A complete, ready-to-teach apostrophes lesson for Year 5/6. This resource includes clear teaching slides, modelling, practice activities and opportunities for pupils to apply their understanding of contractions and possession. Ideal for reinforcing key punctuation skills and building confidence in writing.
Year 5/6 Writing Assessment: Setting Description Unit – Floating City & The Door in the Tree
This engaging two-day writing assessment is designed for Upper KS2 pupils and focuses on developing high-quality descriptive writing through rich vocabulary exploration and modelled teaching.
Day 1: Pupils explore a stunning Floating City image stimulus, generating ambitious vocabulary to describe the setting, atmosphere and senses. They build a personal vocabulary bank before analysing and discussing effective descriptive language. The lesson then moves to a fully modelled setting description using a different image stimulus, The Door in the Tree, allowing pupils to practise identifying and applying key writing techniques.
Day 2: Pupils independently write their own setting description of the Floating City, drawing upon the vocabulary, ideas and notes collected during Day 1. This lesson serves as a writing assessment, enabling teachers to evaluate pupils’ ability to apply descriptive techniques independently.
A complete two-day maths resource designed for Year 5 and Year 6 pupils, focusing on calculating the difference between temperatures and adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers. Includes engaging PowerPoint lessons, tasks, worked examples, answers, reasoning questions and SATs-style practice to support fluency, problem-solving and mathematical thinking.
Ideal for whole-class teaching, intervention groups or revision.
Year 5/6 | Lincolnshire Agreed RE Syllabus
This engaging lesson explores how religious worldviews can change over time through the contrasting beliefs of Anne Askew and Thomas Kyme. Pupils take part in a structured debate, using evidence and discussion to examine different viewpoints about faith, truth and authority in Tudor England.
The lesson develops critical thinking, empathy and respectful dialogue while deepening understanding of Christianity and historical perspectives
In this unit, Year 5/6 pupils explore in greater depth key Christian teachings and biblical texts relating to what it means to be human. They apply this learning to the lived example of Anne Askew, a sixteenth-century Protestant Christian who was eventually executed for her beliefs during the Protestant Reformation. Using questions and methods drawn from theology, history and philosophy, pupils investigate continuity and change in Christian worldviews, considering how beliefs influence people’s lives and actions. Through discussion, enquiry and the study of case studies, pupils develop their understanding of Christian worldviews and the experiences of Christian women across different periods of history.
This resource has been written to support the Lincolnshire Agreed RE Syllabus for Year 5/6. It also includes a class display folder, containing materials that can be used throughout the unit to celebrate pupils’ learning, reinforce key vocabulary and concepts, and create an engaging RE learning environment.
This Year 5/6 RE lesson, written for the Lincolnshire Agreed RE Syllabus, explores the enquiry question**“Have women always been valued within Christian worldviews?”** Using stories of influential Christian women and key Christian beliefs, pupils investigate how religious beliefs about equality, leadership, calling and dignity have shaped attitudes towards women over time. Through discussion, research and reflection, children consider how religious worldviews can change and what Christians today can learn from these examples
Anne Askew and the Protestant Reformation | KS2 RE (Year 5/6)
An engaging RE lesson exploring belief, discrimination, power and authority through the life of Anne Askew. Pupils investigate her experiences as a Protestant Christian in Tudor England, compare Catholic and Protestant beliefs, and develop their reasoning through discussion and a Diamond 9 ranking activity.
Includes SEND-friendly support (Vocabulary) and opportunities for deeper thinking.
This display supports children’s learning about the Protestant Reformation, Anne Askew, influential Christian women, and how Christian beliefs and practices have changed over time. It includes an A4 title banner, key vocabulary from the unit, and thought-provoking Big Questions to encourage discussion and reflection about faith, authority, truth, interpretation, and change.
Includes:
A4 Display Banner
Big Questions for enquiry and discussion
Unit Vocabulary
Year 5/6 RE: Different Interpretations of the Bible
An engaging RE lesson exploring Anne Askew, the Protestant Reformation, and how Christians may interpret the Bible differently.
Includes a retrieval quiz, discussion activities, Bible text analysis, vocabulary, a speech-bubble task, and a plenary. Suitable for Upper KS2.
Pupils will learn about the Protestant Reformation, exploring why Martin Luther protested against the Roman Catholic Church and how these changes led to the creation of the Church of England.
The PowerPoint presentation, vocabulary support, differentiated activities, and SEND resources are included to help all pupils access the learning.
This homework pack contains two engaging activities designed to reinforce key Year 5/6 objectives.
Children will practise using expanded noun phrases to add detail and description to their writing, as well as solving a range of real-life time problems involving timetables, durations and start and finish times.
*Ready to print
*Includes challenge questions for greater depth learners
*Answer sheets included
*Ideal for homework, intervention groups or independent practice
How far did attitudes towards women change between 1914 and 1945?
This ready-to-print display pack helps pupils explore suffrage, equality, World Wars I and II, and the journey towards women’s rights.
This Year 5/6 RE lesson, written for the Lincolnshire Agreed RE Syllabus, is the final lesson in a unit exploring Christian worldviews, the Protestant Reformation, and the life of Anne Askew. Pupils evaluate how the experience of being a Christian woman has changed over time, using case studies, historical evidence, and philosophical questioning to support their reasoning.
The lesson encourages discussion, critical thinking, and reflection, culminating in a summary of learning and an evaluation of the strengths and limitations of using case studies to understand Christian worldviews.
