I am a primary school teacher working for a home school and tutor online with a passion for children to be engaged in learning. The resources in my shop include lesson plans, PowerPoint Presentations, and hands-on activities with many cross-curricular links.
I am a primary school teacher working for a home school and tutor online with a passion for children to be engaged in learning. The resources in my shop include lesson plans, PowerPoint Presentations, and hands-on activities with many cross-curricular links.
This unit of work is a great talk4writing non chronological report text to learning all about the Romans.
Week one KS2 yr3-yr 5 as taught in a mixed year group class. The initial introductory text is based on the Celts in preparation for writing a non chronological write about the Romans.
Week one is to learn all about the Celtic way of life text through the story map and answer questions about the text.
The three following weeks can be purchased separately or as a block unit.
Included in the week one NCR
The story map is attached in this week one package,
Reading comprehension
Celtic report highlighting the grammar features
Week two is to change the Celtic Britain report text to writing about the Roman Army and their way of life.
Information used about the Roman army is sourced
Grammar exercises are also sourced
Week three is to plan and prepare own independent writing about as aspect of Roman life.
Box up plan
Week four is to complete independent writing.
Box up plan revised
grammar
key ingredients for writing an effective report
This unit of work is suitable for upper KS2.
The learning in these five lessons gives pupils opportunities to study a range of complaint letters about eating out in restaurants, thinking about why people write letters of complaints focussing on the tone and language that is used.
Pupils will look at a range of complaint letters talking through the learning from the letters of complaint and thoughts of the ideas complied in order to continue planning and drafting out a compliant letter about a disappointed meal out/ experience that didn’t end well/ or the food was uncooked/over cooked. By the end of the week pupils will write their own letters of complaints and the possible response from the complaint letter.
Biography Talk4writing yr 6 Harriet Tubman and the Underground railway
The following 4 weeks of English has been carefully thought-out and planned for primarily yr 6, but can be taught to yr 5 as well.
The first week looks at the features of a biography, and recognising the key features and with this children will learn about a famous abolitionist Harriet Tubman and her biography through a text and a BBC clip. Interesting activities have been included based around grammar and a reading comprehension to retrieve information about the text. Included in week one are 5 lessons of PPP, Also included is an overview of Harriet Tubman’s life for key features - NOT A STORY MAP, but could be used to learn all about Harriet’s life.
The second week offers opportunities for children to identify grammatical features in a biography, using the box up plan to help develop ideas, before composing ideas orally and in writing. The English lessons links to History, where children will research another abolitionist/civil right campaigner or a Quaker during the 19th Century. This research will give children a deeper understanding on what life as a slave working on a plantation was like in the United States of America or as a worker in Great Briton in the work houses in Victorian Briton. During this week, children will use the box up grid to develop ideas before starting to prepare a shared piece of writing on either famous person.
The third week focuses on continuing a shared write putting together a complete biography aiming to write five paragraphs. Other fun activities include role playing a Historian of American History/slavery radio phone in.
In week four children will choose and write independently a biography about another historical person from the Victorian era who have made a difference to our lives today. This four week block will link to a cross curricular topics of: The Victorians or 19th Century American history.
Take the time to read the biography of Harriet Tubman by Dorothy Sterling before you teach the 4 week block or read it as a class book. I enjoyed reading Harriet’s biography.
KS2 Yr5-Yr6 English – Why we should eat a balanced diet – A Balanced Argument
This block of lesson gives pupils an opportunity to revise what a balanced argument is, revising vocabulary and key features of writing a balanced argument. There is a prequel lesson where pupils can have a class/ group debate on different questions about Junk food.
Following this lesson there are five lessons that will give pupils ideas to plan, write and edit their own balanced arguments on Why we should eat a balanced dirt. Ideas for writing their own arguments could come from the prequal lesson questions pupils debated about as well.
This bundle is for upper KS2 and includes the following subjects: English, PSHE, History and maths.
The English block of 8 lessons pupils will learn all about report writing, farming and land use, why fair trade produce is important to farmers and how climate and weather conditions affect farming in the UK and around the world. By the end of the 8 day block pupils would be able to write their own NCR on farming and fair trade.
