Hi there! This is a 7-week homework project that I use for my year 5 English class. The children absolutely love it because it allows for creative freedom and using art skills in English homeworks. I find projects work much better in getting children hooked on a topic and, consequently, there work is so much more interesting and impressive. This project’s about a theft that has occurred in Harcourt Manor- they need to become detectives to work out who the thief was…

Hello all! Here’s a 3-way differentiated resource for getting children into groups of understanding using column subtraction. I use this with my year 3 and 4 children, and they love getting into role to complete it. The task involves children interviewing for three different jobs in Ancient Egyptian society: High priest, Scholar or Pharaoh. The job they get depends on their answers to the questions- you can discuss that, whilst there was a heirarchy, without people in every role, society wouldn’t exist.

Hello, fellow teachers! Here’s a pack of resources for teaching past and present tenses using simple and progressive forms. There is a differentiated resource for converting between them, including challenges and extensions. There is also a powerpoint presentation for inputting the lesson!

Hi All! Here’s a 2 lesson pack including 3-way differentiated worksheet, which can be used as homework or classwork, and a prescriptive powerpoint. Enjoy!

Back to School COVID-19 lockdown review workbook for children once the stay at home order and quarantine is over. Back to school activities for wellbeing, mental health & communication skills. COVID-19 has affected every human being’s life in one way or another. Now, more than ever, we should be safeguarding and promoting the well-being of the children in our care. With mental health concerns rising in children even before the Coronavirus struck, we have a responsibility to employ children with an arsenal of coping mechanisms and strategies to cope with stress and worries. This booklet provides children with 7 structured tasks that can be completed at their own pace. They focus on: • Discussing the best and worst parts of life in lockdown • Celebrating one’s successes and new-found skills • Allowing the child some time to relax with mindful activities • Empowering children to communicate feelings & concerns This download includes: PDF version of the 7-task workbook Word Document version of the 7-task workbook for editing Two fonts for editing the Word Document My Distance Learning Projects Perfect for whilst we’re away from school or for homework, these independent projects can help to develop your children’s writing and creativity in a variety of areas. X Distance Learning Project: Apocalypse Theme X Distance Learning Project: Detective Theme X Distance Learning Project: Space Theme X Distance Learning Project: Island Explorer Theme X Distance Learning Project: Design a New Country X Distance Learning Project: My Dream House

Here’s a nice, beefy pack of resources for Spiderwick Chronicles: Field Guide. Comprehension, setting description, IT collage for text detective work etc.

Week 3 of 6- A no-prep lesson that explores sketching and shading techniques whilst drawing natural objects from observation. Children in grades 1-3 will learn to critique peer’s artwork kindly and use high-level artistic vocabulary to describe their own work. A perfect art unit for Autumn, Spring or Summer! This product contains a 16-slide Teaching PowerPoint that guides students through developing a sketching technique whilst looking at the definitions of topical vocabulary such as line, shape, texture, pattern, tone and sketch. Using the worksheet provided, children are encouraged to draw natural objects such as leaves or flowers with sketching pencils, using the ‘tickle the spider’ technique explained on the slides. Examples of what work may look like are included. This activity can be conducted as a class, or in smaller wellbeing groups to work on mindfulness or calming SEN children during the chaos of the school day. The focus is on gaining digital literacy skills, such as photo editing, uploading and downloading images from Google, cutting out images from their backgrounds and arranging them aesthetically. This lesson is likely to take 1.5-2 hours, and requires the use of natural objects obtained on a nature walk (either in a previous lesson in this unit or at the start of this one!) If you don’t have access to outdoor space for your students, images from online search engines can be used! This product contains 5 activities, including: ‘What do we remember from last week?’ questioning activity Structured artwork critique language outlined New vocabulary outlined for spelling or definition activities Exploring objects around us activity Drawing from Observation task (worksheet included) This download includes: A 16-slide Teaching PowerPoint ‘How to use this product’ explanation within the PPT Outline of the planning 3 fonts for editing .ppt & .docx documents Examples of what work could look like

