The perfect place for all your EYFS, KS1 and KS2 resources, Explore Education aims to provide you with amazing, outstanding lessons that help you to shine. Each lesson often has detailed planning, PowerPoints and differentiated resources. So whether you are looking for a maths lesson to get you through your next interview, an English lesson that will help you impress OFSTED or a history, science, RE, PSHE or PE unit to wow your class, this is the shop for you!
The perfect place for all your EYFS, KS1 and KS2 resources, Explore Education aims to provide you with amazing, outstanding lessons that help you to shine. Each lesson often has detailed planning, PowerPoints and differentiated resources. So whether you are looking for a maths lesson to get you through your next interview, an English lesson that will help you impress OFSTED or a history, science, RE, PSHE or PE unit to wow your class, this is the shop for you!
This two Year 3/4 English interview lesson about sentence types and effective writing has been rated Outstanding by Ofsted inspectors. They can be flexibly used alone or together.
Children will use a picture prompt to create a paragraph of writing in lesson 1 and in lesson 2 they will produce a storyboard based on a film clip about Aladdin, learning how to use a compound and complex sentences effectively.
It includes: two lesson plans, two PowerPoint presentations, differentiated tasks and extra resources (such as word banks).
Children discuss the differences between simple, compound and complex sentences and will reflect upon their writing.
Lesson 1: L.O. To understand how to use a range of sentence types.
Lesson 2: L.O. To use different types of sentences in my writing.
Files included:
✸ x2 lesson plans
✸ x2 PowerPoints
✸ Banned words bank
✸ Picture prompt (easier activity)
✸ Picture prompt worksheet (medium level)
✸ Picture prompt worksheet (harder level)
✸ Conjunctions word bank
✸ Aladdin storyboard (easier level)
✸ Aladdin storyboard (medium level)
✸ Aladdin storyboard (harder level)
✸ Character adjective table
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These reading comprehension sheets are designed for Key Stage 2 (KS2) students and are based on the popular book, The Creakers by Tom Fletcher. Each chapter has 30 questions based around Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval and Summarising (VIPERS) to help students improve their reading comprehension skills. This bumper pack of worksheets include 930 questions across 186 worksheets and their answers on a separate document.
These worksheets also incorporate retrieval practice, which has been shown to be a highly effective way of improving memory and recall. By regularly practicing recalling information from memory, students can better retain and understand the material they are studying.
These outstanding comprehension sheets are perfect for teachers looking to support their KS2 students in developing their reading comprehension skills. They can be used as part of a classroom lesson or as homework assignments. With VIPERS and retrieval practice included, these sheets provide a comprehensive approach to reading comprehension that will benefit students of all abilities.
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Need an outstanding English lesson for upper key stage 2? Then look no further.
This is a great way to showcase your teaching skills in a quick, snappy lesson that easily demonstrates progress.
Suitable for a literacy lesson, this descriptive writing lesson is based around the film clip Alma, and gets children to write a predictive paragraph about what could happen next. The questions included in the interactive PowerPoint are great to get children of all abilities thinking.
You can use this lesson flexibly from 40 minutes to an hour. It has been successfully used for interviews and Ofsted visits alike.
You will get:
✸ An outstanding lesson plan featuring mini-plenaries, success criteria and differentiated tasks.
✸ A PowerPoint with probing questions and guided writing prompts.
✸ A picture storyboard to prompt writing.
✸ An easier task with phrases to prompt writing.
✸ A mid-level task worksheet with examples of sentence openers, exciting vocabulary, sentence types and conjunctions and punctuation to use
✸ A harder task worksheet with spaces for children to write their own -ed, -ing and describing openers, exciting vocabulary and examples of different sentence types/punctuation they can use.
✸ An example of a perfect paragraph for children to create their own success criteria by identifying its features
Lesson objective: To use a wide range of devices to build cohesion within a paragraph.
Success criteria:
✸ Sentence openers
✸ Exciting vocabulary
✸ Conjunctions
✸ Punctuation
✸ Different sentence types (simple, compound, complex).
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This ActivInspire Flipchart contains 92 interactive games for all phonics phases.
It is a fantastic way to fill your phonics lessons with fun games that all children will love. Check out the file previews for some examples.
