Just what you need to start your report writing - tips, tricks and shortcuts, a tracking sheet and a positive adjective bank to save you time. Use the pack of strategies to help with the mammoth task of writing reports for your class. Suitable for any school and age group. Use these tips and techniques to help ease the pain of report writing. Browse through a variety of ideas, which can be inspiring for new or experienced teachers. Reports don’t have to fill you with dread. Try something new and be surprised at how much more enjoyable it can be. This pack also includes a free report writing tracker - list the children in your class and be motivated by all the ticked or highlighted boxes you complete. Also a bank of positive adjectives to help vary each comment. All reviews welcome. To save time further check out my bundle of report comments: Report Comment Mega Bundle

A complete pack for a Halloween quiz lesson including a 31 slide teaching and quiz PowerPoint, video link, fact card, class quiz, worksheets, answers and extensions. When finished there are 6 differentiated word searches and 3 extension tasks. Engage your class with Halloween, expand vocabulary, teach history and improve spelling, all in one mighty pack. Use the animated, colourful PowerPoint to lead the lesson and ensure understanding and success. Easily mark the quiz and word searches with the resources provided, through self and peer assessment.

A complete art lesson for Halloween including a teaching PowerPoint, all resources, video links and modelled work. Easy to set up and model, all ready-to-go. Download this engaging lesson around Halloween to teach about the history of this holiday and develop a range of art skills. Skills taught: Watercolour wash Printing Finger painting Cutting out Stencils Themed around the poem of ‘Five Little Pumpkins’ your students can enjoy the delights of this holiday without it being spooky, ideal for KS1. Fill an afternoon with engaging and productive activities, develop fine motor skills and create a eye catching display. Check out my other popular KS1 Halloween resource: Word Search Pack KS1 All reviews welcome.

Word problems for adding and subtracting fractions on 3 A4 sheets with a Halloween theme. Differentiated, engaging and complete with answers. Differentiated for three ability groups, support and extend each pupil in your class, provide them with adequate challenge and pace of learning. Three sheets consist of: Low Ability - Colouring in fractions in order to do repeated addition and subtraction. Then simple calculations using the same denominator. Middle Ability - Adding and subtracting fraction word problems using the same denominator. Moving onto problems with different denominators, then onto word problems consisting of adding and subtracting mixed numbers and improper fractions. High Ability - Adding and subtracting fraction word problems with different denominators, improper fractions and mixed numbers, percentages and decimals. They will need to convert percentages and decimals to fractions in order to add or subtract with them. Final questions ask for reasoning and diagrams to prove mathematical understanding. Enjoy these slightly spooky questions while engaging your pupils in this important area of maths. All answers provided to ensure quick and easy marking. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular word problems: Converting Fractions to Decimals Multiplying and Dividing Decimals Area and Perimeter

A complete KS2 reading comprehension lesson with the theme of Halloween poems. Includes a complete teaching input, starter, modelling, scaffolding, 5 differentiated poems, questions for each poem and plenary. Download to inspire and extend your pupil’s learning around Halloween. Highlights: Colourful engaging teaching PowerPoint Printable resources Challenge activity Each poem comprehension focuses on these key reading skills: Rhyming words Alliteration Identifying themes Summarising Engage your pupils this Halloween whilst strengthening and enhancing reading outcomes. Check out my other popular Halloween resources: Halloween Fractions Halloween Story Writing

Bright inspirational posters designed to get the children excited and talking about science. A pack of inspirational posters quoting famous scientists from history, from Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking. Each quote instigates high quality thought and discussion, perfect for KS2 Every scientist is British so a great resource for British Science Week. Could be used both as posters or as starters or plenaries in a science lesson. Also handy for science displays throughout the year. Relevant to both KS2 and KS3. You might also be interested in my other updated British Science Week Resources: British Science Week KS2 Homework Tasks British Science Week LKS2 Mini WOW Investigations British Science Week UKS2 Mini WOW Investigations

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

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 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

The seventh of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 39 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions. This lesson teaches the 2 biomes that Yosemite is in and the 5 vegetation zones found in the park. 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 lesson on this topic: Scandinavia Biomes

One of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 41 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions. Highlights: Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. No preparation necessary, ready-to-go. Engage, challenge and inspire! This lesson teaches important map skills and an understanding of the world, including hemispheres, key continents, countries, states, climate, land formation and oceans. All resources are included, so just print the map templates, check out the detailed lesson plan and your lesson is ready. 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 curriculum: Human and physical geography describe and understand key aspects of: physical geography, including: climate zones, rivers mountain ranges Understand technical vocabulary: latitude, longitude, Equator, hemispheres, tropics, polar circles & time zones All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular Geography units and lessons: Scandinavia Russia Europe

