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The Rainforest - Pointless Game!
Based on the popular game show ‘Pointless,’ this resource is perfect for use as a whole lesson resource, enrichment option, or revision tool. Editable, so that you can change to any other topic or change questions. (I’ve also added a blank template so that you can make your own games from scratch). Containing 25 slides of sound clips, engaging visuals, and suitably challenging questions, this resource is effective at both promoting engagement and enhancing learning. There are several full rounds of questions to build or revisit knowledge of The Rainforest.
Round 1. Countries with Rainforests
Round 2. Birds of the Rainforest
Round 3. Name the Rainforest!
Round 4. Anagrams Round - (Layers of the Rainforest)
Round 5. Mammals of the Rainforest
The nature of this game ensures that the resource can challenge students of all levels.
A blank template has also been added, so that you can create your own games!
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Buildings and Settlements Over Time - KS2 Geography Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students revising knowledge relating to buildings and settlements over time, as a part of their study of their KS2 geography study. It contains comprehensive sections on:
-Overview;
-Ancient and Medieval Buildings and Settlements;
-Early Modern Buildings and Settlements;
-Modern Buildings and Settlements;
-Key Vocabulary;
-Timeline: Construction of Landmark Buildings
The organiser is designed to help children to learn the relevant place, human and physical geography knowledge from the KS2 Geography National Curriculum. Key concepts include: Settlements, rural, urban, resources, trade, energy, facilities, and many more.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3 or A4, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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The Five Oceans - Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students revising knowledge relating to the five oceans, as a part of their study of locational knowledge in geography. It contains comprehensive sections on:
Overview and world map;
The Five Oceans Facts;
The Five Oceans by Size;
Deepest Points in the Oceans;
Interesting Ocean Features;
Top Ten Ocean Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included). The resource is most suitable for students in KS1 or KS2.
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Churches - The Features of Churches!
In this lesson, students learn about the key features of Anglican churches.
Some of the features covered include: the font, the altar, the pulpit, the lecturn, the nave, the crucifix and stained glass windows. Students learn about the key purpose of the features, and where they can be found in the church.
Students also begin to comprehend what the features symbolise.
This resource pack contains a comprehensive 16-slide Powerpoint, alongside an eye-catching worksheet. Two extension activities are provided in order to challenge higher ability learners.
In the past, I have used this lesson with children from across Key Stage 2 - the key learning is aligned with NC expectations for RE, and also the content prescribed by most diocese regions. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide.
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The Olympic Games - Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning everything about the Olympics. This may be as a part of their history, PE or PSHE study, or within cross-curricular/ tutor group activities. It contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
History of the Olympics (Ancient Olympics, Reviving the Games, The Modern Olympics);
Important Vocabulary;
Olympic Games Timeline;
Answers to the Important Questions (e.g. Where were the ancient Oympics held? How are the host cities decided? etc);
Top Ten Olympics Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto either A4 or A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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Classifying Animals Lesson, Resources, and Pointless Game!
This bundle contains the ‘Classifying Animals’ lesson, and also the fun and interactive Animal Classes Pointless Game!
The detailed and engaging lesson enables students to gain an understanding of what animal classes are, and which animals belong to the different categories. Furthermore, they learn to categorise animals themselves, using scientific knowledge of the features of each animal class. Students justify their choices using critical thinking skills.
Students learn through a number of fun and interactive tasks, which enable them to:
- Define each animal class and understand its features;
- Exemplify each animal class, justifying their choices;
- Use research and investigative skills to categorise animals for whom the class is not immediately obvious;
- Evaluate the learning and understanding of themselves and their peers.
The resources include:
-Visually engaging and comprehensive whole-lesson presentation;
-Resources for the card-sorting activity;
-A categorising and justifying worksheet (and answer sheet for teacher);
-An investigation log;
-Step-by-step lesson plan.
To help their investigation write-ups, I’ve also thrown in the literacy writing mat for free!
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.
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War/Conflict Poetry Big Lesson Bundle! (Whole lessons - all PowerPoints, resources, and lesson plans included!)
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the content, language, and structure features of ten war/conflict poems. In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! Each of the poems are widely studied, with many being from the Literary Heritage bank, and most being fixtures in examination board anthologies.
Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings poems, understanding the writer’s ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of the different wars/conflicts, and analysing features of content, language, and structure.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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World War 1 Poetry Bundle! (All the WWI Lessons, PowerPoints, Resources, and Lesson Plans!)
This engaging, varied, and informative bundle of lessons is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of a range of WWI poetry. Each of the poems are widely studied, with many being from the Literary Heritage bank, and most being fixtures in examination board anthologies. They all deal with the destructive and horrific nature in different and original ways.
Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings in poems, understanding the writer’s ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical context of World War 1, and analysing features of content, language, and structure.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided for the following poems:
-Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes
-Mametz Wood - Owen Sheers
-Dulce et Decorum est - Wilfred Owen
-The Falling Leaves - Margaret Postgate Cole
In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique!
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Pride and Prejudice Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE PRIDE AND PREJUDICE LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION ACTIVITY BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Austen’s use of language.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Whole-lesson PowerPoints, activity resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Stone Cold Lesson Bundle!
These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the plot, characters, language, and key messages in Robert Swindells’ ‘Stone Cold.’ The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of content, language, and structure, in addition to considering Swindells’ key messages throughout the novel.
All of the resources that you need to teach are included in the bundle: Whole lesson step-by-step PowerPoint presentations, informative and engaging , worksheets, activities, and lesson plans.
Contained in the bundle are lessons based on:
- 1. Homelessness;
- 2. Shelter;
- 3. The Dual Narrative;
- 4. Some assorted resources from an old Stone Cold scheme.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging.
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Dulce et Decorum est - Wilfred Owen - Bundle!
These resources are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Wilfred Owen's vivid and harrowing World War I poem. Students will complete this learning having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the poem, understanding the poet's ideas within the poem, analysing the features of form and structure, considering settings and themes, and understanding Owen's language devices.
The bundle contains:
- The comprehensive and engaging lesson,
- The visually-appealing and informative knowledge organiser/ revision mat,
- A range of resources to prepare your students for critically comparing poems.
The bundle contains:
- The comprehensive and engaging lesson,
- The visually-appealing and informative knowledge organiser/ revision mat,
- A range of resources to prepare your students for critically comparing poems.
The lessons included are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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AQA Power and Conflict Poetry Huge Bundle!
This bundle contains each of the engaging lessons on poems from the AQA ‘Power and Conflict’ anthology, in addition to the detailed and hugely popular knowledge organisers/ revision mats, and the 16-page comprehension activity booklets, for the poems:
Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Exposure - Wilfred Owen
Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes
War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy
Poppies - Jane Weir
In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique!
Students will vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings poems, understanding the writer’s ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of poems, and analysing features of content, language, and structure.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
Engaging
Defining/ Understanding
Identifying/Remembering
Analysing/ Creating
Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Bundle!
These resources are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Power and Conflict’ poem: ‘Ozymandias.’ Students will complete this learning having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the poem, understanding the poet’s meaning/ideas within the poem, analysing the features of form and structure, considering settings and themes, and understanding Weir’s language devices.
The bundle contains:
-The comprehensive and engaging lesson;
-The 16-page comprehension booklet;
-The visually-appealing and informative knowledge organiser/ revision mat,
-A range of resources to prepare your students for critically comparing poems.
The lessons included are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Romantic Movement Poetry Comprehension Activity Booklets Bundle!
These 16-page resource booklets contain a wide range of challenging and engaging comprehension activities to aid the teaching of a number of the most famous romantic-era poems. Teachers have found the activities particularly useful throughout practicing for unseen poems, for teaching as part of a poetry unit, or to support guided reading sessions. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and it is clearly highlighted within each task regarding which assessment strands the task is designed to demonstrate.
Each booklet is provided in both Word (to allow for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure for consistency of formatting between computers).
Activities across the booklets are as consistent, to provide an equal understanding of each poem, and include (amongst many others):
‘Analysing Context’ - helping students to ‘Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.’
‘Analysing Subject Matter, Language and Structure’ - to help students to ‘Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.’
‘Diary Entry’ - to help students to ‘Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.’
‘The Speaker’ - to help students to ‘Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.’