Week 2 of 6- A no-prep lesson that explores photography and digital collages using iPads, and celebrates the use of nature within art. Improves digital literacy and Includes non-digital alternatives. Perfect for teaching in Fall, Summer or Spring with Grades 1-3! This product contains a 21-slide Teaching PowerPoint that guides students through learning the basics of photography and different shots that artists use. Children are encouraged to be out in nature, taking photos using these different shots ready for those images to be edited and manipulated when back in class. The Teaching PowerPoints guides children through the use of PicCollage (a free app) to create digital collages. This activity can be conducted as a class, or in smaller wellbeing groups to work on mindfulness or calming SEN children during the chaos of the school day. The focus is on gaining digital literacy skills, such as photo editing, uploading and downloading images from Google, cutting out images from their backgrounds and arranging them aesthetically. This lesson is likely to take 1.5-2 hours, involving a short stop outside to take some photos that could be as short or as long as you like! If you don’t have access to outdoor space for your students, images from online search engines could be used! This product contains activities, including: ‘What do we remember from last week?’ questioning activity Listed vocabulary for discussions on definitions or spelling practice Introduction to photography teaching slides Macro photography quiz game Digital nature collage task involving iPads and PicCollage Non-digital alternative using physical items from nature to collage This download includes: A 21-slide Teaching PowerPoint ‘How to use this product’ explanation within the PPT Outline of the planning 3 fonts for editing .ppt & .docx documents Links to websites for extra inspiration, if needed!

Week 1 of 6- A no-prep lesson that opens a course on the use of nature within art. Gets children outside exploring, and it is perfect for teaching in Fall, Summer or Spring with Grades 1-3! This product contains a 13-slide Teaching PowerPoint that guide students through learning the basics of groupings in nature (flora and fauna), and walks them through exploring the outdoors, taking an interest in the world around them and creating a collage using the objects they find, pens and paper. This activity can be conducted as a class, or in smaller wellbeing groups to work on mindfulness or calming SEN children during the chaos of the school day. The focus is on talking about the items that they find, exploring patterns in nature, and lateral thinking when creating a collage based on examples on the slides. This lesson is likely to take 1-1.5 hours, involving a nature walk that could be as short or as long as you like! This product contains 4 activities, including: ‘What do we already know?’ questioning activity about natural objects Grouping activity with manipulative images on PPT slides Exploration task involving magnifying glasses Nature collage task involving pens and paper This download includes: A 13-slide Teaching PowerPoint ‘How to use this product’ explanation within the PPT Outline of the planning with links to accessing the rest of the course 3 fonts for editing .ppt & .docx documents Links to websites for extra inspiration, if needed!

Week 4 of 6- A no-prep lesson that explores colour theory, mixing paint and the art of impasto painting. Children in grades 1-3 will learn which colors mix together to create others, in addition to monochromatic, analogous and complementary color schemes. A perfect art unit for Autumn, Spring or Summer! This product contains a 19-slide Teaching PowerPoint that guides students through previous weeks’ learning (watercolours, critiquing peers’ work, photography basics) and develops their art foundation knowledge by looking at colour theory. Children will be introduced to new vocabulary such as primary, secondary, evoke, emotion, analogous, monochromatic, complementary and Impasto. This activity can be conducted as a class, or in smaller wellbeing groups to work on mindfulness or calming SEN children during the chaos of the school day. The focus is on the ability to use paint and to explore colour, in addition to improving digital literacy skills, using QR codes to access digital quizzes and to conduct research. This lesson is likely to take 2-3 hours, and requires the use of worksheets (included) printed onto card, paintbrushes, pallets, water pots and pencils for writing. iPads to aid digital aspects are suggested but not necessary. This product contains 7 activities, including: ‘What do we remember from last week?’ talk-partner activity An outline of colour theory with new vocabulary underlined for discussion Colour mixing activity with hyperlinks within the teaching PowerPoint QR code-linked digital activity hosted on WordWall© Colour wheel painting worksheet with sentence-filling activity Colour mixing worksheet with penmanship activity Bonus extension task focused on impasto technique This download includes: A 19-slide Teaching PowerPoint ‘How to use this product’ explanation within the PPT Outline of the planning 3 fonts for editing .ppt & .docx documents PDF versions of worksheets to aid printing

