16 games for your class to enjoy that don’t require anything more than a set of cones and some enthusiasm! Games that can be played individually, in pairs, trios and even some whole class games. I am a big advocate of the Daily Mile but in my experience it doesn’t motivate every pupil and doing it daily can become a chore as opposed to a joy. Little games like these are intense, inclusive and add a small element of competition (not that there are ever any prizes on offer) which is great for building resilience.

This 4 week unit of work looks at music review writing. It starts with identifying key features and structure, before moving on to subject specific vocabularly and relevant imagery. Pupils have lots of choice throughout and I’d highly recommend you edit the musical artists to those that your class are interested in.

This is a selection of 12 reading lessons - 5 of them short ones for when you only have 20 minutes and the rest longer response activities that children can really dig their teeth into. Many are designed to have the pupils read the example and co-construct the success criteria with you the teacher - I usually just write this up on the slide with numbers (“What is the purpose of paragraph 1?”) Most importantly, these are all tried and tested activities that a whole class can work on together YET still be reading their own unique stories. I have 33 pupils all reading their own stories and doing these tasks together, peer assessing one anothers work and producing great jotter work.

This is a 4 lesson unit of work that explores equations and algebra tiles through the Global Goal lens of ‘Life on Land’. The unit exposes pupils to endangered species in Scotland whilst also allowing them to learn facts about the animals through solving equations. Very much designed to follow a CPA approach to numeracy, algebra tiles are highly recommended (if you don’t have them, just chop up lots of yellow and green paper - it’s what I have done!)

This is a four lesson unit of work that explores 2D shape whilst exposing children to abstract art from a diverse group of artists around the world. Lesson one: Kandinsky and Circles - learning to use a compass and identifying properties of a circle Lesson two: Thomas and Circles - learning about Archimedes and how to calculate the circumference Lesson three: Malevich and regular/irregular shapes - lots of drawing and drilling down into the definitions of regular and irregular Lesson four: Ocampo and symmetry - opportunities to practice with partners and concrete materials and exploring what symmetry and mirroring are

Building on previous unit of time work linked to Global Goals 11, this is 4 lesson unit looking at buses. Lesson 1 Pros and Cons of buses and navigating bus timetables Lesson 2 Create a bus route and calculate how much money a bus can make Lesson 3 Create a bus timetable from specific arrival times Lesson 4 Calculate charging times for electric buses

This is a unit of lessons that involve your class building a paper town as a hub for their learning. they can add to it as the topic progresses. I have plans to look at bus timetables, cars and pedestrians but these initial 4 lessons cover cycling in cities. Lesson 1: Consider and identify problems with transport in cities worldwide and in local area, initial time assessment, create paper city Lesson 2: Consider pros and cons of cycling, discuss Finnish town video, time telling activities, explore how bike gears work Lesson 3: Compare and contrast road cycling and cycle path, calculate journey times, create paper cycle path solutions Lesson 4: Balance exercises, calculating journey times

This is a whole day of Encanto learning, with 6 curricular areas being covered. Literacy: I would envision having learners use garageband to record their own podcast but you could even have them do so with the audio recorder that comes as standard on iPads. Alternatively, they could simply record a short interview or promotional video discussing the importance of representation. Maths: volume of cuboids and cubes (following a concrete, pictorial, abstract approach) Art: Origami butterfly and discussion of the symbolism Science: I would look to draw on an interactive whiteboard with the simulation however pupils could observe and jot on their own whiteboards or even create models with playdough? The dancing raisin experiment DOES NOT replicate the water cycle but it does show gases and liquids interacting and CAN be illuminating to understanding evaporation. Dance: Bachata isn’t originally a Colombian dance (it’s Dominican) but it is popular in the region and some of the dances in the movie use steps and elements from the genre.

