3 days of detailed planning and resources for Subject Lead modelling to other teachers. Work leads to children writing own biased and sensational news reports about Kissin' Kate Barlow. Hope it is useful.

My IWB presentation starts with a recap on Networks but the main lesson is to teach lower KS2 children the difference between the Internet and WWW. Included with my presentation is a link to a useful BBC film clip on this subject and a Publisher file for children to do note taking on and produce a poster to summarise their learning in this lesson. This resource resulted in the whole class successfully understand this concept at a basic level and all of them were keen to go home and teach their parents. I hope it works as well for you.

This resource includes everything I created for a series of two lessons on free verse poetry writing about our Forest School and based on 'The Way Through The Woods' by Rudyard Kipling. The second lesson was observed and highly praised by my head teacher and English specialist. I have included the lesson presentation, examples of the Year 6 pupils writing from the first day, my own version of 'The Way Through The Woods', lesson planning, a differentiated activity for LAP pupils and learning objectives. This lesson could easily be adapted for Year 5 too. This is a perfect autumn/winter activity that gets the children outdoors and writing about their surroundings.

I spent a great deal of time on this resource for an activity to celebrate our Outstanding Ofsted Grade.The first challenge is a simple one that uses BeeBots for KS1 children. My four other challenges introduce KS2 children to Crumble Bots. They involve moving the Crumble Bot in a straight line, making it spin, making the lights or sparkles flash and, most exciting of all, line tracking (following a black line using infra red sensors. ) Each challenge is carefully explained on an A4 sheet and gives hints and tips on which blocks of code to use.

Assembly I led to promote whole school reading engagement. Watched by Chair of Governors and thankfully activities managed to gain lots of hands up and enthusiasm from all pupils (Year 1-6). I used some Year 6 pupils at front to read character descriptions before other children guessed them. After my speech on slide 12 other Year 6s read poems (not included as I was unsure about copyright) ;however, they are all online and called: Good Books by Edgar Guest; I met a dragon face to face by Jack Prelustsky and There is a land by Leland B Jacobs. The slide with bar chart was an eye opener for those more reluctant readers and included a bit of Maths in an assembly that was otherwise a true celebration of English and books. Hope it works as well for you as it did me. By the way, I am sure you will want to change the first slide to you and your family reading together.

I wrote this story as an example to my able Year 4 class before they wrote their own autobiographical story. As well as demonstrating the features of an autobiography, it showed them how to use paragraphs, grab the readers attention and keep the reader in suspense.