A knowledge organiser for living things. Included within this is are images that cover some key concepts as well as a key vocabulary section for some of the words children may come across during the topic. These are useful for either sticking in books at the start of the topic to refer back to or to enlarge and have on display.

A lesson based on Year 6 Living Things that focuses on introducing microorganisms and focusing on examples of helpful microorganisms and also harmful examples.

A planning overview resource to support the teaching of Science across KS2. Every KS2 topic is included with each planning overview following the same structure: Knowledge children must know - This provides a minimum level of what is expected for children to know by the end of the unit and provides consistency across classes. This also helps ensure progression and cohesion between topics. Ways of knowing they know - Ideas for checking understanding and knowing that children have learnt the minimum level of knowledge. Vocabulary - Key vocabulary across the unit that children will need to understand Other links - Links to other subjects and ideas for investigations for each topic These sheets help start the planning process by making it clear what children should know by the end for staff to then use and link together in a sequence of learning. This then feeds through KS2 as it ensures a minimum level of knowledge that supports progression and cohesion across the science curriculum.

Attached are moderation grids for the interim statements (recently released 2016-2017) for Writing, Science and Maths. This includes working below and greater depth for writing and can be used as a simple tick box exercise. Whilst they include many potential tick boxes, these are in no way how many pieces of evidence you require.

A lesson based on Year 6 Living Things that focuses on classifying microorganisms.

A document that provides examples of how you can ensure science is being delivered across the curriculum in KS2. The document is divided into scientific strands and then ideas of how other subjects can meet some of the objectives within the strand. It is by no means a complete list of ideas but is designed to be a starting point to support science across the curriculum.

A knowledge organiser for animals including humans. Included within this is are images that cover some key concepts as well as a key vocabulary section for some of the words children may come across during the topic. These are useful for either sticking in books at the start of the topic to refer back to or to enlarge and have on display.

A complete writing unit for teaching explanation texts through writing one about the digestive system. It has been created with lower KS2 in mind but is easily adaptable. Each ‘lesson’ is broken into chunks of learning rather than directly being a one hour lesson. This means some of the lessons may take more than an hour and be completed over a sequence of lessons instead, with the focus being on the learning and activities within this rather than ‘rushing’ through in an hour. Altogether, there is approximately two weeks worth of lessons, with slightly longer depending on how long drafting, redrafting and publishing take. The unit includes lessons on: Features of explanation texts Cohesive devices Research Creating simple sentences Drafting and redrafting Publishing All lesson PowerPoints with notes are included as well as a model text, a summary organiser about the digestive system, activity sheets and a explanation text summary sheet.

A fully resourced 6 lesson unit on electricity in Year 6. Included is a booklet format that includes all the questions, all the supporting information required and the activities linked to this. As much as possible, images, models and diagrams have been used to make the information as accessible as possible to refer back to following discussions. Each lesson also has key vocabulary and recap questions as well (the first lesson links to our previous unit of Animals including Humans so can be easily adapted). Each lesson also has a PowerPoint that includes the information and diagrams from the booklet as well as any additional notes etc. All the resources have been uploaded as PowerPoints so that you can easily adapt them to suit your setting. most images and diagrams courtesy of BBC Bitesize

A knowledge organiser for animals including humans. Included within this is are images that cover some key concepts as well as a key vocabulary section for some of the words children may come across during the topic. These are useful for either sticking in books at the start of the topic to refer back to or to enlarge and have on display.

An introductory lesson for Year 6 Living Things that gets children to practise being able to classify animals into different groups. Included are all the resources required for the lesson including the plan, presentation and activity sheets for children to use.

A simple activity where children draw what the moon likes like each night whilst deciding which phase of the moon it is by using their help sheet.

A lesson aimed at the Year 3 Science unit of Plants. This lesson is the sixth and final lesson of a sequence, focusing on reviewing the unit/ acting as an assessment of what children can remember and understand. There are a number of different tasks that link to what has been taught over the unit, including true or false, labelling diagrams, considering needs and thinking about roles of different parts of a flower. An answer sheet is also included and a presentation of the activity to discuss answers along each stage.

A lesson that requires children to complete an investigation with spaghetti. The investigation focuses on whether the type of spaghetti used makes a difference to the solidity of the structure with the lesson slides looking at example structures and how children will want to build them before getting them to focus on the different elements of the scientific investigation. Also included is an investigation mat to help children with their written work.

An introductory lesson to light in Year 6. Initially, children will spend time recapping what they can remember from the previous time they studied light before then moving on to considering what light is and what dark is. Children will then think about different light sources and grouping these as well as thinking about why mirrors and the moon aren’t light sources. This will then move on to considering opaque, transparent and translucent and why we get shadows before finishing with a quick mini-quiz.

The fifth lesson of a sequence for light in Year 6. Initially, the focus of this lesson is reflection, recapping learning from the previous lesson. The lesson then moves on to focussing on refraction with children completing activities off the PowerPoint, the print out activity and watching a video to then further develop their understanding.

A lesson for Year 6 Living Things that gets children to consider the different classes that make class in the classification system. This includes a recap on the system of classification before then looking at the different groups within class. Children will then work through an activity that requires them to match up statements to the correct class before considering animals that fit in the different classes.

A list of ideas for planning cross-curricular lessons based around a history topic. Included are ideas of how this could be linked to English, D.T, Art, Science, History, Geography, Music and Computer Science. Areas included so far: Battle of Britain Nottingham - A local history study

20 different writing activities that link to content from the Year 6 unit for Living Things and their Habitats to support the development of using different conjunctions in writing as well as thinking carefully about some of the knowledge and how they can apply the conjunctions appropriately using what they know about the subject area. There are 20 days worth of activities, with each day having a different link to knowledge from the unit. Each day includes three different slides that follow the I do, we do, you do model. However, it doesn’t need to be that each day you follow the model and that you may just model and then get pupils to do the you do or leave it up as pupils enter the classroom for them to then have a go at the because, but, so. The idea is that it is short focused writing, with the full session lasting 15 to 20 minutes if using all three elements and shorter where all three elements aren’t used. Slides can be used as a pick up and go and don’t need to be done in the order set out.

The fourth lesson of a sequence for light in Year 6. The focus of this lesson is reflection and the law of reflection with children completing activities off the PowerPoint as well as watching a video to then further develop their understanding.