A PowerPoint presentation of Christmas pictures and a self and peer assessment sheet to support descriptive writing.

Activity sheets to support the comparison of Victorian holidays with holidays children might go on now. Looking at the similarities and differences and how travel has changed over time.

Questioning PowerPoint with activities to develop and improve questioning, including inference skills. Supporting worksheets for children to apply skills, following the 5 Ws for questioning - who, what, when, where and why. Inference grid can be used for any images, when displayed on white board. All ‘Task’ documents include a different image (however these are not showing on the previews). Easily edited to suit images related to topics.

Leaflet template - can be edited to suit topic/need.

Pictures of different streets during the Victorian times. Different images of a Victorian street with accompanying writing sheet. Includes Word and pdf formats. Used in a year 1 class, but can easily be used across Primary age phase.

Cloze Procedure activities used in a year 1 class for ‘nk’ words. Differentiated worksheets.

Children to label and write about the features of the different layers of a rainforest. Differentiated worksheets, used in a year 1 class.

Describing tropical fish activity. Includes a starter activity where children work as a group to develop interesting adjectives. Differentiated worksheets for independent writing activity and accompanying photographs of tropical fish.

An Iron Man description example to be improved. Also includes a ‘good’ and ‘bad’ example of a letter. Differentiated capital letter activity where children need to add or correct capital letter errors. Used with a year 4 class.

A writing template, including images, for children to write a diary as a Victorian trapper. Used in year 1 class, but can easily be adapted for older children.

Postcard writing templates & lesson intro based on a pirate scenario.

Various story planning frames. Also includes an example of a Caribbean story. Can be used across Primary age range.

Differentiated activity where children compare rich and poor Victorian children, including a typical school day for rich Victorian children. Activity then asks children to compare a Victorian school day with their own school day.

Collection of photographs/paintings of a Victorian street, displayed on worksheets to support development of interesting adjectives etc. Photographs/paintings also displayed on PowerPoint for display on whiteboards. Used with a year 1 class but can easily be adapted for use across primary age phase.

A task for book by Philip Pullman ‘Clockwork’. Children to write their own blurb and preface for the book.

A template for getting to know a new class, getting a child’s perspective on their strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes etc. Can be used as a One Page Profile, an introductory first week back task or as a homework task. Contains a blank version which can be used if completing using ICT and a version with lines if handwritten. Both .doc templates so can be easily edited.

A whole class lesson based on homophones. Covers all common homophones including your/you’re, there/their/they’re, where/were/wear, to/two/too.

A lesson based on the Swansea Tidal Lagoon. Session explores the pros and cons of building a tidal lagoon in Swansea, South Wales. Use news reports to support the task. Various resources to support group discussion, culminating in a whole class discussion where children need to decide upon whether they think the tidal lagoon is a good idea or not.

A collection of resources to support the teaching of the solar system. Resource include: 1) vocabulary related to the solar system, which children need to research and find definitions. 2) A template for a ‘Wikipedia’ style entry about a famous astronaut. 3) Questions for children to explore about stars. 4) Planets of the solar system worksheets which includes task for children to come up with their own mnemonic. All .doc or .ppt formats so can easily be adapted.