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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.
An engaging 41 slide assembly on the inspirational scientist Albert Einstein. Includes a clear, animated and bright PowerPoint, a video link and fun facts for all ages. The Einstein assembly shows how his life choices led to great things and how it is important to follow your passions from a young age.
Use to celebrate his birthday on March 14th or as an interesting assembly for any day of the year.
Celebrate a Great Scientist
This Science assembly includes:
A memory game
Young life
Family life
Working life
Fun facts
Images of his life
Scientific Research
Einstein quotes to inspire
Why was he such a great scientist?
Summary
Relevant for KS2 and KS3.
You might also be interested in my other bestselling science resources:
British Science Week Bundle
Lessons on Famous Scientists
Forces Unit KS2 Science
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
10 engaging and ready-to-go English lessons responding to and exploring the powerful video clip ‘The Piano’ by Aidan Gibbons found on the Literacy Shed.
Lots of high level questioning to probe deeper into this interesting clip and opportunities for paired, individual and group work.
Week 1 - Explore and respond to the story whilst developing writing skills (Talk for Writing -Imitate and Innovate).
Written for KS2 it covers many relevant teaching points:
relative clauses,
expanded noun phrases,
editing and improving language,
parenthesis,
creating an atmosphere,
showing change within characters,
describing settings,
building suspense,
summarising,
identifying word classes,
complex sentences.
Week 2 - Children write their own version of this story using and building on the writing skills learnt in the first week (Talk for Writing - Invent).
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.
Many more teaching points covered:
types of sentence openers,
how to start a story,
building suspense,
writing effective phrases to show change,
using synonyms
using a thesaurus
peer assessment
editing punctuation
editing for sense
editing to improve
Mixture of starters covering key SPAG elements from the New Curriculum.
There are resources to support the lower ability and daily challenges for the higher ability.
Ability groups in plan:
Green - Low ability
Yellow - Mid/low ability
Blue - Mid ability
Red - High ability.
All reviews welcome.
All resources, plans, PowerPoints and display included.
Display includes:
Title
Short explanation of the movie
Images from the movie
Powerful descriptive vocabulary cards
Features list of this genre
Sentence Opener ideas
Paragraph Opener ideas
Key events of movie on arrows for ordering
Modelled examples of creating an atmosphere
Modelled examples of expanded noun phrases
Modelled examples of relative clauses
Higher level thinking questions
Engaging lesson pack teaching children how to solve area and perimeter word problems. Includes a detailed PowerPoint, worksheets, multi step questions, real world scenarios, differentiation, consolidation of key number skills and all the answers.
Use the step by step input which explains this skill whilst developing independence, confidence and enables pupils to reach the challenge activities.
Delight in seeing your class tackle and solve an extensive bank of questions set in real world contexts. Most are multi step and cover key KS2 number skills.
Develop mastery as this lesson caters to every child, the differentiated worksheets will ensure that every child moves on and that every child makes progress.
Print all the answers included for quick and easy marking.
Hand out the challenges provided so your pupils really master the concepts of area and perimeter.
Finish with an open ended plenary discussion to enhance their reasoning skills and give children the opportunity to discuss and consolidate their learning.
All reviews welcome.
You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 maths resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy
You might also be interested in:
- Calculating the perimeter of regular and irregular shapes
- Calculating the perimeter of composite shapes
- Converting fractions to decimals word problems
Increase awareness of mental health in your school with a week of 5 engaging and beneficial circle time sessions.
Designed for a Mental Health Awareness Week in a primary school or to be used at any time you need to develop your pupil’s emotional wellbeing.
Written for years 3-4 they cover these key issues:
Feelings of doubt and building self esteem
Identifying bullying and solutions
Overcoming and sharing strong feelings
Dealing with negative reactions and asking for help
Finding trusted adults
This week of circle time will develop your pupil’s awareness of these issues whilst improving their understanding of their feelings and how to cope with them. The children will be supplied with strategies to:
Identify feelings
Communicate feelings
Notice warning signs
Use coping strategies
Ask for help
Every session includes a starter, paired and group discussion, activities and a calm reflective plenary. These effective sessions will develop your pupil’s wellbeing in 30 minute slots (they could easily be extended or shortened as necessary with no extra planning).
