A mass of planning from my years teaching year 5. Loads of powerpoints, planning, worksheets etc It covers : Harry Potter Myths/Iron Man Stories from other cultures The Secret Garden The Piano Sample planning :

My primary school planning for healthy eating. Lots of powerpoints. Plenty of material. Can be adapted for different years but I mainiy taught year 5. topics include the circulatory system healthy eating keeping healthy history of scurvy smoking pulse rate you get 12 pdf files 15 powerpoints

Series of great timetables to print off.

Looking for a big set of display material for the new academic year? I have collected together all my collection from decades in teaching Primary school level. Aimed a little at the top end as that is where I spent most years. Lots of stuff. Vcop stuff Maths stuff. RE stuff Art. Over 400 files. Word, pdf, excel etc

Tons of great planning, worksheets, powerpoints to help you in year 6 Maths. With SATS you need a ton of material to help you through. Here it is. I’ve combined my planning for two schools to give you max value. The zip file contains the lot. I’ve included a sample in the general download so you can look. The schools used Abacus/Maths on Target/Target Maths, but don’t worry if you do not have these. There are loads of lessons that you can adapt for your school. I think the revision weeks I’ve done are particularly good.

A great set of planning. Three terms. Loads of planning and powerpoints and great topics. Zip file has the lot. I’ve put some sample ones in the general load so you can look. Includes : Biography and Autobiography Cross curricular history & literacy Fiction Genres Roald Dahl Poetry Journalistic and persuasive Sample :

Have you been volunteered (know what I mean?) to deliver Modern Languages at your Primary School? This bunch of resources, that I used in my decades of French teaching, will help. I’ve put them into groups to help you. the zip file has loads. I’ve put a selection as downloads so you can have a look at them. Highlights include: festivals games and activities how to ideas for lessons phonics poems loads of powerpoints songs stories

Three weeks great planning. Don’t expect lessons on Charlie. It’s report writing in English using Charlie with powerpoints etc Great powerpoints Zip file has more. I’ve put some example stuff on to give you a flavour. Introduce the new unit and read the writing outcome with the children. Complete a skills audit verbally. TTYP – what skills do you already have that will help you to achieve the outcome? What skills do you think you will need to revise? Are there any completely new skills you will need? Introduce the focus text. We know a lot about Roald Dahl from our biography unit. Has anyone ever read ‘Charlie…’? Seen the films? Explain that we need to know the story line and the characters, so we are going to spend today’s lesson using the 2005 film as a visual text. The rest of the week will be spent comparing the visual text to the written text and completing various activities and pieces of writing. Become familiar with the story by using a visual text. Use both visual and written texts to analyse character and setting descriptions. Finish any of the DVD which we didn’t finish yesterday. Use the written text to read the character descriptions of Charlie, his parents, grandparents and the four other winners of golden tickets. Activity One Come back together, discuss and put information on working wall. Repeat with setting descriptions. Look at a still of Charlie’s house from the film and read the setting description for it. Look at the still from the ‘meadow’ in the chocolate factory and read the description on pages 87-90. Activity Two Revise features of journalistic writing. Compose a newspaper article using the correct form and language. Working in pairs, children to sketch a story mountain onto a whiteboard. Children to then summarise ‘Charlie…’ using one or two sentences for each section of the mountain. Come back together and discuss. Read chapter five of the text. What main event is happening? The announcement of the golden ticket competition. Watch 14:28 – 15:44 – how does the film embellish the details given in the book? Explain today’s task, you are a senior news reporter for the ‘International Herald’ a newspaper which is published in many different countries, many different languages all over the world. Your editor has asked you to write a newspaper article about this event. Your report will be published the day after Willy Wonka’s signs went up. You will be reporting on the competition, the prizes and the mania sweeping the world. TTYP – what are main features of a journalistic piece of writing? Come back together and list for the working wall: Headline, paragraphs, subheadings, quotations, orientation, 5 ws, past tense, direct, formal, balanced etc. Brainstorm some headlines for our article. List the 5 Ws on the working wall. Give each child a checklist and an inverted pyramid.

