An engaging KS1 assembly on Charles Darwin’s life and achievements. Includes the complete PowerPoint assembly, reasoning questions, differentiated follow up writing resources and opportunities for discussion. Involve the students with the interactive questions and inspire them to become scientists. Includes differentiated follow up writing activities with all the necessary resources. Can be used on Darwin’s birthday February 12th or for starting a topic on famous scientists or explorers. Key teaching points covered: Darwin’s beliefs Darwin’s early life and careers His big break at 22 Adventures around the world Darwin’s theories and the public’s views His characteristics for success Impact on the world Darwin’s family life Celebrating Darwin Lots of opportunities for discussion and higher level thinking. All concepts explained clearly. 3 differentiated writing resources included to extend the assembly/input into a full lesson. Give your pupils opportunities to imaginatively respond to his amazing life. Perfect for year 1 and year 2. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular KS1 science resources: Science Week Assembly Science Week Posters Science Week Investigations

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 differentiated class set of personalised English report comments. Written for year 5 in line with the new National Curriculum, they are positive, detailed and easy to adapt for other KS2 year groups. End your year on a positive note, with a healthy work-life balance and pupils who feel valued and understood. A contents page shows you the 30 comments in ability groups, reading, writing strengths, attitude and targets for the future. Choose the correct comments for your children or mix and match comments to design the perfect reports. Each comment comes in a girl and boy version. The name spaces are shown with 3 stars so you can quickly find and replace them with the names of your pupils. The comments cover speaking and listening, reading, writing and spelling, punctuation and grammar. You might also be interested in these handy assessment tools: Assessment Guidance SMART Targets for Writing Reading Assessment Questions

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.

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

A colourful and engaging display explaining modal verbs for KS2. Includes titles, posters, word banks, modelled sentences and much more. Editable and ready to print, this pack is ready to pop up on your display and save you time. This extensive pack includes all that you need to teach modal verbs through your display. Bright and colourful posters, questions and key words are all ready to print and put up on your wall to inspire children, enhance learning and ensure progress in English. Display includes: Title Visual representations of the meanings of modal verbs Sentence starters using modal verbs for different purposes Groups of hot and cold modal verbs Key words sorted by intensity and colour coded Modal verbs in the negative form Groups of modal verbs which work in the future and past tense and those that don’t These display cards could also be used in writer’s toolkits to support children using modal verbs during writing lessons. Created on PowerPoint so easily editable to your needs. For a whole lesson on modal verbs, including resources, click here Check out my other popular grammar resources: KS2 SPAG Word Banks KS2 SPAG Word Searches Whole School Grammar Glossaries Relative Clause Lesson

An engaging display pack for KS2-3 on persuasive writing. Complete with titles, posters, modelled sentences, word banks, process stars, writing strategies and more. Includes bright colourful posters useful for display or a writer’s toolkit. Eye catching resources designed to engage, support and enhance. Download and quickly pop up on your English display board. Enjoy the examples of language, writing features, modelled paragraphs and key ideas. Focuses on persuading someone to visit somewhere. Easily adaptable to other types of persuasion. All reviews welcome.

An engaging art lesson on the UEFA Euro Football Tournament 2024. Includes a teaching input, differentiated activities, a video link and all 3 activity sheets. Download to teach your children about this football tournament, inspire them to think deeper about the values of football and to develop their creative side. Teach the lesson through the Euro Football 2024 PowerPoint, show the children the modelled outcomes and scaffold their learning with the suggested ideas. Fill a session this week with a creative and relaxing art lesson that will excite and engage your pupils. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular football resource: Measuring Angles Through Football

An engaging and colourful display for a KS2 unit on recount writing. Includes: Large Fun Title What is a recount? Why write a recount? How do I start? questions and answers Structuring a recount poster Tips for making it personal poster 3 large example texts with labels to show features used Key vocabulary large strips with images Speech marks poster Different types of recounts poster Easy to cut out, all in line. Whip this up for your classroom wall to inspire and support your pupils during your recount writing topic. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular English displays: Persuasive Writing Display Modal Verbs Display The Piano Display The Highwayman Display

An essential resource for teaching expanded noun phrases. Includes an engaging PowerPoint and complete word bank kits. This pack teaches how to construct expanded noun phrases. Grouped word banks scaffold the learning. It teaches children how to start with a simple noun phrase such as 'the dog' or 'the lady' and add in 8 new elements to the phrase. 3 simple noun phrases are modelled with the 'machine'. Used in year 5, also appropriate for all other KS2 classes. A|l 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 useful document for assessing children’s writing in Year 3, guidance for you to have a better understanding of assessing with the New Curriculum. Make your assessments quick, clear and useful so that your planning hits the spot. Ensure progress for every child as you confidently identify their next steps and find any small essential gaps to fill. See all of the writing statements in an easy to understand grid, sorted into three simple steps: - Beginning/Entering - Within/ Developing - Secure You can use these for one child or for the whole class to track and enhance their progress throughout the year. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular resources for teaching English: Year 3 Writing Assessment Sheets Year 3 SMART Writing Targets Year 3 Reading Assessment Questions

