. This is a great differentiated activity to show mastery maths and reasoning with numbers up to 100. Children will be required to reason with problems such as Adam can read 8 pages a day. Estimate how many he can read in a week. The children will round first to solve this answer and show their reasoning. Encourage use of APE it - Answer it, prove it and then explain it to achieve mastery skills. Suitable for the new year 2 curriculum in maths.

There are differentiated worksheets on Fractions from working within to Mastery level in maths as well as a powerpoint with success criteria and word problems. There is opportunity for children to practice mental maths with fractions and then move onto word problems. For gifted children in maths, there is opportunity to work on 2 step problems. These activities have been used in a year 2 class to teach Maths for the new curriculum 2016.

Year 2 Guided Reading Comprehension- Information Text All About Foxes. A detailed text all about foxes allows children to read at length for greater depth. Children who are working at the expected have the text broken down into smaller chunks for easier accessibility. This resource can be used in isolation as well as supporting material for the Fox unit by Margaret Wild- if its being taught in English. The guided reading questioning included looking, inference, evaluative, and overall text questions. It is suitable for the New English curriculum and will suit teaching over 2 to 3 weeks or as extensive revision purposes leading up to SATs in year 2. It is recommended that greater depth children move onto reading Fantastic Mr Fox after this unit is completed. An additional Bats comprehension has been included for your use if you are teaching nocturnal animals. Thank you for choosing this resource and I hope you find it valuable.

Year 2 working at greater depth and mastery level. This challenge is suitable for HAPS to challenge them to record in tables( by creating their own) and think about how to work systematically. It challenges them to begin looking for patterns and write a simple formula to estimate the 10th number. This is an excellent, engaging and fun way to see children working at greater depth level and how they apply their skill of reasoning. The challenge asks children to make a straw house and then estimate how many are needed for a street of 10. They are extended to look at rockets and create their own straw challenge for others to complete. Great team building exercise. Can also be used with children working within the expected level if, practical straws are provided alongside a table template.

Writing a riddle in year 2 is fun. This resource teaches children how to write riddles about snails and whales. It is linked to the story The snail and the whale by Julia Donaldson. This resource is fun and flexible to use. The supporting materials can easily be adapted to write a riddle about any creature. Linked to the Information Text Unit All About Whales- also available in the shop. HAPS children are challenged with high expectations by using coordinating conjunction ‘but’ when writing a clue - e.g I have a foot but I don’t have any legs. I’m a good swimmer but I’m not a fish. Suitable for boys and interesting to get quality writing. Linked to the new English TAF 2018

Africa Year 2 unit about stories in a cultural setting. If you are looking for a new unit of work with excitement, culture, story, film, art links and research, - then look no further. This is a 3 week unit of work to link with a topic on Africa (or it can be taught stand alone). The planning included opportunities to learn an exemplar rewritten and condensed text using the ‘Masai and I’ story as inspiration. Children have the opportunity to imitate and innovate and then invent their own text. The resources included have excellent visuals to research from. Suitable links to real life Masai have been given as short film extracts to take notes about the cultural lifestyle, food, pets, schools of this tribe. This is an excellent and interesting unit to engage boys. Other links such as art have been made clear - whereby children learn about Kente cloth as worn by people in Kenya, create a traditional necklace and paint Masai dancers. As well as this, a guided reading text has been included in the unit to support reading for ‘working at’. There are also some additional resources called writing targets that can be edited to suit class needs. Enjoy and please leave a review.

An excellent way of investigating science practically. children will undertake a comparative test to find out which material is the best to make Max dry. Linked to the Where the wild things are story. A useful science starter is included to make children think about the versatility of materials before they engage in an independent investigation to develop enquiry skills. Suitable for the new year 2 curriculum 2014.

Year 2 Non Fiction Writing This is 14 page slide powerpoint with apt information about how to write about snails. It includes subheadings for body, eats, habitat, dangers. it gives children enough information about snails so they can research and then write their own information text about how to keep pet snails. This encourages children to apply their learning to a new context. Ideal for a topic unit in science and suitable for keeping pet African snails in class. Otherwise it can be used for English literacy non fiction unit. The text includes suitable sentence level work to incorporate year 2 grammar features such as coordinating and subordinating conjunctions. There are opportunities for children to use questions by addressing the reader e.g. Have you ever wondered how to keep pet snails?