Great planning for Louis Sacher’s intriguing book Holes. 5 week’s short plans. Plus great stuff on getting pupils to construct aruments. Two terrific pdfs. Sample planning : Spelling rules. Modifying e. Cope … coping. In pairs write short speech for debate. Shared write persuasive language list. What connectives could be used to link ideas? What about repetition? WALT: organize views in a debate about homework. Debate “Should primary children have homework? All pairs to speak. Comment and question speakers. LA: TB to list points and useful language. HA: to lead arguments Add title paragraphs in example argument about Dogs in Parks. Review plan. Recap form. Read introduction through. Suggest strong openers for sentences and useful connective phrases from chart. Indiv write points for homework in Primary Schools. Paragraph – consider openings. WALT: write a balanced argument in a formal style. Mr Pratt Synonym Circus Recap plan and bullet points. Consider possible connectives to link to opposite view. (e.g. nevertheless) • All write points against - anticipating possible objections homework to balance argument. Use paragraphs and strong openers. Find passive voice in examples. Read example formal discussion regarding homework. Identify language. Useful terms. WALT: Write a formal letter of complaint. All children write complaining letter about a visit to a restaurant. LA: provide opening. Vocab list for feelings and connectives. Example balanced arguments. • the expression, sequence and linking of points • the provision of persuasive examples, illustrations and evidence • pre-empting or answering potential objections • appealing to the known views and feelings of the audience; T16 identify the features of balanced written arguments which: • summarise different sides of an argument • clarify the strengths and weaknesses of different positions • signal personal opinion clearly; T18 construct effective arguments: • developing a point logically and effectively • supporting and illustrating points persuasively • anticipating possible objections • harnessing the known views, interests and feelings of the audience • tailoring the writing to formal presentation where appropriate; T19 write a balanced report of a controversial issue: • summarising fairly the competing views • analysing strengths and weaknesses of different positions.

This concentrates on Maths and English. Lots of great teaching ideas. Mainly Maths and English. The zip file has the lot. I have put some in the general download to give a flavour. sample planning : LO: To use written methods of addition. Review written methods of addition carried from Friday’s lesson (column, number line and partitioning. Use numbers with up to 4 digits during teaching time. Review how to use written methods and inverse knowledge to identify missing digits within calculations. Move on to solving simple word problems by choosing the most appropriate methods for task. AG: Supports Circles during teaching time. RM: Abacus Y1 page LO: To use written methods of subtraction. Give the children the following calculation 98 – 47. How many different ways can they carry out this calculation? Focus on methodology used by class. As a class ensure understanding of the following methods, number line, partitioning and column. What happens with column subtraction if the calculation was 96 – 47? Model decomposition. What happens when we work with decimal numbers? Model the use of decomposition several times. Children to carry out a range of calculations – AG: Supports Circles during teaching time. RM: Abacus Y1 page LO: To use written methods of subtraction. Review subtraction calculations for number lines and column methods involving amounts of money. Ensure children are familiar with decomposition and have time to review as needed. Apply within calculations that involve single and multiple decomposition. APPLY TO WORD PROBLEMS RM: LO: To use written methods of multiplication. As before, review methods of multiplication with the class. Focus on the use of grid methods and compact methods to carry out calculations. MUST: Multiply TU x U SHOULD: Multiply HTU x U CHALLENGE: Multiply (H)TU x TU LO: To identify sequence rules. Review knowledge of sequences and rule identification with the class. Explore how sequences can involve numbers, shapes and letters. Children to continue sequences. When exploring number sequences, make link to times table groups. E.g. 3, 6, 9, 12… Next number is… Focus on continuing and completing sequences, by identifying the difference between known numbers and using this to identify missing values. AG: Supports circles / RM: Completes sequences involving shapes or colours. INDEPENDENT

