English and maths planning. 39 files Text: ARCHIES WAR – Marcia Williams Genres covered in this unit: 2 weeks - character descriptions – to include descriptive settings Letter writing, information texts and propaganda posters. Children have white boards. I will describe a person and you must draw them From the twits Roald dahl(Mr Twits). Children share ideas from the first opening paragraph. What made this so visual. LANGUAGE Look at a series of images. Witch, doctor, pirate. Look at the features, are there similarities. Elaborated pictures of people. Famous and non famous. Discussion and focal point. Play head band with the children. They have to describe the person they are holding and the partner has to guess who it is. Expanding on words to describe Steps to Success Mild: To review characters Spicy: To recognise features of a character Hot: To describe your character Extra Hot: How could you describe yourself? Tell me.

Lots of planning for all three terms. Maths and English mainly but arts stuff and History too. sampl: Text: The Gunpowder Plot Genres covered in this unit: • Predictions • Inference (How? Why?) • Newspaper features • Journalistic writing • Letter writing Key teaching input/texts/questions/ clips etc BOOKS Display an image from the front cover of the book and discuss what children already know. What does it look? What do you think will happen? What can you see in the picture? Share and discuss, make notes for working wall. Show children the entire cover of the book. Identify the 5Ws; who? What? Where? When? Why? What is the title? What do you think will happen? Note 5ws for working wall. Show children the grid for likes, similarities and puzzles, Identify one for each section and explain why I chose it. Whole class discussion of extra hot challenge. Resources: Book cover Images from book cover Grid sheet JOTTERS Review previous learning – refer to working wall. What do you think will happen? Who will be involved? Where will it happen? Why does it happen? When does it take place? Share predictions. Introduce the text to the children. Read first 4 pages and ask questions linked to the text. Children to read through/skim read to identify the 5Ws – record for the working wall and compare with predictions. Was anyone close with their prediction? Why might this be? Share video with children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YptNONmnXH0 Discuss key events. What do you think will happen next? Make predictions in jotters and share.

Collected together my year 4 lesson planning from outstanding academy. Mainly English and Maths. sample: Tuesday 31.01.12 LO: To understand how the use of expressive and descriptive language can create effects or generate emotional responses. Read a descriptive/emotive poem ( Poems Not To Missed) JBA & JP to model how to express how the poem made us feel and what impact the vocabulary choices had on us and why? Read two poems that are expressive and descriptive. Ask chn What was your immediate reaction? Which vocabulary choices were effective and had impact? Why? What emotions do you get from the poems? What images did you get from the poems? Wednesday 01.02.12LO: To plan an ICT-based poetry presentation that involves each member of the group Recap leaning - What are they learning? What have they learnt about poetry texts? Why is learning about poetry important? How could you use what you have learnt about performing poetry? Inform chn that they are going to plan a poetry presentation. Discuss What is a poetry presentation? What is the purpose of a poetry presentation? How are poetry presentation put together? Explain that they are going to promote a poem using key language/emotions from the poem. In talk partners discuss what makes ‘good’ poetry? JP/JBA to scribe chn ideas on ‘working wall’ Using visual Literacy watch clips from poetry readings that the chn have watched previously. Ask: What makes the poem a ‘good’ poem and why? Can you identify key language/emotions/rhythm in the poem that would entice others to read the poem and why? How would you go about putting the key language/emotions together to create a poetry presentation? JP/JBA to scribe chn ideas on ‘working wall’ JBA & JP model how we plan to put together a poetry presentation for a poem we have read. Explain that a presentation is to demonstrate the understanding of a poems’ key message. Show what we are thinking when planning a poetry presentation. Which parts of the poems’ language was effective? What was the most emotional verses and why? Which verse has rhythm? How could we present this poem through drama? Thought shower ideas on working wall.

Lots of planning for Maths and English year 3 sample: Text: ARCHIES WAR – Marcia Williams Genres covered in this unit: 2 weeks - character descriptions – to include descriptive settings Letter writing, information texts and propaganda posters. (Propaganda posters are covered in the topic books) Children have white boards. I will describe a person and you must draw them From the twits Roald dahl(Mr Twits). Children share ideas from the first opening paragraph. What made this so visual. LANGUAGE Look at a series of images. Witch, doctor, pirate. Look at the features, are there similarities. Elaborated pictures of people. Famous and non famous. Discussion and focal point. Play head band with the children. They have to describe the person they are holding and the partner has to guess who it is. Expanding on words to describe Starter - Use facial pictures for images. What may they be thinking? Do they look different now you out them in the picture. What about when they are wearing a certain clothing. Build the character in stages. Describe the physical appearance and the mental one. What may they be thinking? We can see their face and if they are smiling. Do they look different in different surroundings?