The first week of a 2 week Christmas story unit for KS2. This pack includes 5 PowerPoints to lead you through the learning sequence, modelled texts to inspire and support, a variety of activities to keep the pupils focused and all resources and plan included to save time. Read the Scandinavian Christmas story about a creature who is similar to Father Christmas, but different. Explore the story with the pupils and help them to plan a similar story, to write the following week (see links below). The story has been written to include essential writing skills for year 5 such as relative clauses, parenthesis, powerful description, sentence openers and conjunctions. This unit could easily be adapted for other KS2 year groups. Enjoy teaching the well planned writing activities for each day, activities designed to suit a variety of learners. Short games, quizzes and videos are provided for starter activities and all challenges and plenaries are included. KS2 Writing Teaching Points Covered: Editing and improving example sentences, Using relative clauses, Accurate speech punctuation, Comparing setting descriptions, Highlighting writing techniques (relative clauses, sentence openers, adjectives, personification, parenthesis and conjunctions) Adding in adverbs, Using similes and metaphors, Expanded noun phrases. Engage your pupils with Christmas and develop their writing with these high quality PowerPoints. Each day use the modelled texts to capture their imagination, expand their vocabulary and teach them new skills for KS2. Enhance their progress whilst exploring Scandinavian culture. Check out Week 2 of this unit by clicking here where the children are guided to write their own version of the story. Or grab a bargain and buy both Christmas Story Writing weeks by clicking here for a Christmas Unit Bundle All reviews welcome. For high quality cross curricular units on Scandinavia follow the links below: Scandinavia Geography Unit Scandinavia Art unit

The fifth of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 36 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions. This lesson teaches the water features found in the park, including waterfalls, rivers and streams. How humans use the water in park and the water cycle within Yosemite. 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 physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular Yosemite lessons: Yosemite Biomes Where is Yosemite? Erosion in Yosemite

The fourth of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 32 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions. This lesson teaches the type of rock found in the park, erosion, rock falls and changes in the future linked to global warming and pollution. 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 physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular Geography lessons on this topic: Climate in Europe Coastal erosion Rivers in Europe

A complete set of 5 English lessons for National Storytelling Week written for KS2. Includes a 53 slide PowerPoint for the week, differentiated worksheets, starter and challenge activities, word banks and modelled sentences. Enjoy a sequenced week of teaching which develops language, confidence and understanding of story. Each lesson takes about an hour to teach, including the input, interactive elements, written tasks and plenary. Highlights: Ready-to-go Differentiated Scaffolded Higher level questions Challenge Written for year 3/4, easily adaptable for yrs 5/6 classes. Explore, imitates and adapts the story of the ‘Lion and The Mouse’, at a deeper level, prepares the children for performing the story at the end of the week. Covers these English teaching points: Synonyms Adjectives Sentence openers Place prepositions Adverbs Emotions Develop reading and writing skills and enjoy a week of storytelling. All reviews welcome. Check out my popular assembly on National Storytelling Week

A word search pack for 3 abilities on Yosemite National Park. Written for KS2 Geography lessons, can be used alongside my 8 lesson unit pack, link below. Useful for filling in time, could take children between 30-50 minutes to complete. Differentiated for 3 ability levels: LA - 16 words to find, small images to colour to support reading. MA -18 words to find, some complex spellings. Colouring border to complete once finished. HA - 42 words to find, with complex spellings and technical geographical vocabulary. All key vocabulary for KS2 children learning about this beautiful place. All answers provided. Check out my popular geography unit on Yosemite: RESOURCE BUNDLE

5 complete English lessons where children watch and rewrite their own version of the video clip ‘The Piano’ by Aidan Gibbons, found on Literacy Shed. Includes a PowerPoint covering the week, inputs, starters, plenaries, modelled texts, paired and group activities and differentiation. Lots of high level questioning to probe deeper into how and why we use writing techniques and opportunities for paired, individual and group work. The week takes the children through writing the opening, middle and end of their memory story, then editing and publishing it. Starters include: spellings, adding description, handwriting, editing punctuation and improving words. Lessons focus on types of sentence openers, how to start a story, building suspense, writing effective phrases to show change, peer assessment and editing skills. Every lesson contains an engaging starter, teaching points, modelled texts, activities, challenges and a plenary to summarise and extend the learning. All reviews welcome. All resources, plan and PowerPoint included.

A visual and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of exciting and memorable spelling lessons. All words are homophones from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists. Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Short easy to resource spelling activities to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way. Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome.

A ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of visual and bright spelling lessons. 5 lessons, each with activities, answers and a dictation. All words contain a hyphen following the rule of matching vowels from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists. Monday - Explains the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Engaging spelling lessons to enable children to learn these spellings in an memorable and successful way. Friday - Use the imaginative dictation included to test the spelling words covered in the week. Mark this quickly and easily as it shows how many words there are in the dictation and how many spelling words. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome.