Do you want to inspire your year 3 or year 4 pupils to write creatively and imaginatively? Do you want to teach them how to use descriptive language effectively and confidently? Do you want to have fun with your class while covering the explanation text genre? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this lesson is for you! This lesson will engage your pupils in a descriptive writing task that will challenge them to create their own mythical creature and explain how to care for it. From dragons to cyclops, your pupils will use their teamwork skills to build vocabulary as groups before going onto an independent task. They will discuss verbs, adjectives, similes, adverbs and conjunctions, and use them to enhance their writing. This lesson is easily adapted from 20 minutes to an hour or even longer, depending on your needs and objectives. It is suitable for both lower and higher ability pupils, as it includes many differentiated resources such as: ★ Detailed lesson plan with differentiated questions for assessment for learning Interactive PowerPoint that guides you and your pupils through the lesson ★ Vocabulary sheet for lower ability pupils that provides them with useful words and phrases ★ Vocabulary sheet for middle and higher ability pupils that challenges them to find their own words and phrases ★ Sentence starters that help pupils structure their writing ★ WAGOLL (what a good one looks like) that models an explanation text about dragons ★ Activity one sheets that give pupils a choice of five different creatures to describe ★ Activity two sheets that are differentiated four ways with different activities for each (cloze activity, fill in table, success criteria, and extension task) This lesson is rated outstanding by Ofsted inspectors, who praised its creativity, motivation, and differentiation. It is also aligned with the national curriculum objectives for writing in key stage 2. Your pupils will love this lesson and will produce amazing descriptive writing pieces that you can proudly display in your classroom or school. Don’t miss this opportunity to spark your pupils’ imagination and enthusiasm for writing. Download this lesson today and get ready to enter the magical world of mythical creatures! You may also be interested in… ☆ ☆ ☆ Customer Support If you have any questions or feedback about this resource, please contact us at explore_education@outlook.com. We are always happy to hear from you and to help you make the most of our products. Special Offer: We appreciate your feedback on this resource. If you leave a review, you can get another resource of your choice for free! Just send us an email with your purchase receipt and a screenshot of your review to claim your offer. Tags: descriptive writing, explanation text, mythical creatures, year 3, year 4, LKS2, KS2, Ofsted, outstanding, differentiated, vocabulary, verbs, adjectives, similes, adverbs, conjunctions, dragons, cyclops

Have any issues with this resource or a request? Contact us directly for the quickest response at: explore_education@outlook.com Need an outstanding maths lesson based around money? Then look no further. This is a great way to showcase your mastery teaching in a quick, snappy lesson that easily demonstrates progress. Suitable for a reasoning maths lesson, the questions included in the interactive PowerPoint are great to get children of all abilities thinking. We have based this lesson around the NCETM principles of differentiation and have included this reasoning in the lesson plan notes. You can use this lesson flexibly from 15 minutes to an hour. It has been successfully used for interviews and Ofsted visits alike. You will get: ✸ An outstanding lesson plan featuring mini-plenaries, differentiated success criteria and behaviour management strategies. ✸ A PowerPoint with probing mastery questions. ✸ A two-sided worksheet with tasks that are open ended and allow children to think carefully about different answers for each question. Lesson objective: To add and subtract amounts of money to solve problems. Success criteria: 🌶 To be able to add amounts of money together to find the sum. 🌶🌶 To be able to work out the change. 🌶🌶🌶 To be able to use reasoning to explain my methods observation ofsted nqt ks2 lks2 y4 year 3