Some nice planning. Plenty of questions on this great book. sample Look carefully at the book cover, what do you think this book is going to be about? What kind of story do you expect it to be (i.e. crime, fantasy, sci-fi)? Why do you think this? Look back over the chapter you are reading. Can you select five powerful words that you could use in your own writing? Write them down. At the beginning of ‘Chilblains and Semolina Pudding’, the narrator talks of the Butterfly Lion. Draw a picture of what you imagine him to look like.

6 weeks short term plans. sample What newspapers and magazines can the pupils name? What are the articles usually about? Discuss the purpose of a newspaper. WALT – know the features of a newspaper text. WILF – good expression Read through the opening paragraph of a newspaper article. Children to discuss the features and the structure of the opening paragraph. Newspaper articles have all of the important information in the opening paragraph. The opening paragraph is not overly descriptive. This information includes who, what, when, where, why and how. (It is written this way because most people do not read an entire newspaper article all the way through. So newspaper writers put the most important information at the beginning). Children wrote learn the opening paragraph of a newspaper article. Firstly as a class, followed by group work. Recap the features of an opening paragraph of an article. SW – target group to discuss the features of the article.

sample planning Introduce the section of work. Explain that we are going to use a very interesting focus text to complete some narrative writing, art work and drama. Have a photocopy of the front cover and blurb for ‘The Savage’ by David Almond. TTYP and discuss “What are your initial responses?” (Ask children who may have read the book, not to give it away). Come back together and discuss children’s ideas from the blurb and front cover. What sort of story is it going to be? What genre? What age group/gender do you think it may be aimed at? Does anyone know anything about David Almond? His style of writing? His previous work? Share that he was born into a large family in Newcastle; his books are very popular and critically acclaimed (what does this mean?). His books are very philosophical (meaning) and often appeal to both adults and children. Share with children that ‘The Savage’ deals with issues of loss, sadness, bullying and love. Read the first two chapters of the focus text. Come back together and discuss. What does the use of two different fonts tell us? Discuss how this is a story within another story. Why is Blue writing about ‘The Savage’? What is it helping him to do? Might there be something of Blue in ‘The Savage’? Might he be expressing his anger at what has happened to his family?

Nice little unit on modern history. Some nice powerpoints. Sample: Using Notebooks – answer questions. Who was John Lennon? What can you find out about him? Birthday Family Friends Community Music Is he still alive? If not, when, where and how did he die? Why is he famous? Rdg AF 2 WALT investigate the life of John Lennon WILF you can record information carefully about J L. Using questions, investigate life of J L What kind of childhood did John Lennon have? Recall information we know about Lennon so far. Establish that when Lennon was the children’s age it was around 1948/9. He was a teenager in the Mid 1950’s and grew into adulthood in the 1960’s. So his ‘era’ was the 1950’s and beyond. What do you think life was like for a child growing up in the 1950’s? How can we find out what it was like for children of your age at that time? Rdg AF 2 AF 3 WALT select information from books and the internet WILFcompare and contrast life in the 1950’s to life today. Give each group their focus area to research:- School in the 1950’s; Home Life in the 1950’s; Food in the 1950’s; Leisure Activities in the 1950’s; Fashion in the 1950’s Technology in the 1950’s and key questions you want them to find answers to. Children will record their findings on a Compare and Contrast Table the 1950’s v. 2010

Three notebooks. Two weeks of plans. Some worksheets. Nouns ending in a consonant and y (e.g. party, army) change y to i and add es. Nouns ending with a vowel and y (e.g. day, boy) just add s. Whole Class Shared Reading - Mister Monday Read Chapters 1 - 3 S & L opportunity Pupils will discuss what a fantasy setting is. Most will have seen or read Harry Potter for example. The theme for lots of them is that the central character enters another world but lives in a world we can all relate to. Pupils to give their opinion. What do they think is going to happen? How do they feel about the characters Irregular plurals: goose, man, mouse, woman, tooth, child, person, foot test understanding of different endings during morning work Read chapter 4 WALT: know how an author creates mood and atmosphere. Pupils will focus on a passage of text that creates mood and atmosphere. What does the author do to build tension? How does he make us empathize with the character and be interested enough to want him to be safe. CT to work with MA to encourage deep thinking about language and sentence structure

