I am a primary school teacher and assistant head. I love my job and my aim is to produce high quality teaching resources that motivate learners and make life easier for teachers! All of my resources are ready to teach, differentiated and easy to adapt.
I don't make resources just to sell, all uploads have been made to be used in my own classroom. Therefore, I can vouch for their suitability, pitch and quality.
I am a primary school teacher and assistant head. I love my job and my aim is to produce high quality teaching resources that motivate learners and make life easier for teachers! All of my resources are ready to teach, differentiated and easy to adapt.
I don't make resources just to sell, all uploads have been made to be used in my own classroom. Therefore, I can vouch for their suitability, pitch and quality.
A complete English lesson, written for year 5/6 and differentiated 3 ways.
The objective covered is suspense writing, with a starter that looks at the passive voice.
The planning uses the animated film: Francis Brandywine, which is available on You tube. Directed by Richard Hickey
All images are public domain from pixabay.com
A complete scheme of work, presentations and resources for the story of ** ’ KING KONG by ANTHONY BROWNE.** Aimed at Upper KS2 but easily adaptable. Each lesson is differentiated at least 3 ways.
All lessons are ready to go (the only thing missing is the book!). This unit is genuinely ready to reach and planned to a high quality.
Editable versions of ppts and activity sheets are included wherever possible. The scheme starts and end with a cold and hot task to aid assessment and show clear progression of skills.
**There is a free sample lesson available here:**https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/king-kong-lesson-2-expanded-noun-phrases-free-sample-lesson-11877353
Lessons are based on the understanding of the text and its themes, as well as key narrative, and descriptive writing skills. Coverage includes: cohesion, conjunctions, Precise language choices, adverbials, sentence variety and structure, figurative devices and more.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay. CLips and images from king kong are sourced from Publicdomain.com
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’ The London Eye Mystery’ by Siobhan Dowd. (lesson 11 in a series of 14).
Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on how to structure and write an effective resolution and ending.
This is lesson 11 in a series of 14. The whole scheme of work is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-london-eye-mystery-full-scheme-of-work-14-days-of-planning-presentation-and-resources-11696150
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat’s ‘THE MORE, THE MORE’ Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated) Would fit neatly into a grammar or narrative unit based on sentence construction. Also works very well as a standalone skills lesson.
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways.
The lesson has a dragon theme.
A complete poetry skills lesson, based around SONNET 18 by William Shakespeare.
Planned for year six, and fully differentiated - so could easily be adapted up or down.
A detailed PPT and all resources are included.
ALL IMAGES SOURCED FROM PIXABAY
UPDATED FOR Summer 2019
A Complete ART lesson, which includes a detailed PPT, resources and models.
The lesson covers design and shape, children explore how to create zentangle patterns before creating a zentangle portrait using a photo of themsleves.
All resources are included - all you need is a photo of each child.
Perfect to help you get to know your class, whilst creating a fantastic display for the wall (ideal for the start of the year) Great for transition day too!
The children will produce a portrait for display.
Ideal for KS2/3
All images are either the authors own, or sourced from PIXABAY
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This is a complete 5-week scheme of work, based on the history of Windrush . Written for UpperKey Stage 2, but easily adapted
Objectives covered:
• To be able to locate and identify the Caribbean Islands. (Geography Skills)
• To use historical methods to find out about history of African-Caribbean people in Britain before the 1940’s.
• To know that Caribbean men and women served in the second World War.
• To be able to explain why people chose to travel on the Empire Windrush
• To know and understand the difficulties faced by the Windrush settlers when they arrived in Britain.
Each lesson comes with all resources and an editable powerpoint. There is also a medium term plan for all 5 lessons.
A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat’s BOYS Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated)
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways.
The lesson has a dragon/monster theme.
All images are sourced from PIXABAY.
A Complete ENGLISH/ART lesson, which includes a detailed PowerPoint and all resources, including example poems. UPDATED for 2023
The lesson is designed to help you get to know your class, whilst creating a fantastic display for the wall (ideal for the start of the year) Children consider their Values, beliefs, Strengths, skills and hobbies- before creating an autobiographical poem in the shape of a fingerprint.
This lesson is also perfect for an end of year activity, and the poem can then be kept as a keepsake by the pupil.
