The purpose of this lesson is: to investigate who the Romans were, and why they came to Britain. Children should learn: • to select and record information about Roman ways of life; • about aspects of life in Roman Britain, using a variety of sources. Class objective: to find out who the Romans were, and why they came to Britain. Children should be able to: • select relevant information from a number of sources; • record relevant information about the Roman way of life. Includes Lesson Plan and Activity Sheets

Ancient Greek theatre. The purpose of this lesson is: to investigate the ancient Greek theatre. Children should learn: • to deduce information about an aspect of the Greek way of life from pictures of buildings and texts; • to combine information from several sources; • about the role of the theatre in the way of life of the Greeks; • to structure work in the form of a play. Class objective: • to investigate ancient Greek theatre and what happened there. Children should be able to: • recognize the main features of a Greek theatre; • understand the religious connections between theatre and religious festivals; • find out the sorts of plays the Greeks liked and who wrote them; • contribute to the preparation and performance of a play that demonstrates the key features of Greek drama. Includes full lesson plans and activities

Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day. It includes all resources and hyperlinks. Day 6 Titanic includes links to History, Art, DT, Writing and Reading, DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites. Leave a review.

Get all the lessons and plans from our full unit, available in our TES shop This unit links to the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements in the Programme of Study and considers the key historical enquiry question, How do we find out about Florence Nightingale? It introduces the children to the idea of historical sources, introduces the concepts of old and new, and encourages them to think about the life and times of a famous person. The approach used could be applied to the study of other famous people. It provides a wide range of opportunities for children to develop their spoken language. It is helpful if the children have: ordered events in time and used everyday terms about the passing of time; answered questions about people/ events in the past using pictures and written sources; recounted episodes from stories about the past; looked for similarities and differences between today and the past. Leave a review

12 Lesson Unit Including all lessons and lesson activities. In this unit, children are introduced to the idea that people from other societies have been coming to Britain for a long time. Children find out how Viking influence spread through different parts of the world and how, over a period of years, the Vikings eventually settled in Britain. Children will develop their understanding of chronology, describe and identify reasons for and results of historical events, situation and changes. As well as consider different ways in which the past can be interpreted. Includes: Contents Introduction Medium-Term Plan Preparatory information Lesson 1 On the move Lesson 2 Invaders and settlers Lesson 3 Where did they come from and where did they go? Lesson 4 Longships Lesson 5 When did the Vikings arrive? Lesson 6 The riches of the monasteries Lesson 7 Illuminated letters and runes Lesson 8 Viking artefacts Lesson 9 Everyday Viking life Lesson 10 Viking visit Lesson 11 King Alfred and the Danelaw Lesson 12 Presenting the everyday life of Vikings in Britain Picture Prompt Sheets

The purpose of this lesson is: to develop a clear understanding of where the Vikings came from and where they settled. Children should learn: • about the Viking homelands; • the places that the Vikings visited; • where the Vikings settled when they came to Britain. Class objective: • to find out where the Vikings came from and where they settled Children should be able to: • locate the Viking homelands on a map; • locate countries in the world that the Vikings visited; • identify Viking settlements on a modern map. Includes Lesson Plan and Activity Sheets Would you like the full unit? Purchase on TES or on our website

What can we find out about ancient Egypt from what has survived? In this unit children find out about the way of life of people living in ancient Egypt from archaeological discoveries. Children will develop their understanding of characteristic features of a society; identify the different ways the past is represented and use sources of information to make simple observations, inferences and deductions. Includes: Introduction Medium-Term Plan Preparatory information Websites on ancient Egypt Lesson 1 Ancient Egypt – what do we know? Lesson 2 Egyptian artefact Lesson 3 The gift of the Nile Lesson 4 Looking at ancient Egyptian artefacts Lesson 5 Life in ancient Egypt Lesson 6 Writing and numbers Lesson 7 Ancient Egyptian beliefs about life after death Lesson 8 Creating an Egyptian burial chamber Lesson 9 Egyptian visit Lesson 10 Ancient Egyptian display Picture Prompt sheets Please see our free lesson of this resource

In this unit, children explore an event that has been commemorated annually for over a 100 years. Children investigate the origins of Remembrance Day and how its significance has grown to incorporate conflicts up to the present day. Children who belong to service or refugee families may have direct, personal experiences of recent hostilities, and their schools will need to exercise sensitivity and discretion in teaching this topic. It is helpful if the children have considered other types of anniversaries and/or commemorations and used historical sources such as artefacts and photographs to ask and answer questions about the past. Although this focuses on Remembrance day the unit can be easily adapted to fit for VE day 1: Memories • To find out why people wear poppies at this time of year. • Explain why we wear poppies for Remembrance. Lesson 2: Remembrance Day • To discover what happens on Remembrance Day. • Understand what happens on Remembrance Day and why we commemorate it. Lesson 3: War memorials• To investigate the war memorial in our area. • To understand why we have war memorials. Lesson 4: Display• To create a Remembrance Day display. • Explain the importance of Remembrance Day. Leave a review

This unit links to the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements in the Programme of Study and considers the key historical enquiry question, How do we find out about Florence Nightingale? It introduces the children to the idea of historical sources, introduces the concepts of old and new, and encourages them to think about the life and times of a famous person. The approach used could be applied to the study of other famous people. It provides a wide range of opportunities for children to develop their spoken language. It is helpful if the children have: ordered events in time and used everyday terms about the passing of time; answered questions about people/ events in the past using pictures and written sources; recounted episodes from stories about the past; looked for similarities and differences between today and the past. Lesson 1: How do we find out about a famous person? Lesson 2: The story of Florence Nightingale. Lesson 3: Recording the life of a famous person: Why do we remember Florence Nightingale? Leave a review

