Topic Food includes:
Teacher’s notes
Non-fiction: Sea Trolls’ Spiced Snaug Stew
Story: Anansi and the turtle
Poetry: Food by Tony Bradman
Picture scene (real words): Anansi and the turtle
Picture scene (pseudo words): Things you need to make Trolls’ Spiced Snaug Stew
Activity sheet 1: The yam race
Activity sheet 2: Monster meals
Test cards
Answer sheet
For each topic covered there are two pages of practical teacher’s notes offering activity ideas to help you make the best use of the resources and texts provided. Activities are clearly signposted to indicate whether they are most suitable for shared, guided or independent reading sessions and, where relevant, opportunities for writing and for developing speaking and listening skills are also highlighted. The book makes frequent references to the phases of Letters and Sounds, which can be downloaded for free from the Publications section of the Department for Education website
Taken from Make Phonics Fun: Spring. This book sets out to make preparation for the Year 1 phonics screening check both effective and fun. Designed to complement your school’s phonics scheme, the three books in this practical, activity based series offer all the resources you need to enable your pupils to apply their phonics knowledge across the curriculum and to develop their reading skills in a fun, meaningful and relevant context. There is one book for every school term, each covering six inspirational topics.
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The topic Colour includes:
Teacher’s notes
Non-fiction: Ask the experts
Story: Making rainbows
Picture scene (real words): Making rainbows
Picture scene (pseudo words): Rainbow wings
Activity sheet 1: Colour
6 Activity sheet 2: Can you read a rainbow?
Test cards
Answer sheet
For each topic covered there are two pages of practical teacher’s notes offering activity ideas to help you make the best use of the resources and texts provided. Activities are clearly signposted to indicate whether they are most suitable for shared, guided or independent reading sessions and, where relevant, opportunities for writing and for developing speaking and listening skills are also highlighted. The book makes frequent references to the phases of Letters and Sounds, which can be downloaded for free from the Publications section of the Department for Education website
Taken from Make Phonics Fun: Spring. This book sets out to make preparation for the Year 1 phonics screening check both effective and fun. Designed to complement your school’s phonics scheme, the three books in this practical, activity based series offer all the resources you need to enable your pupils to apply their phonics knowledge across the curriculum and to develop their reading skills in a fun, meaningful and relevant context. There is one book for every school term, each covering six inspirational topics.
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Links to the objectives:
Measures • Calculate the perimeter and area of simple compound shapes that can be split into rectangles
Explain methods and reasoning,orally and in writing.
• Solve mathematical problems or puzzles,recognise and explain patterns and relationships,generalise and predict.
• Suggest extensions asking ‘What if…?’
Includes one worksheet: Rosebuds and answers.
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Links to the objective: Add several numbers (e.g.four or five single digits,or multiples of 10 such as 40 + 50 + 80).
Explain methods and reasoning,orally and in writing.
• Solve mathematical problems or puzzles,recognise and explain patterns and relationships,generalise and predict. • Suggest extensions asking ‘What if…?’
• Make and investigate a general statement about familiar numbers or shapes by finding examples that satisfy it. • Explain a generalised relationship (formula) in words.
Worksheet: Playing Cards with Answers.
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Topic Spring includes:
Teacher’s note
Non-fiction: Woodland trolls
Non-fiction: Woodlands plants in spring
Poetry: In the air by Moira Andrew/Spring song by Kevin McCann
Picture scene (pseudo words): Spring harvest .
Picture scene (real words): Woodland Scene
Activity sheet 1: Spring treasure hunt
Activity sheet 2: Spring harvest
Test cards
Answer sheet
For each topic covered there are two pages of practical teacher’s notes offering activity ideas to help you make the best use of the resources and texts provided. Activities are clearly signposted to indicate whether they are most suitable for shared, guided or independent reading sessions and, where relevant, opportunities for writing and for developing speaking and listening skills are also highlighted. The book makes frequent references to the phases of Letters and Sounds, which can be downloaded for free from the Publications section of the Department for Education website
Taken from Make Phonics Fun: Spring. This book sets out to make preparation for the Year 1 phonics screening check both effective and fun. Designed to complement your school’s phonics scheme, the three books in this practical, activity based series offer all the resources you need to enable your pupils to apply their phonics knowledge across the curriculum and to develop their reading skills in a fun, meaningful and relevant context. There is one book for every school term, each covering six inspirational topics.