Ideal for KS1/2 or 3 as the art activity is easily differentiated.
IMAGES FROM PIXABAY OR AUTHORS OWN.
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A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’Holes’ By Louis Sachar
This is lesson 3 in a series of 6. The whole scheme of work is available.
The whole scheme includes 6 full lessons, each fully resourced, and including a detailed PPT. The scheme culminates in the class writing a description of a setting using all of the descriptive techniques learned and developed during the series of lessons. There are also 2 additional lessons that complete the scheme ( a hot and a cold task)
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
Images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the legend of ‘Robin Hood’
This is lesson 1 in a series of 8. The whole scheme of work is available.
The whole scheme includes 8 full lessons, each fully resourced, and including a detailed PPT. The scheme culminates in the class writing a legend based on Robin Hood.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
A bundle of 3 complete lessons based around David Dadau’s inspirational**’SLOW WRITING’ **technique.
Aimed at upper KS2 and differentiated fully (3 ways) Each lesson develops children’s ability to write precisely and consciously to create a vibrant and vivid description.
lesson 1 - CHARACTERS
lesson 2 - SETTINGS
lesson 3 - SUSPENSE
Resources includes a full lesson plan, detailed PowerPoint and three levels of task based around a series of images. All resources and PowerPoint are fully editable.
All images and video clip are sourced from PIXABAY
This is a complete 5-week GEOGRAPHY scheme of work, based on GLOBAL WARMING and the impacts of climate change . Written for Upper Key Stage 2, but easily adapted to suit KS3.
Objectives covered:
To explore the meaning of global warming understand its impact on the world.
To explore how humans impact climate change.
to identify some of the impacts of climate change.
To identify ways that humans are being affected by climate change.
To explain some different ways in which people are taking climate action.
Each lesson comes with all resources and an editable powerpoint. There is also a medium term plan for all 5 lessons.
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A complete scheme of work (with accompanying resources) to teach 6 weeks of prehistoric art. Children will explore and create pictographs, petrographs and megaliths in the style of stone age artists.
There is a Prezi to accompany the unit too:
https://prezi.com/eutgytzncixe/prehistoric-art/
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A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat's '3 BAD - (dash) question?' Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated) Would fit neatly into a grammar or narrative unit based on sentence construction. Also works very well as a standalone skills lesson.
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways.
The lesson has a dragon theme.
All images are sourced from PIXABAY.
A complete unit of work (8 days) for newspaper reports linked to the Tudors.
Presentations and resources included. Aimed at year 3 or 4, fully differentiated 2 or 3 ways in each lesson.
All images from PIXABAY or authors own.
A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat's 2 pairs sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated 3 ways) This lesson is designed as a standalone grammar/sentence skills lesson. However it would also fit neatly into a grammar or narrative unit based on sentence construction.
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways. Where possible, all resources and PowerPoint's are fully editable.
The lesson has an alien/space theme.
All images are sourced from PIXABAY.
A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat's if, if, if then sentences. (CONDITIONAL SENTENCES) Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated 3 ways) This lesson is designed as a standalone grammar/sentence skills lesson. However it would also fit neatly into a grammar or narrative unit based on sentence construction.
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways. Where possible, all resources and PowerPoint's are fully editable.
The lesson has an alien/space theme.
All images are sourced from PIXABAY.
A complete unit of 7 lessons, covering narrative objectives for upper KS2. Children apply the learning in the final lesson when they write a short story based on a fantasy setting.
**Objectives covered include: **
To use advanced punctuation
To use modal verbs
To use slow writing to develop my techniques.
To develop dialogue for advancing the action.
To understand and apply the structure of a short story.
There is a presentation for each lesson and all resources are included.
All images are from PIXABAY,
This is a complete 5-week HISTORY scheme of work, based on a range pf Explorers and the journeys that they took . Written for Upper Key Stage 1, but easily adapted to suit KS2.
Objectives covered:
Who was Ibn Battuta and what did he do?
Who was Christopher Columbus and what did he do?
To understand who Ernest Shackleton was and what he is famous for
To be able to describe the achievements of Matthew Henson
To compare Shackleton to a modern day explorer
Each lesson comes with all resources and an editable powerpoint. There is also a medium term plan for all 5 lessons.
