Need quality examples of newspaper reports for KS2? These newspaper articles are based on true stories but have been modified for children in KS2 - most suitable for Years 4, 5 or 6. There are 4 articles and each one has a different newspaper name, date and focus. Each report uses the features of a newspaper article (as expected for KS2 children in the UK).

This resource has been inspired by Alfred Noyes’ poem, The Highwayman. It provides 6 diary entries which provide different viewpoints from 3 of the main characters in the poem. There are mistakes in each of the diary entries so pupils need to work out the errors and then correct them as part of an editing task. Additionally, 2 self and peer checklists are provided to support children with what they need to find and edit. Answers are provided to help inform pupils why the mistakes need correcting too.

This resource provides diary entry examples suitable for KS2. There are 6 texts and each one has a different topic, speaker and style of writing. The examples are written so they engage pupils with the topic while allowing them to explore the features, which you’d expect to find in a diary entry.

Perfect for any teacher who is trying to inspire their pupils to write a non-chronological report on the life of a significant person. Harry Kane has been a role model for thousands and achieved at the highest level of professional football. Two A4 pages of facts about Harry Kane provide a fairly detailed snapshot of his family members, his sporting achievements, interests and some random facts too. There is a basic and an advanced planning structure sheet for children to use to support writing a non-chronological (biographical) report about one of the world’s most prolific strikers. There is also a skills-based writing mat which can be used to encourage children to include Upper Key Stage 2 writing skill objectives. 2 x fact sheets 1 x basic structured sheet 1 x advanced structured sheet - (Scaffold) 1 x writing mat with skill examples - (Scaffold) 1 x blank writing skills mat for children to record their own examples within their plans.

Design your own fairground theme park! This area and perimeter task will provide your children with an engaging activity where they will want to work out the area of each ride so they can place it in their own theme park. The task sheet provides children with different styles of area questions, some need to be measured, others with given sides and then the option of irregular sizes which will require children to create compound shapes. The children can choose where to place their rides and how the spacing of their rides is important and why area skills fit into the context of real world problems. As an additional task, they can solve the perimeter of each of their rides. I’ve completed this task multiple times with classes and every time they’ve been desperate to continue the task after the lesson.

Teach your pupils to use relative clauses (with pronouns) to meet the year 5 and 6 expected standards for writing in English. This resource is for teaching the skill practically and uses the popular legendary tale, Beowulf as a basis for the sentences. You have a starting sentence and then the children cut the paper and insert their own relative clause where they think it should go. There are different versions to help with scaffolding the task for different ability children -with some sentences with the relative pronoun clause starters already inserted and example help sheets given too. Additionally, there is a challenge sheet which is for children to write their own relative clauses by editing existing sentences and the task to identify where the relative clauses are in the sentence.

Teach your pupils to use relative clauses (with pronouns) to meet the year 5 and 6 expected standards for writing in English. This resource is for teaching the skill practically and uses the book, The Escape Room by Christopher Edge as a basis for the sentences. You have a starting sentence and then the children cut the paper and insert their own relative clause where they think it should go. There are different versions to help with scaffolding the task for different ability children -with some sentences with the relative pronoun clause starters already inserted and example help sheets given too.

Designed for Upper KS2 children, this ordering and compare task involves children numbering the value of real football transfers. The numbers go from 60,000 to 222 million. This tests the children’s place value understanding and their ordering ability. Players range from Alan Shearer to modern players like Neymar. Additional challenges have been added so that children can show their understanding through bar models, whole part models and greater, less than symbols too. Answer sheets are included too.

This resource is for children who are practicing writing speech for narrative stories. It uses a Beowulf theme so there is a conversation between Beowulf and King Hrothgar. There’s two levels - Level 1 uses shorter sentences and words for children who struggle with longer passages. It also structures their ideas to get them to edit their work to include better adverbs and synonyms for said. Level 2 is more advanced. It encourages children to edit their work to include split speech and advanced the plot through actions. An additional sheet with potential answers for you to refer is provided too.

This resource provides 24 various and interesting images of settings. This is a Word doc that has 3 images and 3 writing boxes per page - to allow pupils to write their descriptions or notes next to the images. This is Pack 3. (Note- These are the same images that are in Pack 3 of the presentation version available on my site.)

This resource provides 24 various and interesting images of settings. This is a Word doc that has 3 images and 3 writing boxes per page - to allow pupils to write their descriptions or notes next to the images. This is Pack 2. (Note- These are the same images that are in Pack 2 of the presentation version available on my site.)

This resource provides 24 various and interesting images of settings. This is a Word doc that has 3 images and 3 writing boxes per page - to allow pupils to write their descriptions or notes next to the images. This is Pack 1. (Note- These are the same images that are in Pack 1 of the presentation version available on my site.)

This Word document contains 72 different types of setting descriptions and corresponding images. There are 12 images per page and each setting description tries to use a range of writing techniques (such as listed adjectives, figurative language and adventurous vocabulary). This is great for KS2 or KS3 children (ages 7-14). You can also get this as three separate PowerPoint presentations to display in the classroom.

This resource provides 24 various and interesting images of settings and a corresponding setting description. The descriptions use interesting vocabulary and should expose children to a wider base of vocabulary too. You can choose whether to display the text or the image (or both at the same time). There are also 25 teaching-related questions at the end of the PowerPoint which help to engage children with the writing techniques as well as give them the opportunity to add more, edit or practise various skills. This is Pack 3 (different from Pack 1 and 2).

This resource provides 24 various and interesting images of settings and a corresponding setting description. The descriptions use interesting vocabulary and should expose children to a wider base of vocabulary too. You can choose whether to display the text or the image (or both at the same time). There are also 25 teaching-related questions at the end of the PowerPoint which help to engage children with the writing techniques as well as give them the opportunity to add more, edit or practise various skills. This is Pack 2 and different from Pack 1.

This differentiated resource provides a range of pyramid addition and subtraction problems for children to solve. It ranges from pyramids which are addition only - starting with adding only 10s, going up to adding 4 digit numbers. Then it provides pyramid problems which require subtraction and addition skills. This starts with numbers smaller than 30 and progresses up to 4 and 5-digit numbers. There are 9 question sheets, 9 answer sheets and 1 blank template so pupils can design their own pyramid problem.