A lesson to help pupils to improve the quality of their writing based around a fairground image. The lesson uses the Alan Peat Exciting sentences to develop a high quality description and focuses on precise and interesting descriptive vocabulary. Suitable for Y5 and Y6 Matches the 2016 writing criteria for Year 6 Sats teacher assessment. Resources contains: - Class powerpoint for teaching including Alan Peat sentence - Resources for planning using a picture and senses table - A word bank of high level vocabulary - A sample text and text with annotation

This dragon writing project teaches pupils how to write non-chronological reports through the fantasy topic of dragons. It can be further applied to real dragons such as the Chinese water dragon and the Komodo dragon. The unit begins with a pre-written text to teach pupils how to develop their own writing. The second part of the unit focused on shared writing and modelled sentences (based on Alan Peat). The last section leads to independent writing. The unit can be run over a couple of weeks and is fully inline with the expectations for Year 5 and 6. The resource contains - Powerpoint on sentence types - Dragon writing paper - Dragon information sheets - Dragon word bank - Lesson plan - Resources - Dragon introductory power point

A cross curricular unit of work with a science base to be taught outside the classroom. Suitable for KS2 pupils. The unit contains a range of outdoor learning activities covering keys, lifecycles of plants, seed dispersal, investigations, gardening and cooking.

This is a guide to book scrutiny for senior leaders. It contains sections on how to plan and carry out book scrutiny, along with guidelines grids for what to expect. There are recording sheets to guide staff on strengths, areas for consideration, points for action and follow up comments. I have included a couple of examples to help you to complete these as part of the monitoring cycle.

This lesson is suitable for Year 4 and 5 pupils. It revises the key number properties and challenges children's thinking skills. There is a whole lesson plan with starter games, main lesson, resources and powerpoint.

A whole school inset on how to adapt lessons to different learning styles. Covers VAKT, Gregorc's mind styles and multiple intelligence/Bloom's taxonomy. The session consists of a powerpoint with leader notes and resource pack for participants.

This lesson teach speech marks and speech using the Jungle Book as the theme. It can be used over several lessons to teach skills step by step. The sessions begin with drama to explore what speech is and then makes links to punctuation. The activities are differentiated to scaffold and to challenge. The resource aims to help pupils have a secure understanding of speech punctuation. The pack contains: A lesson plan Power point of the activities Resources for drama and speech mark work (differentiated)

A lesson which requires children to use thinking skills to explore number patterns using addition and multiplication. The lesson is based on applying number knowledge. Children need secure number bond knowledge and times tables to access the session. The lesson is fully differentiated for different abilities and aimed at Year 4/Year 5. The lessons aims to encourage pupils to explore patterns in number, applying their knowledge of addition and multiplication and articulate their mathematical thinking. The session includes: - Powerpoint presentation - Teacher notes - Monster cards - Differentiated activity sheets

This is a training session for an INSET day or series of staff meetings. It is designed to help staff to reflect on their classroom teaching and to explore the factors which help pupils to make accelerated progress.