A fun bundle of activities aimed at Years 5 and 6 to keep students busy and focussed. It includes: Spelling anagrams - rearranging Years 5 and 6 common exception words. Silly story writing - completing a story with different word classes and clauses. Four operations colouring picture. 6, 7, 8 and 9 x tables race game. Drawing challenge. End of year reflection. Answers.

A Maths themed escape room aimed at Years 5 and 6, focusing on the four operations. Perfect as a fun maths activity or for revision. Printable escape room where students try to find clues linked to Years 5 and 6 maths problems. Printable maths clue cards - the clues hidden in the escape room lead students to maths questions for them to solve in their pairs/groups. Each solved maths clue leads to a number, part of the code for the safe in the escape room. PPT introducing the escape room and clues. Teacher’s instructions and answers.

Ideal for use in Lower Key Stage Two, builds on the work done in Year Two on subordinating conjunctions. Subordinating conjunction activity sheets with three levels of differentiation including a range of activities to help children recognise and understand the meaning of different subordinating conjunctions. Answers included. Subordinating conjunction passages, short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation where children need to identify the subordinating conjunctions used. Ideal as a short activity or a grammar session. Answers included. Coordinating conjunction activity sheets with three levels of differentiation including a range of activities to help children recognise and use different coordinating conjunctions. Answers included. Coordinating conjunction passages, short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation where children need to identify the coordinating conjunctions used. Ideal as a short activity or a grammar session. Answers included. Conjunction talk cards. A range of questions including identifying the missing conjunction in a sentence, discussing the effectiveness of a conjunction and explaining how different conjunctions can change the meaning of a sentence. Answers included. Conjunction display cards. National Curriculum Links – Years 3 and 4 Pupils should be taught to extend the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including when, if, because, although. Use conjunctions to express time and cause. Assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements. Differentiation Subordinating conjunctions: when, because, if, that, however, although. Coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or. Subordinating conjunctions: when, because, if, that, however, although, as, until, before, while, even though. Coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or, so, yet. Subordinating conjunctions: when, because, if, that, however, although, as, until, before, while, even though, since, provided that, unless. Coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or, so, yet, for, nor.

Semi-colon activity sheets with three levels of differentiation that have a range of activities allowing children to use semi-colons correctly, inset them in the correct place and mark sentences that have tried to use them. Answers included. Semi-colon talk cards, a range of questions including questions about how semi-colons can be used and identifying where they can be used in a sentence. Perfect for use in pairs or small groups to consolidate what children know about using semi-colons. Semi-colon passages. Short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation where children need to identify where the semi-colons need to go. Ideal as a short activity or as part of a grammar session. Answers included. National Curriculum Year 6 statutory content to be introduced – Use of the semi-colon, colon and dash to mark the boundary between independent clauses [for example, It’s raining; I’m fed up]. Use of the colon to introduce a list and use of semi-colons within lists. Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to indicate grammatical and other features by using semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses. Differentiation Separating detailed items in a list and using semi-colons to replace conjunctions. Separating detailed items in a list, using semi-colons to replace conjunctions and to separate related clauses. Separating detailed items in a list, using semi-colons to replace conjunctions and to separate related clauses in multi-clause sentences.

A fun bundle of activities aimed at Years 3 and 4 to keep students busy and focussed. It includes: Spelling anagrams - rearranging Years 3 and 4 common exception words. Silly story writing - completing a story with different word classes. Four operations colouring picture. 6, 7 and 12 x tables race game (the full collection of 1 - 12 tables race games is available here). Drawing challenge - students must follow the instructions to see what they create. End of year reflection. Answers.

Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons. Enquiry Question: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?* Clear teaching PPT introducing Anglo-Saxon defences. Main activity: create an Anglo-Saxon burh. Whole unit planning. Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture. Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study. They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

A bundle of 10 fun Chirstmas activities suitable across Key Stage Two. Select individual activities or create your own Christmas activity booklet. Plan a Christmas party with a budget. Mindfulness colouring. Christmas elf and bauble colouring and craft. Spell check a Christmas letter (activities for Years 3&4 and Years 5&6). Addition and subtraction Christmas trees. Christmas story writing. Snowflake symmetry. Sorting the 12 days of Christmas. Rearranging instructions for a Christmas recipe. Sort and identify Merry Christmas in different languages on map of the world. These activities are also available as part of our Advent Calendar, along with many more Christmas themed activities.