Need an outstanding maths lesson based around perimeter ? Then look no further. This is a great way to showcase your mastery teaching in a quick, snappy lesson that easily demonstrates progress. Suitable for a reasoning maths lesson, the questions included in the interactive PowerPoint are great to get children of all abilities thinking. You can use this lesson flexibly from 15 minutes to an hour. It has been successfully used for interviews and Ofsted visits alike. You will get: ✸ An outstanding lesson plan featuring differentiated success criteria and tasks, starter, main input and plenary. ✸ A PowerPoint with probing mastery questions. ✸ Three differentiated tasks (easier, mid-level and hard) for the main task ✸ Challenge starter task for greater depth children Lesson objective: To measure the perimeter of 2D shapes. Success criteria: 🌶 I know what perimeter means. 🌶🌶 I can measure and record the perimeter of a range of 2D shapes. 🌶🌶🌶 I can find the perimeter of a 2D shape by finding the length of one side if it is regular. I can use repeated addition or multiplication to find the perimeter of a regular 2D shape. observation ofsted nqt ks2 lks2 y4 year 3 year 4 Have any issues with this resource or a request? Contact us directly for the quickest response at: explore_education@outlook.com

Have any issues with this resource or a request? Contact us directly for the quickest response at: explore_education@outlook.com This Year 5/6 English interview lesson on relative clauses and effective writing has been rated Outstanding by Ofsted inspectors. It can be flexibly used from 20 minutes to an hour. Children will produce a piece of descriptive writing based on a video of a dragon entering school grounds and learn how to use a relative clause effectively. They will also reflect upon their writing and evaluate a partner’s writing. It includes: lesson plan, PowerPoint presentation, dragons word bank, video of dragon (CGI), relative clause song video. This lesson plan includes assessment and differentiation strategies and National Curriculum links. It also has detailed timings that you can use to plan ahead and keep pace. Files included: Lesson Plan PowerPoint Dragons Word Bank Relative Clause Song (video) Dragon Entering Playground Video year 5 year 6 KS2 Y5 Y6 UKS2

Content overview : Six Power Point slides for Year 8 or 9 drama Verbatim theatre. Lesson 1 : Learning Outcomes - Level 4 - You will be able to: understand what verbatim theatre is, when it should be used and what effect it is intended to have on the audience. Level 5 -You should be able to: To identify and select appropriate subject for your devising work. Level 6 - You could even: To begin structuring your work, discussing drama techniques, giving ideas and showing some leadership in regards to your groups creation. Lesson 2 : Learning Outcomes - Level 4 - You will be able to: To select relevant research material to help inform your audience of your groups creative intention. Level 5 -You should be able to: To apply thought tracking to your Verbatim theatre creation. Level 6 - You could even: To make a positive contribution to your group, sharing ideas, showing leadership, displaying cooperation, concentration and motivation Lesson 3 : Learning Outcomes- Level 4 - You will be able to: To understand the conventions of Epic Theatre Level 5 - To apply Epic theatre convention to your Verbatim piece of theatre. Level 6- To make a positive contribution to your group, sharing ideas, showing leadership, displaying cooperation, concentration and motivation Lesson 4 : Learning Outcomes- Level 4- You will be able to: You must rehearse your Verbatim Theatre creation using different drama techniques with reasonable confidence. Level 5 - You should be able to: You must apply thought tracking and narration to your piece showing growing confidence and creativity. Level 6 - You could even:To ensure narration and thought tracking is used with definite confidence and you consistently contribute ideas showing good leadership during the rehearsal process. Lesson 5 : Learning Outcomes - Level 4 - You must rehearse your Verbatim Theatre creation using different drama techniques with reasonable confidence. Level 5 - You should be able to: You can perform characters that are different from themselves with growing confidence and originality. Level 6 - You could even: To respond to feedback, making sure relevant conventions are applied to your performance making your piece convincing ,with the aim of achieving your creative intention. Lesson 6 - Learning Outcomes- Level 3 - You should be able to: To be able perform a piece of verbatim theatre applying limited drama conventions. Level 4 -You will be able to: You must use a range of conventions Verbatim with reasonable confidence, performing a character that shows some thought and difference from yourself. Level 5 - You should be able to:You understand your role and its context within the performance. Your character is communicated with focus and confidence. Level 6 -