Planning for year 6 Maths. Lots of ideas you can meld into your own school planning. Year 6 is a tough year to teach, so the more material you have, the better. The zip file contains the lot. I’ve put a few in for you to sample. sample Start with A3 sheet on each table – 1 minute to write down any vocabulary, phrases, methods or information linked to addition. Come back together, take feedback and put on working wall. Refer to targets to make children aware that some of them have addition related targets. Discuss methods used for addition. Show Y6 calculation policy and discuss column addition. Show 7648 + 1486 Solve using column addition – compose success criteria whilst solving. Repeat with 1489 + 71 + 3 + 561 Emphasise importance of place value columns and presentation – talk about ‘carrying’. Whole School Mass 11am LO Improve efficient recall of mental maths. SUCCESS CRITERIA N/A Test 11am – 11.10am Self mark and strategies 11.10am to 11.30am - fill in mental maths record sheet at back of each maths book. Final 45 minutes (allow a few minutes for a plenary) – split class into three groups. Carousel activity: Octagon group to go into science area with HM for 30 minute session towards their target; adding and subtracting negative numbers. Group 1: Hexagons (1) and Isabel, Eleanor and Dan O from Hex (2) Group 2: Rest of Hex (2) plus Pentagons (1) Group 3: Pentagons (2) plus triangles. LO Add decimals up to 3dp using the column method. Add numbers with differing numbers of decimal places. SUCCESS CRITERIA Add to yesterday’s in a different colour. Revise use of column method. Show 15.8 + 23.3 and model for working wall whilst emphasising the importance of the decimal point not moving. Show problem: I spend £46.78 in one shop and £27.45 in another. How much did I spend in total? Use column. Show 7.9 + 5.82, model use of 0 on the end of the 9 to make them the same number of dp. Refer octagons to their target.

Gathered together my planning for year 4. Mainly Literacy and Maths. Spread over a number of years. You get 690 files. The zip has the lot. I’ve put some in the general download to give yoiu a flavour. Sample planning : Explain to chn that this work for this unit will be based on stories set in imaginary worlds. The Borrowers by Mary Norton is set in a miniature world under the floorboards in an old house. Have chn read any other books (or seen films) set in imaginary worlds, eg Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, etc. These are fantasy settings that authors have created in their minds, as maps or as drawings, etc. Tolkien drew maps for The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings, Mary Norton used small everyday objects as furniture and tools, and J K Rowling had the idea for Harry Potter when on a long & boring train journey. Read 2 versions of the same setting one without some details, description & adjectives and the other in full. After the first reading ask chn if they can picture the classroom clearly in their heads, then ask the same question after the full extract and compare answers. How is the light described? Dim & crimson. How would the atmosphere in the room change if the adjectives used were yellow and bright? Word sentence level Remind chn that an adjective is a word that describes somebody/thing. They come before nouns or after verbs such as: be, get, seem, look, eg the frail old woman or she looked old and frail. Overuse of adjectives is as bad as not using any! Show class a passage which adjectives could be removed from this passage? Which are most effective adjectives to be left in the passage?

Gathered my lessons for year 2 together. Mainly Literacy and Maths plus bits and bobs. In the zip you find the lot. Included some examples in general upload. Sample planning : Read the traditional tale LRRH, recap ‘good’ central character/villain. Concentrate on the attitude, not words. What would happen if we reversed the characteristics? S&L Children discuss how a ‘good’ wolf might behave towards LRRH/Granny. Teacher draw children back together. Model how to ‘tell’ story of wolf from new pictures. Word/Sentence Activities IWB available for quick phonic session. YEAR 2 LITERACY LESSON PLAN WEDNESDAY Whole Class Shared Learning Return to the traditional tale of LRRH. Remind children about their previous day’s pictures. What did they do? How did they change the Wolf? Is he still the villain? S&L Ask the children to look at their pictures as you read story extracts with his dialogue. Encourage them to discuss dialogue with a partner. Do the pictures and words make sense together? As a class, agree that the Wolf needs new words. Discuss what he might say. Model how to write words for a speech bubble. Word/Sentence Activities Rehearse spellings for Word Wall words. Challenge children to find other words with same phonemes

