The Plague - Unit of Work & PowerPoint UOW & PowerPoint attached. ALL activities are fully integrated in a 30-slide PowerPoint presentation. Approximately 6 - 8 hours of lessons & learning. Ideal for Year 2 - Year 4 students. **Learning intentions covered: ** To make links between the past and present To learn about the plague To describe images from the past To imagine and explain the impact of an untreatable disease To explain how a traditional rhyme is linked to our history To explain the role of a Plague Doctor To investigate HOW the plague was passed from one person to another To examine and perform roles and responsibilities of people during the plague To review and assess learning To draw a flea-infested rat Fully editable.

Chinese New Year will be celebrated on Friday 12th February 2021 Attached is a fully updated Chinese New Year whole school assembly. I used something similar during an OFSTED inspection and the inspectors made a special mention about how interactive, inclusive and enjoyable it was … the school went on to achieve an ‘OUTSTANDING’ report. Duration of assembly: 15 minutes (approx.) Included in your purchase is a 24-slide PowerPoint to display and refer to whilst delivering your assembly. The assembly begins by wishing the children ‘Happy New Year’ in Chinese … ‘Gong Hey Fat Choy!’ (on slide 2). The rest is as follows: Slide 3: Some basic facts about China (ending with the fact that China is famous for Kung Fu). Slide 4: A video of Bruce Lee performing some Kung Fu. Slide 5: If you have a child(ren) in your school who practice Kung Fu, ask them to perform a small routine in front of the school … there is also some appropriate music on this slide for the child(ren) to perform to … just click on the picture and the music will begin. Slides 6 - 9: These slides explain the Chinese Zodiac. It tells the children that it is the ‘YEAR OF THE OX’. On Slide 7, there is a link to a short Chinese New Year cartoon for the children to watch. Slides 10 - 23: This is a lovely story for you (or some children) to read aloud … it’s about a family preparing for Chinese New Year. On slide 20 there is also a link to a dragon/lion dance video (attached). Slide 24: Sing the song ‘Kung Fu Fighting’ (lyrics and music provided).

SEASONS and MONTHS **Task: **Students will learn months and seasons through a variety of activities. 3 differentiated activity booklets in total. 2 pages of activities in each booklet. HA: Higher Ability MA: Middle Ability LA: Lower Ability Tried and Tested.

A fantastic Maths Challenge! ANSWERS provided! Learning Intention: To investigate time zones and to calculate flight times. Activity: Students have to calculate the arrival time (UK and local time at destination) for each flight. For the highest achieving students, they have to use the 2 websites provided to calculate flight times and time zone differences as well as generating their own flights! Almost every parent commented on how exciting and challenging this homework challenge was and the students loved it! PDF and Word formats available so fully editable. **Please note: Depending on the time of year, the flight times on the activity sheets may vary by 1 HOUR. This is because of daylight saving times (when the UK clocks move forwards/backwards by 1 hour ). You don’t need to worry about this, just use the times written on the activity. **

Great ‘TIME’ class-based / homework project. 2 pages of activities. Students have to design their own TV channel … start and finish times, duration of shows etc … they love it!!!

LEARN THE NUMBER OF DAYS IN EACH MONTH WITH THESE 2 GREAT CALENDAR POEM RESOURCES: Activity 1: Fill in the calendar poem using the word list Activity 2: How many days in each month?

Various TIME challenges … the children love them! Activity: Students must time and record how long it takes to complete each challenge … just give each group a stopwatch and off you go. Tried and Tested Fully editable

**Activity: Draw hands on each clock face. Then write the time in figures and words below each time.

**TIME DIARY ** Great activity to make your students more familiar with 12hr and 24hr time. Students write down what they normally do in a whole day. Great to find out about your student’s home/work/life balance too. Fully editable

Teach TIME with this great booklet! Activity: Students to write and draw time using digital, analogue and 24-hour time. 5-page booklet. PDF and Word formats attached. Fully editable

**Maths warm up or plenary! ** Can your students make the target number before the time runs out? Music from ‘Countdown’ A fun start or end to any maths lesson (nice link to TIME)

Lots of ‘Time’ questions - times shown in analogue and digital. O’clock, Half past, quarter past and quarter to times. Appropriate for all ages, particularly 5 - 9 years. Also attached is a second PowerPoint (with 38 slides). Students have to say the times shown in digital form.

Teach your students TIME with these versatile analogue and digital time sheets. Ask your students to show o’clock times, half past times etc. or write in the digital times and ask your students to draw the hands on the clock.

WORLD BOOK DAY is a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading! Attached is a HUGE bundle of resources for you to use/adapt with your class. The resources include a variety of: A variety of book reviews A colouring competition Bookmark-making activities Character profile sheets Story-planning activities (with a range of fictional characters to refer to) Comic strip activities Quiz 13 pieces of ‘World Book Day Music’ AND MORE! Tried and Tested!

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Teeth and Healthy Eating Class Assembly PowerPoint and full script attached. My class came up with their own song too (we recorded it and I’ve attached the music and lyrics). Fully editable.

Teeth & Eating Poems 12 slides. Teeth Poems - slides 3 to 6 Eating Poems - slides 7 to 12 Appropriate for KS1 or KS2 Fully editable.

Save time writing Maths reports with this bank of comments and targets 7 pages of comments under the following headings: Opening Paragraphs Personalised Comments - More Able Personalised Comments - Less Able Maths Targets Fully editable!

Helpful for students to refer to throughout the year. Great for intervention too.