Hi! I currently work in London as a Deputy Headteacher. I love all things teaching and learning! I am extremely passionate about education and find researching and creating new strategies and ideas exciting. The world of teaching and leading in England is highly stressful and it's up to all of us to look after each other's well-being...I hope my resources save you some precious time.
Hi! I currently work in London as a Deputy Headteacher. I love all things teaching and learning! I am extremely passionate about education and find researching and creating new strategies and ideas exciting. The world of teaching and leading in England is highly stressful and it's up to all of us to look after each other's well-being...I hope my resources save you some precious time.
This is an A3 diary and will need to be photocopied on double sides to make a booklet. Lovely design of cress round the outside...my class loved it.
Please leave feedback if you use it, thank you :)
Sorting high and low friction and useful and not useful pictures into a Carroll diagram and then answering questions.
Please leave feedback, as my resources take a long time to make.
Choose various shoes and predict whether or not they will be slippy. Then create a ramp using table and chair and allow children to let go of shoe, time it. Work out most slippy shoe.
Next part of experiment, wrap table in different materials. Which material helps to slow the fastest shoe down?
A fun science experiment focusing on the properties of materials linked to Shakespeare's Macbeth. This 6 lesson DT and science learning journey, asks children to design and build a boat using 'junk' and considering the properties of different materials. Includes: presentation, planning, resources and certificate.
Objectives that the learning journey covers, are:
Y3/4
1a. asking relevant questions and using different types of scientific enquiries to answer them
1b. setting up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests
1c. making systematic and careful observations
1d. gathering, recording, classifying and presenting data in a variety of ways to help in answering questions
1e. recording findings using simple scientific language, drawings, labelled diagrams, keys, bar charts, and tables
1f. reporting on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations of results and conclusions
1g. using results to draw simple conclusions, make predictions for new values, suggest improvements and raise further questions
1h. identifying differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientific ideas and processes
Y5/6
2a. planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary
2b. recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs
2c. using test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests
2d. reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations
2e. identifying scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments.
Cut and stick metals into one group and plastics into another. Simple activity to use early on in the Materials topic to help distinguish between different materials. Good for discussion and introducing new vocab.
Save yourself a lot of time by downloading this pack of assembly powerpoints, covering: the environment, Halloween, International Day of Friendship, International Joke Day, International Peace Day, British Values, Ramadan and Summer Holiday.
Any questions, just ask. Thank you.
This sheet allows children to start thinking about why electrical symbols are used, their meaning and a chance to design their own.
Pictures to cut and stick - sort conductors and insulators
Children walk around school and find 6 different types of light or can be done as homework. Draw or write. Include things like the small lights of computers for variation.
Topic of green fingers in our local environment, children created front cover by using different shades of green paint on their finger to make an image of a plant.
This is heavily focussed on reading but linked with our science topic. Children have to read the text and then answer questions on it. Activites like this are beneficial in starting to prepare children for reading tests so it's easier for them if/when they do have to sit them.
An A3 dictionary where children can try writing definitions of key words that they found on the internet (previous lesson). Children will write simple definitions for words, such as, root, stem, leaf etc.
Great for display!
Shows a clear image of the learning journey which can be adapted for other lessons if the format is helpful. Starts children thinking about different types of material because I feel in Year 1 they should know more than just 'metal, glass...'