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Taken from our Geography Flipbook Activities Keystage 2 Years5&6
This unit contains
Investigating rivers Flipbook :The water cycle
The resource includes one page of teacher’s notes for every page in the flipbook,and each one includes learning objectives and outcomes,key questions and activity ideas.There are many suggestions on how to use the relevant flipbook page and associated activity sheet.
Learning objectives Children should learn: • about the features of the water cycle • to sequence the components of the water cycle
Learning outcomes Children will be able to: • identify and explain each stage in the water cycle
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2 full lessons includes lesson plans resources and flipbook.
1st lesson: Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that humans grow and change as they become older
Learning Outcome: Children will be able to: • sequence pictures of people from youngest to oldest, giving reasons for their choices
Children look at different stages of a humans life from baby to the elderly
2nd Lesson
Learning objective: Children should learn: • that there are differences between humans • to collect and organise data and present it in a chart
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • count how many children have a particular feature and represent this information in a chart • interpret the chart
Children create block graphs to focus on the similarities and difference of physical apperances. Such as ‘brown eyes’ and ‘blonde hair’
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2 full lessons includes lesson plans resources and flipbook.
Fun-engaging lesson that can easily be done at home.
1st lesson: Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that plants provide food for humans
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • state that humans eat some plants
2nd Lesson Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that there are different plants in the environment • to make observations of one or two plants and of where they grow and to communicate these
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • name some common plants • describe where some common plants grow
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2 Full lessons includes lesson plans, worksheets and visual aids.
1st Lesson: Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that the Earth is approximately spherical • that it can be difficult to collect evidence to test ideas and that evidence may be indirect
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • recognise that the Earth is approximately spherical • describe some indirect evidence to support the idea that the Earth is spherical
The task: the children to use different coloured pens to outline/underline the various factors that are listed below (these will need to be written on a board). • Factual information • Evidence that supports the theory that the Earth is spherical • Opinion of the author
2nd Lesson: Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that the Moon takes approximately 28 days to orbit the Earth • that the different appearance of the Moon over 28 days provides evidence for a 28 day cycle
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • explain that the pattern and timescale of the changes in the Moon’s appearance over 28 days is evidence that the Moon orbits the Earth once every 28 days
The task: Ask the children to cut out and arrange the pictures and names of the phases of the Moon in the correct sequence around a representation of the Earth. This will show how the appearance of the Moon changes over the course of its orbit.
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2 full lessons with Flipbook, Worksheet and Resources
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • to recognise and identify a range of common materials • to consider why particular materials are used to make items
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • say whether some objects are made of plastic, wood, metal or rock • say why an item might be made with a particular material
Lesson centered around grouping objects of the same material
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • about some properties of common materials such as hardness and transparency
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • state one or two characteristics of a range of common materials
Prompts children to consider some properties of a set of objects and to read information from their tables.
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2 full lessons with resources, flipbook and worksheets
1st lesson:
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that rocks and natural materials are chosen for particular purposes because of their characteristics
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • relate the use of some rocks and natural materials to their characteristics and say why they are used
Lesson focuses on describing the use of material in buildings.
Do you recognise this building? Try to describe it. • Describe the main building material(s) that was (were) used to make this building. • Are the materials natural or man-made? If the materials are man-made, what do you think the original material was? (e.g. glass is made from sandstone/silica) • Why do you think these materials have been chosen?
2nd lesson:
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • about planning a fair test and using results to draw conclusions
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • explain whether a simple test is fair and what the results indicate
Lesson focuses which rock is the most permeable?
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Taken from our Geography Flipbook Activities Keystage 2 Years5&6
This unit contains 2 full lessons with lesson plan and resources.
Investigating rivers Flipbook
The water cycle Flipbook :The Amazon
The resource includes one page of teacher’s notes for every page in the flipbook,and each one includes learning objectives and outcomes,key questions and activity ideas.There are many suggestions on how to use the relevant flipbook page and associated activity sheet.