Icebreakers! This ice breaker resource is a great addition to back to school tutor time, 'dropdown' days or any lesson! It can even be used as a distance learning Teams or Zoom tool. This is the perfect addition to any classroom, especially at the beginning of the year.< This is a FULLY INTERACTIVE presentation with animation and MUSIC. The PPT consists of over 30 Slides with 12 Icebreaker scenarios and three of our fun count down timers. Use the Ice Breaker Selector Wheel on slide 2 to select one of the 12 Ice breaker questions within this presentation. Click on a coloured segment of the selector to start it spinning and the hand to stop it. You can then click on the selected emoji to take you to the relevant activity. If you wish to be taken back to the Icebreaker Selector, there is a signpost on each page. You have the option of selecting either one of the 5, 10 or 15 minute timers for each activity. The time you allocate for each of these scenarios is completely up to you. It can be a quick simple discussion at the start of the lesson, or formulate the body of your lesson. We always love to use the think, pair, share method. This can take 15 to 20 minutes for each question posed. The timers included are: 5 Minutes: Hand Timer 10 Minutes: Ultimate Bubble Timer 15 Minutes: Balloon Timer Please view the preview images for exactly with is included in this pack. Please join our Facebook groups for teacher chat, networking and exclusive We would love your feedback, if you like what you see, please review :)

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Need an outstanding maths lesson based around shape and geometry? Then look no further. This session is great to teach Year 1, Year 2 or a mixed Year 1 and Year 2 class. These two lessons are a great way to showcase your mastery teaching in quick, snappy methods that easily demonstrates progress. Suitable for a reasoning maths lesson, the questions included in the interactive PowerPoints are great to get children of all abilities thinking. We have based this lessons around the NCETM principles of differentiation where children have the opportunity to try all tasks. You can use these lesson flexibly from 15 minutes to an hour, individually or together. They have been successfully used for interviews and Ofsted visits alike. You will get: ✸ Two outstanding lesson plans featuring mini-plenaries, differentiated success criteria and starters. ✸ Two PowerPoint with probing mastery questions. ✸ x12 Task sheets for a range of abilities (including reasoning challenge sheets) ✸ Shape hospital sheet ✸ Shape mat ✸ Right angle muncher (measurer) Lesson 1 Y1 – L.O. To identify and sort rectangles in a set of four sided shapes. Y2 – L.O. To identify and sort right angles in 2D shapes. Success Criteria: I know that a rectangle has 4 sides, two longer than the other two. I can sort rectangles from other shapes. I can identify a right angle in a shape. I can sort shapes into those that have right angles and those that do not. Lesson 2 Y1- To know that any shape with 3 sides is a triangle. Y2 – To know that all triangles are the same but different. Success Criteria: I know that a triangle has 3 sides. I can sort shapes into triangles and not triangles. I can name three different types of triangle. I can use reasoning to describe why triangles are different. observation ofsted nqt key stage 1 mastery reasoning geometry ks1 interview Have any issues with this resource or a request? Contact us directly for the quickest response at: explore_education@outlook.com

Need an outstanding English lesson for upper key stage 2? Then look no further. This is a great way to showcase your teaching skills in a quick, snappy lesson that easily demonstrates progress. Suitable for a literacy lesson, this descriptive writing lesson is based around the film clip Alma, and gets children to write a predictive paragraph about what could happen next. The questions included in the interactive PowerPoint are great to get children of all abilities thinking. You can use this lesson flexibly from 40 minutes to an hour. It has been successfully used for interviews and Ofsted visits alike. You will get: ✸ An outstanding lesson plan featuring mini-plenaries, success criteria and differentiated tasks. ✸ A PowerPoint with probing questions and guided writing prompts. ✸ A picture storyboard to prompt writing. ✸ An easier task with phrases to prompt writing. ✸ A mid-level task worksheet with examples of sentence openers, exciting vocabulary, sentence types and conjunctions and punctuation to use ✸ A harder task worksheet with spaces for children to write their own -ed, -ing and describing openers, exciting vocabulary and examples of different sentence types/punctuation they can use. ✸ An example of a perfect paragraph for children to create their own success criteria by identifying its features Lesson objective: To use a wide range of devices to build cohesion within a paragraph. Success criteria: ✸ Sentence openers ✸ Exciting vocabulary ✸ Conjunctions ✸ Punctuation ✸ Different sentence types (simple, compound, complex). ofsted observation nqt interview uks2 ks2 year 5 year 6 Have any issues with this resource or a request? Contact us directly for the quickest response at: explore_education@outlook.com

