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.
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.
A sugary Tax
These lessons are suitable for upper KS2.
Pupils will research and understand the nutritional value of foods and drinks focussing on sugar content and identify foods and drinks with high sugar levels.
The initial task pupils will complete would be to ‘Thought Shower’ which foods have high sugar content, then compile a list of named foods and drinks and prices of these foods and drinks.
In TP’s using supermarkets online look up foods and drinks listing Carbohydrates of which are sugars per 100g per serving and the prices. Research the same product on two different supermarkets listing the prices.
Answering the Question: Is there a difference in price between the supermarkets?
Lesson two will give opportunities for pupils to work out the tax that would be enforced comparing the price to the price before tax is added. This lesson carries over to lesson three where pupils will use the calculations of the VAT on the food and input data of the amount of teaspoons of sugar in drinks and foods to create a pie chart and then to write a summary of findings. In this summary of what your results show, pupils will their own opinions on the sugar tax.
Lesson four is a practical lesson in bread making weighing out correctly ingredients to bake a loaf of bread and follow instructions carefully of a bread recipe. This lesson is linked to a science lesson where pupils will look at how yeast works and that some microbes are beneficial.
The following swimming lessons have been put together for teachers and support staff who take their classes swimming.
There are 7 stages with Swim England website that are taught to children in schools.
Attached is a six week block of lessons for children at level one at swimming.
I am a qualified swimming teacher who teaches all levels of Swim England standards, and will be putting levels 2-7 together. Let me know if your teaching swimming in your school, and the level on poolside and would like some lessons in particular areas??
This lesson has been written for upper KS2.
Geography/History – Changes in our landscapes
Topic day- Methods of farming and changing land use.
Q. How has methods of farming and land use changed over time?
To gain an understanding of how land use and life has changed over time and recognise key topographical features using and reading OS maps identifying land use symbols and scales as well as locations and distances on all scales of maps, including national and world maps.
This lesson is for upper KS2 and is an ideal lesson for a topic day where pupils would be looking into farming and land use seeing how much has changed over time.
Pupils would use local maps of a county, regional and nationally from a local library - to see how land use has changed over a period of time in the history aspect of this lesson.
With a focus on the different farming ways –studying beef, sheep, dairy, arable, mixed, pastoral and renewable energy using Google Earth as a source of information.
The aim of the geography lesson is for pupils to consider the changes that can happen in an area and about the impact that these changes can have on both the environment and the people who live there.
The curriculum links to Literacy W3 –W4 How farming has changed over time and why Fair trade products are so important, History- Atlantic trade routes /PSHE Fair Trade and Numeracy W5 – Time, distance and speed investigating how far food is exported to.
These can be bought also as a bundle.
I would appreciate any reviews and comments and if improvements can be made.
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.
This six week Design Tech unit of work is for upper KS2
This block is all about Menus, tasting and cooking.
This block of work is a practical, fun and involves group work activities over the six week block. With the overall objective to create a menu, buy the ingredients and then prepare the food for their chosen menu. Inviting family members into school to share work produced over the past 12 weeks.
There are a number of numeracy lessons that are linked to the DT unit of work which help them prepare for the family invite and presentation these include: Using the 12 & 24 hour clock, timings and preparation. The nutritional value of foods by creating a set of top trump cards, understanding direct and indirect ratio proportion; as well as budgeting, working out cost of ingredients, quantities of ingredients needed in preparing foods.
This topic has been written for KS1 Elementary school all about How fashion has changed over time from the 19th century to the 21st century with a focus on Muslim clothing and how laws changed for women through the decades.
Includes a 6 week block of lessons; power point presentations and fun activity work sheets which involve becoming fashion designers and opportunities to make your designs for the catwalk in week six.
I taught this topic to my sisters children online earlier in the year which has successful outcomes.
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.
This lesson is a fun lesson that can involve teachers and support staff in the lesson. It gives pupils opportunities to find out about their level of fitness and their lifestyle they lead.
Also offering opportunities to link this lesson to a maths lesson on data collection, as well as giving pupils their own personal fitness record. The lesson comes with three PE circuit fitness lessons to carry out the data collection.
I have taught several classes this lesson when supply teaching, the children loved the fun involved in the circuit lesson and finding their pulses and recording their data.
Additional Circuit fitness PE lessons can be purchased separately.
This unit of work offers a fun work out where you will find a six week programme with warm ups, main exercises and cool downs. Station cards with photos to demonstrate the exercise and teaching points.
If your a supply teacher and need a PE lesson, this would make a great stand alone lesson as all resources are prepared and ready to use.
See Keep fit Circuit Plan weeks one to six for background information.
Any feedback and comments would be greatly appreciated.
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 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.
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 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
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.
These lessons are suitable for upper KS2.
Opportunities are given to pupils to think of their favourite meals writing down the ingredients needed, checking the recipe and given a budget to role play buying the ingredients across different supermarkets.
Pupils would also gain an understanding of VAT, working out the VAT on food produce. Towards the end of the week, pupils will be given a budget to plan a week’s family menu, and evaluate the prices across the different supermarkets constructing tally charts, pie charts and graphs to evaluate the data collected. The four days of lessons are all prepared on one PPP listing all resources and website needed for teaching. Two characters Charlie and Lee have been used to ask questions to the children or giving a statement that the children will have to answer using stem sentences (that you are using in your class) in giving their explanations and reasonings
Feedback and comments would be appreciated, Thank you in advance.
This six week block is for upper key stage 2 and includes lesson plans, artwork, photos and ppp 's . Based on how food has been represented through the ages by famous artists, by looking at photos of food today and evaluate them according to the media used and style.
To taking photos of displays of food to then use in creating own pop art based on Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
This will lead into sketching using different resources and techniques from photos to use for a food package and study how art is used in the packaging of food.
By the end of the six weeks children will use examples of artwork to design a food package by researching the web to base own ideas on.
This six week art block would lead into a six week block in Design Technology that can be purchased with additional numeracy lessons.
I would appreciate any feedback and reviews.
These lessons are for upper KS2.
There are seven lessons that introduce opportunities for pupils to evaluate any goals they may have, set goals and evaluate their achievements at set lessons over the period of the term. The remaining lessons pupils will learn about medication, smoking, alcohol and taking drugs and the impacts this has on the people who do any of the above, both socially and on their health.
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.
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.