Work out the area an perimeter of cubes etc. You can print out shapes and give to pupils. Learning Objectives. Ma 1 Organising and explaining Ma 3 Calculate perimeter/area of squares and rectangles. · To explain methods and reasoning · To solve mathematical problems, recognise and explain patterns and relationships. · Calculate perimeters and areas of rectangles. · Find the largest area that can be made with a rectangle that has a perimeter of 26 metres. Success criteria. · To be able to work out the area of a rectangle or square. · To make different rectangles that all have the same perimeter. · To recognise the largest area. · To compare the relationship between the length of the sides and the area of the rectangle. · To explain reasoning. Model the way to answer the question referring to work of a few weeks ago on perimeters. How many different sized pig pens can be made using only 12 fencing panels? Discuss how the children think they could solve this problem. The Problem. We want to make a school garden and grow vegetables. At night time the rabbits and deer will come and eat them. To stop them we need to put a fence around the area. However we can only afford to buy 26, one metre long panels. Find the largest area we can fence off to make a rectangular vegetable patch? Remember it can only have a perimeter of 26 metres. Vocabulary. add subtract multiply dividedouble half equals rectangle square area perimeter cm2 Resources:- multi-link. L/A rulers. Squared paper. Home work:- if applicable. Assessment. Children exceeding the objectives.

4 nice bits of planning. 3 notebooks. Plus powerp0ints and worksheets. Science Year 4 Planning Friction Habitats Moving and Growing Serarating Liquids and solids example Sorting organisms Elicit children’s understanding of ‘plant’ and ‘animal’. Introduce the term ‘organism’ as a general term for all living things. Obtain a list of various types of organism and arrange them on the board into loose classes, e.g. birds, mammals, reptiles, shrubs, flowers, trees, moss etc. Finish by putting the classes into either plants or animals. Use pictures of eg vertebrates, invertebrates(animals without a backbone), humans, small flowering plants, trees and challenge children to sort them according to their own criteria and then into plants and animals. Let children choose how to record their groupings. (numbers of legs, wings, no wings, leaves, shape) Introduce the idea of some organisms being in more than one group – show using a venn diagram. See photocopiable – PM1 for pictures of invertebrates. More able children – encourage to sort into sets based upon something more scientific – e.g.how the animal moves, or the shape of the plant. Pose questions – Is it possible for an organism to have wings and not have any legs? Identifying different habitats Introduce children to the word ‘habitat’ using pictures to illustrate meaning. Explain the meaning of ‘habitat’. Explain that it is the natural home of plants and animals and a place which offers them food, protection and shelter. Explain to children that they will be studying local habitats. Go for a walk round the school and/or immediate locality to find and make a list of habitats. (Pond, school field, wooded area, grass, trees) Sketch the habitats as we travel around the school grounds. Review the final list with the children and group habitats of similar scale or diversity together eg pond, field, wood, tree, hedge, flower bed, grassy patch, plant trough, under leaf, under stone. Ask children to record the habitats identified through illustrations.

100 grids. Pupils have to fill in the gaps. The squares all have to add up. These puzzles involve taking away and adding.

13 weeks of Literacy plans for Year 6. Spring Term. Includes Biographical writing To develop a narrative solution Persuasive writing There’s a nice Big Write.

15 Powerpoints that you can have on the board as your class enters. Nice easy start to the day. Easily adaptable. Nice bits of Math and English.

36 page pdf. Maths for each of 13 weeks. sample : LO: To reflect shapes across a horizontal or vertical mirror line. KEY QUESTION: DO I NEED TO USE A MIRROR TO REFLECT A 2D SHAPE? Review the term reflection with the children. How would the children reflect a simple shape like a square across a mirror line? Show the children a more complex shape. How would the children go about reflecting this shape? Explore the use of a mirror using a large version of a shape on the working wall. If you hadn’t got access to a mirror, how would you go reflect the shape? Focus on process of identifying vertices within shapes, counting to the mirror line. DS: Supports Triangles during teaching. AG: Supports Squares during teaching. LO: To draw and reflect a shape across a 45 degree mirror line. Show the children a shape and have them model how to reflect across a vertical and horizontal mirror line. Show them a mirror line that is set at 45 degrees. Discuss possible strategies for carrying out the task of reflecting across the mirror line. Make sure the children stay on the grid lines and follow to the mirror line, then away from the mirror line to make a right angle. MW: target high Focus Children within teaching. Check during lesson. LO: To reflect a shape that crossing a 45˚ mirror line. KEY QUESTION: HOW CAN I REFLECT A SHAPE THAT CROSSES THE MIRROR LINE? Address misconceptions from previous lesson. Give the children an enlarged version of a triangle that crosses a diagonal mirror line. As a class, identify way in which the shape can be reflected across the mirror line. Take each point and reflect across a perpendicular set of gridlines. Model the use of start and end points. Whatever is in the upper part of the mirror line needs to be in the lower, vice versa. DS: Supports triangles during lesson. AG: Supports Circles during lesson.