Why not use my Emotion Cards to further develop your pupils EQ.
Or download a Year 5 and 6 CircleTime Activity Week.
You can find more high quality KS2 resources at my shop.
98 Videos of every letter of the alphabet as a capital and lowercase in cursive handwriting.
Example sentences and words for pupils to copy containing the focus letters.
Large selection of phonic digraphs for handwriting practice as well.
Have the best handwriting class in school!
All reviews welcome.
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One of seven engaging lessons which bring Scandinavia into the classroom. 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 ready to go.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
This lesson teaches important map skills and an understanding of the world, key continents and oceans.
All resources are included, so just print the map template and detailed lesson plan and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to link to and extend work in English with challenges linking to English objectives, e.g. persuasive writing features.
All reviews welcome.
To teach Scandinavia throughout the curriculum, download my English and art units:
Scandinavia Art Unit
Scandinavia Story Writing Unit
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The second of seven engaging lessons which bring Scandinavia into the classroom. 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 ready to go.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
This lesson covers these important teaching points:
What are biomes? Definition, images and discussion
Where are different biomes? Map of world to analysis
Which biomes are in Scandinavia? Use a map key to find each biome
What is it like in each biome?Fact cards to show on the screen or print for on desks
What have we learnt? *Children to show by writing postcards home *
How do animals adapt in each biome? Matching challenge activity
All resources are included, so just print the differentiated postcard templates, challenge grids and detailed lesson plan and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to link to and extend work in English with challenges linking to English objectives, e.g. persuasive writing features.
All reviews welcome.
To teach Scandinavia throughout the curriculum, download my English and art units:
Scandinavia Art Unit
Scandinavia Story Writing Unit
You can find many more engaging and high quality resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop
An engaging 22 slide powerpoint teaching pupils about Ruth Benerito’s invention and how it changed the world. Includes a teaching PowerPoint, input, experiment, video link, differentiation, plan, all printables and an extension task.
The complete PowerPoint teaches the science behind creasing and how this affected the cotton industry in the 1960’s. Visual and bright images make the theories easy to understand and will spark curiosity for science.
Includes:
A hands on experiment to do at the start of the lesson as an opener and engagement tool.
A helpful video link of Ruth explaining what she has achieved and how.
A range of activities for differentiation.
A challenge focusing on a clear and short biography of Ruth Benerito explaining why she is such an inspirational scientist and what she achieved in her life.
A detailed and easy-to-follow plan.
A lesson written for a year 5 class based on the new curriculum learning objective:
They should find out about how chemists create new materials, for example, Ruth Benerito, who invented wrinkle-free cotton.
All reviews welcome.
5 complete lessons teaching the story of Beowulf. There are engaging starters, inputs, differentiated activities and plenaries in a clear and easy to use Powerpoint.
Slides cover key writing skills such as relative clauses, openers, word classes, sentence structure, linking sentences for cohesion and expanded noun phrases.
Covers the innovate and invent phases of Talk for Writing.
There are clear explanations and modelling of how to create suspense for the tense parts of the story and a grammar activity on the different types of nouns.
Useful for any class in KS2, differentiated success criteria
Green - LA
Blue and yellow - MA
Red - HA
All reviews welcome.
An engaging Scandinavian art unit covering the key elements of art: pattern, line, shape, tone, colour. Includes 6 differentiated and fully resourced lessons to engage and enthuse your pupils. Simply download the 86 slide PowerPoint leading you through the unit, all paper resources and a detailed plan.
Your pupils will be amazed and inspired by some well known and unusual Scandinavian Artists and their fantastic work. Lessons will focus on exploring the artistic elements, imitating key styles and designing and creating their own verisons of the art.
Highlights
Video links modelling artistic techniques
Art history included
Starters and plenaries
Cross curricular links
Easy to resource
Simple but effective painting tasks
Every lesson is differentiated with three stages of complexity and contains an engaging and interesting starter and plenary.