Phase 1:
Playing with Word Picture Cards
Rhyming Bingo
Rhyming Picture Cards
Phase 2:
Four in a Row
BGFOUL Picture Match
BGFOUL Sound Match
Caption and Picture Match
Caterpillar Game
CKMRDE Picture Match
CKMRDE Sound Match
Correct Words Treasure or Bin
CVC Initial Letter Match
CVC Loop Card Game
Initial Sound and CVC Counter Games
Initial Sound Loop Cards
Noughts and Crosses SATPINMD
New Four in a Row
Picture Jigsaw
Picture Phoneme
Rhyming Bingo
Rhyming Jigsaws
Rhyming Sheets
SATPIN Picture Match
SATPIN Sound Match
Snakes and Ladders SATPINMD
Sound Buttons
Sound Mats
Whacky Races
Words and Pictures
Phase 3:
Four in a Row
At the River Story
Ch Loop Card Game
Ch th sh ee ai Bingo
Ch th sh Matching Word and Pictures
CVCC Loop Card Game
Final Sound Loop Card Game
Igh oo oa Bingo
In a Wigwam Story
In the Town Story
In the Woods Story
Initial Sound Match
J qu v w x y z Picture Match
Matching Rhymes
Noughts and Crosses
On the Farm Story
Phoneme Frames
Picture and Caption Match
Picture Jigsaw
Picture Match
Pictures and Captions
Rhyming Bingo
Rhyming Jigsaws
Rhyming Loop Card Game
Rhyming Sheets
Sentence Substitute
Sorting Activity
Sorting Captions ‘the’
Sound Buttons
Sound Jigsaws
Sound Match
Sound Mats
Spelling ‘the’
Words and Pictures
Yes, No Game
Phase 4:
Board Picture Initial Blend Match
I Spy Game
Initial Cluster Loop Card Game
Matching Sentences
Pictures and Sentences
Sentence Substitute
Snake Counter Games
Sound Button Cards
Treasure Game
Words and Pictures
Yes, No Game
Phase 5:
3 Right Answers
Compound Words
HFW Loop Card Games
Looking Good Game
Magic e Bingo
Magic e Game
Magic e Matching Game
Picture and Phoneme Match
Picture Jigsaws
Picture Word Match
Sentence Substitute
Silly Sentences
Snake Game
Word Picture Match
Yes, No Game
Phase 6:
Four in a Row
Picture Jigsaw
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Bring some Christmas joy to your classroom with these 3 Christmas Poetry Lessons! Perfect for the last week of term or spread out across the Autumn term, these lessons are perfect to bring excitement to your classroom.
Children will create their own Christmas poems - starting with learning all about rhyming words and creating rhyming phrases to creating an acrostic poem to writing a free verse poem all about the five senses (see, hear, touch, smell, taste) at Christmas.
Each PowerPoint is easy to follow and guides the teacher through from starter, main input to task and plenary.
Resources included:
x3 lesson plans
x3 PowerPoints (one for each lesson)
Christmas Poem Template (for support)
The Magic of Christmas poem
x3 Acrostic poem templates (with and without lines)
Christmas Acrostic poem example (for modelling)
Christmas Senses Pictures
Senses Inside and Outside at Christmas worksheet
Lesson 1: L.O. I can use rhyming words to create a Christmas poem.
Success Criteria: I can recognise rhyming words when saying them out loud.
I can create a rhyming poem about Christmas
I can create excitement through poetry.
I can add other literary features (e.g. conjunctions, adjectives, similes).
Lesson 2: L.O. I can use rhyming techniques to write an acrostic poem.
Success Criteria: I understand different poem genres.
I can use rhyming to create a poem.
I can use techniques to create rhyming phrases with key words.
I can use neat presentation and handwriting.
Lesson 3: L.O. I can use my five senses to describe Christmas.
Success Criteria: I understand different poem genres.
I can use rhyming to create a poem.
I can use techniques to create rhyming phrases with key words.
I can use effective adjectives to describe the senses at Christmas time.
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Start the school year off on the right foot with these 14 KS2 Transition Day / First Day Activities. Designed to foster a positive classroom environment and build relationships among students, these activities will help ease the transition into a new year group.
From introductions and expectations to personal learning goals and learner presentations, this resource pack offers a variety of engaging and interactive activities to make the first day a memorable and enjoyable experience. With resources such as bingo card templates, learning shield templates, speech bubble templates, and more, you’ll have everything you need to create a vibrant and welcoming classroom display.
