Millions: A Topic Overview Here you will find a topic overview based around the book Millions by Frank Cotteril Boyce. It covers all areas of the national curriculum from Key Stage 2.

Street Child and The Victorians: A Topic Overview Here is a hand drawn topic overview for the book Street Child and links heavily to The Victorians topic. It covers all areas of the primary curriculum and can be used in any Key Stage 2 classroom.

Romeo and Juliet: A Topic Overview This is a hand drawn overview designed to be used with William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It covers all areas of the primary curriculum and can be sued across Key Stage 2.

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory: Topic Overview This is a hand drawn topic overview designed to be used with Charlie Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. It covers all areas of the curriculum and is designed to be used in Key Stage 2, or Year 2.

Mortal Engines: Topic Overview This is a hand drawn topic overview designed for the book Mortal Engines. Although it is English based, it covers ALL areas of the curriculum for Key Stage 2. This would be very suitable for secondary school learners too.

Dawn Wind: Saxon Planning Overview Here you will find a hand drawn topic overview for The Saxons, linking with the book Dawn Wind and Beowulf. It is designed to be used as a guide for a terms worth of work.

Topic Plan: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Holistic Plan) This is a hand drawn overview of a terms worth of work from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. It covers all areas of the curriculum and was originally used in Year 3, but the ideas would be suitable for Key Stage 2.

Here you will find several documents I have used week in week out in my classroom over the years. This pack includes: Reciprocal Reading Planning Template Independent Activity Planning Template Computing Poster Guided Reading Poster Sketching Poster Spelling Hunt Poster I have left both planning formats complete to help you see how to use them

Clockwork Web: 11 Sessions of Comprehension Here you will find 11 sessions of comprehension questions. Each session has three questions for each child ready to be cut up once printed.

With the announcement of Microsoft’s purchase of Minecraft EDU, we know that this addictive game is going to be around for much longer now we can access it in schools safely and easily. Many colleagues I’ve met have shunned the idea of using what is ultimately ‘a game’ in the classroom, but after watching how engaged the children who are playing it are, we’ve got to tap into that engagement; haven’t we? Of course we have. I've being playing around with the idea of using MinecraftEDU in school for a while now and this term I'm finally going to start crafting in class. But how can it inspire my children to create, test, explain, solve problems and work collaboratively? I'm lucky to have a 7-year-old son at home who has started this journey with me and together we've come up with some super ideas for how we could use Minecraft at school. I managed to survive my first night on Survival mode and I'm now the proud owner of several diamonds, crafted myself a diamond sword (my son was very jealous), but I did unfortunately die when lava fell on my head - don't mine vertically, lesson learned

Here we have a fully editable assembly based around how chocolate is made - Harvesting - Fermenting - Drying - Roasting - Cracking and Winnowing - Grinding and Conching - Tempering - Moulding - Wrapping