This is a lesson to help elect school councillors and explain Democracy in the UK. The pupils then ‘campaign’ to be a school councillor before the class votes to elect them. This has been used across KS1 and KS2 to teach pupils about one of the ‘British Values’ and to elect responsible school councillors. All classes in my school really enjoyed the lesson, especially totting up the votes!

As Computing subject leader, I was tasked with trying and testing a multitude of apps for use on the school iPads. After testing a multitude of apps (some poor, some great) I made a full list of the best apps for each subject. This list is the EYFS group of apps for Literacy, Numeracy, programming, Design and Technology, imaginative play and a section of really useful apps for staff iPads. All apps are priced and available on iTunes currently which ensures your iPads stay current and engaging rather than becoming expensive cameras for staff!

This full resourced lesson describes to younger pupils what the 2017 general election is they can understand. It introduces them to key vocabulary such as ‘voting’, ‘Member of Parliament’, ‘House of Commons’ and ‘ballot box’. All you need to do is slice up 30 pieces of paper and a cardboard box for your class to use to vote! During this interactive lesson, pupils will learn how people vote, who they vote for and what MPs do. They then vote for a class MP / student councillor to give voting a try themselves!

As subject leader for Computing, I was asked to compile a list of the best Maths apps suitable for primary curriculum. This extensive list is organised by the following subject areas: -Addition and subtraction -Multiplication and division -Mental maths -Measuring -Shape -Angles -Symmetry -Coordinates -Ratio and proportion -Fractions, decimals and percentages -Time -Money -Data Handling -Place value These apps will support your teaching in all of these subject areas and keep pupils engaged, happy and enjoying Maths. Use them in lessons, tutoring sessions, booster groups or an after school club, it’s up to you!

As subject leader for Computing, I was asked to compile a list of the best Literacy apps suitable for primary curriculum. This extensive list is organised by the following subject areas: -Spelling and grammar -Emergent writing and handwriting -Reading -Phonics These apps will support your teaching in all of these subject areas and keep pupils engaged, happy and enjoying Literacy. Use them in lessons, tutoring sessions, booster groups or an after-school club, it’s up to you!

PLEASE READ: This document textbook maps 34 lessons, each differentiated 4 ways to ensure all the learning needs of pupils in your class are met. This Excel sheet contains 34 lessons on the subjects listed below, differentiated into 4 ability groups per lesson. That's 136 tasks already organised into ability groups to save you time! Number and place value - 6 lessons Multiplication and division - 11 lessons Addition and subtraction - 5 lessons Fractions, decimals and percentages - 8 lessons Area and perimeter - 4 lessons I have left directions to find every piece of work by the book title, page number and question numbers. All you have to do is find and photocopy the correct page!

These sheets (which are differentiated three ways) give children the opportunity to use expanded noun phrases in a scaffolded way. These sheets would be great for helping pupils describe animals/characters using expanded noun phrases as part of a wider English topic or as a stand-alone SPaG lesson on expanded noun phrases! Pictures can be altered easily to suit your English topic.

This resource can be found at a lower price here: https://lessonplanned.co.uk/downloads/tin-forest-setting-description-literacy-planning-1-week-literacy-resources-years-34/ A complete week of planning leading to a setting description for The Tin Forest by Helen Ward and Wayne Anderson. The planning bundle includes all worksheets, notebook slides and resources for the week to save you time creating them. The week focuses on using a wide range of sentence structures through the use of fronted adverbials, similes, adjectives, expanded noun phrases and relative clauses to describe a number of settings before concentrating on describing the scene from the protagonist's dream. All lessons are differentiated to suit the needs of most classes, all for under £1 per lesson! Do you want more great resources which save you precious time? Visit https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Klein100 to find more high-quality lessons.

This resource can be found at a lower price here: https://lessonplanned.co.uk/downloads/sherlock-holmes-newspaper-report-6-days-literacy-planning-year-56-resources-included/ This planning worked incredibly well for all classes in UKS2. Every lesson links to the 2014 NC and is fully resourced with slides and worksheets. Below is a description of each Literacy lesson. Lesson 1: reading and answering differentiated reading comprehension questions about The Adventure of the Speckled Band from the book 'Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes' (a child friendly stepping stone book) which is available to purchase on Amazon in both Kindle form and paperback. Lesson 2: using direct and reported speech in newspaper reports - this is personally one of the most enjoyable lessons I have taught lessons as they really enjoyed converting text messages between Holmes and Watson into direct and reported speech! Lesson 3: how to write a newspaper introduction with examples and activities planned around Sherlock Holmes stories. Lesson 4: learning about unbiased newspaper reports and writing without giving personal opinions. Lesson 5: planning a newspaper report using a planning template. Lesson 6: writing a newspaper report about the story they read in lesson 1. Example newspaper report and detailed success criteria provided.