Learning Objective:
Learning outcomes: Children will be able to:
• appreciate some of the problems associated with water supply
• understand that important decisions about water use have to be made
• about the River Amazon and its characteristics
Learning outcomes Children will be able to: • identify and explain each stage in the water cycle
Locate the Amazon on a map and identify some of its features (size,meanders,sediment,tributaries, environment through which it flows)
2 Lessons with worksheets, lesson plans and flip book.
1st Lesson
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that plants need water but not unlimited water, for healthy growth • to use results to draw conclusions
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • state that plants need water to grow but too much or too little water may kill them • describe differences in the way the plants grew
Lesson centered around an investigation to find out how the amount of water a runner bean seedling is given affects how much it grows.
2nd Lesson
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • to suggest how a fair test could be carried out • that in experiments with living things, using just one plant in each set of conditions does not give sufficient evidence
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • recognise the correct order in which to undertake a simple investigation • describe factors that contribute to the test being fair • suggest why one sample may not be adequate in each set of conditions
Science lesson centered around an investigation- Does soil type affect the height to which seedlings grow?
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2 lessons with resources, lesson plan and worksheets.
1st Lesson:
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • how to test an idea about whether a material is suitable for a particular purpose • to take measurements and say what they found out
Learning Outcomes
Children will be able to: • make a suggestion about which material might be the most stretchy • test materials for stretchiness and collect measurements.
Lesson name: Giant’s Tights- Children test different materials for a purpose.
2nd Lesson- Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that materials are chosen for specific purposes on the basis of their properties • why different clothing materials are needed in different situations
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • identify reasons for using materials for particular purposes • identify a range of materials and correctly associate them with properties and uses
Lesson name: All the wrong clothes
Children decide the materials for clothes in different locations.
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Children with a reasonable grasp of Letters and Sounds Phase 5 should be able to access the story in guided reading. It includes a number of words with the following graphemes: ● ‘ee’, ‘ea’, ‘e-e’: sleep, see, three; skebe; beach, eat, real, feast, heat, sea, creature. ● ‘ai’, ‘ay’, ‘a-e’: again; away; late, cave, chase, late, made, babe. There are also a number of words using ‘ou’, ‘ow’ (down) and ‘igh’, ‘i-e’.
Taken from Make Phonics Fun: Summer. For each topic covered there are two pages of practical teacher’s notes offering activity ideas to help you make the best use of the resources and texts provided. Activities are clearly signposted to indicate whether they are most suitable for shared, guided or independent reading sessions and, where relevant, opportunities for writing and for developing speaking and listening skills are also highlighted.
The book makes frequent references to the phases of Letters and Sounds.
Each topic within Make Phonics Fun is supported by a range of lively and appealing pupil texts – including original stories, fascinating non-fiction and quality poetry.
There are two photocopiable activity sheets for each topic, providing a range of fun things to do – from reading games which involve listening for specific phonemes, to sequencing activities and track games providing sounding out and blending practice
At the heart of each topic within this book is a carefully selected list of 40 real and pseudo words (20 words for Section 1 and 20 words for Section 2), building a word bank, from topic to topic and term to term, that
will cover the broad range of grapheme-phoneme correspondences that the children should be familiar with by the time they approach the end of Year 1
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As the story has a repetitive structure, it should be accessible to children who are secure at Letters and Sounds Phase 4 and familiar with some aspects of Phase 5. The following vowel digraphs and trigraphs are included and could be revisited as part of your phonics sessions: Phase 3: ‘oa’, ‘ai’, ‘oo’, ‘ur’, ‘ar’, ‘er’, ‘igh’, ‘air’ Phase 5: ‘a-e’, ‘ay’, ‘ie’, ‘i-e’, ‘ea’, ‘ou’
Taken from Make Phonics Fun: Summer. For each topic covered there are two pages of practical teacher’s notes offering activity ideas to help you make the best use of the resources and texts provided. Activities are clearly signposted to indicate whether they are most suitable for shared, guided or independent reading sessions and, where relevant, opportunities for writing and for developing speaking and listening skills are also highlighted.
The book makes frequent references to the phases of Letters and Sounds.
