Cut and stick these key events and put them in the right place on the timeline. Includes key events, information about Greek culture and extension activity on understanding AD/BC and using terms such as century and decade.

Introduce your Year 6 class to Pie Charts using this straightforward Powerpoint presentation and accompanying differentiated activity. First encourage children to compare data in a bar chart and a pie chart a discuss the pros and cons of each. Then work through the six different activities which increase in challenge. Finally, there are a selection of other pie charts to discuss, including the first ever pie chart, a pie chart created by Florence Nightingale and a couple of funny examples to end the lesson. This is a great resource to introduce pie charts before having children construct their own using protractor (though the challenge activity does stretch children and they may ask for a protractor to help them!).

Get your students more familliar with OS Map symbols by playing this fun Dobble-like matching game.

Children will become groups of Viking invaders! They’ll start off with a blank map of a Saxon settlement and one by one sneak into the settlement to find a clue. The group will use these clues to add more and more details to their map. When finished, they should have a good idea of what the Saxon settlement looks like and be able to devise a plan to attack it! Fun activity to use if teaching about Britain’s settlement by the Anglo-Saxons and the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England.

Sheet of labelled pictures of different things that the Ancient Greeks may or may not have invented. Children can sort the items into two groups and then watch the Horrible Histories song to see if they were correct. Answers also provided.

Simple timeline cut and stick activity consisting of key religious changes in Britain from the Iron Age through to the modern day.

Tudor family tree activity with pictures, including Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey, Mary I, Elizabeth I and James VI/I and various other significant members. Also includes the ‘line of succession’ to show the order of monarchs.

Children to use an atlas to find the five main mountain ranges of the UK. Children to cut and stick the mountain ranges onto a given map and the note on the highest points of each of the four home nations.

Short presentation and activity to show children how to use apostrophes to indicate contractions. Makes a point of ‘blowing up’ the omitted letters and the apostrophe is a little bit left over from the ‘explosion’. Highlights that the apostrophe doesn’t go between the two words your joining, but in the place of the letters you’re no longer using.

Teaching Activity; Sometimes, Always, Never Quiz; Adaptable Game Everything you’ll need to introduce/recap the names of 2D shapes. Includes etymologies (Greek/Latin roots of the words) to help to aid understanding.

Differentiated activity for children to sort pictures of animals into 5 categories: mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians.

Suitable for KS2 and beyond. Electrical circuit symbol presentation including subject knowledge notes for teachers and pictures showing each component in reality. Includes exciting, competitive card matching activities Any two cards share one (and only one) symbol - will you be the first to spot it? Game helps to reinforce circuit symbol recognition and can promote discussion about all things electricity. These aren’t your bog standard ‘snap’ sort of activities - your pupils will want to play the games again and again!

PPT showing how the legacy of the Saxons and the Vikings can still be seen in the names of our settlements. Fully editable so you can add local place names to make it as relevant as possible. Typeface may need changing depending on you version of PowerPoint.

Suitable for Year 2 and Year 3. This editable and easily printable set of cards will help your pupils to recognise and discuss fractions in an exciting, stimulating way. There are a range of different games to play, all revolving around the fact that any two cards in the set share one (and only one) pictorial representation of a simple fraction. This isn’t your bog-standard game of snap - your pupils will want to play again and again!

Sorting / matching / ordering activity exploring tenths written as fractions, decimals, in words, as a division and drawn as a diagram.