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 complete geography unit teaching about the wonders of Yosemite National Park in America. Includes 8 compelte lessons, 8 PowerPoints, 8 resource packs, 8 plans, 8 starters, 8 inputs and 8 plenaries.
Highlights
Nationals Curriculum learning objectives
Quality Teaching Inputs
Geography skill focused
Real life images
Video links
Differentiated
Resources all included
High quality outcomes
Cross Curricular links
Easy to use
Save time, reduce stress and enjoy teaching with this unit. No preparation needed.
Check out my other popular Geography units:
Scandinavia
Europe
A complete assembly on storytelling, including a 24 slide PowerPoint, video links, interactive questions, extension tasks, reflection time and song to finish.
Use as an inspiring start to National Storytelling Week, 29th January - 4th February 2024.
Cover:
What is a story?
What types of story are there?
How is storytelling different to reading a story?
Where do stories come from?
Storytelling - The Frog Prince
What do all stories have?
Plot
Characters
Setting
Can you copy stories?
Reflection
Song
Video links provided for children to go back into class and become familiar with a classic fairy tale or story and retell it, before adapting it to make it their own.
Highlights:
Ready-to-go
Perfect for KS2 primary age
Colourful, engaging, animated
Inclusive
Perfect for all learning styles
After the reflection time where children can connect to themselves and discover what stories mean to them, there is a story song (The Lion Inside) for children to watch and listen to as they quietly leave the assembly.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other assemblies on special occasions, linked to English:
Book Day
World Poetry Day
National Speech and Debate Day
Relax in March and use these fantastic assemblies to enthuse your pupils about learning. 4 complete engaging assemblies for the month of March. Includes video links, writing activities, inspirational role models, healthy eating tips, fun facts and much more.
All within a science theme they build on each other effectively and enhance your pupil’s enthusiasm and love of science.
KS2 British Science Week Assembly 9th-17th March
This is a detailed 28 slide PowerPoint ideal for an assembly or lesson or both for this special week. Could also be a useful PSHE lesson on scientific careers and role models.
Takes the children through key questions covering there understanding of science, its impact on our lives, how to be a scientist and what scientists are like including famous scientists and their achievements.
Download the 3 compelling activities to extend the pupil’s interest in the subject of science.
Albert Einstein’s Birthday Assembly - 14th March
Celebrate a great scientist with this detailed and interesting 30 slide PowerPoint on the inspirational scientist Albert Einstein.
Covering:
Themes of the assembly
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
Farmhouse Breakfast Week Assembly 4th-8th March
Download this engaging primary assembly to enthuse your pupils and increase their achievements. Explain through fun farm animals the many reasons why breakfast is good for you.
Many stimulating activities inspire the children to want to eat breakfast, including choosing their favourite breakfast plate and discussing which one is the best, healthiest and the most balanced.
Teaching Points Covered about Breakfast:
What Farmhouse Breakfast Week is all about
Local UK farms involved
Why breakfast is so good for us
What we can eat for breakfast and why
How to make a balanced breakfast
How we can be organised in the morning
This assembly also explains classic options for breakfast and tasty new ideas to try. There are many discussion opportunities for children so they are involved in the assembly and accept responsibility for making a change, eating a better breakfast and doing well in school.
Print the high quality resources and use the fun video link to ensure all the children enjoy learning about breakfast and are able to explain their understanding to others.
World Poetry Day - 21st March
Celebrate famous poets from around the world, amaze your pupils with their culture, story and achievements. Share some thought provoking poetry and inspire them to write their own poetry.
A bright and clear PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging and memorable 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 animated and effective spelling lessons which enable children to learn these spellings in a fun 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 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
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 clear and animated PowerPoint leading you through a week of effective spelling lessons.
All words are linked to WW2, a useful way to deepen the pupil’s understanding of important words and phrases from this topic.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 3 Thorough spelling lessons 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.
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.
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 are 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.
Check out my whole term’s stash of spelling lessons:
Term 1 Stash
Term 2 Delight
Term 3 Bonanza
Term 4 Cool Collection
Term 5 Time Saving Special
Term 6 Relax and Enjoy Summer
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 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.
You might also be interested in my other yr 5/6 spelling lessons on homophones:
Guessed/guest, morning/mourning, past/passed, precede/proceed, ate/eight
Draft/draught, farther/father, heard/herd, led/lead, aren’t/aunt
Bridal/bridle, cereal/serial, compliment/complement, descent/dissent, desert/dessert
advice/advise, device/devise, licence/license, practice/practise, prophecy/prophesy
Visit my shop for more high quality KS2 resources created by an English specialist: Teachallenjoy
A detailed lesson teaching children how to use where and when relative clauses.
Set in the context of magical stories it covers Scandinavian folklore elves - cross curricular links to Geography- with information about the history of these magical creatures.
Slides explain how to to use relative clauses and model examples of where and when clauses.
The children have a chance to have a go and add some into sentences before beginning their work.
Engaging starter focusing on the word class: prepositions.
Differentiated main activity for two ability levels.
