I am a primary school teacher and assistant head. I love my job and my aim is to produce high quality teaching resources that motivate learners and make life easier for teachers! All of my resources are ready to teach, differentiated and easy to adapt.
I don't make resources just to sell, all uploads have been made to be used in my own classroom. Therefore, I can vouch for their suitability, pitch and quality.
I am a primary school teacher and assistant head. I love my job and my aim is to produce high quality teaching resources that motivate learners and make life easier for teachers! All of my resources are ready to teach, differentiated and easy to adapt.
I don't make resources just to sell, all uploads have been made to be used in my own classroom. Therefore, I can vouch for their suitability, pitch and quality.
A complete scheme of work, presentations and resources for the book ’ The London Eye Mystery’ by Siobhan Dowd. Aimed at Upper KS2 but easily adaptable. Each lesson is differentiated at least 3 ways.
All lessons are ready to go (the only thing missing is the book!). This unit is genuinely ready to reach and planned to a high quality.
Each lesson is also available separately and includes a presentation and all resources.
I have zipped the files (as there are over 80 individual documents). However, I have also added some loose documents to show you a sample of the quality. Editable versions are included wherever possible.
There is a free sample lesson available here:https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-london-eye-mystery-lesson-2-clauses-and-commas-free-sample-lesson-11696165
Lessons are based on the understanding of the text and its themes, as well as key narrative, and descriptive writing skills. Coverage includes: advanced punctuation, Precise language choices, Characterisation, Mood and atmosphere development, sentence variety and structure, figurative devices and more.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay. The red room by HG Wells extract is in the public domain.
I wrote this unit, based on animated short films to inspire boys writing in my year 6 class. \n\nThe planning focuses on narrative flashbacks and the building of pace and tension in story writing\n\nTwo of the films mentioned in the planning; 'The girl in the war&' and Germans in the woods are available free on the Literacy shed website.\nReplay is available on you tube.\n\nPlease leave feedback, it is useful and really appreciated - these plans are hard work!\n\nPlease comment and rate if you use it.
VERY Popular Resources! 8 COMPLETE english and art lessons for the first days and lessons with your new class. Updated for 2023/4
Each lesson is fully resourced and ready to teach. All have outcomes that make brilliant displays for the start of term. Worth £25 when bought seperately.
1 - Transition day lesson (planning, ppt and a range of art and writing resources)
2. Lego portraits complete art lesson
3. Lichtenstein dot portraits - complete art lesson
4. Portrait Poems - complete writing lesson
5. Personality Swirls - complete art lesson.
6. Fingerprint Poems - complete English/Art lesson.
7. Zentangle Portraits - complete Art Lesson.
8. Micrography Portraits - Complete art and PHSCE lesson.
A complete scheme of 10 lessons based around the story of BEOWULF. Written for a year 4 class, it is easy to adapt for year 5 or 6 as there is a strong emphasis on basic grammar skills in the planning.
Planning is of a high quality and includes all resources, including a version of the story (written by me) Wherever possible, editable versions of each resource are also provided. Each lesson is fully differentiated and includes a powerpoint presentation
**Learning Objectives: **
To use a variety of sentence openers
To vary our sentence openers when creating a description
To punctuate direct speech correctly
To add adverbial clauses to dialogue.
To use tenses consistently
To use expanded noun phrases
To use figurative devices to describe.
To vary clauses in complex sentences
To plan a short story with suspense
To apply the features of short stories.
To edit and improve the introduction to a short story.****
The files are zipped, however I have added some loose examples of the resources to give an indication of quality.
All other art work is from Pixabay or authors own.
A Complete ART lesson, which includes a detailed PPT, resources and models.
UPDATED FOR 2023
The lesson covers feelings and how they can be expressed through art, children explore their characters (with the help of their friends) and then create a micrography portrait about themselves.
Perfect to help you get to know your class, whilst creating a fantastic display for the wall (ideal for the start of the year) Great for transition day too!
The children will produce a portrait for display.
Ideal for KS2/3
All images are either the authors own, or sourced from PIXABAY
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A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat’s '‘many question?’ Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated) Would fit neatly into a grammar or narrative unit based on sentence construction. Also works very well as a standalone skills lesson.
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways.
The lesson has a dragon theme.
All images are sourced from PIXABAY.
A complete scheme of work, presentations and resources for the story of ** ’ KING KONG by ANTHONY BROWNE.** Aimed at Upper KS2 but easily adaptable. Each lesson is differentiated at least 3 ways.
