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 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.
A visual and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons. Includes inputs, resources and dictation.
Teach your class short and effective sessions to enable them to learn their spellings and succeed in a dictation. Give spellings a high profile and provide strategies for every child to access the curriculum.
All words have the -ance/y, -ation, -ance, -ant, -antial endings 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.
For a whole year of spelling lessons follow these helpful links:
Term 1 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 2 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 3 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 4 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 5 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 6 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
A visual and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons. Teach your class short and effective sessions to enable them to learn their spellings and succeed in a dictation. Give spellings a high profile and provide strategies for every child to access the curriculum.
All words have the -ent, -ence, -ential, -ency endings 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.
For a whole year of spelling lessons follow these helpful links:
Term 1 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 2 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 3 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 4 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 5 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 6 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
An engaging KS2 assembly to celebrate World Poetry Day in your school.
Includes a 36 slide PowerPoint, 8 famous poets from around the world, 8 poems, map skills, higher level thinking questions and role models.
This assembly teaches the children about 8 famous poets from around the world introduced with a short biography and a famous poem they have written. All the poems are short, relevant for KS2 and inspiring. Includes map skills, higher level thinking questions and inspirational writing role models.
Each country has a map, flag and landscape picture to develop geographical understanding as well.
Reasoning questions and answers about each poem are provided and time at the end of the assembly to reflect and look forwards.
Celebrate World Poetry Day every year on March 21st to encourage diversity, a shared understanding and endangered languages around the world.
Use this assembly to inspire your pupils to become writers whilst developing their understanding of how everyone in the world has the same questions and feelings. Show them how poetry can capture the creative spirit of the human mind.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in my packs of poems and lessons:
India Culture Poem Collection
Arctic Tundra Poem Collection
5 Reading Lessons on Writing Poetry
5 Reading Lessons on Performing Poetry
5 engaging, ready-to-go and beneficial circle time sessions to increase awareness of mental health. Each lesson includes a quick and catchy starter, paired and group discussions and activities and a reflective calm plenary.
Designed for use during a Mental Health Awareness Week in primary schools or at any time you need to develop your pupil’s emotional wellbeing.
Appropriate for years 5 -6 they cover these key issues:
Fear of failure (tests, exams etc.)
Bullying
Body Image
The Online World
Career Choices
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
These effective sessions will develop your pupil’s wellbeing and understanding of mental health.
Why not use my Emotion Cards to further develop your pupils EQ. Or check out my circle time activities for years 3 and 4.
Or download a complete lesson on Dreams and Aspirations here.
You can find more high quality KS2 resources at my shop.
A visual and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons. Teach your class short and effective sessions to enable them to learn their spellings and succeed in a dictation. Give spellings a high profile and provide strategies for every child to access the curriculum.
All words have the -ant, -nce or -ation endings 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.
For a whole year of spelling lessons follow these helpful links:
Term 1 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 2 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 3 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 4 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 5 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 6 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
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.
A useful display for teachers, children, parent helpers and visitors showing the new curriculum in a bright and colourful, easy to use way.
All the year 2 reading statements are simplified to child speak with engaging animals and speech bubbles, an easy way to jazz up your reading corner.
Having the new curriculum statements on display for all to see will help everyone feel confident with knowing the learning objectives. All adults involved with the class will be able to ask effective questions when listening to children read. Assessments of children will be more accurate and relevant.
Children could use these on an interactive display to self and peer assess and prompt reading discussions.
Also included:
12 Bunting Triangles - with characters and relevant quotes from well known children’s books
A large welcome title
All the year 2 New Curriculum reading statements in speech bubbles from colourful animals
Key reading vocabulary cards
10 Bubbles containing thought provoking questions
Top Book Trump review cards
Book Recommendation sheets
A Reading Challenge
All reviews welcome.
An excellent lesson jam packed with time saving goodies: Animated Powerpoint, Have-a-go AFL questions, fluency, problem solving and reasoning worksheets, lesson plan and all answers included.
