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Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
6 engaging homework task printables for KS1, complete with instructions, colourful images and ideas to start. Excite and inspire your pupils about science for British Science Week. Provide them with a choice of activities, all of which are easy to set up, promote discussion and develop questioning skills.
Written to achieve National Curriculum learning objectives these tasks will be a brilliant extension to any school work in British Science Week. Bright, colourful and clear these cards will save you time and encourage independence.
Year 1 Task Cards
Arts and crafts activity through learning about plants
Writing activity linked to animal classification
Arts activity about parts of the human body
Year 2 Task Cards
Presenting information creatively about body well-being
Drawing interactive images about habitats
Arts and crafts with materials
Check out my other updated British Science Week resources:
KS2 British Science Week Homework Tasks
KS1 British Science Week Posters
KS2/3 British Science Week Posters
A large pack of bright inspirational posters designed to get children excited and talking about science. Every poster covers the new national curriculum for working scientifically in KS1. They are cheerful, realistic and clear. Perfect for engaging all the pupils.
Place around your school to inspire Science learning during British Science Week or any science topic. Use as discussion prompts or as part of your classroom displays.
Key Stage One
A set of 10 bright colourful posters asking and answering the question: What is Science?
For example, ‘Science is Observing’.
You might also be interested in my other updated time-saving British Science Week resources:
British Science Week KS1 Homework Tasks
British Science Week KS2 Posters
5 WOW science experiments for KS1. Inspire your pupils with a mini experiment for every day of British Science Week. Simple but effective activities will engage and create a buzz of curiosity! Linked with curriculum objectives and easy to set up, they will spark, consolidate and extend learning.
Everyday a range of questions are provided to stimulate scientific thought and discussion. Challenge questions are included and the opportunity for children to think of their own questions. Give British Science Week a high profile and keep the children talking and dreaming about science.
KS1 Mini Experiments Pack
5 easy to set up and manage science activities for Year 1 classes.
Plus 5 more simple but effective science activities for Year 2 classes.
A short equipment list is provided for each year group so you can quickly collect the things you need for the week.
Each activity is time flexible, they could take 10 minutes or easily extend to an hours lesson.
Check out my other updated resources for British Science Week:
Key Stage One Homework Tasks
Key Stage One What is Science? Posters
17 inspiring, easy to set up and curriculum linked homework tasks for KS2. A range of ready to go printables for each year group in KS2 designed to inspire and excite during British Science Week.
Enable your pupils to try out science at home with activities that are easy and enjoyable for parents to resource and support. Includes a writing template for children to complete about their homework, which is especially useful for the hands on investigative style activities.
Year 3
Plants and data handling
Cartoon strip and nutrition
Pet diet and maths link
Garden discoveries
Year 4
Searching for States
Animal Instructions
Boiling water and data handling
Can you hear me? Investigation
Year 5
Mission impossible letter writing
Who wants to be a forces millionaire?
Sticky or Slippy investigation
If you look closely… Follow in the footsteps of a great man
Year 6
Such big teeth you have!
Animopoly and other games
I’m a poet and I don’t even know it
Pass the scalpel - plant studies
Where did it go? Light and reasoning
Check out my other updated British Science Week Resources:
KS2 British Scientist Quote Posters
British Science Week LKS2 Mini WOW Investigations
British Science Week UKS2 Mini WOW Investigations
10 experiments for years 5 and 6, includes instruction task cards, extensions, challenges and a scientific explanation. Inspire your pupils with a mini investigation for every day of British Science Week. 5 easy to set up and manage science activities for year 5. Plus 5 more simple but effective science activities for year 6.
Everyday a range of questions are provided to stimulate scientific thought and discussion. Children are also encouraged to think of their own questions to spark that scientific curiosity which this week is all about.
The extension activities and challenges further enrich the learning and engage every child.
A short equipment list is provided for each year group so you can quickly collect the things you need for the week.
Each activity is time flexible, they could take 10 minutes or easily extend to an hours lesson.
The science behind every activity is quickly and clearly explained with helpful images and diagrams.
Check out my other updated resources for British Science Week:
British Science Week KS2 Posters
British Science Week KS2 Homework Tasks
British Science Week KS2 Assembly
10 engaging and effective experiments for year 3 and 4 classes, includes instruction cards, extensions, challenges and scientific explanations. Inspire your pupils with a mini investigation for every day of British Science Week.
Use the questions provided to stimulate scientific thought and discussion. Encourage your pupils to think of their own questions to spark that scientific curiosity which this week is all about.
Extension activities and challenges are included to further enrich the learning and engage every child.
Mini Experiments LKS2 Pack:
5 easy to set up and manage science activities for Year 3.
Plus 5 more simple but effective science activities for Year 4.
A short equipment list for each year group so you can quickly collect the things you need for the week.