Modelled examples of how the children could start the main activity and resources to scaffold them achieving the success criteria.
A detailed lesson plan included.
All reviews welcome.
For a pack of KS2 grammar word searches click here to further engage your class!
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 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 ready-to-go week of comprehension lessons on famous Christmas songs. Includes 5 lessons, 5 PowerPoints, a detailed plan and all the necessary differentiated resources. Planned for year 5, could easily be adapted for other KS2 classes.
Children read and listen to these Christmas songs, then evaluate them in deep and meaningful ways showing their thinking with a variety of activities designed for all styles of learners.
Highlights
Short effective starters to hook your pupils into the lesson
Modelled writing activities
Higher level thinking challenges
Each lesson is differentiated for two ability groups
Success criteria for each lesson
Engaging and effective plenaries
An excellent week of reading lessons for the build up to Christmas whilst maintaining focus and high quality outcomes.
5 Learning Objectives
explore the meaning of words in context
summarise the main ideas
identify themes
explain the effect of language
ask questions to improve understanding
Video links in the PowerPoint will bring the festive cheer into your class while keeping a hardworking atmosphere.
Songs Covered:
Happy Christmas, I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday and Peace On Earth.
Detailed weekly plan and all resources included.
All reviews welcome.
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
A bright and clear seating plan useful for teachers and your students. Five effective seating plans for different classrooms, lessons, children and times of year. Includes colour coded tables for differentiation. Professional plans to put up on your wall and save you time.
Two sets of colour coding:
1. Colour coded for ability
2. Colour coded for groups
Labelled for subjects. Lots of spare tables and chairs so can edit each plan.
Start the term with a focused, organised and refreshed classroom.
All reviews welcome.
You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 resources, lessons and plans at my shop: Teachallenjoy
You might also be interested in these inexpensive and free resources:
* Noisemeter
* Behaviour Management CPD Pack
* Observed Lesson Plan Template
10 word searches containing 110 words essential for SPAG in KS2. Covers all the word classes pupils will need to know, helpful for filling out English or SPAG lessons. Children can expand their vocabulary by finding high quality words whilst enhancing their understanding of grammar.
Useful as a starter, extension, challenge or plenary activity. Print off as whole slides or handouts to give to your class. Children could be doing this independently while you help a group with their writing or hold a guided reading session.
There are many words included with similar spellings to really develop their noticing skills and accuracy with spelling.
Word Classes Word Searches Included:
- Adjectives
- Range of adverbs
- Powerful verbs
- Articles and determiners
- Relative pronouns
- Prepositions
- Coordinating conjunctions
- Subordinating conjunctions
- Probability adverbs
- Modal verbs
Colourful, bright and engaging.
All answers provided.
Why not check out my other popular English resources:
Grammar Glossaries Years 1-6
Modal Verbs Display
Word Bank Bundle
An engaging and effective game enabling children to add and subtract fractions with a purpose. Use to structure a maths lesson on fractions for KS2 children. Differentiated through output, children can move onto the extensions when they are ready.
3 styles of questions are included to ensure mastery in this skill. Children will become confident at adding fractions, subtracting fractions and solving fraction word problems.
Question Styles
Adding Fractions cards: A mixture of calculations involving fractions with different denominators.
Subtracting Fractions cards: A mixture of calculations involving fractions with different denominators.
Lucky Dip cards: Mixture of word problems, ordering and comparing fractions, equivalent fractions and converting decimals to fractions questions.
Challenge
5 extensions are included to challenge the children once they are confident with playing the game. Including the children writing their own cards on the blank cards supplied.
This game has a fun cat and mouse theme. All you need is one dice. The children can also choose and cut out one of 6 mice to be their game piece. Each go they can choose a card and answer the questions. All answers provided so pupils can work independently on this game.
For many more popular maths resources click here to visit my shop.
You might also be interested in:
Adding and Subtracting Fractions with the same Denominator Game
Converting Fractions to Decimals Word Problems
Adding and Subtracting Fractions Differentiated Word Problems
An engaging assembly about public speaking and debating. 18 Interactive slides lead you through 6 key areas in this topic. Includes aspirational role models, ideas and stories. This animated presentation will explain, inspire and motivate children to try out this essential life skill.
Areas covered
How to debate
The purposes of public speaking
Famous speeches
Famous speakers
Famous debaters
Famous debates.
Highlights of this colourful resource:
Each section contains an equal balance of role models, including gender, race and era.
Top quality open questions are provided throughout to encourage higher level thinking and discussion.
It includes a model showing the essential cycle needed for debating.
A copy of a speaking and listening success criteria for speaking and debating.
A video link to a famous debate.
Ideas for celebrating debating.
You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy Shop
You might also be interested in:
Whole School Speaking and Listening Success Criteria
Discussion Text Week of English Planning and Resources Imitate
Discussion Text Week of English Planning and Resources Invent
Includes 30 lessons, displays, engaging activities, dictations, all answers and all resources needed.
Six engaging PowerPoints leading you through a term of daily spelling lessons.
All words are from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling list.
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.