Empower your students to reflect, express themselves creatively, and get to know their peers with these fun-filled activities. Perfect for teachers looking to make the first day of school a special and productive one.
This set of lesson plans, a PowerPoint and accompanying resources includes 14 activities and ideas and can easily be adapted to suit all KS2 year groups (and even KS1).
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Have a celebration of all things reading with this bumper pack of magical wizard activities! These lessons are perfect if you need some activities for a themed book day or reading day. They are also great alongside a Harry Potter class novel.
These four activities each come with a lesson plan, PowerPoint, worksheets and accompanying resources, such as a word bank. They also come with differentiated activities (easy, mid-level and hard).
This resource includes:
x4 Lesson plans
x4 PowerPoints
Editable word mat
Colours and Verbs word mat
Hogwarts house worksheet
House qualities word mat
Spells worksheet
Potion worksheet
Learning objectives:
Lesson 1: I can design my own Hogwarts house.
Lesson 2: I can create my own magical spell.
Lesson 3: I can write my own potion recipe.
Lesson 4: I can write my own Honeydukes setting description.
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This Bonfire Night writing unit is perfect to use in October or November for Bonfire Night firework celebrations!
Children will start with a cold write, writing their own Bonfire Night poem before building up to a banger of a senses poem at the end of the unit. They will perform poetry to learn all about onomatopoeia and expression.
These five lessons are perfect to be used across a week. They are fully resourced and planned, with detailed lesson plans provided.
Created by an experienced English subject lead, these lessons have been used in a real classroom with real students in Year 1.
Included is:
5 PowerPoints
5 Lesson plans
Senses worksheet
HA senses poetry writing frame
Lesson 1: To write a poem.
I can use my senses to make phrases.
I can say aloud what a want to write.
I can segment sounds in words.
I can link words together to make a phrase.
I can use a capital letter.
I can use finger spaces.
I can write letters that start on the line.
I can write letters that are a similar size to one another.
Lesson 2: To perform a poem.
I can learn a line of a new poem and recite it with my group.
I can read a poem using a clear voice
I can perform a poem with expression.
I can perform words with onomatopoeia
Lesson 3: To perform a poem.
I can work in a group to perform a poem.
I can speak with a clear voice.
I can use expression and intonation when I perform.
I can recognise words that have onomatopoeia
Lesson 4 and 5: To write a poem.
I can say out loud what I am going to write about.
I can use my senses to talk about bonfire night.
I can use adjectives to describe Bonfire Night.
I can write sentences that include an expanded noun phrase.
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Want a simple way to kick off the first week back after Christmas? Start your Spring term the right way with these four English lessons that guide children through the basics of writing a diary entry and using coordinating conjunctions to extend their sentences. They will retell their Christmas Day through diary writing. These lessons have also been adapted so that they can be used with children who do not celebrate Christmas - they can recount another day of the holidays.
This unit includes PowerPoints, differentiated resources and detailed lesson plans to make your first week back as easy as possible.
Lesson 1: Using coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS)
Lesson 2: Features of a diary entry
Lesson 3: Planning a diary entry (through verbal drama activities and planning sheets)
Lesson 4: Writing a short diary entry
Resources included:
4 lesson plans
4 PowerPoints
Starter task - full stops
Lower ability task - using and, but and so
Lower ability task - answers
Middle ability task - joining main clauses with for, and, but, or, yet and so
Higher ability task - joining simple sentences with for, and, now, but, or, yet and so
Diary features
3 diary plans (LA, MA, HA)
LA Writing template
Starter task - co-ordinating conjunctions
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Kickstart your KS2 English year with this engaging 5-lesson unit that seamlessly blends personal reflections with imaginative storytelling! Designed for Year 3-6 students, this comprehensive resource will have your pupils crafting compelling diary entries in no time.
What’s Inside This Complete Unit:
☆ 5 Detailed Lesson Plans: Step-by-step guidance for each lesson, including clear objectives, engaging activities, and differentiation strategies to cater to all learners.
☆ 5 Interactive PowerPoint Presentations: Visually appealing slides with thought-provoking prompts, model examples, and helpful tips to guide students through the writing process.