480 page pdf. Lots of little ideas for lessons. Saves a load of planning. sample : Listen to stories with increasing attention and recall. [L&A] Join in with repeated refrains and anticipate key events and phrases in rhymes and stories. [L&A] Listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what they hear with relevant comments, questions or actions. [L&A] Read and understand simple sentences. [R] Remind chn about traditional tales: these were not written in books, they were TOLD. People remembered them and parents told them to their chn. Show/tell chn the story of The Gingerbread Man (see resources). Encourage chn to join in with repeating line, ‘Run, run, as fast as you can! You can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man.’ At the end of the story, write these sentences on f/c and then read them through together, matching words pointed to and said. Join in with repeated refrains and anticipate key events and phrases in rhymes and stories. [L&A] Listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what they hear with relevant comments, questions or actions. [L&A] Use language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences in play situations. [S] Express themselves effectively, showing awareness of listeners’ needs. [S] Have pictures of the characters in The Gingerbread Man (see resources). Choose diff chn to be the diff characters in the story as you act it out from start to finish. Note 3 stages of the story: Start: Mum makes gingerbread man & he runs away Middle: Mum/dad/cow/horse chase gingerbread man to river End: Fox carries gingerbread man over river and tricks him! Remind chn of the repeating phrase ‘Run, run, as fast as you can! You can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man.’ Use this phrase as you act out the story.

A nice little unit on financial planning. Some calculations required for better financial knowledge. Introduce ‘My Money’ week to children. Explain that we are going to spend all week discussing money, using mathematical operations, setting a budget and thinking about how we will deal with money in the future. Activity One Come back together and allow groups to share mind maps. Lead into a discussion on what money is; use online dictionary to look for definition. Come to the conclusion that it is a medium of exchange; we exchange money for goods or services. Make a list on the IWB of things which people use money for. Separate the list by highlighting things which people need and things that they want. TTYP – what is the ‘currency’ of the UK? Explain that it is called sterling and it is split into pounds and pence. Use PPT to check that children recognise all notes and coins of sterling. Activity One Children work in groups to mind map ‘money’. Each group to have three colours –create a key to show things they know, things they think they know and questions they have. If I gave you £1000 right now, what would spend it on? What might you wish you had spent it on in the future? Can the children name any currencies of other countries? (Euro, US dollar, Aus dollar, Yuan China, Rupee India etc)

500 questions on counting up Euro coins. 5 worksheets with 100 questions each. There are little pictures of the coins and the pupils have to add them up and write the answers on the sheet.

If you are thinking of running a Science week, this is for you. A plan on how to have a whole week of Science for all Primary years. Great hyperlinks and you can adapt for your school. This will save you a lot of time. I have great Science units. Please have a look. Science Week Why are we running the event? For fun and to motivate children and staff Raise the profile of science Inform parents Encourage involvement in science Celebrate the science of the school Raise awareness of practical science activities related to the national curriculum. Promote outdoor learning When and for how long will the event be? Science week will take place during afternoon sessions from Monday 10th June – Friday 14th June, but any links to morning sessions of Numeracy or Literacy are encouraged! What will the theme of the event be? INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERY Inventions are important factors in our everyday lives. Children need to understand that without people thinking of better ways to do things, or making contraptions to make work easier, life would be much different for us today and in the future! Discovery This part of our theme will allow children the opportunity to answer ‘what if?’ questions! Discoveries are something new! Something we didn’t know about before. So they are, of course, important because they bring something new into society; it could be new knowledge, a new invention, a new scientific concept, a new idea, anything!! Possible Activities: • Demonstrations/hands on workshops for children • Challenges for the children to tackle at home or in school • Outdoor learning – Encourage opportunities for outdoor learning • Enquiry investigations Children are given an opportunity to focus on a full scale enquiry, without the worries of teaching, but the emphasis is on being a scientist, and enquiring. • Quizzes Paper based quiz for children to research at school or at home or a treasure hunt around school to find the quiz questions, with answers appearing later. • Problem solving activities Using science knowledge to overcome a problem • Displays Display photos of activities as they take place. Where possible create interactive displays in common areas that all children can explore. • Joint planning Year groups can plan joint activities that link with science topics.

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