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Ancient History Big Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS EACH OF THE ANCIENT HISTORY KNOWLEDGE ORGANISERS, IN ADDITION TO THE ANCIENT HISTORY POINTLESS GAMES!
The clear, detailed and visually-appealing knowledge organisers offer complete reference points for students learning or revising knowledge relating to each of the following ancient history topics:
Ancient Egypt;
Ancient Greece;
The Romans.
Each organiser contains a number of comprehensive sections explaining the key elements of the topic, timelines detailing key times and events, diagrams and images to visually aid understanding, and key facts to extend the learning of higher attaining students.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDFs and Word documents (so that you can edit should you wish to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
Based on the popular game show, the ‘Pointless’ games are perfect for use as whole lesson resources, enrichment options, or revision tools. The games are editable, so that you can change to any other topic or change questions. Each game contains around 25 slides of sound clips, engaging visuals, and suitably challenging questions and they are effective at both promoting engagement and enhancing learning. There are several full rounds of questions to build or revisit knowledge of Romans, Ancient Egyptians, and Ancient Greeks.
The nature of the games ensures that the resources can challenge students of all levels.
A blank template has also been added, so that you can create your own games!
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KS1 Geography Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for planning, learning and revising all areas of the KS1 Geography National Curriculum.
The knowledge organisers included are:
-The United Kingdom;
-The Seven Continents;
-Oceans and Seas;
-Polar Explorers;
-Capital Cities;
There is also a organiser that can be adapted for whichever area of local study you choose to cover (the template focuses on ‘Exploring Essex.’)
The organisers are separated into logical compartments, based on the key curriculum expectations.
Each resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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KS2 Geography Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for planning, learning and revising all areas of the KS2 Geography National Curriculum.
The knowledge organisers included are:
-Rivers;
-Rainforests;
-Latitude and Longitude;
-Human and Natural Disasters;
-North America;
-South America;
-Europe;
-Italy (European Comparison);
-Greece (European Comparison);
-Peru (South America Comparison);
-London;
There is also a organiser that can be adapted for whichever area of local study you choose to cover (the template focuses on ‘East Anglia.’)
The organisers are separated into logical compartments, based on the key curriculum expectations.
Each resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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Personal Development Assemblies Huge Bundle!
These fun and original assemblies have been designed aid children in developing their skills of:
Compassion
Honesty
Resilience
Humility
Celebrating differences
Thankfulness
Patience
Peace
Creativity
All of the assemblies are tried and tested, and each has been really well received in the past.
The slides are visually engaging and well-presented, and the subject matter is tailored to the interests and needs of young people. For example, there are references to scenarios and dilemmas that they themselves might find themselves in, in order to help them to make the right choices in their own lives.
There are also fun role-play activities, beautiful, thought-provoking videos exemplifying each theme, and various discussion activities regarding how to show the skills in different areas of their own lives. No further resources are required, everything that you need to present the assemblies is included.
Each set of slides are fairly self-explanatory, but I’ve included guidance notes for each assembly to assist the speaker. Hope that you find this useful!
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Introduction to Jesus Lesson Bundle!
This series of interesting and engaging lessons aims to equip children with a solid foundation understanding of the life and significance of Jesus Christ. The lessons offer a broad outline of the events in his life, focusing more heavily on two particularly important moments (his baptism and the last week of his life). The bundle contains the following lessons:
His Significance
Key Events in His Life
Representations of Jesus
Jesus’ Baptism
The Easter Story
In each lesson, the learning is guided by a clear and colourful PowerPoint presentation, which guides students through logical, step-by-step activities. There are also clear hyperlinks for the video resources, and engaging, well-structured worksheets for the activities.
In the past, I have used these lessons with children from across Key Stage 2 - the key learning is aligned with curriculum expectations for RE, and also the content prescribed by most diocese regions. All images are licensed for commercial use.
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People of Discovery Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about people of discovery, including explorers, inventors and scientists. Included in this bundle are the following 11 knowledge organisers:
Christopher Columbus;
Neil Armstrong;
Robert Scott;
Captain James Cook;
Marco Polo;
Marie Curie;
Isaac Newton;
Albert Einstein;
Charles Darwin;
Alexander Graham Bell;
Sir Francis Drake
Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Key Times in their Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Timeline of their Life;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.