Taken from Year 2 Literacy Resource File This unit is closely linked to the curriculum areas of natural science, geography and history. The children begin by learning and practising skimming, scanning and gist-reading skills using a variety of texts. They then focus on a main topic (the life of a famous person) and practise close reading and note-taking. This leads them on to posing questions about the life and times of the person: in this case, Pocahontas. They then carry out the necessary research to answer their questions and, finally, compose a collaborative information text on the topic. This text is divided into chapters with sub-headings, and also incorporates images. The children will build on work in Unit 2 by producing a glossary to go with their information text 1 A review of information texts • To review and assess prior knowledge of information texts. • To talk about what information a specific text contains 2 Skimming• To focus on the form and organisational features of information texts. • To use skim-reading to read for gist and to evaluate the usefulness of a text. • To review question forms. • To identify and describe the uses of different parts of an information text. 3 Scanning• To develop scanning skills when reading non-fiction information texts. • To find key words in a text. • To match subheadings to sections of a text. 4 Pocahontas • To research and write an information text based on an historical topic. • To practise notetaking and close reading of a text. • To navigate an online text. • To use an online glossary. • To use notes to answer questions about the text. • To understand a text about a famous person. 5 Selecting information • To research a specific topic area and collate information in order to collaboratively compose an information text. • To pose questions. • To record the information using an appropriate method 6 Writing an information text • To use research in order to put together an information text. • To maintain purpose, narrative tense and information text features in composition. • To use images to aid written text. Leave a review

Lesson plan and Lesson Activity Sheets Where did they come from and where did they go? The purpose of this lesson is: to develop a clear understanding of where the Anglo-Saxons came from and where they settled. Learning Objectives Children should learn: • about the Anglo-Saxon homelands; • where the Anglo-Saxons settled when they came. Class objective: • to find out about where the Anglo-Saxons came from and where they settled. Learning Outcomes Children should be able to: • locate the Anglo-Saxon homelands on a map; • identify Anglo-Saxon settlements on a modern map. Full Unit available on TES or on our website

Each unit contains Activity ideas packed with facts, suggestions for different abilities and for working both in and out of the classroom, one Activity sheet, two Visual resources and a photocopiable Factsheet. Supporting the units are two Timelines, a World War I Glossary and two Maps of Europe showing how the geographical landscape and country boundaries changed as a result of the war. It provides an example of creative and effective cross-curricular planning, taking a key historical event as a starting point for meaningful, subject-focused activities. All the activities and resources included are matched to the requirements of the NEW Primary Curriculum (implemented September 2014) and are designed to be flexible, and used to follow ideas for English and Foreign Languages Years 5 & 6 so that teachers can choose to use them in their entirety, as a complete project framework, or as a dip-in resource bank of ideas. There are 6 units. This is unit 1- Other units are available. Leave a review

Olympic-themed Activity Sheets. ART: Design your own Greek pot. MATH: Bejing Top Ten Medal Winners. HISTORY: Learn about 2 Great Olympians.

Olympic Activity. HISTORY: Find the prizes that athletes won in the Ancient Olympics and the Modern Olympics. ART: Create Olympic Medals. HISTORY: Match Ancient Olympic sports.A set of 3 Olympic themed activity Handouts. Terms include ancient Greek games

Get all 7 Geography Activities from our TES shop An extract of Pliny the Younger’s letter to his friend Cornelius Tactius, a Roman historian, recording his experience of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD. It could be used as part of Geography, History or within Reading. Taken from the KS2 Geography Resource file. Available as a PDF Leave a review

Royal weddings lesson plans – a new cross-curricular pack, with a range of lesson plans, activities, and ideas. The example free download contains a planning chart. If you want more information go to www.karascope.com which also contains other free downloads, primary topic ideas, and lesson plans.

Daily home learning planners come with great activities and timetable to use with your child whilst home-schooling. Each day is fully planned to help parents. All activities come with appropriate links and are designed to be engaging and to keep your child focused. Some activities are independent. Whilst, others are designed to be completed with an adult. Each day is centered around a theme (For exmaple: The Romans) and activities are cross-curricular. Today’s lessons are a mixture of History, Art, Reading, Writing, DT and Science. DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites. Like us? Leave us a review

Full lessons also available on our TES shop Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a famous engineer who lived in Victorian times. He was a very good engineer and he won a competition to build a bridge over the River Avon. This bridge became the Clifton Suspension bridge. This unit links to the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements in the Programme of Study and considers the key historical enquiry question, How do we find out about Isambard Kingdom Brunel? It introduces the children to the idea of historical sources, introduces the concepts of old and new, and encourages them to think about the life and times of a famous person. The approach used could be applied to the study of other famous people. It provides a wide range of opportunities for children to develop their spoken language. It is helpful if the children have: ordered events in time and used everyday terms about the passing of time; answered questions about people/ events in the past using pictures and written sources; recounted episodes from stories about the past; looked for similarities and differences between today and the past. Leave a review

Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day. It includes all resources and hyperlinks. Day 4 The Greeks includes links to History, DT, Art, Writing, Reading and Science. All resources included. DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites. Leave a review.

19 Home Learning sheets for Year 5 taken from our Homework Activities for Year 5 The activity sheets are structured around the narrative, non-fiction and poetry blocks of the new literacy Framework. The content comes from common Year 5 fiction and non-fiction themes. The activities are designed to support work done across the curriculum as well as in literacy teaching. The activities follow the main literacy priorities in Year 5 and are designed to be used flexibly. Each activity sheet has a clear focus and advice to the adult as well as the child. There are four main types: • Understanding and engaging with texts; • Shaping texts; • Sentence structure and punctuation; • Spelling. Each unit contains a mixture of the activity types.