Year 2 Science Curriculum - Plants This is an interesting lesson demonstrating how to set up an experiment to observe plants growing over time. The P details which vegetables and scraps are suitable to use. It shows how to set up the experiment and includes photographic examples of the scraps that do grow into new plants. Suitable for year 2 and year 1. Children can have fun bringing in scraps from home, such as potato cuttings with a node, carrot heads, celery, spring onion cutting from base, and even a pineapple head etc.

Year 2 Developing reading in the classroom for all pupils (including whole school approach). This resource supports teachers how to set up guided reading in their classrooms. It offers the following: Developing Lexical reading - word meanings Developing figurative language like idioms to support comprehension Using pictorial clues for context Using P4C to develop deeper, critical thinking. Using point, evidence and explain to promote deeper level and detailed answers from children. Quality response activity ideas after reading with the teacher. Carousel reading suggestions. Sequencing and summarizing text. Can be used to develop staff cpd or for teaches to self-reflect and promote reading for pleasure in the classroom (as well as bridging the vocabulary of disadvantaged readers). Supports current pedagogy and practice for 2019 and the new national curriculum for reading. I hope you find it useful to self reflect on your practice and pedagogy in school. Please leave a review. Written by SLE in English -supporting educators around the world.

This is a fantastic Toolkit with all the Year 2 grammar features to achieve expected in writing. It is designed to be used as a child friendly writing Toolkit. It can also be used as a display around the class on washing lines or working walls. .

Writing with a voice, with audience in mind and for a purpose is the most crucial change in the new English framework. See the document to know how to teach the difference between audience and purpose. Teachers have been given examples from the year 2 units of work in this document. It explains how to do a Tweak it Task to show the purpose of writing can change from entertainment, to inform, or to instruct. For example, here is a narrative of an adventure story- now change it to instructions on how to go on an adventure - (the purpose here has changed - and this will effect word choices, tone, structure of writing). Hope you find it useful to explain to the younger ones. Suitable class teachers and English Leaders for CPD writing across the school although examples given are from year 2.

Structures Design and Technology Lower KS2 Primary This resources contains a Shell Structures Knowledge Organiser ONLY.It is suitable for years 3 and 4. It outlines the learning objectives from the programmes of study, prior learning, key vocabulary, skills practice visuals, Rights to Respect links, knowledge of shell structures and designers or architects. The Knowledge orgainser is a point of reference for teachers and pupils to support memory, build vocabulary, develop knoweldge, skills and ensure pitch and expectations are correct for DT. This Knowledge organiser corresponds to the unit of work in the shop with the following; - A complete unit of work with lesson planning, Powerpoints and resources. Visuals and photos included for clear instructions. Design inspirations for shell structures e.g natural and manufactured as well as suitable designers and engineers. Opportunities to plan and make a shell structure e.g using 3d nets of varying design as well as CAD (computer aided design). Pupils will develop understanding of technical skills and explore cutting, joining and strengthening techniques. Pupils can construct a prototype food box, a trinket box, or a treasure box using inspiration from nets, nature, and architects. Pupils will evaluate on an ongoing basis to see if the design is fit for purpose. You can purchase the complete unit from the shop. This resource has been used to support staff development in CPD as well as ofsted and School Improvement inspections to show how the curriculum is organised.

Lesson 3 Collage using newspaper cutouts and designer/ architect Zaha Hadid This is the third lesson of a 7 week unit of work although it can be used in isloation too. It is suitable for years 3 and year 4 The following is included; Lesson Plan 3 Powerpoints and resources Examples of work and tasks included. Key vocabulary for the lesson Differentiation Youtube links with relevant examples. Study of diverse artists and designers has been included to add diversity to the curriculum. Pupils will create a building using inspiration from Zaha Hadids work, including the Aquatic Centre in London Olympic Village in Stratford. Overview of the collage unit in the shop is as follows if you want to purchase the complete unit. Week 1 Explore collage techniques Week 2 Use inspiration from Canaletto to create a collage Week 3 Famous Architect Zaha Hadid (newspaper strip collage and BAME link) Week 4 Tessellation and Escher (collage with no gaps) Week 5 Mosaic - (collage with gaps) Week 6 Matisse and (scissors cutout collage) Week 7 Finale composition The theme of the unit was based around buildings and grand designs - but the skills of each lesson can be applied to any focus e.g plants, animals, seaside, world war, landscape, etc The unit can be extended or condensed as you wish. Follow on instagram for more ideas and ways to save your teacher Sundays. @thisisrehanafazil

