I wrote this Oliver Twist Playscript for a year 6 production. It includes all the song lyrics, character list, set production ideas and 21 pages of a script which lasts approximately 65 minutes. It was a great success when our school performed it.
Scene 1 = The Orphanage
Scene 2 = The Funeral Parlour
Scene 3 = Meeting Dodger
Scene 4 = Fagin's Gang
Scene 5 = Oliver starts working for Fagin
Scene 6 = Bill Sikes shows his true colours
Scene 7 = Oliver settles into his new life
Scene 8 = The truth will out
A 10-15 minute assembly on having a more positive attitude in life. Includes thought-provoking questions on situations in school that may provoke a negative reaction and 6 simple steps to guide students towards being more proactive than reactive.
Easily adaptable for tutor time!
Suitable for all ages!
Writing a Newspaper Report KS2 (Planning and Resources)
This Lesson pack is designed to help KS2 pupils learn more about how to write a Newspaper Report, such as the features of the text, planning a newspaper report and a wow lesson. The planning pack is suitable for all abilities and will teach children to write a detailed Newspaper Report, fully linked to the national curriculum.
Children will learn that the purpose of a Newspaper is to inform readers of what is happening in the world around them and draw on their own experiences to develop their writing.
In this lesson pack you will find three weeks of lesson planning and resources that support children as they learn to write a newspaper report. Lesson planning suitable for Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5 students and fully linked to the national curriculum.
Lessons are child centred with independent, paired and group activities. Use the detailed and flexible planning to adapt to the individual needs of your class.
Planning Pack includes…
Long term planning with links to the KS2 national curriculum,
Engaging daily lesson plans (3 weeks writing project),
Full resourced lessons,
Assessment opportunities and resources,
Daily mini grammar lesson activities,
Planning user guide,
Phonics practice tests with QR codes. Simply scan with any smart device and practice. Used it in the classroom so children can easily upload the materials and practice. Also useful for parents evening as a handout, so children can practice at home.
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE MERCHANT OF VENICE LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION ACTIVITY BOOKLET, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER, AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of William Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the play, understanding the writer’s ideas within the play, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Shakespeare’s language devices.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
Engaging
Defining/ Understanding
Identifying/Remembering
Analysing/ Creating
Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
110 slide powerpoint with lesson plans and activities to go alongside reading of Wonder by RJ Palacio.
Used with an extra literacy class in year 8 but can be adapted.
4 weeks worth of planning and resources on Traction Man for Year1/Year 2
Week 1-3 - Narrative:
Exploring the text
Character descriptions
Learning the story
Sequencing the story
Innovating the story
Inventing a their own superhero story
Week 4 - Persuasive advert:
features of a persuasive advert
Planning and writing a persuasive advert for their own toy
Differentiated worksheets
Word banks and writing frames
Powerpoint slides
Planning
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE ANIMAL FARM LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE 30-PAGE ANIMAL FARM COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of George Orwell’s allegorical novella ‘Animal Farm.’ The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of plot, character, context, and language, in addition to considering the key messages being offered by Orwell.
All of the resources that you need are included in the bundle: informative and engaging whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, activities, and lesson plans.
The bundle is made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, including:
- The Russian Revolution;
- Old Major’s Dream;
- The Rise of the Pigs;
- Dictatorship;
- Squealer;
- The Ending (Orwell’s Message)
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging.
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE HUNGE GAMES LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO BOTH OF THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLETS, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Suzanne Collins’ ‘The Hunger Games.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
Engaging
Defining/ Understanding
Identifying/Remembering
Analysing/ Creating
Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
Word Mat
Story Map
Story Map- missing sections
Giant description page
Giant’s have, can, are worksheet
Design a tie for the giant
Letter template
Word/picture matching
This engaging and purposeful series of lessons enables children to create working slider and lever mechanisms.
The resources include 3 lessons and an evaluation sheet (leading children through the ‘research, design, make, evaluate’ process) and a corresponding knowledge organiser.
I used a polar theme when teaching this unit, as it was our topic at the time, but the resources can easily be adapted to fit your own particular project.
Each PowerPoint is eye-catching and comprehensive, and all worksheets templates are included as in both Word and PDF.
These lessons were originally created for children in years 1-2, but may be adapted for slightly older and younger year groups.
This engaging and purposeful series of lessons enables children to gradually develop towards constructing vehicles using wheels and axles. The resources were originally created to guide children towards building safari buggies, but the resources can easily be adapted to fit your own particular project.
The bundle contains five lessons and the knowledge organiser. The lessons included are:
Lesson 1 - Researching
Lesson 2 - Designing
Lesson 3 - Making
Lesson 4 - Constructing the Body
Lesson 5 - Evaluating
Comprehensive and colourful Powerpoint presentations, in addition to all of the worksheets/ templates needed.
These lessons were originally created for children in years 2 and 3, but may be adapted for slightly older and younger year groups.
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE STONE COLD LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Robert Swindells’ ‘Stone Cold.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
A 24 slide (20-25 minute) assembly on Black History Month, focusing on faces such as Akala, Bessie Coleman, Bayard Rustin and Phillis Wheatley as well as more generally how Black History Month is celebrated.
With open discussion points and engaging facts, this is an easily adaptable assembly for KS3-KS5. Also suitable for form-time!