Each activity is time flexible, they could take 10 minutes or easily extend to an hours lesson.
Check out more popular British Science Week resources:
British Science Week KS2 Posters
British Science Week KS2 Homework Tasks
British Science Week KS2 Assembly
An engaging assembly on World Kindness Day on the 13th November. Includes a 33 slide PowerPoint, paired discussion activities, inspirational famous people, a mindfulness moment and much more.
The interactive assembly looks at:
How this special day is celebrated around the world
What is kindness?
Who is the kindest person you know?
Famous influential kind people
Why it is difficult to be kind sometimes
How to overcome this
Ideas for being kind
Kindness Challenge
Resources provided so you can extend this assembly into a lesson to further the learning. Templates included for children to write a poem, short story or make a leaflet focusing on kindness.
Written for KS2. This thought provoking PowerPoint is an excellent assembly, workshop or lesson for World Kindness Day.
Could also be used on Random Acts of Kindness Day (17th February), Random Acts of Kindness Week (February) and for New Zealand’s Random Acts of Kindness Day (1st September).
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A complete lesson, perfect for the Christmas season to teach and review column subtraction. Includes a 25 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, modelling, differentiated worksheets, challenges, reasoning and problem solving questions and all the answers.
Written for year 3 and 4, also relevant to years 5 and 6.
A complete lesson, all ready-to-go. No preparation needed, just print and teach.
Highlights:
Differentiated
Hinge Point
Scaffolded
Answers on PPT for easy marking
Why not check out my other popular Christmas resources for KS2:
Christmas Column Addition
Christmas Poetry Lessons
Christmas Comprehensions
A complete New Year’s assembly, it includes a 23 slide PowerPoint, video links, activity, information, writing extension tasks and a song link to finish.
Use this KS2 assembly to embrace the New Year with your school. Learn about cultures from around the world and try one of their new year traditions. Encourage the children to think of a range of new year resolutions and discuss the examples given.
Highlights:
All ready to go
Interactive
Differentiated extensions
Inclusive
Inspiring
Start the new year with an engaging assembly to kickstart discussion, aspirations and focus.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular assemblies for special days:
Mental Health Awareness Assembly
World Poetry Day Assembly
British Science Week Assembly
A complete lesson teaching column addition with a Christmas theme. Includes teaching PowerPoint, hinge point, independent tasks, differentiated worksheets, extensions, answers and plenary game.
All you need for a successful Christmas maths lesson. Developing in difficulty, covering carrying into the tens and hundreds.
Highlights:
Differentiated
Ready-to-go
Engaging
Includes a challenge and reasoning and problem solving extension tasks. All answers included on PowerPoint for easy self marking.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Christmas resources:
Christmas Comprehensions
'Twas the night before Christmas 5 Poetry Lessons
Christmas Story Writing Week
A complete geography lesson teaching the countries of Europe. Includes a thorough teaching PowerPoint, interactive activities, worksheets, answers, extensions and videos.
Follow the ready-to-go PowerPoint to teach about using an atlas, Europe, European languages and flags.
Use the differentiated map worksheets to enable success for every child. Extensions are provided for fast finishers and those hungry for even more.
Highlights:
Interactive
Ready-to-go
Answers on PPT
Editable
Teach as part of a geography unit on Europe. Check out the other lessons:
Where is Europe?
Compare Cities of Europe
Climate of Europe
Mountains of Europe
Rivers of Europe
A complete lesson on the climate of Europe, focusing on map skills and locational knowledge. Includes a thorough teaching PowerPoint, video links, interactive activities, worksheets, answers, extensions and challenges.
This lesson is ready-to-go, written for a year 3 class, so suitable for years 3 and 4, but easily adaptable for years 5 and 6 (the extension tasks are suitably challenging).
Highlights:
Differentiated
Higher level questioning
Modelling
Scaffolding
Easy to mark
Written as part of a unit on Europe.
Check out my other popular Geography lessons on Europe:
Where is Europe?
Label Countries of Europe Lesson
Compare Cities in Europe
Mountains of Europe
Rivers of Europe
All reviews welcome.
A detailed and complete lesson, with a 16 slide Europe teaching PowerPoint, starter, input, plenary, scaffolding, differentiated worksheets, extension task and video and geography game links.
Start a Geography unit on Europe with an excellent lesson on the continents of the world, map labelling and cultures of Europe.
All provided in this ready-to-go lesson, to save you time, energy and give you a better teaching to life balance.
Will work with the rest of my unit on Europe, written for Years 3 to 4. Also easily adaptable for years 5 and 6.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Geography lessons on Europe from the unit:
Label Countries of Europe Lesson
Compare Cities of Europe
Climate of Europe
Mountains of Europe
Rivers of Europe
A complete geography lesson comparing two cities in Europe. Includes a thorough teaching PowerPoint, interactive activities, worksheets, word bank, extensions, videos and plenary.