The PSHE lesson pupils will learn and understand the definition of Fair trade; Explain why Farmers rely on Fair trade for their produce; Discuss issues that are current in the news; discuss how EU sugar reform is endangering the livelihoods of small farmers and develop personal opinions and views. Give pupils opportunities in making suggestions on ways to improve the schools views and practices on Fair Trade.
History focuses on Atlantic Trade Routes where pupils will explain the impact of exploration on the way we live today.
By the end of the lesson pupils would be able to identify explorers who discovered trade routes and food from around the world; successfully explain how our lives today have been influenced from explorer’s discoveries. Finally able to explain the benefits of why specific food produce are fair trade.
Maths – Fair Trade on the High Seas these three lessons pupils will learn to solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure.
Convert between miles and kilometres and work out the time it takes on the high seas and distance in miles to reach a location in the UK or around the world; explain the method of working out the speed, distance & time for the explorers & fair trade routes.
These lessons require using IT and internet skills through researching the key topic areas as well as taking notes.
This unit of work is suitable for upper KS2.
The learning in these four lessons gives pupils opportunities to learn about different ways of advertising, who are the target audience when adverts are produced, thinking about the techniques which are used when adverts are made with the outcome of planning and producing own posters for a healthy eating or fitness campaign.
Lesson one begins with discussing persuasive techniques in advertising answering questions on:
Q. Where do you encounter advertising? (They will likely mention television, billboards, radio, Websites, school hallways, and so on.)
Q. Which specific advertisements "stick in your head?” the class task leads into watching a selection of adverts discussing the three different ways of advertising. Lesson two gives pupils opportunities to research on the web different poster/fliers – web search images posters advertising events/ cafes and restaurants. By the end of the week, pupils will use their learning from previous lessons to create a design their own posters that has the biggest impact that is eye catching. The final lesson gives opportunities to edit and improve their posters.
This unit of work is suitable for upper KS2.
The learning in these five lessons offers pupils to research and read different newspapers and distinguish between factual information and opinions based on factual information; Read and explore a range of journalistic writing and identify how a newspaper reports on specific events. Leading on to comparing and contrasting journalistic articles using the 5w’s and how and evaluating the effectiveness and impact different journalistic articles have on its target audience.
Lesson one starts with distinguishing between facts and opinions in the newspapers and answering questions with the importance of answering questions with the 5 W’s. The weeks focus is all about when the sugar tax was first introduced and how the sugar tax has impacted on reducing the obesity of the nation.
These newspaper articles will be evaluated and questions will be answered –
Q. what type of language is used? Q. What’s it purpose/impact on audience?
Q. is formal or informal language used? Q. Is all the information needed?
Q. Is anything missing? Q. Who is the intended audience?
By the end of the week pupils should be able to identify the key language features, the structure and layouts features and explain what the differences are between fact and opinion. A following week’s planning leads into writing own newspaper reports. ‘Hot of the press’ can be purchased separately or purchased in a bundle.
Read and create Poetry
This unit of work is for upper KS2.
Lesson one starts with discussing how authors use language in poetry to capture the reader’s attention. Starting with synonyms and recapping what a synonym is. Asking pupils to write down on whiteboards what their interpretation of a synonym is.
Lesson two continues with Identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning of a prose with a task; using personification and making kitchen utensils to life.
As the weeks progresses, pupils will understand how to use personification, similes, synonyms in own writing; thinking how writing styles creates imagery. Pupils would take time reading different prose about food during the week and by the end of the week pupils would spend time refining and evaluating sentences using personification synonyms, metaphors, imagery and similes for impact.
A review from this lesson would be appreciated.
This topic bundle of lessons gives pupils an understanding on where food comes from around the world, which season’s fresh produce is grown and investigating farming and how farmed produce ends on our forks. The impact on war and drought has on food distribution to the rising food prices.
The science lessons include lessons on ‘why we should eat a balanced diet?’ Diet and lifestyle on the human body and Pioneers on food, medicine and vaccines.
The history lessons looks at the different methods of farming, the Atlantic trade routes, make connections about how farmers and farming life has developed over time, and over time how food medicine has had an impact on our lifestyle.
The Maths lesson circumnavigating the high seas links to the history lesson – Atlantic trade routes and the PSHE lesson asks the question ‘why fair trade is important to farmers?’
