I am an experienced Primary school teacher with over twenty years experience in EYFS, KS1 and KS2. I have made and used all of the interactive topic based lesson plans, power-points and resources in this shop with my classes. I hope you enjoy using them with your classes too.
I am an experienced Primary school teacher with over twenty years experience in EYFS, KS1 and KS2. I have made and used all of the interactive topic based lesson plans, power-points and resources in this shop with my classes. I hope you enjoy using them with your classes too.
End of Term Fancy Dress Award Certificates
End of year certificates. Set of 31 individual fancy dress certificates with fun and interesting titles and images:
Presented to the …… costume (see list below):
Funniest
Most sparkly
Colourful
Difficult to wear
Cutest
Smartest
Shiniest
Craziest
Most adventurous
Fiercest
Hottest
Most unusual
Most decorative
Heaviest to wear
Most authentic
Hardest to move in
Furriest
Most royal
Best space costume
Best animal
Best princess
Jolliest
Best book character
Best film character
Best witch
Best wizard
Spookiest
Creepiest
Best superhero
Sportiest
Most imaginative
Life Cycle of Frogs Powerpoint lesson.
Learning Objectives
• To know that living things have offspring that turn into adults.
• To be able to explain what is meant by a life cycle.
• To know the stages of the frog life cycle.
• To compare the life cycle of a human with that of a frog and say if they are similar or different.
• To understand the terms ‘amphibian’ and ‘metamorphosis’ and explain their meanings.
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37 slides and 7 worksheets starting with a short riddle for pupils. Activities include written tasks (cutting, ordering and matching, writing definition in own words, watching a short information clip on Youtube and a follow up quiz with written answers).
Useful with topics on ‘life cycles’, ‘spring’, ‘changes’, ‘natural world’.
Owls ppt lesson adaptable for KS1 and 2. This is a complete lesson which can be edited or broken into a series of shorter lessons. There are talk partner activities throughout the lesson and three supporting pupil worksheets. In addition, I have included some writing frames with owl borders and 3 colouring sheets. There are links to clips of owls and audio of a Tawny owl. Each slide has colourful and realistic pictures of owls to help pupils appreciate their colour, shapes and sizes.
Links well with topics on ‘Animals’, ‘Birds’, ‘New life’, ‘Life cycles’, ‘Spring’, ‘Flight’, ‘Habitats’, ‘Trees and woodlands.’
Learning objectives
To describe the features that all owls have.
To explain what ‘bird of prey’ means.
To say where owls live (habitats) and what they eat.
To know the life cycle of an owl.
Slide 2 Warm up: Guess the image hidden behind the shapes (12 shapes revealing part of the picture).
Slides 3&4 Answer and learning objectives.
Slides 5-7 Owls and features.
Slide 8 Worksheet 1 label Owl features.
Slide 9 Owl eyes
Slide 10 owl necks and a short clip, plus activity.
Slide 11-13 Beaks, ears and claws.
Slide 14 Birds of prey/food
Slide 15 wings
Slide 16 Worksheet 2 Matching owl features and adaptations.
Slide 17-19 Nocturnal and a game
Slide 20 Owl habitats
Slide 21-23 Life cycle
Slide 24 Worksheet 3 Match the pictures and order the life cycle.
Slides 25-26 5 common British owls.
Slide 27-28 Tawny owl Wing span activity
Slide 29 Tawny owl sizes – partner work.
Slides 30-31 About Tawny owls
Slide 32/33 Tawny owl noises plus audio and activity
Slide 34 Snowball and Wotsit
Slide 35 Snowball and Wotsit new bulletin
Slides 36 -38 3 owl worksheets to colour, 2 owl border writing frames, 1 medley of owl images.
Bats ppt lesson adaptable for KS1 and 2. This is a complete lesson which can be edited or broken into a series of shorter lessons. There are talk partner activities throughout the lesson and three supporting pupil worksheets. In addition, I have included a writing frame with bat image and a fact sheet. There are links to clips of bats and audio of Pipistrelle bat. Each slide has colourful and realistic pictures of bats to help pupils appreciate their colour, shapes and sizes.
Links well with topics on ‘Bats’, ‘Halloween’, ‘Nocturnal creatures’, ‘Life cycles’, ‘Echolocation’, ‘Flight’, ‘Habitats’.
Learning objectives
• To describe the features that all bats have.
• To explain the meaning of key vocabulary linked to bats for example: ‘nocturnal’, ‘echo-location’ and ‘chiroptera’ means.
• To say where bats live (habitats) and what they eat.
• To know the life cycle of a bat.
• To explain why bats are important to the environment.