This week of Literacy lessons focuses on skills needed to write a high-quality diary entry. The skills covered in this week are past tense, past progressive tense and using a range of conjunctions. The lessons are resourced, all for under £1 per lesson! The writing outcome of the week is a diary entry as the old man from The Tin Forest and the final lesson gives pupils an opportunity to edit and redraft their work. This chain of lessons was highly successful and led to brilliant diary entries at the end of the week. The lessons can be used in isolation or after the other Literacy planning related to The Tin Forest found in my shop.

This week of Literacy focuses on writing persuasive letters. It includes an opportunity to read good examples, look at the skills involved in writing persuasive letters, planning the letter and an opportunity to write one. Five, fully resourced lessons all for under £1 a lesson! Day 1: Reading good examples of persuasive letters and looking at the features of persuasive writing. Day 2: Skills lesson focusing on using strong sentence openers. Day 3: Lesson about Fair Trade to generate an argument for buying Fair Trade produce. This lesson includes information about Fair Trade for pupils to record and discuss - all the research has been done for you! Day 4: Planning their persuasive letter on differentiated planning grids. Day 5: An opportunity to go through a good example of a persuasive letter on the board to remind children of the success criteria and a chance for the class to write their own persuasive letters to the headteacher.

Week 2 of a Literacy unit focusing on writing Matilda themed stories. This week focuses on planning a short story, drafting the first two paragraphs with a partner (paired write) and writing their own short story. The first week of Literacy planning to go along with this one can be found in my shop by following the link below. Do you want more great resources which save you precious time? Visit https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Klein100 to find more high-quality lessons.

This resource can be found at a lower price here: https://lessonplanned.co.uk/downloads/pshe-long-and-medium-term-plan-for-the-whole-school-eyfs-year-6/ This is a very comprehensive long term plan for PSHE for primary schools. It splits up a well rounded PSHE curriculum into manageable half-term topics. This LTP uses SEAL in conjunction and maps other topics relevant to the PSHE curriculum including fire safety, road safety and e-safety across 6 half-terms. Please rate!

This resource can be found at a lower price here: https://lessonplanned.co.uk/downloads/biographies-one-week-literacy-planning-year-56-resources-included/ This week of Literacy focuses on writing biographies. The class really enjoyed learning about the celebrities in this week's Literacy lessons, especially Taylor Swift and Christiano Ronaldo! Five, fully resourced lessons all for under £1 each! Day 1: Reading comprehension focus - children read biographies of a celebrity and answer differentiated (retrieval and inference) questions about the text. This gives them an opportunity to experience high quality, short biographies. Day 2: Children practise using adverbial phrases ready to use them in their own writing. Differentiated worksheets (as for all lessons) are included for their activities. Day 3: Children practise organising information into paragraphs by sorting information from biographies into subheadings. Day 4&5: Children write their own biography about either Christiano Ronaldo or Taylor Swift after going through a good example on the IWB. Differentiated success criteria is included.

Here's a bundle of five lessons focusing on place value with detailed lesson plans, notebooks and worksheets for UKS2. These were originally taught to Year 5 but the worksheets are differentiated 4 ways so they are also relevant to older and younger yeargroups. Don't reinvent the wheel when you can buy it for £4!

This is the first week of planning and resources based around a book by Clive Gifford. It's a brilliant book -especially for boys who are reluctant to write- and will get lets of writing from them! This topic was taught in the morning in the run up to the submission of writing data for Year 6 as a way of gaining evidence ready for moderation. It came in very useful when moderation day did arrive!

A week of lessons focused on rounding, adjusting and column method ending in a fun-filled lesson on the Friday. Originally designed for a mixed Year 5 and 6 class but can be used for older children. Do you want more great resources which save you precious time? Visit https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Klein100 to find more high-quality lessons.

Week 4 of planning and resources for a book based Literacy/Topic unit originally for Years 5&6. Five lessons all for under £1 each! The first, second and third week can be found on my page too. Children may need a session on iPads or laptops to research information on Easter Island to have enough to put in their brochure on Friday.

This is the first week of planning and resources based around a book by Clive Gifford. It's a brilliant book -especially for boys who are reluctant to write- and will get lets of writing from them! This topic was taught in the morning in the run up to the submission of writing data for Year 6 as a way of gaining evidence ready for moderation. It came in very useful when moderation day did arrive!

This is the second week of planning and resources based around a book by Clive Gifford. It's a brilliant book -especially for boys who are reluctant to write- and will get lets of writing from them! This topic was taught in the morning in the run up to the submission of writing data for Year 6 as a way of gaining evidence ready for moderation. It came in very useful when moderation day did arrive!