The English lessons include: writing a balanced argument and asking the question: ‘Why we should eat a balanced diet’; what’s in the news- researching what the papers write and identifying what’s fact and fiction. The follow on week’s lessons – Hot of the press, gives pupils opportunities to write their own newspaper articles.
Learning overview to understand the meanings of the songs Harriet and fellow slaves sang.
Construct in the first person a diary entry, which includes a chant that portrays a meaning and a code organising ideas chronologically.
This week of lessons focusses on exploring the chants and songs the slaves sung from the book ’ The story of Harriet Tubman - Freedom Train’ by Dorothy Sterling.
Using the knowledge of the story to write a diary entry of a slave working in the fields or in the household.
This resource is great for home schooling as an activity to practice high frequency words and spelling them, putting knowledge of grammar and punctuation and being creative in tour writing into practice.
These units of work are suitable for upper KS2.
The learning in these five lessons offers pupils to research and read different newspapers and distinguish between factual information and opinions based on factual information; Read and explore a range of journalistic writing and identify how a newspaper reports on specific events. Leading on to comparing and contrasting journalistic articles using the 5w’s and how and evaluating the effectiveness and impact different journalistic articles have on its target audience.
Lesson one starts with distinguishing between facts and opinions in the newspapers and answering questions with the importance of answering questions with the 5 W’s. The weeks focus is all about when the sugar tax was first introduced and how the sugar tax has impacted on reducing the obesity of the nation.
These newspaper articles will be evaluated and questions will be answered –
Q. what type of language is used? Q. What’s it purpose/impact on audience?
Q. is formal or informal language used? Q. Is all the information needed?
Q. Is anything missing? Q. Who is the intended audience?
By the end of the week pupils should be able to identify the key language features, the structure and layouts features and explain what the differences are between fact and opinion. A following week’s planning leads into writing own newspaper reports.
Hot of the Press is a unit of work suitable for upper KS2.
The learning in these five lessons gives pupils opportunities to identify the features of note taking on a health topic for a news article and write own newspaper reports; understand the concepts of journalism and how to take notes as reporters by planning a news article using key language and structure layout for own news paper report.
This unit of work follows on from ‘What’s in the News’
Hot of the Press unit of work begins with scanning and skim reading an article to take notes which leads on to skills activities in subordinate clause at the beginning at the end of sentences, embedded clauses., Semi-colon separating two main clause, simple sentences and rhetorical question in a news article. By the end of the week pupils will use their scan and skim reading skills to take their own notes before composing a newspaper article on food, nutrition or health successfully using all criteria from the class checklist and use editing skills to produce a final news article.
This unit of work is for upper KS 2. Pupils will learn all about writing Non Chronological reports, focusing on farming, land use and why fair trade produce is important to farmers, as well as how climate and weather conditions affect farmers in the UK.
This unit of work includes 8 lesson plans, 8 PPP’s for each of the lessons, resources and web links to help pupils on their learning journey.
This unit of work follows the new curriculum standards, Learning objectives and success criteria are displayed clearly.
Other lessons that are linked to this block are PSHE, History and numeracy and can also be purchased as a bundle.
PSHE History focus -What does Fair trade mean to you?
History – Atlantic Trade Routes
Numeracy- Fair Trade on the High Seas
KS 2 Our lifestyle and Fitness.
This bundle includes PE- circuit fitness a six week block of circuit training that includes an over view for all warm ups, main exercises and cool downs which can be extended to a 12 week block. Warm ups, main exercises and cool downs all include photos and teaching points; A PSHE lesson that explains how to take pulse rates, body measurements and recording data in a Personal Fitness Journey log.
Three numeracy lessons that cross over from the PSHE lesson, children will solve problems involving calculations and conversion of different units of measure linked to our own body measurements. Calculating and converting units of measure and identify and find the pulses in our bodies during and after exercise. Finally children will analyse and interpret the data collected of the resting pulse, active pulse and recovery pulses and create bar charts to display results.
Science - L2 why we should eat a balanced diet. This lesson is suitable for upper kS2 and gives opportunities to research the principles of what a balanced diet is. Understand the reasons why we should eat a balanced diet, by explaining what a balanced diet consists off.