Week 5 of 6- A no-prep lesson that explores watercolour, the work of Paul Klee and the art of Hirameki- a Japanese doodle art! Children in years 1-3 will learn how to create a watercolor wash, emulate the work of famous artists and conduct research using internet search engines. This product contains a 26-slide Teaching PowerPoint that guides students through previous weeks’ learning (colour theory, critiquing peers’ work, photography basics) and develops their understanding of watercolours by looking at the work of Paul Klee and the Japanese art form of Hirameki. Children will be introduced to new vocabulary such as wash, saturation, research, tone and pattern. This activity can be conducted as a class, or in smaller wellbeing groups to work on mindfulness or calming SEN children during the chaos of the school day. The focus is on the ability to use watercolour paints in addition to improving digital literacy skills, using QR codes to conduct research on the chosen artist. This lesson is likely to take 2-3 hours, and requires the use of worksheets (included), paintbrushes, watercolor pallets, water pots and pencils for writing. iPads to aid digital research would be beneficial but are not necessary. This product contains 7 activities, including: ‘What do we remember from last week?’ matching activity An outline of watercolours with new vocabulary A short exploration of the work of Paul Klee Hirameki doodling activity worksheet QR code-linked extension task for researching Hirameki Artist research page (differentiated 2 ways for ability) Learning consolidation task (speech bubble) Bonus extension task focused on using fine liners create leaf line-drawings This download includes: A 26-slide Teaching PowerPoint ‘How to use this product’ explanation within the PPT Outline of the planning 3 fonts for editing .ppt & .docx documents PDF versions of worksheets to aid printing

Week 6 of 6- A no-prep lesson that explores mixed media collage, combining all skills taught in this unit to create a final piece. Additionally, children in grades 1-3 will learn how to evaluate their efforts and complete learning journals. This product contains a 11-slide Teaching PowerPoint that guides students through previous weeks’ learning (with linked, bespoke vocabulary-matching game hosted on WordWall©) and develops their understanding of how to create a mixed media collage. Once completed, children have two worksheets to complete- one focuses on encouraging children to journal about their experiences, including what they enjoyed and what they didn’t. The second sees children evaluate what they’ve learnt and their own outcomes. This activity can be conducted as a class, or in smaller wellbeing groups to work on mindfulness or calming SEN children during the chaos of the school day. This lesson is likely to take 2 hours, and requires the use of worksheets (included), fine-liner pens, sketching pencils and the work produced in previous lessons. This product contains 5 activities, including: Vocabulary and definition matching activity An outline of how to create the final mixed media collage Examples of how to further children’s learning Self-reflection journal worksheet (.docx & .pdf) Evaluation worksheet (.docs & .pdf) This download includes: An 11-slide Teaching PowerPoint ‘How to use this product’ explanation within the PPT Outline of the planning 3 fonts for editing .ppt & .docx documents PDF versions of worksheets to aid printing

Miss Austin here! Here is another resource pack for diary writing. Included in this pack is: Editable diary writing frames Entire week of lesson plans Assessment grids against Y3 NC (national curriculum) expectations I hope this proves helpful. Happy teaching, All! LA