Learning Objectives covered:
Lesson 1: To identify and connect patterns in art
Lesson 2: To explore tone and line in Scandinavian artist’s sketches
Lesson 3: To use watercolour for effect in a fairyland
Lesson 4: To create light using mixed media
Lesson 5: To imitate the style of Edvard Munch’s ‘Scream’
Lesson 6: To imitate the colour and movement in Edvard Munch’s ‘Scream’
Download 6 complete animated lessons working through a range of media (pen, pencil, watercolour and pastels) to encourage creativity and develop artistic skills.
Cross curricular links:
Geography - Scandinavia Landscapes,
History – Famous artists,
English – Evaluating and analysing art,
PSHE – Emotions.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my popular geography unit on Scandinavia: click here to teach excellent cross curricular links.
An engaging lesson teaching year 5 (or any KS2 class) how to communicate and achieve their dreams, goals and aspirations.
An easy to use 17 slide PowerPoint evaluating the qualities needed for different professions, steps to success and obstacles you might face.
A hyperlink to a video case study along with other activities creates high quality dialogue and inspires thoughtful questions.
Individual, paired and group activities:
- Imagination game (If you were..)
- Group sorting activity
- Pairs evaluate a video
- Whole class discussion of dreams and pathways
- Individuals create dream fans
Simple and effective assessment task provided and a range of support options are offered if children feel they need to follow up/delve deeper with anything covered in class.
All reviews welcome.
A complete lesson pack teaching KS2 children to measure angles. Includes an engaging 47 slide PowerPoint, differentiated worksheets set in real life contexts and all answers. Easily help children move through fluency, reasoning and problem solving to an enhanced understanding of angles.
Lesson Pack
All necessary resources provided:
2 lesson starters to choose from
47 slide editable PowerPoint (includes all resources)
Video hyperlink
Activities
Worksheets - independent tasks, main activities and challenges
Answers
Whole Lesson
This is a good lesson with a theme of football to engage your class whilst challenging and extending their understanding. Teach KS2 how to estimate and measure angles and to develop mastery with their understanding of angles.
The visual PowerPoint covers all the key teaching points, taking the class through from starter to plenary.
Differentiation
A differentiated lesson by input and worksheet.
SEN - Measure the important angles with a protractor.
LA - Estimate angles using angle facts then measure using a protractor.
MA - Measure the angles in a game of football. Design your own game and measure the angles.
HA - Estimate acute, obtuse and reflex angles game, check with a protractor. Investigate angles in a game of football, plan how you will collect and present your answers in a systematic way.
Challenge:
Two different reasoning, application and problem solving investigations.
Possibility for a differentiated lesson of two halves - Middle and Higher ability can independently play an angles game while you teach the lower and middle ability how to estimate and measure angles. Then they can be independent while you talk through the reasoning and main activity with the highers.
Children can move on to the challenges when they feel confident.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in these high quality KS2 maths resources:
Drawing Angles Lesson
Area and Perimeter Lesson Bundle
Angle Fact Sheets
Place Value Chart
A complete KS2 angle display including titles, interactive questions, images, angle types, tips, key words, strategies and reminders. Contains 37 elements. A visual and colourful angle display for your classroom which can also be used in a maths toolkit or as support cards during lessons.
All ready to print and put up so your pupils are engaged, enthused and excited about angles.
Bright and visual posters of essential angle facts.
This extensive display, includes:
3 titles to choose from
Question and answer bubbles explain key aspects of this topic.
A question flap with an answer inside
5 easy steps to measure angles
10 simple steps to draw angles
Key word cards to label an angle and protractor
Real life images with a range of angles in to show pupils how this links to life outside of school.
Colour-coded images and captions showing and explaining these key angles:
acute angle
right angle
obtuse angle
straight line
reflex angle
complete turn
45, 135, 225, 270, 315 degrees on cards
angles on a straight line
angles around a point
Colour-coded examples showing and explaining equal angles:
when two lines intersect
when a line intersects a parallel line set 1
when a line intersects a parallel line set 2
Colour-coded examples showing and explaining interior angles of shapes and regular polygons:
Triangle
Quadrilaterals
Pentagon
Hexagon
Heptagon
Octagon
Decagon
Dodecagon
Enthuse your children with learning angles, help them remember these important facts with ease.