☆ Adverb Word Bank & Help Sheet: A valuable resource to expand students’ vocabulary and enhance their descriptive writing skills.
☆ Diary “Shopping List” (Features Checklist): A handy checklist to ensure students include all the essential elements of a diary entry.
☆ Paired Activity Sheet: Promote collaboration and peer learning with a structured activity for students to practice and refine their writing.
Key Learning Outcomes:
☆ Diary Writing Skills: Students will master the format, style, and language conventions of diary writing, including first-person perspective, past tense, and informal language.
☆ Sentence Construction: Students will learn to build strong and effective sentences using fronted adverbials, adverbs, and additional information in brackets or dashes.
☆ Punctuation: Students will practice using capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, speech marks, and commas accurately.
☆ Creative Writing: Students will develop their imagination and storytelling abilities by writing a diary entry from the perspective of a Viking character.
☆ Editing and Revising: Students will learn to reflect on their writing, identify areas for improvement, and redraft their work to enhance clarity and impact.
Why Choose This Resource?
☆ Curriculum-Aligned: Meets the national curriculum objectives for KS2 English, focusing on writing composition, vocabulary development, and grammar skills.
☆ Engaging and Relevant: Combines personal reflections on summer holidays with an exciting Viking adventure to spark student interest.
☆ Differentiated Activities: Caters to a range of abilities, ensuring all students are challenged and supported.
☆ Ready-to-Use: All materials are provided in a clear and organized format, saving you valuable prep time.
☆ Created by a Teacher, for Teachers: Designed by an experienced educator with a passion for fostering a love of writing in young learners.
Inspire your students to become confident and creative writers with this back-to-school diary writing unit!
Ideal for: KS2 English, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, diary writing, creative writing, sentence structure, punctuation, grammar, vocabulary, back to school, key stage 2, key stage two, transition, September, holiday writing, first week back, Viking, The Saga of Bjorn
Embark on a thrilling journey of home learning with our Exciting Explorations Homework Bundle, encompassing seven captivating packs that promise to ignite curiosity and creativity in young minds. Each pack is meticulously crafted to offer an engaging blend of tasks, fostering a love for learning beyond the classroom.
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Do you want to teach your UKS2 students how to write playscripts based on a classic Christmas story? Do you want to help them develop their drama skills, creativity and imagination? If so, this A Christmas Carol playscripts unit is perfect for you!
This unit consists of five writing lessons that cover the following objectives:
★ Identify key features of a play script.
★ Act out a playscript with the use of a director.
★ Set the scene for drama effectively.
★ Plan an effective playscript including use of stage directions.
★ Write an effective playscript including use of stage directions.
Each lesson includes a detailed lesson plan, a PowerPoint presentation and a worksheet for the students. The lessons are designed to be interactive, creative and informative, and to meet the national curriculum objectives for writing and drama. The lessons also include links to videos, images and websites that enhance the learning experience and provide additional information.
This unit also includes:
★ WAGOLL Playscripts
★ Playscript of A Christmas Carol
★ A Christmas Carol - Chapter 1
★ Scaffolding planning sheets
★ Stage photos to describe
★ Differentiated checklists
★ Starter grammar activities
This unit is ideal for UKS2 students who are interested in playscripts and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It is also suitable for teachers who want to save time and effort in planning and delivering high-quality writing and drama lessons. The unit can be used as a standalone topic or as part of a wider theme, such as Christmas, Victorian era or moral values.
Download this A Christmas Carol playscripts unit today and treat your students to a festive and educational journey through the world of drama!
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Explore the human experience of World War II through the power of poetry! This engaging unit, perfect for KS2 classrooms studying WWII, delves into historical events and emotions through carefully selected poems.
What’s Included:
★ 5 Engaging Lessons: Comprehensive lesson plans with clear objectives, activities, and thought-provoking questions to guide your teaching.
★ Evocative Poems: A curated selection of poems that capture the experiences of those affected by the war.
★ Interactive PowerPoints: Visually rich presentations with historical images and vocabulary support to enhance understanding.
★ Skill-Building Worksheets: Activities to develop essential reading comprehension skills like vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval, and summarising.
Learning Objectives:
★ Express first impressions of a poem, supporting opinions with evidence.
★ Use illustrations to represent scenes from a poem.