Download this effortless lesson which teaches children how to multiply and divide decimals to save hours of your planning and marking time.
Be confident in your pupils understanding as the engaging PowerPoint covers these key teaching points:
An explanation of decimals
A review of place value titles and how they work
Visual examples of when we need to multiple and divide decimals
An interactive, step by step animation of how to do the written method for multiplication
An interactive animation of the division written method (bus stop)
A reminder of how to solve word problems
Clues for if the operation is multiplication or division
Enjoy using these helpful slides showing the written methods clearly using colour, arrows and reminders to make it easy to understand.
Print our these interesting and realistic word problems so your pupils can consolidate their learning in real life contexts. Extend your pupils with multi step problems for a challenge and a page of higher level questions for quick finishers.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular maths word problem packs:
Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Converting Fractions to Decimals
Factors, Multiples, Squares and Cubes
An engaging and memorable PowerPoint leading you through a week of fun and active spelling lessons for years 5 and 6.
All words follow the pattern of containing silent letters from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists.
Monday - Clearly explains the word class of each spelling, the spelling patterns, all the rules and talks through the definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 5 effective spelling lessons which enable children to learn these spellings in a 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.
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.
A bright and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of memorable spelling lessons for years 5 and 6.
All words contain the endings -cial and -tial (some not following the rule) from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 5 engaging and memorable spelling lessons which enable children to learn these words in an effective 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.
An engaging week of Christmas story writing for KS2. Includes planning, PPTs, resources and modelled texts, all ready-to-go. Enjoy teaching the well planned writing activities for each day, designed for a variety of learners. Short games, quizzes and videos are provided for starter activities and all challenges and plenaries are included.
Each day use the structured activities to fine-tune their writing, extend their goals and build their self-esteem. By the end of the week each student will have written, edited and published their own version of this wonderful festive story.
Ensure progress whilst exploring Scandinavian culture. Engage your pupils with Christmas and give them freedom and aspirations with their writing using these high quality and thorough PowerPoints.
KS2 Writing Teaching Points Covered:
Using other verbs for said,
Correcting speech punctuation,
Improving sentence openers,
Choosing appropriate paragraph openers,
Comparing extracts of modelled versions,
Magpie-ing effective words,
Using a range of relative clauses,
Writing powerful personification phrases,
Thinking of unusual similes and metaphors,
Learning how to create atmosphere.
Hand out the text extracts showing how characters change to capture that tricky KS2 writing skill. Relax while your pupils use peer assessment so your marking will be quick and delightful.
Print out the story included about a creature who is similar to Father Christmas, but different. Be amazed at how it has been written to include essential writing skills for this age group such as relative clauses, parenthesis, powerful description, sentence openers and conjunctions.
All resources and a detailed plan included so you will have time to go out and enjoy the wonderful feeling of Christmas throughout December.
All reviews welcome.
You might also like a week of exploring the Nisse tale activities to boost the children’s confidence and understanding of the story.
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 inexpensive, engaging and time saving resources.
A set of 10 original poems written for children about India, describing its culture, landscape, physical and human features. Perfect for a KS2 geography topic on India. All the poems are written in different styles; to engage, inspire and teach about this fascinating country whilst developing key reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.
India Geography Topic
Each poem could spark a whole lesson enabling children to learn, discuss and write about the culture of India. They cover these geographical aspects of India:
Indian culture
Mumbai
Western Ghats
Thar dessert
Taj Mahal
Goa Beaches
Himalayas
Kerala
River Ganges
Collection of Poems
These poems are written to describe India whilst modeling essential writing skills such as: alliteration, rhyming, rhythm, personification and similes. Presented as word documents and all together on one PowerPoint with some higher-order questions to consider.
This pack includes 10 poems using these different styles:
Kennings
Haiku
Diamente
Repeated starting words
Kyrielle
Shape Poem
All the poems are written by me and all images used are copyright free.
All reviews welcome.
You can find many more engaging and useful resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy
You might also be interested in my Arctic Poem collection
A bright and colourful animated PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons.