All lessons are ready to go (the only thing missing is the book!). This unit is genuinely ready to reach and planned to a high quality.
Editable versions of ppts and activity sheets are included wherever possible. The scheme starts and end with a cold and hot task to aid assessment and show clear progression of skills.
**There is a free sample lesson available here:**https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/king-kong-lesson-2-expanded-noun-phrases-free-sample-lesson-11877353
Lessons are based on the understanding of the text and its themes, as well as key narrative, and descriptive writing skills. Coverage includes: cohesion, conjunctions, Precise language choices, adverbials, sentence variety and structure, figurative devices and more.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay. CLips and images from king kong are sourced from Publicdomain.com
A comprehensive covering letter and personal statement which I wrote during my recent job search.
Although it obviously needed to be adapted to suit the needs of each school that I was applying for, I found that having a ‘base’ letter was extremely useful. I was shortlisted for each job I sent this application to (and gained a headship)
There was nothing on line at the time that I could use to guide/scaffold me, so I hope that someone finds this useful!
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for chapter 2 of the book ' The London Eye Mystery' by Siobhan Dowd Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on how to create a variety of sentence types and how to use the comma correctly.
This is lesson 2 in a series of 14. The whole scheme of work is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-london-eye-mystery-full-scheme-of-work-14-days-of-planning-presentation-and-resources-11696150
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book- CHARLIE MERRICK’S MISFITS in Fouls, Friends and Football!
THIS HOT TASK PROVIDES A STANDALONE WRITING TASK THAT WILL COMPLETE THE UNIT. It would also work well as a big writing lesson.
These are lessons 7 and 8 in a series of 8. Each lesson is available separately. The whole scheme of work is available here:[https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/charlie-merrick-s-friends-fouls-and-footballs-complete-scheme-of-work-8-days-11913484
Also includes the planning for the whole second week.
The whole scheme includes a cold and a hot task, and culminates in the class writing a first person narrative based on the characters in the book
All images sourced from Pixabay or authors own.
Upper Key Stage 2 maths investigations.
I have planned these as 2 completely stand alone lessons, designed to be taught discretely (originally taught in assessment week - in between tests)
Happy and unhappy numbers (square number investigation)
Addition and subtraction pattern investigation.
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4 days of maths planning for year 4, all based around the place value of decimals, dividing and multiplying by 10/100 and 1000 and expressing tenths as fractions.
Resources and power-points are also included.
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5 days of maths planning, covering written methods of division. The week starts by looking at number lines and repeated subtraction (chunking) before moving into bus stop and formal written methods.
All resources and presentations are also included.
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A series of 4 Poetry lessons, that teach and revise form poetry:
1. haiku
2. kenning
3. calligrams
4. concrete
Linked to the theme of winter (and animals) , chdn create a different type of poem each day.
All resources, presentations and resources are included.
A complete week of planning, resources and presentations all based around number fluency, reasoning and problem solving.
A strong mastery approach is built into all lessons, with 4 way differentiation and greater depth questions.
Ideal for revising number skills whilst developing resilience for problem solving in a systematic way.
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This is a 6 week fully resourced Scheme of work for art. It is ideal to teach alongside a unit on the Wars of the Roses or medieval/Tudor history.
It explores illuminated letters and heraldry. All resources are included. I have also written a Prezi presentation for each lesson (link in the planning example here:https://prezi.com/cn4bglvxzvhm/art-wk-2/
Originally planned and taught alongside my SOW for the history of the Wars; available separately here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wars-of-the-roses-history-full-scheme-of-work-11288411
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A series of 4/5 lessons all based around factors, multiples and prime numbers. Aimed at the year 5 curriculum (new)
Cold and hot tasks for assessment included, along with all resources and powerpoints.
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Three weeks of planning, based around three major world faiths. planned as an introduction to the term and all three faiths.
Available as a Bundle of the three faiths as well.
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3 Posters that I created to explain the 9 types of tense that are taught at ks2 in the new curriculum.
There are also practical examples of each type of tense. Perfect for the working wall or in the front of English books.
Simple and easy to follow.
Outstanding lesson - Judged by HMI inspection. I originally planned this lesson when coaching and mentoring a year 4 teacher, to model challenge for the more able and guided groups.
I updated and redrafted the plan to teach the lesson myself in year 5 for a HMI inspection, in 2014 for which the lesson was judged outstanding.
All resources are included, and a Prezi presentation (which is fully editable and accessible on any computer with internet access)
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