Use as a display, toolkit or support.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in my other popular angle resources:
Drawing angles with games and the context of aliens
Measuring angles in the context of football
The third of seven engaging lessons which bring Scandinavia into the classroom. 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 ready to go.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
This lesson covers these important teaching points:
What physical regions are in Scandinavia? Map analysis
What physical features are in Norway, Denmark and Sweden? Images and explanations for each
Who can remember these? Video analysis for AFL
What have we learnt? Children to show by explaining each map
Which country is this?Children to use their learning to figure out the images
All resources are included, so just print the maps and a detailed lesson plan and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to link to and extend work in English with challenges linking to English objectives, e.g. persuasive writing features.
All reviews welcome.
To teach Scandinavia throughout the curriculum, download my English and art units:
Scandinavia Art Unit
Scandinavia Story Writing Unit
You can find many more engaging and high quality resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop
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 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
All you need to run an easy, engaging and exciting science week for Key Stage 1. Includes an assembly, homework activities, posters and in-class experiments for every day of British Science Week.
Each resource is ready to go, bright, colourful and clear.
All editable, detailed and relevant to the national curriculum science objectives for KS1. Every activity is specifically written for year groups, and designed for all styles of learners.
British Science Week Bundle Resources
Engaging KS1 Assembly
29 slide colourful and animated Assembly including lesson activities with templates.
Exciting Homework Activities
4 Homework Task Cards for each year group, all different activities to choose from.
KS1 Inspirational Posters
A pack of What is Science? posters to decorate your school or classroom to get the pupils talking about science.
Easy and Quick WOW Investigations
A mini wow investigation for every day of the week for year 1, and different ones for year 2. All equipment easy to find and low mess for high excitement.
Check out my other popular British Science Week Bundles:
KS2 British Science Week Bundle
KS1 and 2 British Science Week Bundle
A complete lesson on the famous scientists Isaac Newton and Galileo Galilei. Includes an engaging PowerPoint to lead you through the lesson, hands on activities, small investigations and differentiated written work. Support and extensions tasks also provided, along with a detailed lesson plan.
Engage your pupils with this informative lesson on the famous scientists Isaac Newton and Galileo Galilei. Linked together with the easy to understand theme of ‘falling’ your class will enjoy finding out and testing common scientific theories.
Full of hands on activities, small investigations and differentiated written work this lesson will delight your afternoon and save you time.
Support and extension resources provided, so every child will be on task and able to complete the work without asking questions.
Handy links to an interesting video on the PowerPoint, which explains the scientific theories in entertaining and clear ways.
Covers these learning objectives from the National Curriculum for year 5 science.
Explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object.
Identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces.
Pupils might find out how scientists, for example, Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton helped to develop the theory of gravitation.
Check out my other high quality science lessons:
KS2 Forces Unit
Jane Goodall Famous Scientist
British Science Week Resource Bank
A detailed PowerPoint ideal for an assembly or lesson on this important day of December 2nd. Includes a 42 slide engaging and animated PowerPoint, video link, writing templates and writing examples and links to other useful websites on this day. Teach your pupils about the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
Lots of opportunities for discussion and higher level thinking. All concepts explained clearly.
Discuss and answer these key questions:
Why is this day special?
When did it start?
What is the UN and its Charter?
Who are the General Assembly?
What is slavery?
Is there slavery today?
How does modern slavery happen?
What the symbol represents today? Why?
Do you agree with these famous quotes about slavery?
How do people celebrate today?
How can we bring a stop to slavery?
Print out these engaging tasks for the children to complete in a lesson:
Task 1 - Design a symbol to represent this day, use the ideas provided.
Task 2 - Write a poem to raise awareness of modern slavery.
Task 3 - Write a short story about starting your dream job and what you would do if you came across inequality or people being taken advantage of in the workplace.
Writing templates provided.
Relevant for KS2 and KS3.
Also useful for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition on August 23rd and for the start of a topic on the Slave Trade.
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