By the end of the lesson pupils will be able to give an explanation of a well balanced and healthy diet through the ‘eat well’ plate; successfully categorise the different types of food that make up our diet. Explain what the proportions are; and how we should eat them, recall the differences of good and bad fats and identify processed sugars and natural sugars in food sources.
With a focus on teaching Healthy food and exercise involves a balanced diet and keeping fit.
Science - L3 Diet and lifestyle on the human body. The crux of this lesson is thinking about our diet and lifestyle and the impact it has on the human body. Asking the question ‘What is obesity?’ With further investigations and watching clips on fat and how it affects the body; what diseases and health implications are there on the human body when consuming too much bad fat.
Explaining what nutrients are, which foods have different nutrients in and why they are important; answering questions on: what is a healthy lifestyle? Why is it so important to eat healthily and keep fit? What foods we consider as healthy and unhealthy?
Science – L5 Circulatory system. This lesson is all about the circulatory system and provides opportunities to learn and label the heart and the role of each part of the heart; the function of blood vessels and the role of the oxygenated and deoxygenated blood in the body. Invitations for a qualified first aider to visit would allow pupils to learn about CPR, the recovery position and general first aid.
Maths -4 days of lessons looking at Nutritional percentages and values in food.
Maths 4 days and a further four days of lessons looking into researching and understanding the nutritional value of foods and drinks focussing on sugar content; as well as identifying foods and drinks with high sugar levels.
English – Why we should eat a balanced diet – A Balanced Argument
This block of lesson gives pupils an opportunity to revise what a balanced argument is, revising vocabulary and key features of writing a balanced argument. There is a prequel lesson where pupils can have a class/ group debate on different questions about Junk food.
This will give pupils ideas to plan, write and edit their own balanced arguments. These lessons are part of a bundle offer to be purchased together and would save you time and offer a fun, practical mini unit of work for your class.
This unit of work is suitable for upper KS2.
The learning in these five lessons gives pupils opportunities to identify the features of note taking on a health topic for a news article and write own newspaper reports; understand the concepts of journalism and how to take notes as reporters by planning a news article using key language and structure layout for own news paper report.
This unit of work follows on from ‘What’s in the News’
Lesson one begins with scanning and skim reading an article to take notes which leads on to skills activities in subordinate clause at the beginning at the end of sentences, embedded clauses., Semi-colon separating two main clause, simple sentences and rhetorical question in a news article. By the end of the week pupils will use their scan and skim reading skills to take their own notes before composing a newspaper article on food, nutrition or health successfully using all criteria from the class checklist and use editing skills to produce a final news article.
This unit of work can be purchased as a bundle.
KS2 English - By Invitation Only!
This unit of work is suitable for upper KS2.
The learning in these four lessons gives pupils opportunities to research different styles and formats of invitation cards to design their own; composing an invitation to Inform and provide information about an event. Also to think about the language and the descriptive style and charisma that is used to persuade the audience.
Pupils will focus on researching and designing their own invitation card for an event; the remaining lessons are using prior knowledge in designing a dinner menu for an event Produce a final menu outlining the courses, using descriptive language, punctuation to persuade and inform. Then to design a menu that has the same style and effect as the invitation.
The English unit of work is based on a number of other lessons in this topic- Food For Thought; it brings together all pupils learning in this twelve week unit of work. There are links to the Design Technology unit of work designing a menu for a final presentation evening inviting family members and sharing all work produced in the topic over the term.
This unit of work is suitable for upper KS2.
The learning in these five lessons gives pupils opportunities to watch different adverts and explain why they are appealing and to identify the target audience. By the end of the second lesson pupils will take notes and develop ideas why music is used in advertising campaigns; as well as identify how adverts use gender for impact. This is seen in one particular fast food advert about a young boy who can’t do what a young boy wants to do to have fun. As the week proceeds pupils will write an advert using appropriate advertising techniques and descriptive language for a full effect, as well as starting to compose a musical jingle to accompany the advert. Following this pupils will edit and improve the advertising campaign ready to record it for a radio broadcast.
The weeks lessons combines individual learning, as well as working as a team to compose, edit and improve the advert ready to broadcast.
Included in this unit of work are three music lessons that gives pupils opportunities to compose their own jingle to an advert.