Slide 2 Warm up: Guess the image hidden behind the shapes (12 shapes revealing part of the picture).
Slides 3&4 Answer and learning objectives.
Slides 5-7 Bats and features.
Slide 8 Dictionary task definition of ‘roost’.
Slide 9 Bat skeletons
Slide 10 Chiroptera talk partner exercise.
Slide 11-13 Hand wing and flight. Clip link of bats flying. Worksheet – Label the bat features.
Slide 14 Echolocation
Slide 15 & 16 Whispering or shouting bats.
Slide 17-18 Echolocation class game
Slide 20 Worksheet - Echolocation
Slide 21 Worksheet Adaptation
Slide 22 Nocturnal meaning -talk partners
Slides 23-24 Bat habitats and link to clip on Mexican cave bats.
Slide 25 Life cycle
Slide 26 Worksheet life cycle.
Slides 27&28 Match the bat to the name activity -partner work.
Slide 29 About Pipistrelle bats
Slide 30 Partner task – Draw an accurate pipistrelle using measurements and description.
Slide 31 Pipistrelle gallery
Slides 32-35 3 Pipistrelle bats plus audio clip
Slides 36-37 Protected species
Slides 38-39 Megabat and microbat
Slide 40 Bat news article on Vampire bats, blank writing frame
Slide 41 ’All about bats’ summary worksheet
Slide 42 Bat factsheet.
A KS1/lower KS2 power-point of 16 slides which can be used as one lesson or extended over a longer period.
Learning Objectives
To know
*what an invitation looks like.
*what information needs to be included in an invitation.
*how to set out an invitation
There is a warm up – different types of invitations and celebrations, partner activities and a final writing task. Included are examples of 2 invitations (Christmas and Halloween party) for pupils to use in the lesson to spot the key features and help Jojo correct her invitation (because no one has replied!). There are key questions to promote discussion and paired work. Also included is a simple invitation template for pupil use. Final task: write an invitation for a school Halloween fancy dress party. Pupils can also use the important information/checklist to give paired feedback after writing their own invitation. Slides 15(black and white version) and 16(colour version) are a Halloween invitation template for pupils to complete.
Geography World New Year greetings and flags KS1,2,3
193 cards with the flag of each country which is an official member of the United Nations. Each card has the country flag and the greeting ‘Happy New Year’ translated into the official and most widely used language of that country. Each card includes the greeting in the written language of that country as well as a simpler form of pronunciation from the written script.
Useful and fun to use with topic such as ‘Celebrations’, Countries of the world’, ‘Maps and flags’. I have also used these cards to encourage pupils to find similarities and differences (pupil suggestions eg similar languages, colours of flags, flag designs and continents, writing scripts and forms). The pupils can have fun recognising flags and trying to say ‘Happy New Year’ in world languages. Also can be used as a basis/component part in a class assembly.
New Year 2025 KS1 & 2 Power-point lesson which can be used as a single lesson, assembly or as a stimulus for cross curricular work. 21 slides presented in simple text focusing on New Year greetings (in different languages) and historical information. The lesson encourages pupils to work in small groups of three / four to discuss and explain questions about the images and information presented on the slides. Slides include information on Janus the Roman God of new beginnings, reviewing the previous year and resolutions for the forthcoming year. There are a range of humorous images demonstrating resolutions and prompting ideas for pupils to use.
Pupils are encouraged to record their resolutions, refer to them daily and try to stick to them!
I made this fun booklet for my KS2 pupils to practise maths in a ‘real life’ situation based on planning a Christmas dinner and entertainment day for a family of 20 (10 adults and 10 children). They were amazed at the cost of the items (which are a bit more expensive in real life!) and gained a real insight into planning for an event.
There are 7 tasks in total with a task summary table for pupils to record their summaries at the end of each task. The pupils have a budget of £300 and must make decisions based upon their budget and costs of items such as food and entertainment.
Task 1 Party timetable – working out a timetable around set times.
Task 2 Total cost of food for 10 children and 10 adults. Percentage and fraction of votes for a particular meal option. Cost per head and total costs using addition and multiplication.
Task 3 Games and prizes for the day. Votes for 2 game choices, percentages and fractions plus working out how many games can be played in an hour. Multiplication and addition skills.
Task 4 Choosing entertainment. The cost and name of the cheapest show. Calculating the actual costs of two shows plus extras and deciding on the cheapest option.
Task 5 Total movie refreshments costs. Options for drinks/snacks and total costs.
Task 6 Calculating which movies are suitable based on running time v actual allocated time in the day. Selecting the best 2 options.
Task 7 Calculating total cost of all prizes.
There is an additional task for the children to create an invitation for this event and add ideas for extras for Christmas Day.