Six ready-to-use basic Year 6 cover lessons in maths, English, reading, geography, science, and PSHE. Engaging, low-prep activities designed for emergency cover situations. Clear instructions included; no specialist knowledge required.
A collection of fun, low-prep activities for the first week of term in KS2. Includes icebreakers, team-building challenges, creative writing, maths mystery, self-portraits, class charter, and more. Printable templates provided. Perfect for Years 3–6.
This engaging, basic maths mystery is designed for lower ability Year 6 pupils to practice the four operations in a fun and accessible way. Pupils take on the role of detectives, solving a series of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division clues to eliminate suspects and uncover who stole the school trophy. Each clue is straightforward but wrapped in a story context to keep pupils motivated and build confidence with key arithmetic skills. The activity can be completed independently or in pairs and requires no preparation, making it ideal for lessons, interventions, or cover work.
Bring fun and engagement into your ELSA sessions with this Emotional Literacy Top Trumps style card game. Perfect for small group or 1:1 work, this resource helps children explore emotions, strengths, and coping strategies while enjoying a familiar, competitive game format.
A complete pack of 15 ready-to-use activities designed for the first week back in KS2. Includes icebreakers, creative writing, maths mysteries, bingo games, wellbeing tasks, and display work. Printable templates and teacher notes provided. Perfect for Years 3–6, this pack saves hours of planning and sets a positive tone for the term.
This unit is ideal for cross-curricular links with history and music. Pupils explore jazz music, develop persuasive writing skills and build toward an extended opinion piece.
Perfect for Year 5 or Year 6, especially for teachers working with mixed ability or lower attaining groups.
Christopher Columbus reading comprehension with questions. This reading comprehension piece focuses on the life and voyages of Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer credited with the European discovery of the Americas.
John Cabot reading comprehension with questions. This reading comprehension piece focuses on John Cabot, an Italian explorer who is best known for his voyages to North America in the late 15th century.
Rosa Parks reading comprehension with questions, a perfect activity for Black History Month. This reading comprehension piece focuses on Rosa Parks, an iconic figure in the American Civil Rights Movement.
This is a two week series of work about The Ballad of the Tempest, a poem about a storm. The children build up to writing their own poem about a storm.
A two week poetry scheme of work written for Literacy/English lesson with a focus on ‘power of imagery’, eventually writing a poem about weather.
This was a resource for year 5/6 although it can be easily adapted for year 3/4.
This is a four week unit on Myths and Legends creative writing with the end product being writing a mythical story.
Four powerpoints and resources included.
A four week scheme of work written for Literacy/English lesson with a focus on fiction and incorporating a World War one theme into literacy.
The resource is split into four easy to read folders. Each folder contains the powerpoint for the week, the resources for the week and also the long term skills that are being covered for the week.
The scheme of work is based on a book called Lost Feather, which can be purchased cheaply on websites such as Ebay and Amazon. The scheme was written for year 5/6 and was well received by all children and staff who taught it.
A four week scheme of work written for Literacy/English lesson with a focus on non-fiction build up writing tasks finishing with the writing of an autobiopgrahy on Jacqueline Auriol, the first female pilot to break the sound barrier.
This was written and taught for year 5/6 and was well received by all children and staff who taught it.
A four week scheme of work written for Literacy/English lesson with a focus on fiction mystery writing narrative.
The resource is split into four easy to read folders. Each folder contains the powerpoint for the week, the resources for the week and also the long term skills that are being covered for the week.
The scheme of work is based on a video called Roads End, which can be accessed via the link in the planning and on the powerpoint. The scheme was written for year 5/6 and was well received by all children and staff who taught it.
This resource is a powerpoint with a 4 day week of mental maths activities. The numbers can be changed each week to best suit your class and what you are covering or what needs to be revisited. It is very easy to follow and includes a page of questioning for you to use throughout the session.
A four week scheme of work written for Literacy/English lesson with a focus on fiction narrative writing and incorporating a futuristic element not it.
Included is a powerpoint for each week as well as the resources. The first page of each powerpoint shows the skills that are being covered that week.
The scheme was written for year 5/6 and was well received by all children and staff who taught it.
