Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons. Enquiry Question: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?* Clear teaching PPT exploring Anglo-Saxon crime and how they were punished. Including an engaging activity to match Wergild fines to their crime. Differentiated main activity: matching definitions of words and phrases linked to Anglo-Saxon crime and punishment, exploring the crime of Helmstan and the ethics of Anglo-Saxon punishments. Whole unit planning. Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture. Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study. They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons. This lesson summarises our first enquiry Question: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?* Clear teaching PPT introducing Anglo-Saxon battles and modelling the main activity. Information text on key Anglo-Saxon battles. Main activity - students summarise the battles they have read about and create ‘battle cards’ which show the key information about these battles ie. who won, when it took place etc. Whole unit planning. Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture. Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study. They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons. Enquiry Question: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?* Clear teaching PPT introducing Anglo-Saxon defences. Main activity: create an Anglo-Saxon burh. Whole unit planning. Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture. Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study. They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

Crack the code activity! Aimed at Year 3 but suitable across lower KS2. This bundle of resources contains: PPT with instructions and a practice code to crack as a class or in a guided group. Worksheets with codes for children to crack and three levels of differentiation. Each worksheet has 2 codes for children to try and crack containing a range of addition, subtraction and multiplication problems as well as clues requiring knowledge of odd and even numbers. Answers included.

Advent calendar with different, fun Christmas activities for each day of advent. These activities are perfect for morning starters or activities during the Christmas build up and can even be extended into full lessons. Christmas themed activities including: Christmas Maths code crackers, addition and subtraction problems and times tables and related division facts. Christmas themed anagrams. Snowflake symmetry. Decoration making. Mindfulness colouring. Christmas around the world facts. Planning and budgeting a Christmas party. Letter to Santa spelling activity (differentiated to lower and upper KS2) Christmas recipe jumble and much more! Days that fall on a weekend have a fun true or false fact for students to discuss and the advent calendar ends with a quiz. Answers included. All questions and activities are displayed on the PPT with activity sheets provided for those activities that need them.

A bundle of 35 resources aimed at Year 6 but suitable across Upper KS2. 35 short grammar activities that can be used in grammar sessions, plenaries or interventions. This bundle is also ideal for SATs revision. Can be used independently or as part of paired or group work. Answers included Resources for: Correct and incorrect punctuation Semi-colons and colons Commas for clarity Word types including determiners, pronouns, prepositions, adverbs, adjectives, hyphens, punctuation for parenthesis, inverted commas, modal verbs Using a word as a noun and a verb Noun phrases Tense Prefixes and suffixes and word meanings Contractions. Activities include identifying grammar within sentences, explaining how it has been used, marking and correcting sentences, matching meanings and improving sentences.

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons Thorough teaching PPT explaining definition of climate, weather and biome and modelling the main activity. Engaging create your own weather forecast activity with climate tables to support children completing their weather forecasts. Whole unit planning. Geography Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle. Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities.

The perfect way to start off your morning of learning. Monday morning tasks start with activities relating to feelings to get the week off to a good start. Each sheet has English and Maths activities aimed at Year 3, beginning the term with consolidating their learning from Year 2 and continuing with what they will learn during the Autumn term. Maths activities progress in small steps as the week goes on. PPTs include challenge tasks for children who finish early and answers. Content: Number sequences Marking numbers on a number line Comparing and ordering numbers Place value Writing numbers in words and digits Addition and subtraction progressing from adding ones to adding and subtracting numbers in the hundreds using a range of representations 3, 4 and 8 x tables using a range of different representations. Using adjectives, verbs, adverbs and nouns in sentences. Synonyms and antonyms. Spelling of common exception words. Correcting spelling and grammar mistakes Descriptive writing.

