I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
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I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Text includes a range of non fiction, fictionalised, historical texts and short poetry. Questions include whole range of SAT style questions such as: inference and deduction, prediction and factual recall. Ideal for Guided groups, homework or whole class activity,
Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Text includes a range of non fiction, fictionalised, historical texts and short poetry. Questions include whole range of SAT style questions such as: inference and deduction, prediction and factual recall. Ideal for Guided groups, homework or whole class activity,
To be used with a whole class providing 5 way differentiation:
Boy -HA
Witches MA / HA
The Twits MA
Fantastic Mr Fox LA/MA
The Magic Finger followed by The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me - LA
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To make comparisons between similar experiences today and those in the past.
To be able to understand the conventions of a non-fiction text.
To be able to skim and scan for information in a whole text
A differentiated set of guided reading for a six week term
Tom's Midnight Garden - HA
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - HA/MA
Road Dahl - Matilda- MA
The Suitcase Kid - MA /LA
Bill's new frock / The Iron Man - LA
This set also includes a PDF of A Christmas Carol
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activities based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To use cover, contents and preface to make predictions.
To read and understand a classic text.
To understand how memories can help change a person.
To understand how an author can have a character changed by what he experiences first hand.
To understand how knowledge of the future can help change a person.
To understand the many different ways an author can show a character has changed.
Lower Ability - Cool
Middle Ability - Wreck of Zanzibar, the Last Wolf
Higher Ability - Kensuke's Kingdom, Private Peaceful.
Ideal for use with Key Stage 2 or Key Stage 3
A differentiated set of guided reading for a half term
Private Peaceful - HA
Carrie's War / Stig of the Dump - MA
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe / Street Child - LA
Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes:
A collection of eleven quotes from contemporary sources,
An explanation of five activities that can be carried out using these resources
Planning Templates to support arguments and a chart to help summarise arguments about Workhouses
Learning Objectives
• To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance,
• To make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• To understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
Learning Outcomes:
Pupils will be able to:
• recognise and discern between arguments made for and against the role of Workhouses.
• draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of Workhouse.
• produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) the abolition of Workhouses.
• produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of Workhouses.
• Produce their own written narrative of life in a Workhouse
A collection of resources to prove a background to life in Roman Britain including two investigative activities and a collection of comprehensions which could be used for homework.
Boudicca – Fact from Fiction
LO: To understand how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world. (KS2)
LO: To apply the above to the study of an aspect or theme in British history that consolidates and extends pupils’ chronological knowledge from before 1066 (KS3)
A complete activity to help children understand the way that information about historical figures although rooted in fact, can also have legends attached to them.
The activity consists of:
Teaching Input:
1. A powerpoint providing information about the life and significance of Boudicca, both fact and fiction organised around the following sections:
- who Boudicca was
- her early life
- her relationship with the King Prasutagus
- her marriage
- The uprising
- The destruction of Camulodunum (Colchester
- her Victories
- her defeat and the end
- her legacy to Britain.
This can either be run as an introduction, or shared with children in groups or pairs.
Independent Task:
2. A sorting activity consisting of a series of statements which are either factual or legendary about Boudica. (This includes a fact sheet for teacher use, providing the correct answers and a series of websites which provide additional source information)
3. A template to allow children to sort the information provided into Truth or Legend.
Challenge / Extension / AG&T
Using websites listed, children could try to find additional information about both peoples.
Plenary
Mark with the children, getting them to identify how they knew whether or not something was a legend or the truth (links with Literacy language of myths and legends).
Pose and discuss the statement Why do you think there are so many stories told about Boudica.
A collection of resources to get you started teaching about Roman Britain, including three sets of Guided Reading activities based around the hugely popular Horrible History series and the children's classic, the Eagle of the Ninth
This is a first in a series of resources designed to develop children's understanding of time-lines and their appreciation of where a particular historical period fits into the chronology of history.
Learning Objective:
To know and understand the history of these islands (Great Britain) as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day.
A series of activities designed to begin any history topic linked to the British Isles including:
Resource 1: Time-line of the British Isles – with dates
Resource 2: Definition cards BC / AD.
Resources 3: Timeline of the British Isles – without dates.
Resource 4: Time-line Cards
Resource 5: Interactive Time-line without dates.
A Word document detailing some suggested activities for working with time-lines.
Learning Outcomes:
Children will be able to:
• Understand how the islands of Britain have changed over time.
• Understand the difference between AD and BC
• Understand the difference between BC, First millennium and Second millennium.
• Understand that dates before Christ are older the bigger the number (cf negative numbers)
• Sequence a series of BC and AD dates.
• Compare and contrast key events in British history.
Any feedback on these resources, their effectiveness, additions and areas in which they can be improved would be very welcome.
(Update - corrects 1 incorrect link in Resource 5 - Interactive Timeline of British isles)
Set in the Highlands of Scotland around the time of the Battle of Culloden, this short story has a definite twist in its tail. Ideal for any work on historical fiction, this text was written specifically for this purpose.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To understand how an author sets a story in the past.
To use inference and deduction to understand the main characters’ feelings.
To reflect on a completed text.
Please note to print the text from Word, select two sided along short edge. This will print the book in A5 book format.
This is a second in a series of resources designed to develop children's understanding of time-lines and their appreciation of where a particular historical period fits into the chronology of history.
Learning Objective:
To know and understand how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world.
A series of activities designed to begin any history topic linked to the Tudor period including:
Resource 1: Tudor Time-line – with dates
Resource 2: The five Tudor Monarchs.
Resources 3: Tudor Time-line– without dates.
Resource 4: Tudor Time-line Cards
Resource 5: Interactive Tudor Time-line without dates.
Resource 6: Interactive Tudor Time-line with dates.
A Word document detailing some suggested activities for working with time-lines.
Learning Outcomes:
Children will be able to:
•Learning Outcomes:
Children will be able to:
• how the five Tudor monarchs shaped Britain.
• how other individuals have also shaped Britain.
• how Britain’s relationship with Catholic Europe changed during this period.
• how Britain has influenced and been influenced by its relationship with Europe.
• how Britain began to influence America.
• Sequence a series of 4 digit numbers.
• Compare and contrast key events in British history.
Any feedback on these resources, their effectiveness, additions and areas in which they can be improved would be very welcome.
A fully narrated youtube clip, PowerPoint show and PowerPoint presentation with hyperlinks to additional learning about the first VE Day in 1945 and how to celebrate VE Day’s 75th anniversary.
The resources includes a fully editable PowerPoint presentation to allow you, if you wish, to replace photos close to where I teach, with photos linked to your own locality.
The video is designed for distribution across a whole school, with sections tailored for KS1 and KS2 and KS2 on its own.
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