This resource is comprised of two items: 1) Personal statement for job application to a faith school 2) A cover letter/personal statement for job application to a community primary school These letters have been tried and tested and have secured interviews for the author on a number of occasions. These exemplars are intended as a guide only and it is advised that job seekers adapt the information contained within the documents to reflect their skills/abilities/experience.

Learning objectives: To identify the countries covered by the Sahara desert. To describe the opportunities and challenges within this environment. Includes activity support sheet. This lesson has been used and accredited as outstanding within many observations and interviews. This alternative to a carousel task allows student to stay in their seat yet rotate the resources as it introduced them to deserts environments. It allows teachers to judge prior knowledge, learning and misconceptions students may have. This is combined with excellent starter and plenary resources that consolidate learning objectives and helps teachers plan for the next lesson on this current important theme of geographical study. The concept and lesson structure been used at KS3, GCSE, IGCE, KS4, MYP and A Level.

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This resource is a supporting statement I wrote when going for a job interview which I got. It was for a KS1 class with varying abilities. You can change it to suit you and your skills/experiences but will be a good starting point to help you write your own.

This is a literacy lesson I have used a few times and has been judged as OUTSTANDING, and could be used for an INTERVIEW or OFSTED observation. The lesson focus is on writing short story anecdotes and can be adapted to be a 30 minute or 1 hour lesson. It follows a transport theme, especially flying (hence the video stimulus) and does rely on an extract from Danny the Champion of the World. The lesson could also be adapted to suit Years 4, 5 or 6. The flying video on the PPT was particularly inspiring! All resources included: Power point Presentation Detailed Lesson Plan Differentiated Worksheets Anecdote examples

This handbook covers; Ideas for whole class behaviour management systems Strategies to refocus attention Tidy up and transition strategies Ways-to incorporate mindfulness in the classroom Ways to support ‘Tough Kids’ How to establish consistency, high expectations and structure in your classroom This handbook comes with links to resources that you can purchase on TPT.

Are you ready to smash out your planning? Grab these free lesson planning templates so you can get back to what’s really important: Creating your next inspiring lesson for your students! This resource comes as 24-page PDF document with a link to Google Docs for the editable version. Inside you’ll find the following editable lesson plan templates: Stand-alone lesson plan Weekly plan (one subject) Tumble Weekly timetable (all subjects) Unit plan Term overview BONUS: Drag ‘n’ drop timetable builder! Enjoy! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Enhance your teaching practice with our metacognition teacher’s prompt cards! These question prompt cards aim to bring metacognitive questioning into your teaching practice. Each card has five questions that follow the general themes: Grey - Before & During Tasks Blue - After Tasks Green - Metacognition & Metacognitive Skills Yellow - Critical Thinking & Higher-Order Thought Orange - Deep-Metacognition There are twenty cards and a total of 100 individual metacognitive question prompts. A teacher with these at their hand will find bringing metacognitive reflection through casual questioning very easy; this in turn will foster metacognitive thinking in their students. Printing: These cards are meant to be printed 4 per page and then cut accordingly: this makes them a ‘pocket-tool’ for any educational practitioner. You can keep them as cards (perhaps laminating them) or, if you staple them together, you can make them into a useful booklet of metacognition question prompts quite easily! This metacognition activity is brought to you by The Global Metacognition Institute (globalmetacognition.com) All resources can be shared, but users agree not to modify or resell this resource. You can find more metacognition teaching resources at globalmetacognition.com Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)

An example lesson plan template with sections for differentiation, , assessment, H&S, notes (if cover work), and sections for teacher and student specific tasks.