A fully planned and resourced lesson that focuses on children being able to place events in chronological order, looking at timelines and centuries before being able to place events from Nottingham's history accurately. This is the first of a six lesson sequence focussing on the history of Nottingham, particularly with focus to the castle, that has been written for KS2 children with the planning, resources and presentation all included.

The first of a ten part series of lessons that focus on many of the elements of the locational knowledge aspects for the KS2 Geography curriculum. The series of lessons focuses predominantly on children being able to use maps to find countries and cities in different continents as well as a brief focus on time zones and globalisation. All of the resources needed to run the lesson are included with worksheets, any potential example maps required (in case atlases are unavailable) the presentation and unit of work plan. This lesson focuses on being able to locate cities from the United Kingdom on a map, identifying them on a blank copy.

The second of a ten part series of lessons that focus on many of the elements of the locational knowledge aspects for the KS2 Geography curriculum. The series of lessons focuses predominantly on children being able to use maps to find countries and cities in different continents as well as a brief focus on time zones and globalisation. All of the resources needed to run the lesson are included with worksheets, any potential example maps required (in case atlases are unavailable) the presentation and unit of work plan. This lesson focuses on being able to locate counties from England on a map, identifying them on a blank copy.

The sixth of a ten part series of lessons that focus on many of the elements of the locational knowledge aspects for the KS2 Geography curriculum. The series of lessons focuses predominantly on children being able to use maps to find countries and cities in different continents as well as a brief focus on time zones and globalisation. All of the resources needed to run the lesson are included with worksheets, any potential example maps required (in case atlases are unavailable) the presentation and unit of work plan. This lesson focuses on being able to identify various North and South American countries and their capital cities and labelling these via a blank map.

The final lesson of a ten part series of lessons that focus on many of the elements of the locational knowledge aspects for the KS2 Geography curriculum. The series of lessons focuses predominantly on children being able to use maps to find countries and cities in different continents as well as a brief focus on time zones and globalisation. All of the resources needed to run the lesson are included with worksheets, any potential example maps required (in case atlases are unavailable) the presentation and unit of work plan. This lesson gives a brief introduction to the idea of globalisation by getting children to consider what they think towns/ cities may look like in different countries before unpicking these perceptions and looking at the impact of globalisation.

The ninth of a ten part series of lessons that focus on many of the elements of the locational knowledge aspects for the KS2 Geography curriculum. The series of lessons focuses predominantly on children being able to use maps to find countries and cities in different continents as well as a brief focus on time zones and globalisation. All of the resources needed to run the lesson are included with worksheets, any potential example maps required (in case atlases are unavailable) the presentation and unit of work plan. A lesson that focuses on time zones, including a look at GMT/ UTC as well as looking at the history of time zones.

The third of a ten part series of lessons that focus on many of the elements of the locational knowledge aspects for the KS2 Geography curriculum. The series of lessons focuses predominantly on children being able to use maps to find countries and cities in different continents as well as a brief focus on time zones and globalisation. All of the resources needed to run the lesson are included with worksheets, any potential example maps required (in case atlases are unavailable) the presentation and unit of work plan. This lesson focuses on the physical geography of Britain, including looking at the rivers, seas and terrain.

The fourth of a ten part series of lessons that focus on many of the elements of the locational knowledge aspects for the KS2 Geography curriculum. The series of lessons focuses predominantly on children being able to use maps to find countries and cities in different continents as well as a brief focus on time zones and globalisation. All of the resources needed to run the lesson are included with worksheets, any potential example maps required (in case atlases are unavailable) the presentation and unit of work plan. This lesson focuses on the human geography of Britain, including looking at population trends, average salary and land use.

A six week activity booklet that has been produced for children who may have SEN or not be able to access the Computer Science lessons being taught. It focuses particularly on typing skills as well as opening and saving before finishing by being able to copy and paste an image. Whilst it may help then be more independent during the session, they may still require support at points. N.B. This resource is by no means perfect but I have shared it in case anyone else finds it useful.

A fact file/ knowledge organiser that can be stuck in children's books when doing the instruction genre in writing or for a help sheet if they are writing a set of instructions in a foundation subject. Included on the sheet is a list of key vocabulary and a set of examples for time adverbials and for imperative verbs.

An activity that provides children with 9 events that have happened at Nottingham Castle. All they need to do is simply decide which they think were the most important and least important before justifying their decisions.

A fully planned and resourced lesson that focuses on Nottingham Castle being burnt down in 1831. The lesson introduces the reasons why, discussing some of the conditions that had resulted from the Industrial Revolution and the Duke's refusal to help enlarge the electorate through a reform act. This then moves on to children, in groups, recreating an iconic image of the castle on fire before finishing the lesson by joining pieces together and seeing what happened next with the castle. This is the final lesson of a six lesson sequence focussing on the history of Nottingham, particularly with focus to the castle, that has been written for KS2 children with the planning, resources and presentation all included.

A fully planned and resourced lesson that focuses on the castle in the 14th Century, looking at two key events in particular. The first focus is on Edward using what is now commonly called Mortimer's Hole to take control from his mother and her lover before focussing on the use of the castle to imprison King David II of Scotland temporarily. This is the fourth of a six lesson sequence focussing on the history of Nottingham, particularly with focus to the castle, that has been written for KS2 children with the planning, resources and presentation all included.

A fully planned and resourced lesson that focuses on how the castle became to no longer be a castle. The focus starts with how the castle was becoming run down before looking at the role it played in the English Civil War and its demolition soon after. The focus then shifts to the new Ducal Palace that was built and why it is no longer a castle despite its name. This is the fifth of a six lesson sequence focussing on the history of Nottingham, particularly with focus to the castle, that has been written for KS2 children with the planning, resources and presentation all included.

A fact file/ knowledge organiser that can be stuck in children's books when doing the newspaper genre in writing or for a help sheet if they are writing a newspaper article in a foundation subject. Included on the sheet is a list of key vocabulary, a labelled image of a newspaper story and a reminder about the key facts to include in any newspaper article.

A three-way differentiated resource that is a reading comprehension based on an extract from the first chapter of The Iron Man.

Two three-way differentiated resource that are reading comprehensions based on the opening extract and another extract from the first chapter of The Iron Man.

A simple set of instructions that can be stuck into children's books or placed in front of them to remind them of the four key rules for punctuating direct speech accurately.

Different word cards that include the oi phoneme/ grapheme on them that children can read through blending together.

An activity based around -th for children. Included are cards with all the letters of the alphabet and the th phoneme where children can then practise seeing what words they can create when blending sounds together. Recommended to print two sets of the letter cards.