This is the second part of my money lessons for upper primary. through a Global Goal lens of no poverty, your pupils can calculate profit and loss with a Social Bite carousel case study. They can also ponder the power of social enterprise. Looking at accurate wages for a variety of professions, pupils can calculate how easy/difficult it is to save money. they will also discuss why savings are important and factors that lead to inequality in our society. Finally, there is also a lesson on tax. It uses rounded figures and smaller amounts to make things easier for primary pupils. However, there is a great deal of maths involved for developing their working knowledge of money and the ultimate goal is to show them that tax operates in bands and not in flat rates applied to a full wage (eg someone earning over 80k is taxed at the higher rate on ALL their earnings)

This is a series of 4 money lessons that link to the Global Goals (SDG 1 No Poverty). It’s a pretty hard hitting topic and will definitely be pertinent to many of your pupils (1 in 4 children in Scotland currently growing up in poverty). Looking at coins with fun, open ended activities, the lessons centre around cost of the school day, uniform, wages, wealth inequality and budgets. I intend to take my class through taxes and government spending, as well as enterprise activities but will look to upload those slides at a later date!

A Spiderman themed day of learning all linked to the Global Goals. Easily adapted for most primary stages, pupils cover a wide spread of curricular areas (literacy, numeracy, HWB, science and STEM) Create a play sandbox and help spiderman save the day. Write a newspaper article. Calculate how much it cost to make the spidey suit. Workout with spiderman and consider what muscles you are exercising. Discover the incredible science behind spider silk and see how scientists continue to try and learn from nature. Finally, become a true group of Avengers and work as a team to create a web of string to save a bus from plunging into the sea.

This sequence of three lessons allows pupils in upper primary to consolidate their double digit multiplication skills with grid, vertical multiplication and arrays. Through the lens of Clean Energy pupils can explore the benefits of clean energy whilst also considering the challenges involved in rolling sustainable power out across the world.

This resource is designed for upper primary pupils but could be adapted for those either side. Exploring Area and Perimeter through a Global Goals lens of ‘Decent Work’ pupils can involve themselves in practical activities that link to a variety of trades involved in construction. There are 4 lessons in total in this mini sequence but the tasks could be easily extended to provide consolidation and further personalisation

This is a set of 10 reading lessons aimed at upper primary. All the tasks are designed for success criteria to be co-constructed. I have found these to be a great vehicle for pupils choosing their preferred reading style. A general lesson sees the class reading for 20 minutes in their chosen setting (independent, pair, small group, techer group) and with their own novel. We then all come together as a class to co-construct success criteria before moving to desks and jotters to complete the activities. I’ve found peer assessment and self assessment to work well with these tasks. I pause 10 minutes before the end of the lesson, the class assess and then they have 5/6 minutes to act upon the feedback.

Bar graphs, line graphs and radar graphs all through the lens of SDG 5, a focus on Gender Equality.

This is a digital literacy progression for any school using iPads. All outcomes are linked to the benchmarks and it is designed to allow for a great deal of flexibility and teacher autonomy. 4 core apps that come pre loaded with any iPad are used to furnish children with choice and core skills in how they are able to present their learning (video, poster, presentation, document) Plenty and ideas and links to other areas of the curriculum included. Each stage is provided with two tracking sheets, one which is quite prescriptive for teachers who lack confidence with tech and another that gives a lot more choice and scope for teachers to use other apps to achieve the same benchmarks.

Folding a square piece of paper into four and chopping on line to the centre, you can create small backdrops for peg dolls or other characters. Using the scene descriptors included in this pack (which all link to the Global Goals) pupils can scan for key information, before drawing onto their paper to create a vivid scene.

3 activities that link to Global Goal number 3 and will have your class getting active whilst developing their understanding of fractions and decimals.

Starting with a verb Setting the scene Sentence length Word Choice and Vocab building This is a four part writing workshop sequence that could be used in either a one-off carousel style lesson or split into 4 separate lessons with a mini assessment at the end. I’ve used it previously over the course of three days. Split my class into 4 mixed ability groups. Day One I had each group attend to two activities. The next day, they got involved with the final two stations and then on the third day they composed a piece of descriptive writing and I was able to see if they were using the techniques they had explored the previous days.

This is a four part sequence, with quick recall/check-in activities included, aimed at upper primary. Through the lens of Global Goal Number 6, clean water & sanitation, pupils will considered in some depth the challenges faced globally in accessing safe and clean water whilst also learning to identify, calculate and convert fractions and percentages. Many of the activities are designed for pupils to lead their learning, co-constructing SC and deciding upon the ‘how’ when it comes to most methods of calculating and converting. The lessons all follow a CPA approach.