A simple outline of the 15 festival days. Most of the information has been taken from the book Chinese New Year by Catherine Chambers.

A simple PowerPoint introducing Shrove Tuesday and telling the story of Jesus in the desert. Also includes quick discussion activities about being tempted. Simple worksheet to record own experiences of resisting and giving into temptation

Photos of the Isle of Coll (Katie Morag's Struay). These photos have been collected from various Coll tourist sites and have a range of display and practical uses.

Introduction to St. George's Day. Brief history of who St. George actually was and goes on to tell the legend of St. George and the dragon. Images could be cut and paste to create sequence activity - I haven&'t done this as my children are making shields instead.

A PowerPoint about Klee with questions to encourage the children to think about art and the artist. An line drawing version of Senecio for the children to colour/paint. After working on creating shades and tints, my children chose their favourite colour and used this to create a palette to paint the picture.

Colourful powerpoint detailing the 15 festival days.

A template for the children to cut out their own tangram, and a worksheet in which they need to identify the shapes used in each tangram picture.

Simple PowerPoint detailing the origins of Mother's Day. Only very brief, but used as an intro before making cards.

I have simply taken the text from Woodlands Junior Website (a must if you've not visited it) and put it into a PowerPoint to introduce the subject and stimulate discussion.

Children copy chinese numbers and work out the answers to very simple sums.

Children retell the traditional race story in the style of a newspaper report: 'Rat Cheats to Win the Race!' (colour and black and white templates saved as separate files)

A PowerPoint showing the work of Robert and Sonia Delaunay and Wassily Kandinsky. Used as an introduction to discuss and identify 2D shapes in art, before the children created their own shape artwork.

A summary of the Reading Framework. Though abridged (from 115 pages down to less than 9 pages), all of the text is copied and pasted directly from the original DfE document to try to avoid/minimise personal bias or interpretation. MS Word and PDF versions available. Hope this is useful and saves you some time this summer - we’ve earned a rest!

Match the animals to the adjectives

A table listing all 204 competing countries in alphabetical order with their flags. List taken from the BBC website

Get the children to complete the number sequences. Very easy to differentiate by simply changing the numbers in the lanterns.

A PowerPoint to introduce the unit, it looks at modern buildings in London that the childen may recognise, the monument , period fashion and portraits of Charles II, Pepys and Wren.

Complete the 'Wanted' poster based on the traditional Chinese story

Look at the traditional symbols on the fan and match them to their meaning

Worksheet in which children highlight connectives in sentences about the Chinese zodiac race, before suggesting connectives to complete similar sentences. Choice of two different back pages for differentiation.

Flipchart of Katie Morag's Struay. Briefly introduces Mairi Hedderwick and the characters and island featured in the stories.