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You get 48 files. Include a dozen powerpoints. All in zip. Some in the genr=eral upload. Some nice free bonus stuff on History, jewellery and ship making. Sample L.O. To use knowledge of quest myths and the Vikings to create a character profile for the main character and hero of our own Viking quest myth story. I can use my knowledge of quest myths and the Vikings to create a character profile for the main character and hero for my own Viking quest myth story. Beowulf Lesson 4 STARTER – adjectives Look at text and highlight in pairs adjectives that describe Beowulf, then using post –it notes in pairs, begin to generate more words form pictures displayed on the IWB of Beowulf in various positions/battles and write some of their own powerful adjectives. These can then be ‘magpied’ by the children during the independent work. Main activity Hot seating – Beowulf and the King Use the questions generated on Wednesday as interview questions. Choose children that would like to play those parts – use a sword and shield if we have one This will hopefully give the children an idea as to what these main characters are like, their personality and how they think and react to different situations that happen in the story. Teacher to explain/demonstrate how the profile needs to be complete. Discuss what the words – appearance and personality mean and how they are different. Independent work Character profile – Beowulf the hero of their quest myths Using ‘My Viking Quest Myth Ideas Planning Booklet’ create a character profile for their Beowulf hero by labeling the picture, answering the questions in detail and adding descriptive words and phrases to describe his personality and appearance. Plenary Discuss the difference between appearance and personality of a character and what does it mean by special qualities? Because he isn’t a super hero!

4 planning sheets. Plenty of ideas. Year 6. Literacy. Sample : Set up plenary clip at beginning of lesson to be played in plenary Imagination starter: display front cover of the Iron man on IWB – Tell pupils that we have a new topic surrounding the novel The Iron Man, and tell them we will find out more about the author and the story as the unit continues. Round Robin: Can you write down describing words about the character you see? Place pupils into A/B and give 2 minutes to write down ideas on wipeboards in pairs. Feedback with lollypop sticks to follow. Draw out discussion as to what genre the book might be/ if the character is good/evil. Read the first two pages to the class: Hands up: Does the opening make them want to read on? Why? Collect ideas on IWB- What is the effect of opening the story with questions? Explain that the author Ted Hughes was primarily a poet rather than author-so he plays with his words/sentence length a lot more. Note any important features of the text, which build up atmosphere and note on IWB. Choose an OPENERS card and set the class a challenge. As core, but once they have completed highlighting, pupils are to label similes, metaphors, alliteration, repetition, rhetorical questions, short sentences… Can I analyse the features of a good story opening and find poetic devices? Children are given a copy of the first 2 pages of The Iron Man to annotate. They highlight what parts of the text build up the atmosphere to make a good opening –and how this contributes to he overall style. Can I analyse the features of a good story opening? Support lower going over each section of the text together. Read through again if necessary. Can I analyse the features of a good story opening, with support?

Materials for teaching Easter and Jesus and his disciples. Planning powerpoints etc. Road to Emmaeus board game.

Week’s planning. sample : L.O. To apply understanding of multiplication facts. Knowledge Harvest: What do chn know about multiplication and place value? I.e. when multiplying using the formal method, numbers need to be set out accurately, what methods do the children know? i.e. partitioning and formal written method. Have 5x2x6 on the board. What is the answer? How do I work this out? Once chn have got the answer, discuss whether it matters if the numbers are in any order. Resources: Dice: 1 between 2 Vocab: Multiplication, number facts, digit, numbers, single digit, LO: To revise calculation of multiples of 10. Have some numbers on the board. Can chn partition them? Discuss that in 4567, the “4” has a value of “4000”. Link this to the Place Value grid (ThHTU). Remind chn that the units column is now called the “ones” column. Have a 356 x 10 on the board. How can we work this out? Discuss different methods that the chn may come up with. Do chn (LA) realise that you can move the digits, or will they try to use the formal method? Clear up any misconceptions that we just add a zero or move the decimal point. Adult to remind chn of the clue. Look at the amount of zeroes to see how many places the numbers need to be moved.

Nice worksheet on Ramadam. Plus other nice bits and bobs on Islam and other religions.