Designed to engage and inspire boys to write but of course suitable for girls too! This lesson is a complete, engaging and imaginative, creative writing or Big Writing stimuli lesson that can be applied to many different writing genres. Children discuss ideas and then plan by answering the thought provoking questions which enable a wealth of ideas to be generated for the writing. Planning sheet has space for 5 sense descriptions, VCOP elements and purpose, audience and genre notes to help meet the new 2014 curriculum. Starter activity plus 2 widths of line guides/writing sheets included plus optional paragraph planning sheet, custom art sheet and self-assessment plenary activity mean that this lesson's length is flexible and could easily last for 2 hours if you wanted it to and comes with 3 different options for delivery over 1,2 or 3 lessons. Lesson is aimed at KS2 but can be used for more able KS1, or KS3 as it is differentiated by outcome.

This complete lesson teaches children all about words that contain the ai sound. A thought provoking starter is followed by a teaching input including a video and a variety of engaging and interactive activities that make the learning fun and memorable for the children. The included worksheet begins with handwriting practice of the sound and some relevant words, followed by a reading and writing exercise and completed with an open ended activity. A final plenary-style game is suggested as well as an actual plenary that consolidates the learning, resulting in a flexible, engaging lesson full of variety. Suitable for an introduction or revision lesson.

This complete lesson comes with everything included and teaches children all about words that contain the ay sound. A thought provoking starter is followed by a teaching input including three videos and a variety of engaging and interactive activities that make the learning fun and memorable for the children. The included worksheet begins with handwriting practice of the sound and some relevant words, followed by a writing exercise and completed with an open ended activity. A final plenary-style game is suggested as well as an actual plenary that consolidates the learning, resulting in a flexible, engaging lesson full of variety. Suitable for an introduction or revision lesson.

This complete lesson teaches children all about words that contain the ea sound. A thought provoking starter is followed by a teaching input including two videos and a variety of engaging and interactive activities that make the learning fun and memorable for the children. The included worksheet have two optional levels of differentiation if required. A final plenary-style game is suggested as well as an actual plenary that consolidates the learning, resulting in a flexible, engaging lesson full of variety. Suitable for an introduction or revision lesson.

This complete lesson teaches children all about words that contain the double e sound. A thought provoking starter is followed by a teaching input including a video and a variety of engaging and interactive activities that make the learning fun and memorable for the children. Includes two optional levels of differentiated worksheets and a plenary that consolidates the learning, resulting in a flexible, engaging lesson full of variety. Suitable for an introduction or revision lesson

This complete lesson teaches children all about words that end in at. A thought provoking starter is followed by a teaching input including a video and a variety of engaging and interactive activities that make the learning fun and memorable for the children. The included worksheet begins with a reading and writing exercise followed by handwriting practice of the sound and finished with an activity that leads on to a whole class discussion. The lesson is ended with a plenary quiz that consolidates the learning, resulting in a flexible, engaging lesson full of variety. Suitable for an introduction or revision lesson.

This complete lesson teaches children all about words that end with y. A thought provoking starter is followed by a teaching input including two videos and a variety of engaging and interactive activities that make the learning fun and memorable for the children. The included worksheet helps children to distinguish between the different y sounds at the end of words. A final plenary-style game is suggested as well as an actual plenary that consolidates the learning, resulting in a flexible, engaging lesson full of variety. Suitable for an introduction or revision lesson

This complete lesson teaches children all about the oa sound. A thought provoking starter is followed by a teaching input including two videos and a variety of engaging and interactive activities that make the learning fun and memorable for the children. The included worksheets contain a variety of enjoyable yet educational learning activities and a final plenary is included to finish off the lesson that consolidates the learning, resulting in a flexible, engaging lesson full of variety. Suitable for an introduction or revision lesson

This complete lesson teaches children all about the ue sound. A thought provoking starter is followed by a teaching input including a video and a variety of engaging and interactive activities that make the learning fun and memorable for the children. The included worksheet begins with handwriting practice of the sound and some relevant words, followed by a reading and writing exercise and completed with an open ended activity. A final plenary-style game is suggested as well as an actual plenary that consolidates the learning, resulting in a flexible, engaging lesson full of variety. Suitable for an introduction or revision lesson.

This complete lesson teaches children all about the or sound. A challenging starter is followed by a teaching input including a video and a variety of engaging and interactive activities that make the learning fun and memorable for the children. The included worksheet contains 4 enjoyable yet educational activities for your class. The lesson is finished with a plenary that consolidates the learning, resulting in a flexible, engaging lesson full of variety. Suitable for an introduction or revision lesson.

Complete cross-curricula lesson with unique, easy to understand graphic instructions that children can follow. Children create an incredible 3D volcano with clay complete with oozing lava. Before painting, an experimentation stage is conducted to create the perfect mixture of colours. An additional lesson to glaze the volcanoes, making them last for a very long time, takes this pack to 3 lessons in total. Reflective self-evaluation plenary worksheets are all included, plus an optional writing activity for early finishers. Great for any rocks, Pompeii, Planet Earth or Geography based topic or if you just want to make something cool and useful with your class.

Designed to be adaptable and flexible in length to suit your needs, this challenging yet engaging mini-project contains 12 separate & complete activities for your class to undertake that result in them creating all the details of a newly discovered remote island complete with a tribe of people. Packed with learning, creativity and the demonstration of acquired skills, the project is designed to keep your class occupied and learning for an entire day, with minimal input from you, but could even be extended over a longer period of time. The project is completely purpose driven with children engaging in research, independent learning, planning, persuasive writing, speaking and listening, art édesign and creative problem solving activities. Designed for pairs or 3’s in upper KS2, and to provide engagement and challenge for even the brightest members of the class whilst being accessible to all. Suitable also for KS3 and higher ability Y4.