Solving problems with addition to show application of skills. This is a differentiated resources to for children practice adding in different order. They will understand how to apply the skills they have learnt e.g. adding in any order and addition is commutative. Adding three numbers using bonds. Finding different possible answers. Thinking of own problems for a friend. They learn how to be resilient with maths, work in pairs or teams and think about problems and solutions. They understand that there is more than one possible answer and begin taking risks. A great application resources for maths to develop understanding of number. Suitable for the new Maths curriculum 2018.

Stone Age Boy Year 3 - English Tier 2 vocabulary for working walls to build pupils rich language acquisition. Exemplar text to teach from the book and non-fiction writing. Visuals to support tiered vocabulary rehearsal and aid memory. Games to rehearse language and memorize such as match the word to the meaning. Supports pedagogy of closing the vocabulary gap research. This model can be used and applied for all English units as the resource is easily edited and adaptable. Aimed at the new national curriculum for lower Key Stage 2 (year 3/4). Supporting planning available in the shop for a complete unit of work to match Stone Age Boy Text.

This resource is suitable for a KS1 and lower KS2 Friendship assembly. It can also be used to introduce friendship as part of PSHCE lesson or P4C. There are several poems about friendship as well as a magic gingerbread man trick with instructions to show the children. This activity always gets a big round of applause as the teacher is elevated to a magical performer. Most suitable to show how we can be friends with each other despite our skin colour, size, ethnicity and language barriers.

**Lesson 4 Collage using tessellation and inspiration from Escher ** This is the fourth lesson of a 7 week unit of work although it can be used in isolation too. It is suitable for years 3 and year 4 The following is included; Lesson Plan 4 Powerpoints and resources Examples of work and tasks included. Key vocabulary for the lesson Differentiation You Tube links with relevant examples. Pupils will learn tessellation skills such as translation and rotation. They can create their own tessellation tiles if time permits or use templates like Escher’s fish, and lizard. Overview of the collage unit in the shop is as follows if you want to purchase the complete unit. Week 1 Explore collage techniques Week 2 Use inspiration from Canaletto to create a collage Week 3 Famous Architect Zaha Hadid (newspaper strip collage and BAME link) Week 4 Tessellation and Escher (collage with no gaps) Week 5 Mosaic - (collage with gaps) Week 6 Matisse and (scissors cutout collage) Week 7 Finale composition The theme of the unit was based around buildings and grand designs - but the skills of each lesson can be applied to any focus e.g plants, animals, seaside, world war, landscape, etc The unit can be extended or condensed as you wish. Follow on instagram for more ideas and ways to save your teacher Sundays. @thisisrehanafazil

Lesson 2 Collage Overlapping using Canaletto as inspiration This is the second lesson of a 7 week unit of work although it can also be used as a standalone lesson It is suitable for years 3 and year 4 The following is included; Lesson Plan Power Points and resources Examples of work and tasks included. Key vocabulary for the lesson Differentiation You Tube links with relevant examples. Pupils will learn the following techniques and explore collage skills; overlapping, layering, foreground, mid ground background, using inspiration from an artist Overview of the unit in the shop is as follows if you want to purchase the complete unit. Week 1 Explore collage techniques Week 2 Use inspiration from Canaletto to create a collage Week 3 Famous Architect Zaha Hadid (newspaper strip collage and BAME link) Week 4 Tessellation and Escher (collage with no gaps) Week 5 Mosaic - (collage with gaps) Week 6 Matisse and (scissors cutout collage) Week 7 Finale composition The theme of the unit was based around buildings and grand designs - but the skills of each lesson can be applied to any focus e.g plants, animals, seaside, world war, landscape, etc The unit can be extended or condensed as you wish. Follow on instagram for more ideas and ways to save your teacher Sundays. @thisisrehanafazil