Follow the ready-to-go PowerPoint to teach about the human and physical features of Bristol and Berlin.
Compare:
Population
City layout
Climate
Landscape
Landmarks
Art and culture
Planned for years 3 or 4, easily adaptable for years 5 and 6.
Differentiated recording tasks provided with an extension.
Highlights:
Photo analysis starter activity
Activities for all styles of learners
Scaffolded learning
Check out my other popular Geography lessons on Europe from the unit:
Where is Europe?
Label Countries of Europe Lesson
Climate of Europe
Mountains of Europe
Rivers of Europe
A complete geography lesson on rivers in Europe. Includes a thorough teaching PowerPoint, interactive activities, worksheets, word bank, extensions, videos and plenary game.
Follow the ready-to-go PowerPoint to teach about identifying, describing and comparing rivers in Europe.
Cover:
What is a river?
How is it formed?
Parts of a river
Rivers on maps of Europe
Europe River facts
What are Fjords?
Planned for years 3 or 4, easily adaptable for years 5 and 6.
Differentiated recording tasks provided so children can label a map of Europe with the main rivers. Includes 3 extensions.
Highlights:
Differentiated
Activities for all styles of learners
Scaffolded learning
Check out my other popular Geography lessons on Europe:
Where is Europe?
Countries of Europe
Compare cities in Europe
Climate of Europe
Mountains of Europe
A complete bundle of lessons for a whole KS2 Geography unit on Europe. Includes 6 complete lessons, each with input, starter activities, paired and group work, range of differentiated written tasks, extensions and plenaries.
Written for years 3 and 4, easily adaptable for years 5 and 6.
Covering physical and human geography, locational knowledge and landforms and processes. All the objectives from the National Curriculum.
Cross curricular skills also linked; such as diary writing, graphing, Venn diagrams, Carroll diagrams etc.
All lessons complete with a thorough and engaging teaching PowerPoint, printable worksheets, answers, challenges and video links.
Use and enjoy.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular KS2 Geography units:
Scandinavia 7 Lesson Pack
Yosemite 8 Lesson Pack
An engaging 26 slide PowerPoint for a KS2 assembly on the life and success of Charles Darwin. Includes a video link, interactive activities and reasoning questions.
Inspire your pupils by learning about this brilliant man, be amazed by his achievements and see how they are still relevant today.
Includes many higher level thinking questions and a memory challenge to keep every child focused.
Can be used on Darwin's birthday February 12th or for starting a topic on famous scientists or explorers.
Takes the children through these key questions:
What did Darwin think?
How can we be a great scientist?
Who was Charles Darwin? - Early Life, Careers, Big Break, Exploring, Thinking and Writing, Later Life
What were Darwin's theories?
What impact did his theories have?
Is evolution important today?
Differentiated writing tasks included and resourced:
Task 1 - Draw or write a flow chart of Darwin's life journey.
Task 2 - Write a radio script interviewing Darwin about his life.
Task 3 - Write a comparison of Darwin with another famous person who inspires you.
Writing templates provided. Other activity ideas also included. Lots of opportunities for discussion and higher level thinking. All concepts explained clearly.
Relevant for KS2 and KS3.
All reviews welcome.
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A complete assembly on Martin Luther King Junior Day, including a 23 slide PowerPoint leading you through his life story and achievements. Bright, colourful and engaging, ideal for KS2, easily adaptable for KS1 and kS3.
Includes:
What is this day?
Who was Martin Luther King?
Family
Inequality
School Life
Later Life
Career
Civil Rights Movement
‘I have a dream’ speech
Changes
Achievements
Assassination
Video links
How is this day celebrated in America?
Time given at the end of the assembly for reflection, children can think of their own dreams for the future.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular assemblies on important days:
World Kindness Day
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
National Speech and Debate Day
One of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 37 slide teaching PowerPoint, photographs, videos, higher level questioning, paired and group activities, all resources and differentiation.
Teaching Points
What are human features?
What are physical features?
What is wilderness?
How have these changed over time?
What might the park look like in the future?
Covers key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go.
Resources Included
Starter
Teaching input
Photos to analyse in pairs and groups
Integrated video link
Differentiated activities
Sorting worksheet
Challenge
Plenary
Lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Human and Physical Geography National Curriculum Learning Objectives
understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of …a region within North or South America
describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: … rivers, mountains
describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use,
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular geography lessons on this topic:
Scandinavia Physical Features
Russia Physical Features
UK Coast Physical Features
The last of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 27 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video link, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
This lesson teaches why people go to the park, what they can see and do there and why this can be a problem.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re all set.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new Geography curriculum:
Describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Geography lessons:
Journey through Russia
Human Impact on Coasts
Geography Report Comments