A whole year’s worth of spellings in an editable word document format. 31 weeks of spelling words. 15 words each week and 2 weeks of 20 words leading up to SATs.
Includes:
Year 5 and 6 statutory words
Year 5 and 6 spelling patterns
Year 3 and 4 statutory words
Preparing for year 7 words
The format is look, cover, write, check and works well with the read, write inc spelling scheme.
Suitable for ALL primary age children.
A resource to give to your children for a goodbye when they are moving up to the next class. Totally editable.
Included in this resources:
Reception class - size of 30 and 32
Class One - size of 30 and 32
Class Two - size of 30 and 32
Class Three - size of 30 and 32
Class Four - size of 30 and 32
Class Five - size of 30 and 32
Class Six - size of 30 and 32
Powerpoints included:
R-6 class size of 32
R-6 class size of 30
R-6 class size of 30 R-2 and 32 3-6
Based on David Attenborough’s ‘A Life on Our Planet’ I am creating a full English unit based on this programme on Netflix.
Start off by showing your class the documentary. Before the documentary do a KWL grid to see what they know already. We also did a cover page in our books to start the unit.
This is a 2 week module on writing an information text about an endangered animal. It includes:
A Powerpoint to cover the two weeks
Example texts
Where to find grammar starters
Success criteria and learning challenges
Vocabulary list for the whole unit
There will be a further 6 weeks of work to follow this module.
This resource includes KS1 esafety rules and KS2 eafety rules. These are great posters to display around the school and can be blown up to A3 size as well.
Esafety is so important to teach children and with these simple rules they can stay safe online!
This very useful parent guide demonstrates how to use assignments and class notebook in Microsoft Teams. It has models of both the desktop app and the mobile/tablet app. It goes through step by step how to access assignments set by the teacher and how to upload to the assignment. It also explains how to obtain feedback from the teacher. It also gives an overview of how to use class notebook as a parent/student in a step by step guide.
Looking for some last minute time fillers? Here is a quiz which your class are sure to enjoy!
This quiz contains:
Food and drink quiz
Disney quiz
Logo quiz
Literature quiz
Headings for an English working wall in rainbow colours, Twinkl cursive font. Editable version available if you download the Twinkl cursive loop font.
Headings:
Class Target
Book of the Month
Vocabulary bank
Grammar
Writing Purpose
WAGOLL
Key Features
Vocabulary
Modelling
This 20 page high quality activity pack is the perfect resource for keeping your class busy throughout the summer holidays. It balances play with fun and hopefully helps them to reduce their screen time. This resource covers basic maths skills, some writing and creative projects.
It contains:
Get outdoors………pages 3 - 5
Writing………page 6
Number…… pages 7 - 13
Arts and crafts… pages 14 - 16
Play ideas…… page 17
Mindfulness colouring pages 18 – 20
This resource will save you time and will give your children the opportunity to remain engaged in learning over the holidays!
This lesson is an investigation into the causes of deforestation. It is an activity where children are learning to read information and record it in their own words. This activity can be used in the classroom where the different causes are posted around the room and the children have to investigate. It can also be used as a distance learning tool. It also includes a bonus grammar activity on plurals as a grammar warm up.
This pack includes:
PDF version of the deforestation lesson presentation
PP version of the deforestation lesson presentation
Plurals activity
Investigation activity cards
Worksheet for recording their answers
I hope you enjoy the resources!
6 weeks of grammar activities which go with the Schofield and Sims workbook -Grammar 6.
There are small activities for 5-10 minute grammar starter or filler activities which tie into each module for the first 6 weeks of schofield and sims.
If you don’t have the book, there are many activities that are beneficial. Topics covered:
Subordinate clauses
Relative clauses
Active voice
Passive voice
Colons and Semi-colons
Bullet Points
Challenge your kids to read 12 books a term using these easy to use reading challenges. A great way to get kids reading. There is a challenge for Autumn, Spring and Summer. Each challenge contains 12 books.
Enjoy!
This is a step by step introduction how to guide on how to make the most of teaching on Microsoft Teams. This guide has a focus on scheduling live lessons and calls.
This resource is designed to be used for parents to introduce them to growth mindset. It can also be used to introduce growth mindset to teachers and other school staff. The CPD lasts 1 hour in total.
Tried and tested with parents and staff with great success!
32 slide PP
Notes and suggested activities.
Resource A - sorting activity
Resource B - similarities and differences
This project is a fun project for children to learn all about Victorian architecture. The powerpoint takes you through the revolution of Victorian housing and some of the architecture from the era. There is also a seperate resource sheet for the children to use.
This resource is designed to support Victorian leisure time. The resource talks through the history of Punch and Judy shows, includes a video and tasks for the children to complete. There are also some puppet templates to use.
This resource is a 6 week unit of work learning about saints. The unit of work consists of:
Week 1 - What is a saint? Investigation into saints and the children’s prior knowledge.
Week 2 - Researching different saints lesson
Week 3 - Investigating the terms martyr and revered
Week 4 - The impact saints have had on people’s lives and what they sacrificed. This is research on Martin Luther King and Mother Theresa. I used Twinkl comprehensions to help with this lesson.
Week 5 - debate questions -Do you think Jesus is a saint? Should saints be dead before they are recognised? Do saints have to be believers in God?
Week 6 - evaluation lesson
There is a powerpoint for each lesson along with worksheets, planning and resources where relevant.
This is a really enjoyable unit of work and I hope you enjoy teaching it as much as I do!
This is a two week writing resource focusing on description. It uses parts from chapters 1 -4 of War Horse. It is for the children to write about leaving the pen after being sold to arriving at the stables. This goes through a writing process in the following format:
Analysing Joey’s feelings in the first chapter
Key vocabulary searching
Reading and analysing example texts and high quality descriptive writing from other novels
Planning the writing
Drafting the first paragraph (Joey leaving the pen after being sold) with modelled writing
Drafting the second paragraph (The journey to the stables) with modelled writing
Drafting the third paragraph (Arriving at the stables) with modelled writing
Big writing the final piece
Each lesson also has a grammar focus beginning with identifying main clauses and subordinate clauses and then moving onto relative clauses in the second week. The PowerPoint has guidance on this but I have used resources from elsewhere for the activities the children need to complete (only for the grammar).
Resources included in this pack:
A comprehensive PowerPoint for all of the sessions including examples (48 slides)
Resource pack 1 contains: success criteria, key vocabulary in 2 sizes, feelings matching resource for lesson 1, PEE paragraph templates for lesson 1, Chapter 2 and 3 summary notes crib sheets, key vocabulary and definition matching activity for lesson 2, 3 x differentiated planning sheets, sentence starters, modelled text for the first paragraph
‘Roll on the wall’ horse template
extracts from high quality texts - differentiated 3 ways
matching activity for emotions
Resource pack 2 contains: success criteria, writing frames for each paragraph, key vocabulary, sentence starters for all three paragraphs.