Designed to be adaptable and flexible in length to suit your needs, this challenging yet engaging mini-project contains 11 separate & complete activities for your class to undertake that result in them creating a new band or music group. Packed with learning, creativity and the demonstration of acquired skills, the project is designed to keep your class occupied and learning for an entire day, with minimal input from you, but could even be extended over a longer period of time. The project is audience and purpose driven with children engaging in research, independent learning, planning, journalistic writing, speaking and listening, art édesign and creative problem solving activities. Designed for pairs or 3’s in upper KS2, and to provide engagement and challenge for even the brightest members of the class whilst being accessible to all. Suitable also for KS3 and higher ability Y4. All images either sourced from openclipart.org or owned by tftf.

Designed to be adaptable and flexible in length to suit your needs, this challenging yet engaging mini-project contains 11 separate & complete activities for your class to undertake that result in them creating a business. Packed with learning, creativity and the demonstration of acquired skills, the project is designed to keep your class occupied and learning for an entire day, with minimal input from you, but could even be extended over a longer period of time. The project is audience and purpose driven with children engaging in research, independent learning, planning, persuasive writing, speaking and listening, art édesign and creative problem solving activities. Designed for pairs or 3’s in upper KS2, and to provide engagement and challenge for even the brightest members of the class whilst being accessible to all. Suitable also for KS3 and higher ability Y4. All images either sourced from openclipart.org or owned by tftf.

Designed to be adaptable and flexible in length to suit your needs, this challenging yet engaging mini-project contains 12 separate and complete activities for your class to undertake that result in them creating a new charity. Packed with learning, creativity and the demonstration of acquired skills, the project is designed to keep your class occupied and learning for an entire day, with minimal input from you, but could even be extended over a longer period of time. The project is audience and purpose driven with children engaging in research, independent learning, planning, persuasive writing, speaking and listening, art, design and creative problem solving activities. Designed for pairs or 3’s in upper KS2, and to provide engagement and challenge for even the brightest members of the class whilst being accessible to all. Suitable also for KS3 and higher ability Y4. All images either sourced from openclipart.org or owned by tftf.

Designed to be adaptable and flexible in length to suit your needs, this challenging yet engaging mini-project contains 12 separate & complete activities for your class to undertake that result in them designing a new piece of children's literature. Packed with learning, creativity and the demonstration of acquired skills, the project is designed to keep your class occupied and learning for an entire day, with minimal input from you, but could even be extended over a longer period of time. The project is audience and purpose driven with children engaging in research, independent learning, planning, writing, speaking and listening, art, design and creative problem solving activities. Designed for pairs or 3’s in upper KS2, and to provide engagement and challenge for even the brightest members of the class whilst being accessible to all. Suitable also for KS3 and higher ability Y4. All images from openclipart.org or owned by tftf

Designed to be adaptable and flexible in length to suit your needs, this challenging yet engaging mini-project contains 13 separate and complete activities (12 largely worksheet based 1 presentation) for your class to undertake that result in them designing a new Hollywood film. Packed with learning, creativity and the demonstration of acquired skills, the project is designed to keep your class occupied and learning for an entire day, with minimal input from you, but could even be extended over a longer period of time. The project is audience and purpose driven with children engaging in research, independent learning, planning, persuasive writing, speaking and listening, art, design and creative problem solving activities. Designed for pairs or 3’s in upper KS2, and to provide engagement and challenge for even the brightest members of the class whilst being accessible to all. Suitable also for KS3 and higher ability Y4. All images from openclipart.org

Designed to be adaptable and flexible in length to suit your needs, this challenging yet engaging mini-project contains 11 separate and complete (mostly worksheet based) activities for your class to undertake that result in them designing their own website. Packed with learning, creativity and the demonstration of acquired skills, the project is designed to keep your class occupied and learning for an entire day, with minimal input from you, but could even be extended over a longer period of time or linked to a topic as part of your MTP (1 or 2 worksheets a lesson). The project is audience and purpose driven with children engaging in research, independent learning, planning, persuasive writing, speaking and listening, art, design and creative problem solving activities. Designed for pairs or 3’s in KS2, and to provide engagement and challenge for even the brightest members of the class whilst being accessible to all. Suitable also for KS3. All images openclipart.org

Based around abstract art, this lesson has been taught with great success to EYFS/Year 1 children, Year 4 children and Year 6 children with fantastic results in every year group. Children access and interpret the work on different levels, it is differentiated by outcome to an extent, although differentiation suggestions are included. Whichever age undertakes this work the result has always been beautiful large scale pieces of art that look incredible when framed or just mounted on display. This lesson involves children using their imagination and creativity whilst simultaneously enhancing their technical, observation and replication skills. The lesson is designed so that children collaborate in groups to slowly and precisely create large scale work but the lesson can be easily adapted for pair or individual work. Allow 2 hours for completion. Contains easy to understand teachers' notes and 7 full colour art images for the lesson.

This fun yet challenging, cross-curricula lesson has elements of: computing, history and writing, all built into a lesson centred around independent learning. Children will complete a series of engaging tasks including labelling a graphic of a Stone Age man with researched information on clothing and possessions, learning what a person from that time may have owned and building their understanding of life was really like in the time period. They then complete 3 written activities and an extension activity based upon that knowledge they have gained. Activities include framing historically-valid questions, critical thinking and drawing comparisons: all aspects of the new 2014 curriculum. The activities are designed to elicit a deeper level of thought and understanding of the era. Can be taught as two separate hour long lessons but better over one longer session, contains starter and plenary, made for KS2 but accessible to higher ability KS1 and lower ability KS3.