Celebrate the world's greatest stortyteller! Suitable for Key Stage 1 and lower Key Stage 2. Powerpoint to introduce the character, with whole-class and paired activities to reinforce language, plus template for writing children's own description. This could be done in one lesson or two. Powerpoint has notes with each slide giving tips for teaching. If you like this, please leave feedback!

Easter version of 2 little dicky birds. As usual, pupils can recite this while doing the actions!

Poem in French to practise Halloween vocab/colours/rhyming words etc. Includes ideas for use/teaching notes and links with KS2 Framework for MFL. Parts of the Powerpoint can be omitted/changed if required.

Planning ideas plus ready-to-use resources for a Literacy unit based on The Smartest Giant in Town. Suitable for KS1, but all ideas are flexible and can be adapted for other classes. If this is useful to you, please leave a review!

Lots of ideas for a Literacy unit using the book Katie in London by James Mayhew, plus worksheets and teaching resources. Created for a Year 3 class but could be adapted for other year groups. Please leave a review if this is helpful to you.

This activity follows on from my Powerpoints 'Les fruits' and 'J'aime les fruits'. My pupils are familiar with the tune and loved singing this!

Simple German song, to the tune of 'She'll be coming round the mountain.' Pupils can do an action for each verb mentioned! Older pupils could even use a dictionary to look up new verbs and make up verses of their own.

Powerpoint for Metro 2 vert module 1 pages 10-11. Introduces and practises il/elle forms of regular verbs as well as faire

This powerpoint is a lesson to introduce the simple future with JE VAIS plus some common verbs.

Easter version of the well-known action rhyme 'Two little dicky birds'.

Planning ideas plus ready-to-use resources for a literacy unit on Giraffes Can’t Dance. Suitable for Key Stage 1. All ideas are flexible and can easily be adapted for any class. If this is useful to you, please leave a review!

Powerpoint for Metro 2 vert Unit 1

Simple Powerpoint about making pancakes. Pupils can use the vocabulary on the final slide to do some creative writing/drawing about their favourite or ideal pancake toppings!

Song to fit with Metro 2 red Module 2. This song uses the language On pourrait aller.... to the tune of The animals went in two by two. My top set Year 8s enjoyed singing it and then making up further verses of their own.

Powerpoint activity to get pupils thinking about the differences between summer and autumn and making their own 'poems' in French. Their examples could use vocab for different foods/clothing/types of weather etc.

Simple German action rhyme based on '5 little ducks went swimming one day'. Good for practising counting backwards!

A ready-to-use full lesson powerpoint on writing a newspaper report, aimed at lower KS2, but easily adaptable for any class. Based on Mrs Twit Goes Ballooning Up and Mrs Twit Comes Ballooning Down from The Twits by Roald Dahl. Includes starter activity on past tense verbs, model text, identifying features activity, comprehension questions and 2 printable blank templates for children to write their own report. I’ve set it in Scarborough, but you can edit it to include the name of your town and local landmarks!

Here are lots of ideas for teaching the book Paddington by Michael Bond, aimed particularly at Year 1. These ideas are not prescriptive in any way, and can be adapted/changed to suit any class. The series of lessons can be done over any period of time from a couple of lessons to a few weeks, depending on the interests of the class. If you find any of these ideas useful, please leave a review!