Week 1 of 12- An introduction to the Ancient Egypt topic, key vocabulary, BC/AD and timelines. This product contains a 12-slide Teaching PowerPoint and 8 pages of worksheets that guide students through learning the chronology of where the Egyptian civilisation fell in the context of 12 important world history events. This activity can be conducted as a class or in smaller groups both physically (using string and clothespins/pegs) or digitally. The children then have a sorting activity for key points in Egyptian history! The focus is on problem solving, understanding the meaning of BC and AD and understanding the chronology of this impressive civilisation. This product contains 4 activities, including: ‘What do we already know?’ sticky note activity Understanding timelines (creating your own) Sorting World History events using physical or digital cards Sorting key Ancient Egypt events using physical or digital cards This download includes: A 12-slide Teaching PowerPoint ‘How to use this product’ explanation within the PPT Outline of the planning with links to accessing the rest of the course A learning path to outline the focuses for the rest of the course 3 fonts for editing .ppt & .docx documents Extra challenges to push on your critical thinkers Ancient Egypt Resources by LiL X Ancient Egyptians History Unit || Week 1: Introduction & Timelines X Ancient Egyptians History Unit || Week 2: Mapping Egypt X Ancient Egyptians History Unit || Week 3: The River Nile X Ancient Egyptians History Unit || Week 4: Social Structures X Ancient Egyptians History Unit || Week 5: Daily Life X Ancient Egyptians History Unit || Week 6: Gods & Goddesses X Ancient Egyptians History Unit || Week 7: Mummification X Ancient Egyptians History Unit || Week 8: The Pyramids X Ancient Egyptians History Unit || Week 9: The Afterlife X Ancient Egyptians History Unit || Week 10: Hieroglyphs X Ancient Egyptians History Unit || Week 11: King Tut’s Tomb X Ancient Egyptians History Unit || Week 12: Archaeology X Egyptian Themed Skip Counting - Times Tables Board Games X Egyptian Cinderella- Character Description I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress! Thank you, and happy teaching! Miss Austin

Hi there! This is one of my biggest bundles for you guys. In here, there are 8 meticulously planned lessons, with extension work and opportunities to extend the learning over multiple literacy slots. There are 12 separate work sheets, including sorting activities, flash cards for drama, using the example of how chocolate is made. All learning objectives and success criteria are outlined for each individual lesson, and all links for extra resources to be found are on the series plan. Honestly, this has the potential to save you a LOT of work! It can be used for any year in primary, as there are alternative difficulty options, and vocabulary choices that can be altered to make it harder/easier. I hope you enjoy it :) Happy teaching, Miss Ritchie

A 20 resource pack full of planning and resources designed to push children's maths talk and understanding. Lots of plenary activities, miscellaneous resources, differentiated lesson worksheets. Learning objectives outlined. Happy teaching

**Included in this (very large) pack are: ** 5 individual powerpoint presentations that range from introducing decimals to multiplying them by 10, 100 and 1000 as they progress through the week. 2 in-depth lesson plans and lesson prompts for the week- they are to accompany the powerpoint presentations and other resources for that day 8 individual worksheets that engage children and progress learning throughout the week. I used the DECIMALS5 (Friday) worksheets as a Bronze, Silver, Gold award challenge and it worked well. Feel free to do the same. Mental maths opener with preorganised questions to ask in a ‘quick-fire’ like activity. A sorting activity for decimals, lengths etc. 3 Pages of homework for the weekend, with an explanation and place to write an example to help them. It will need tweaking as it mentions my name etc and the top of the sheet. And other documents, such as learning objective sticker sheets etc. {Decimals1= Monday, Decimals2= Tuesday etc.} Please contact me if there are any questions regarding these resources! I’m here to help! Miss Austin :)

Here’s a 16 resource pack for the teaching of fractions to year three. Lots of differentiation as I have children working at year 4 level, and at year 1 level! (aahhh) Exciting plenaries and starters with an American theme as that’s our cross curricular story link this half term. - fractions of numbers - fractions of shapes - adding fractions within a whole with same denominator - ordering fractions across different denominators etc. Enjoy! Miss Ritchie x

Hi there! One of my biggest packs of resources for you. Last week's maths lessons in my class were centered around position, direction and linking this to clockwise/anticlockwise, quarter/3 quarter/half turns and linking this to right angles. Lots of work on new vocabulary: horizontal vertical perpendicular clockwise anticlockwise quarter turn half turn 3 quarter turn full turn right angles Let me know if you need anything extra or anything explaining :) Miss Ritchie x

In this resource pack, you will find 18 resources for homework, English lessons and History lessons. Includes Character descriptions, grammar homework based on adverbial phrases, newspaper articles, bayeux tapestry resources and blurb writing resources. If you have ANY questions, feel free to send them my way. I always respond and will always assist when needed. Enjoy!