Are you looking for a resource that’ll raise your pupils’ awareness and interest in politics? Do you want to empower young learners by giving them a voice? Would you like some help to develop formal, discursive and persuasive writing techniques in your classroom? Are you struggling to find opportunities to meet these awkward NC Spoken Language targets? articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of Standard English participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates gain, maintain and monitor the interest of the listener(s) consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others select and use appropriate registers for effective communication. Well…look no further, as the Design you own Political Party Pack has everything you need ! This resource pack includes: PowerPoints lessons, planning templates, modelled texts and assessment frameworks. The aim of the unit is for the children to design their own political party and devise policies that suggest improvements personal to their school. The overall outcome is to build a political campaign (rosette/badge and leaflet design, pupil interviews etc) and present their speech to a school audience, promoting the policies of their manifesto. If you like, the school community can vote with ballot papers too!! A real school general election!! This resource has been tried and tested with 80+ Year 6 children- they loved every minute from start to finish!! Easily adapted for any KS2 year group.

These documents encompass the statutory English NC requirements for each year group in a more teacher-friendly style! They work on the premise of revisiting and securing previous year group’s objectives/programmes of study (Working Towards) before moving onto securing the objectives of their current year group. Each framework is in line with recent initiatives and updated versions/publications. I have also designed a framework for those working at a lower/foundation/emerging level (SEN/LAP) within their year group curriculum. I am head of English and both my school-as well as those within the borough-found these frameworks an effective system for evidencing the NC requirements for English. The documents were commended by inspectors during a recent visit. I hope they help you too!

Here is a week’s worth of English lessons, focusing on the children’s personal experiences with cyber-bullying. The outcome will be an advice board to which the children take on the voice of many affected by cyber-bullying, sharing their cyber-sorrows and gurus that provide the victims with support and guidance. Included in the pack is everything the children need to produce their own cyber-bullying advice board: teacher PP lessons, modelled texts, video clips, word banks, information texts, differentiated worksheets and planning sheets, speech/thought bubbles, pictures. There’s also a gifted and talented version. This resource provides the perfect cross-curricular link during Anti-bullying week and is bursting with opportunities to meet the ‘greater depth’ objectives of the upper KS2 English curriculum.

These fun and meaningful child-friendly characters will help children access and achieve the NC reading skills, from Year 1-6.

The resources wrapped up in this bundle will improve children’s understanding of adjectives and knowledge of word classes, enable them to manipulate the relationship between word types, broaden their spelling skills and boost their confidence when constructing sentences for effect.

Move away from the misconception: ‘All adverbs end in ly’ with this child-friendly, easy-to-understand lesson on the 5 different types of adverbs!

Revisiting a basic skill at a more challenging level-perfect for Years 3-6. Use as a lesson starter or for display.