Each topic within Make Phonics Fun is supported by a range of lively and appealing pupil texts – including original stories, fascinating non-fiction and quality poetry.
There are two photocopiable activity sheets for each topic, providing a range of fun things to do – from reading games which involve listening for specific phonemes, to sequencing activities and track games providing sounding out and blending practice
At the heart of each topic within this book is a carefully selected list of 40 real and pseudo words (20 words for Section 1 and 20 words for Section 2), building a word bank, from topic to topic and term to term, that
will cover the broad range of grapheme-phoneme correspondences that the children should be familiar with by the time they approach the end of Year 1
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In this unit, children explore an event that has been commemorated annually for over a 100 years. Children investigate the origins of Remembrance Day and how its significance has grown to incorporate conflicts up to the present day. Children who belong to service or refugee families may have direct, personal experiences of recent hostilities, and their schools will need to exercise sensitivity and discretion in teaching this topic. It is helpful if the children have considered other types of anniversaries and/or commemorations and used historical sources such as artefacts and photographs to ask and answer questions about the past.
Although this focuses on Remembrance day the unit can be easily adapted to fit for VE day
1: Memories
• To find out why people wear poppies at this time of year.
• Explain why we wear poppies for Remembrance.
Lesson 2: Remembrance Day
• To discover what happens on Remembrance Day.
• Understand what happens on Remembrance Day and why we commemorate it.
Lesson 3: War memorials• To investigate the war memorial in our area.
• To understand why we have war memorials.
Lesson 4: Display• To create a Remembrance Day display.
• Explain the importance of Remembrance Day.
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The titles of the 5 texts include
1 Pop-up cards
2 Vote for me!
3 E-mail link
4 Easy pizzas
5 Life in Tudor times
The cards primarily address text-level objectives for each year group and focus specifically on reading comprehension of non-fiction texts. The cards are designed to encourage talk and develop listening and speaking skills.
There is a main text on the front of each of the reading cards. The main text is followed by talk time , where there are open-ended questions, which are designed to stimulate a personal response to the issues raised and encourage children to think about the card’s theme.
The questions encourage discussion between two to six people. Talk time questions that are preceded by a require children to refer back to the text and are suitable for prompting children’s written responses. The box contains an interesting fact related to the card’s theme. This should appeal to the children’s sense of wonder and fascination for the remarkable.
The reverse side of each card carries things to do box. This contains activities and challenges that are designed to enable children to pursue the main theme still further. The activities are mainly practical in nature, so that all children can succeed, whatever their levels of literacy
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The titles of the 5 texts include
1 Signs
2 Bubbles
3 Antarctica
4 Facts about bats
5 Using tallying to count
The cards primarily address text-level objectives for each year group and focus specifically on reading comprehension of non-fiction texts. The cards are designed to encourage talk and develop listening and speaking skills.
There is a main text on the front of each of the reading cards. The main text is followed by talk time , where there are open-ended questions, which are designed to stimulate a personal response to the issues raised and encourage children to think about the card’s theme.
The questions encourage discussion between two to six people. Talk time questions that are preceded by a require children to refer back to the text and are suitable for prompting children’s written responses. The box contains an interesting fact related to the card’s theme. This should appeal to the children’s sense of wonder and fascination for the remarkable.
The reverse side of each card carries things to do box. This contains activities and challenges that are designed to enable children to pursue the main theme still further. The activities are mainly practical in nature, so that all children can succeed, whatever their levels of literacy
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Taken from our PSHE KS1 Resource file.
Lesson 1: Making choices
Lesson 2: Dilemmas
Lesson 3: Choosing a friend
Lesson 4: How to play
Lesson 5: Playing safe
Lesson 6: Managing money
Lesson 7: Money and talents
Lesson 8: Looking at job choices
In this unit of work the children will be taught to understand that we all have a right to our own opinion, which we express in the choices we make. Discussions throughout the unit will also help children to understand that their choices have different consequences, not only for themselves, but for other people around them. Even at an early age, there are real choices for children to make, for example, choosing healthy options at school meal-times and deciding what games to play. The lessons will also begin to cover and allow opportunities for discussion concerning how to use money wisely and how to explore related issues such as fairness; whilst encouraging the children to think about different career choices for the future.
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