★ Employ expression and drama to bring a poem’s verses to life.
★ Identify and discuss the themes explored in a poem.
★ Answer comprehension questions about a poem’s meaning and language.
Why Choose This Resource?
★ Curriculum-Aligned: Supports KS2 English objectives, focusing on reading comprehension and poetry analysis.
★ Cross-Curricular Connections: Enhances understanding of WWII history through a literary lens.
★ Engaging and Thought-Provoking: Promotes critical thinking and empathy through poetry analysis and discussion.
★ Ready-to-Use: Complete with lesson plans, PowerPoints, and worksheets, saving you valuable prep time.
Other resources you may be interested in:
Y5/6 World War I Unit (12 lessons): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11988820
KS2 World War 2 Unit - 5 Outstanding lessons: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11881663
Bring history to life and foster a love of poetry with this impactful World War II poetry unit!
Ideal for: KS2 English, Year 5, Year 6, World War II, poetry analysis, reading comprehension, history, cross-curricular learning.
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This unit is a great way to kick off a Romans topic. These five lessons guide children through the basics of writing a diary entry and using prepositional phrases to describe. They will learn and write about everyday Roman life. Each lesson includes planning (differentiated 3 ways), PowerPoint and resources (some adapted for EAL/SEN children).
Lesson 1: L.O. Use prepositions to show time.
Success Criteria
I understand what a preposition to show time is.
I can identify time prepositions.
I can use time prepositions as openers.
Lesson 2: L.O. Make notes on the day in the life of a Roman.
Success Criteria
I can create identify areas to research based on Roman life.
I can find information about different areas of Roman life.
I can use notes to record information.
Lesson 3: L.O. Plan a diary entry.
Success Criteria
I can discuss my ideas with a partner.
I can use prepositions to show time in my plan.
I can organise ideas into paragraphs.
Lesson 4 and 5: L.O. Write a diary entry.
Success Criteria
I can use prepositions to show time.
I can use informal language to write a diary entry.
I can use my plan to write a diary entry.
I can write in paragraphs.
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Are your class struggling to include the basics of punctuation? Are they forgetting to place capital letters at the start of sentences and proper nouns? Do they need a refresher week of sentence composition?
This unit teaches children the basics of writing and composition and is a brilliant way to kick off the school year or remind children of the essentials of writing. Ideal to stretch Key Stage 2 pupils or boost Year 2 children, these 5 lessons have practice and independent exercises that will help them to build solid foundations for the rest of the year.
Included is:
★ 5 lesson plans
★ 5 PowerPoints
★ Accompanying worksheets and resources
L.O. To identify and correct errors in word order, duplications, or omissions in a sentence.
L.O. To use capital letters to mark the start of a sentence and identify sentence breaks accurately.
L.O. To understand the use of capital letters for proper nouns and at the start of sentences, and to correctly use punctuation marks like full stops.
L.O. To use capital letters appropriately to mark proper nouns (dates, places, people).
L.O. To recognise and punctuate different types of sentences (statements, commands, questions, exclamations).
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Need an easy-to-follow Ancient Egyptian unit including planning, PowerPoints and worksheets? Look no further!
Children will learn all above Ancient Egypt from the basics of location and time period to Ancient Egyptian traditions and culture.
These seven lessons are perfect to be used during a half term and are flexible to be used in any order. They are fully resourced and planned, with detailed lesson plans provided.
Created by an experienced Geography and History subject lead, these lessons have been used in a real classroom with real students across KS2.
Resources included:
✸ x7 Lesson Plans
✸ x7 PowerPoints
✸ Blank map of the world
✸ Blank timeline
✸ Building pictures for timeline
✸ Picture clue sheet
✸ Timeline events
✸ Blank map of Egypt
✸ Guidance sheet for Ancient Egyptian society activity
✸ Questions for an Ancient Egyptian slave
✸ Hieroglypics alphabet
✸ x3 Mummification sheets (differentiated 3 ways)
✸ Number system
✸ Egyptian maths workbook
✸ Hook ideas
Lesson 1
L.O. To locate Egypt on a map of the World.
L.O. To locate the Ancient Egyptian period on a time line.
Success Criteria:
I can identify Egypt on a map of the world and describe its location.
I can say when the Ancient Egyptian period was and place it on a timeline with other important historical periods.
I can recall some significant events of the Ancient Egyptian period.
Lesson 2
L.O. To recognise the importance of the River Nile to Ancient Egyptians.
Success Criteria:
I know the Nile was an important source of water and made the land fertile for farming in Egypt, as well as being used for transportation.
I know the different seasons connected to the River Nile in Ancient Egypt.
Lesson 3
L.O. To understand how Ancient Egyptian society was organised.
L.O. To know why pyramids were built.
Success Criteria:
I know that Egyptian society was hierarchical with the Pharaoh as the divine ruler.
I understand that beneath the pharaoh, there were different levels of society.
I can explain why the pyramids were built.
Lesson 4
L.O. To understand why the pyramids at Giza are considered a wonder of the world.
Success Criteria:
I can give reasons why the Pyramids at Giza are a wonder of the world.
Lesson 5
L.O. To be able to use Hieroglyphics to create an image.
Success Criteria:
I can say why hieroglyphics were used in Ancient Egypt.
I can copy and design my own tomb painting using hieroglyphics.
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Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to teach your KS2 students about chocolate and its origins, production, history and impact? Do you want to inspire them to write creatively, think critically and design their own perfect town? If so, this chocolate unit is perfect for you!
This unit consists of five outstanding geography lessons that cover the following topics:
★ Where chocolate comes from and how Fairtrade helps the farmers who grow it
★ How chocolate is made from bean to bar and the steps involved
★ How to write a diary entry as a cacao bean and use personification and descriptive language
★ How to sequence historic events using a timeline and learn about the history of chocolate
★ How to design and describe a perfect town based on preferences and values and use persuasive techniques
Each lesson includes a detailed lesson plan, a PowerPoint presentation and a worksheet for the students. The lessons are designed to be interactive, creative and informative, and to meet the national curriculum objectives for geography, literacy and art. The lessons also include links to videos, images and websites that enhance the learning experience and provide additional information.
This chocolate unit is ideal for Key Stage 2 students who love chocolate and want to learn more about it. It is also suitable for teachers who want to save time and effort in planning and delivering high-quality geography lessons. The unit can be used as a standalone topic or as part of a wider theme, such as fair trade, sustainability or global issues.
Download this chocolate unit today and treat your students to a delicious and educational journey through the world of chocolate!
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This Christianity and the Bible RE unit is perfect to use across a half term and is a great way to delve into the stories of Christianity and understand the Bible.
Children will learn all about the Bible through looking at four different stories and how they have influenced Christians today.
These five lessons are perfect to be used during a half term, with some flexibility for additional lessons or other school activities. They are fully resourced and planned, with detailed lesson plans provided.
Created by an experienced Religious Education subject lead, these lessons have been used in a real classroom with real students across KS2.
Included is:
5 PowerPoints
5 lesson plans
The Bible Fact File Information Sheet
Mary Jones - a Synopsis
The Story of Mary Jones Storyboard
The Wedding at Cana Story
The Sower and the Seed Story
The Sower Worksheet
The Miracles of Jesus Storyboard
The Miracles of Jesus Storyboard Help Sheet
Lessons:
What do we know about the Bible?
What is the Mary Jones story?
The Wedding at Cana
The Sower and the Seed
Jesus the Healer
KS1 KS2 LKS2 UKS2 Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 Y1 Y2 outstanding ofsted observation
A bundle featuring 10 history lessons about Vikings and Anglo Saxons, 3 design and technology lessons about creating a Viking Shield and a bonus Vikings learning booklet.
This is a great way to save and get a bumper pack of 13 lessons PLUS a learning booklet, an easy way to set a whole term of homework.
Also available separately.
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A writing unit all about Roman Myths suitable for LKS2. 8 lessons provided with resources, PowerPoints and detailed planning for each lesson.
Lessons:
To be able to research information about the Roman gods.
To be able to recognise and create a dilemma.
To be able to create a story map.
To be able to write a story from a story map.
To be able to create a rags to riches performance.
To be able to create details for my story.
To be able to plan my story.
To be able to write a quest story.
KS1 KS2 LKS2 UKS2 Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 Y1 Y2 outstanding ofsted observation writing english reading Romans historical setting literature novel study ks2 roman myths writing ks2 roman myths lessons ks2 english unit