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons -Detailed PPT explaining the difference between vertebrate and invertebrate and introducing some of the rainforest animals. -Interesting and beautifully presented living things facts files to support students learning. World map activity with three levels of differentiation. Students will use the animal fact files to work out the location of animals and add them to the world map, some will add vertebrate/invertebrate and add extra information about each animal. NC objective: Geography Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied Science Y3: explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant

Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons. Enquiry Question: Who were the Anglo-Saxons and how do we know about them? Clear teaching PPT illustrating where the Anglo-Saxons came from with clear maps as well as exploring why they came to Britain. Jigsaw activity, students add the countries in Europe where the Anglo-Saxons came from to complete the map of Europe. Whole unit planning. Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture. Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study. They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons Clear teaching PPT explaining what deforestation is and its damaging effects with opportunities for students to talk in pairs and discuss engaging questions. Varied and engaging carousel of activities: creating signs for peaceful protests, word link activity, consequences board game and animal diaries. Deforestation fact file to support students, this fact file goes into detail to help students as they complete activities independently. Whole unit planning. NC objectives: Geography Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things

Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons. This lesson summarises our first enquiry Question: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?* Engaging teaching PPT discussing the ways Anglo-Saxon have influenced modern day Britian. This PPT explores how language has been influenced with a fun flashcard activity. Main activity: find the Anglo-Saxon place names, based on their suffixes. Whole unit planning. Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture. Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study. They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

Crack the code activity! Aimed at Upper KS2. This bundle of resources contains: PPT with instructions and a practice code to crack as a class or in a guided group. Worksheets with codes for children to crack and three levels of differentiation. Each worksheet has 2 codes for children to try and crack containing a range of addition, subtraction and multiplication problems as well as clues requiring knowledge of prime, square and cubed numbers. Answers included.

Worksheets, comic strips and short passages. Perfect for introducing inverted commas in Y3. ‘Using Inverted Commas’ activity sheet with a range of activities to allow children to add inverted commas, write direct speech with inverted commas and mark sentences. Answers included. ‘Using Inverted Commas’ passage, a short paragraph with direct speech for children to add inverted commas. Ideal as a short activity or a grammar session. Answers included. ‘Using Inverted Commas’ comic strip. A fun activity for children to turn a comic strip with speech bubbles into a short story, writing direct speech with inverted commas. Two versions available – comic strip with complete speech bubbles, blank speech bubbles for children to create their own version. National Curriculum Links Year 3 statutory content to be introduced – Introduction to inverted commas to punctuate direct speech Year 3 and 4 – using and punctuating direct speech

Fun, Christmas themed crack the code activity! Aimed at Years 5 and 6, students need to solve addition and subtraction problems involving exchanging and carrying. PPT to introduce activity and allow students to practise. Activity sheets with 3 levels of differentiation, answers provided. Addition and subtraction with 3 and 4 digit numbers. Addition and subtraction with 4 and 5 digit numbers. Addition and subtraction with up to 6 digit numbers.

Printable bundle, ideal in Year 2 to teach the subordinating conjunctions: when, if, that or because. -Subordinating conjunction activity sheets x 2, children can identify the correct conjunction for the sentence as well spot the conjunction in the sentence. -Subordinating conjunction discussion cards, a range of questions for children to ask one another in small groups or pairs. -Subordinating conjunction display cards. Differentiation Using when and because. Using when, because and if to join two phrases together. Using when, because, if and that to join two phrases together. National Curriculum Links Pupils should be taught to learn how to use subordination (using when, if, that, or because).

Spelling activity cards with 30 different challenges for children, perfect for practising spellings in fun and creative ways. Activities range from written activities, challenges that can be done alone, games for pairs or teams to outdoor tasks. These activities can be used or adapted for all ages.

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons -Clear teaching PPT introducing the topic of rainforests with a quiz as a fun way to introduce a range of interesting facts about the topic. -Thought shower template to use as an assessment tool at the start of the lesson. Key word leaf templates for display, laminate and write down key words or facts about rainforests. NC objective: Geography - Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.

Four activities, perfect for morning activities, after break or lunch. We know how these times of the school day can be tricky and there is a lot going on, each day’s activity focuses on one objective with a challenge for any students who need it. These activities are prepared for the first week of Year 4 but can be used whenever. Purchase the whole Autumn term here and keep an eye out for morning tasks for the rest of the year. This first week of morning activities starts with a look at emotions and gives students a chance to share how they’re feeling at the start of the school year. The rest of the week includes **using adjectives to describe, writing numbers in words and digits and a fun ‘create as many words as you can’ activity **. PPT and worksheets. Answers/examples provided where appropriate.