Inspire your school with an assembly designed for Book Day on a 26 slide PowerPoint. Includes higher order questions, interactive activities, inspiring video link, many classic books, author quotes, follow up activities and much more. Covers: What is Book Day? What famous people like to read? Video What can we read? Where can we read? When is reading useful? Who is the funniest author? Vote Match the author to the book Top Tips for choosing a new book What book has this as the opening line? Guessing game Favourite Characters - Optional Fashion Show Looking Forward Written for KS2. This assembly takes about 20 minutes to complete. Follow the engaging and colourful PowerPoint for a ready-to-go assembly. Animations, images, video and more will inspire every child to keep reading. Highlights: Interactive Inspiring Involving Use the range of activities to structure the assembly and share some high quality books that are recommended for children of KS2. Could also be used as a lesson, as it includes 3 differentiated writing tasks: Draw and describe your favourite character Write a book review of your favourite book Use 3 favourite characters to write a new story Printable templates included. Enjoy and celebrate this important day. Check out my other popular assemblies on special occasions: World Poetry Day National Speech and Debate Day National Storytelling Week

A useful document for assessing children’s writing in Year 5, guidance for you to have a better understanding of assessing with the New Curriculum. Make your assessments quick, clear and useful so that your planning hits the spot. Ensure progress for every child as you confidently identify their next steps and find any small essential gaps to fill. See all of the writing statements in an easy to understand grid, sorted into three simple steps: - Beginning/Entering - Within/ Developing - Secure You can use these for one child or for the whole class to track and enhance their progress throughout the year. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular resources for teaching English with the New Curriculum: Year 5 Writing Assessment Sheets Year 5 SMART Writing Targets Year 5 Reading Assessment Questions You can find all of this and more at my shop:Teachallenjoy

A useful document for assessing children’s writing in Year 2, guidance for you to have a better understanding of assessing with the New Curriculum. Make your assessments quick, clear and useful so that your planning hits the spot. Ensure progress for every child as you confidently identify their next steps and find any small essential gaps to fill. See all of the writing statements in an easy to understand grid, sorted into three simple steps: - Beginning/Entering - Within/ Developing - Secure You can use these for one child or for the whole class to track and enhance their progress throughout the year. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular resources for teaching English: Year 2 Writing Assessment Sheets Year 2 SMART Writing Targets Year 2 Reading Assessment Questions

A useful document for assessing children’s writing in Year 1, guidance for you to have a better understanding of assessing with the New Curriculum. Make your assessments quick, clear and useful so that your planning hits the spot. Ensure progress for every child as you confidently identify their next steps and find any small essential gaps to fill. See all of the writing statements in an easy to understand grid, sorted into three simple steps: - Beginning/Entering - Within/ Developing - Secure You can use these for one child or for the whole class to track and enhance their progress throughout the year. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular resources for teaching English with the New Curriculum: Writing Target Sheet Year 1 and 2 Pupils Year 1 Writing Assessment Sheet Year 1 Reading Assessment Questions

A Christmas story from Scandinavia written for KS2, includes model vocabulary and grammar skills. Useful for English and geography lessons. Click here for a bundle of 2 weeks planning using this text. For high quality cross curricular units on Scandinavia follow the links below: Scandinavia Geography Unit Scandinavia Art unit Or browse through my shop to find many more time saving resources.

A useful document for assessing children’s writing in Year 6, guidance for you to have a better understanding of assessing with the New Curriculum. Make your assessments quick, clear and useful so that your planning hits the spot. Ensure progress for every child as you confidently identify their next steps and find any small essential gaps to fill. See all of the writing statements in an easy to understand grid, sorted into three simple steps: - Beginning/Entering - Within/ Developing - Secure You can use these for one child or for the whole class to track and enhance their progress throughout the year. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular resources for teaching English: Year 6 Writing Assessment Sheets Year 6 SMART Writing Targets Year 6 Reading Assessment Questions You can find all of this and more at my shop:Teachallenjoy

A useful document for assessing children’s writing in Year 4, guidance for you to have a better understanding of assessing with the New Curriculum. Make your assessments quick, clear and useful so that your planning hits the spot. Ensure progress for every child as you confidently identify their next steps and find any small essential gaps to fill. See all of the writing statements in an easy to understand grid, sorted into three simple steps: - Beginning/Entering - Within/ Developing - Secure You can use these for one child or for the whole class to track and enhance their progress throughout the year. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular resources for teaching English with the New Curriculum: Year 4 Writing Assessment Sheets Tear 4 SMART Writing Targets Year 4 Reading Assessment Questions You can find all of this and more at my shop: Teachallenjoy

A lesson on kindness includes an input, activity and extension. Perfect for World Kindness Day, a PSHE lesson or a themed week. Pack contains a World Kindness Day PowerPoint with an activity, discussion points, resources and modelled outcome. Download this lesson to get your class talking, thinking and acting kind. Includes a gripping starter, paired activities, 16 slide PowerPoint, example ideas and differentiated outcomes. Handy for making an outstanding display in your class. Covers: Why it is important to be kind What is kindness? Who can we be kind to? How can we be kind? What symbol represents World Kindness Day? Highlights Colourful Engaging Ready-to-go Animated Differentiated Written for a primary class, most appropriate for KS2, could be completed in KS1. All reviews welcome.