This is a long term planner that includes Early, Level 1 and Level 2 of Curriculum for Excellence in our school. Some festivals and celebrations included are specifically relevant to our pupils.

This is a card matching activity, with flags, landmarks and capital cities from European countries. These can be laminated and used for a sorting activity.

This Storyline could be adapted for any Elections topic. It involves the children working undercover forming parties and coming up with ways to improve the community. In the process they learn all about elections and debating.

Scottish Curriculum for excellence Maths plans.

Here is the script for a Nativity play I wrote using pupils ideas and some VCOP sentences. It has links to youtube to hear the songs.

This is a Smart board led lesson about Miracles. It involves discussions, looking up a bible passage, retelling the story and considering some higher order questions. These could be answered through discussion or through written answers. It is based on the story of the wedding where Jesus turned water into wine.

Here are some power-points using flashcards of words and sounds from Active Literacy Stage 1. If you have a blog I can send you embed codes and links to my blogs if you message me.

Smartboard activities to prepare children to write a story with the title My Worst Nightmare. This can be used as one lesson or divided up into short bursts of activity.

This is a song for children to sing about the Katie Morag Story.

These Powerpoints contain the first set of words from Stage 2 (Primary 2) If you have a blog I can send you the embed codes and links to my blogs if you message me.

This lesson examines the reasons for Band Aid and other charity records. It explores how one person can made a huge difference.

This is a smart board lesson guide to help pupils learn about writing in a journalistic style. I may be used over several lessons. The pupils should be able to write their own article by the end of these activities. The 3 Little pigs smartboard is to give more support to pupils who need help structuring the article.

This is a technology/drama based topic exploring the development of children/s entertainment broadcasting. Activities include animation, story telling and editing a programme for radio or television.

This topic explores the changing pop scene and broadcasting technology from the 1960s onwards. A retired music producer reminisces and challenges the pupils to produce their own episode of the show featuring all 5 decades. Lots of fun and learning plus very child led.

This is a video of flash cards I use during Active Literacy. The children work in pairs to test each other spellings using magnetic boards. This video is used for whole class reading.

This is a video of flashcards we use for paired spelling using magnetic boards.

We learn the song. We sing one line at a time. We end up with a magnetic word and a written word. Active Literacy stage 1.

<p>These are words to fit the Nativity story sung to well known Nursery Rhyme tunes. We are improvising the script with the children whilst filming and singing the songs as a class. It will be edited together to be shared on line. Feel free to use or adapt.</p>