Teach your class words from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling list in an easy effective way with little or no preparation.
A week of activities to master these words:
Monday - Teach the word class of each spelling, explain patterns, work through the rules and find the definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Enjoy original spelling activities that enable children to learn these spellings in a quick and successful way.
Friday - Use the imaginative dictation included to test the spelling words covered in the week. Easy to mark as you can see 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 clear and visual display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day.
All reviews welcome.
An excellent lesson teaching KS2 how to calculate the perimeter of squares and rectangles. Plan, worksheets, PPT, answers, challenges and extensions included. Lesson then challenges children with learning how to find the perimeter of composite shapes and triangles.
Complete high quality resources provided:
Interactive and Engaging PowerPoint
Lesson Plan
Independent, paired and group activities
Worksheets for lower/mid and mid/higher
Challenge for every ability
Answers for quick and easy marking
A visual, logical and memorable presentation clearly explaining the different perimeter formulas. Enjoy the 22 slide PowerPoint teaching and enhancing your pupil’s understanding of perimeter.
Lesson Content:
Doubling numbers starter,
Perimeter of squares,
Reasoning shapes questions,
Perimeter of rectangles,
Perimeter of composite shapes,
Perimeter of triangles.
A differentiated lesson of two halves - Middle and Higher ability can independently tackle perimeter reasoning questions while you teach the lower and middle ability. Then they can be independent while you talk through the reasoning and main activity with the higher ability pupils.
Or this can be easily taught to a whole class if you prefer.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in these high quality KS2 maths resources:
Calculating Perimeter of Composite Shapes Lesson
Area and Perimeter Word Problems
Measuring Angles Lesson
Drawing Angles Lesson
A bright and clear PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging and memorable spelling lessons.
All words follow the pattern of doubling the r when adding suffixes onto fer endings from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 3 thorough spelling lessons to enable children to learn these spellings in an active 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.
Download this engaging lesson pack to teach KS2 pupils how to draw angles. Use the animated PowerPoint, differentiated worksheets, challenges and answers to develop mastery with their understanding of angles. Also includes a detailed plan.
Whole Lesson
Use the visual PowerPoint to model drawing angles, step-by-step. Your pupils can become confident and independent with this essential maths skill.
Resources
All necessary resources provided and ready-to-go:
Detailed lesson plan
PowerPoint
Video hyperlink
Activities
Worksheets - independent reasoning tasks, main activities and challenges
All answers included.
Differentiated
A differentiated lesson by input and worksheet.
Enjoy teaching this differentiated lesson of two halves - middle and higher ability can independently tackle shape reasoning questions while you teach the lower and middle ability how to draw angles. Then the LA and MA can be independent while you talk through the reasoning and main activity with the higher ability children.
If you prefer, you can teach the whole class the main input and use the shape reasoning questions at the end for further challenges.
There is a range of activities so children can practice this skill with purpose and move onto thought provoking challenges when they feel they need to progress further.
SEN - Draw over the dotted lines to draw and label the angles. Name as acute or obtuse.
LA - Draw and label angles on a line to find the aliens.
MA - Complete the calculations to find the angles before drawing them using a protractor. Label and check your partner’s.
HA - Draw and label a regular pentagon with equal sides and angles. Figure out the internal angles of a hexagon and draw a regular hexagon.
Challenge: Double the area of a right angled triangle, draw, label and prove it with calculations.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in these high quality KS2 maths resources:
Measuring Angles Lesson
Area and Perimeter Lesson Bundle
Angle Fact Sheets
Place Value Chart
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.
For a good and engaging science unit on forces click here to save yourself lots of time!
You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy
A bright and animated PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons for years 5 and 6.
All words have the -able/y -ible/y endings from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 3 thorough spelling lessons which enable children to learn these spellings in an active 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 bright and animated PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons for years 5 and 6.
All words follow the pattern of using the letter string ‘ough’ from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 5 effective spelling lessons enable children to learn these spellings in an active 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.