I currently work at the top end of Primary school in Year 5/6. I create resources for a range of subjects and am always open to suggestions for resources people require.
I currently work at the top end of Primary school in Year 5/6. I create resources for a range of subjects and am always open to suggestions for resources people require.
Attached are 5 lessons based on using map skills and linking them to the Industrial Revolution. These have been written with Year 5/6 in mind but are easily adaptable.
Included are the slides, resources and differentiated lesson plans.
Lesson 1 - Identifying UK cities on a map
Lesson 2 - Identifying rivers in the UK
Lesson 3 - Identifying how the UK changed during the Industrial Revolution
Lesson 4 - Identifying the Luddites area of operations
Lesson 5 - British Empire during the period and identifying countries around the world
N.B. You will need atlases for the general atlas activities.
A range of quizzes that are useful for the end of the year or as general activities.
Quizzes include:
A quiz that gets children to try and identify 30 different flags from around the world. A fun geography activity for the end of the year or as a general activity to check knowledge of different flags.
A British History quiz that includes 20 questions about British history, including a range of topics and spanning over 1000 years. Also included is a bonus round worth up to an extra 23 points. This is useful for some end of term fun or as a general quiz to check children's general knowledge of British history and can be done individually or in teams.
A European History quiz that includes 20 questions about European history, including a range of topics and spanning over 2000 years. Also included is a bonus round worth up to an extra 28 points. This is useful for some end of term fun or as a general quiz to check children's general knowledge of European history and can be done individually or in teams.
A multiple choice quiz that children can do in teams as a fun end of year activity looking at various events in 2016-2017.
Round One- Sporting events
Round Two- Film questions
Round Three- Picture Round
Round Four- Song Round - Name the artist and name of the song with a point for each (Freedom in this round of selecting a number of songs yourself from 2016-2017 to quiz children on)
Round Five- Music Round
Round Six- Television Round
A multiple choice general knowledge quiz that has 26 questions before finishing with 2 bonus rounds with a point per answer available.
Three Year 5 grids for below, at and expected standard for writing. These have been based on the national curriculum expectations as well as using the current interim Year 6 documents as a starting point for creating them.
All of the arithmetic questions from the 2017 paper that can be cut out as simple question cards for children to practise. This provides a different way of practising key areas of the arithmetic paper rather than just giving children a practise paper.
Three differentiated reading comprehension activities based on an extract from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Each differentiated resource includes 10 questions with answers also included.
A worksheet that requires children to practise being able to find fractions of amounts. As well as a number of practise questions there are then also reasoning/ problem solving style questions with the answers also included.
Included are two lessons that get children to work classifying living things.
Included:
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 lesson for Year 6 Living Things that gets children to practise being able to classify living things into different groups by learning about the Linnaean System of Classification. Included are all the resources required for the lesson including the plan, presentation and activity sheets for children to use. The question sheets are to trim down to then stick in children's books for them to write the answer next to.
A 6 lesson unit of work for living things in Year 6. Included is the planning for the unit of work and all the resources required to teach it including differentiated worksheets and lesson presentations.
34 different questions for Chapter Two of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl that test a range of skills. These can be used for guided reading sessions or to give children as activities to support guided reading sessions/ whole class reading comprehensions. The questions follow the order of the chapter but don't have answers attached as the answers can vary depending on the child's opinion.
A knowledge organiser for the Stone Age. Included within this is a timeline for the period 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 worksheet that requires children to practise being able to find the whole based on fractions of amounts. As well as a number of practise questions there are then also reasoning/ problem solving style questions with the answers also included.
Two PowerPoint lessons that focus on the objective of one step and two step functions from the Year 6 WRM planning. There is an arithmetic starter included as well as a number of questions to work through (including pink and green bubbles for support and challenge) where answers can then be discussed. Finally, reasoning and problem solving tasks from WRM are included.
A presentation that includes 145 past questions that can be used as a revision tool for Year 6 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling or that can be used to pick and choose from for starter questions in English sessions. Questions are taken from the sample paper as well as the 2016 and 2017 paper.
Easily usable as talking points with children practising a question at a time before then discussing the answer and why that is the case.
10 questions that check children's understanding of the 8 times table through more complex methods than just giving them a 8 times table test. Included are word problems, reasoning questions and showing the relationship between numbers.
Knowledge organisers for each topic in the Year 5 and Year 6 Science curriculum.
Included within these 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 topics.
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.
Various handwriting sheets that take extracts from books and model how to use the cursive script for children for them to then replicate on the lined guides on the second page.
Also useful for exposing children to different extracts from stories and experience language.
A series of PowerPoint lesson that focuses on some of the algebra objectives from the Year 6 WRM planning including variables, one step functions, two step functions and substitutions. There is an arithmetic starter included as well as a number of questions to work through (including pink and green bubbles for support and challenge) where answers can then be discussed. Finally, reasoning and problem solving tasks from WRM are included.
Also included is a two lesson PowerPoint and activity focusing on finding the values of letters when they are a set value as part of an equation. Answers are included with the worksheet that provides practice and challenge.
There is also a PowerPoint full of previous SATs questions that link to algebra or can be shown to link to algebra.
Finally, there are some puzzles to work out the value of shapes and a Premier League table activity that has potential variables.
A double lesson that focuses on being able to find fractions of amounts. Included is a PowerPoint for the lesson that includes an arithmetic starter as well as an activity with answers and four challenge activities for those that are confident.