Worksheets, comic strips and short passages. Perfect for introducing inverted commas in Y3. ‘Using Inverted Commas’ activity sheet with a range of activities to allow children to add inverted commas, write direct speech with inverted commas and mark sentences. Answers included. ‘Using Inverted Commas’ passage, a short paragraph with direct speech for children to add inverted commas. Ideal as a short activity or a grammar session. Answers included. ‘Using Inverted Commas’ comic strip. A fun activity for children to turn a comic strip with speech bubbles into a short story, writing direct speech with inverted commas. Two versions available – comic strip with complete speech bubbles, blank speech bubbles for children to create their own version. National Curriculum Links Year 3 statutory content to be introduced – Introduction to inverted commas to punctuate direct speech Year 3 and 4 – using and punctuating direct speech

Sorting cards with a range of statement, commands, exclamations and questions. Answers included. Perfect for independent work, in pairs or as a group.

A bundle of activities to help you teach how to use hyphens for clarity and to avoid ambiguity in Upper Key Stage Two. Hyphens activity sheets with three levels of differentiation, includes a range of activities for children to identify words that can be joined with hyphens, how they can be used and how they can change the meaning of a sentence. Hyphen matching cards. A range of words that can be linked together using hyphens, this is a fun matching game that can be used to help children make hyphenated words and go on to use them in sentences for clarity. National Curriculum Year 6 statutory content to be introduced – how hyphens can be used to avoid ambiguity. Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to indicate grammatical and other features by using hyphens to avoid ambiguity. Differentiation Using hyphens to link two words, explaining how a hyphen makes the meaning of the sentence more clear. Using hyphens to link two words, explaining how hyphens can change the meaning of a sentence and adding hyphens in the correct place. Using hyphens to link three words e.g. mother-in-law and explaining the difference in meaning between words with and without hyphens e.g. re-cover and recover.

A fifteen lesson writing unit, leading students towards writing their own newspaper article based on a fictional event: people have lost their shadows This would make a great unit to be taught alongside a Science unit on light and shadows, or as a way to revisit Scientific knowledge. The lessons beginning with exploring the text type, followed by sentence level work and ending with writing their newspaper report. The unit uses differentiated example text types throughout to support students understanding. Where appropriate, each lesson is differentiated and carefully planned to suit different students needs. Lesson order: Hook lesson: introducing the newspaper story, people have lost their shadows. Students take part in a fun treasure hunt activity to piece together the story. Identifying and sorting features of a newspaper report, using differentiated example texts. Sorting facts and opinions, understanding their use in a newspaper report. Writing headlines. Writing captions, including using prepositions. Generating appropriate vocabulary for our newspaper report. Generating fronted adverbials to be used in our newspaper report. Understanding and using conjunctions, this fun activity involves students rolling a dice to see which conjunction makes sense in a sentence and which fits best. Writing in the past tense. Writing quotes, punctuating direct speech for quotes in a newspaper report. This lesson also includes a hot seating activity for the whole class to engage in. Writing the report: writing the introduction. Writing the report: writing the main body. Writing the report: writing the conclusion. Writing the report: editing. Writing the report: publishing. Lesson activities are downloaded as PDF files

A fifteen-lesson writing unit, leading students towards writing their own explanation text based on a fictional product: telescopic glasses! Students spend time at the start of the unit designing their own telescopic glasses. This allows them to focus on how to write an explanation text, without becoming bogged down in learning exactly how a specific product works, they can tell us! This would make a great unit to be taught alongside a Science unit on Space, or as a way to revisit Scientific knowledge. This unit begins with ten lessons exploring the text type and sentence level work. The final five lessons allow them to write their explanation text. The unit uses three differentiated example text types about telescopic glasses to supports students’ understanding. Where appropriate, each lesson is differentiated and carefully planned to suit different students’ needs. Lesson order: Hook lesson: introducing the telescopic glasses and their purpose. Students design their own telescopic glasses. Creating diagrams with technical language, students draw and label diagrams of their glasses using technical language. Identify features of explanation texts, students explore the key features of explanation texts and find examples in the texts provided. Using parenthesis, students will look at how parenthesis has been used in the sample texts before practising writing their own sentences using parenthesis. Using relative clauses, students will look at how relative clauses have been used in the sample texts before practising writing their own sentences or paragraphs using relative clauses to describe their glasses. Writing with conjunctions, students will explore a range of conjunctions and their different purposes in the sample texts. They will then have time to complete sentences or write their own sentences using conjunctions: comparing, contrasting, explaining and describing more than one. Using cohesive devices, students explore how repeated words/phrases, rhetorical questions and conjunctions are cohesive devices. Activities include highlighting cohesive devices in sample texts and editing paragraphs to make them more cohesive. Lesson activities will be downloaded as PDF files

Twelve weeks of morning work tasks, four tasks per week. These activities are ideal for Year 5s in the Spring term as it focusses on what is commonly taught in the second term of the year, they can also be used at any point of the year for recap and consolidation. Each week consists of two Maths based activities and two English based activities, covering the following: Four Operations. Times tables facts, including factors. Multiplication and division. Place value. Rounding. Fractions, decimals and percentages. Area and perimeter. Interpreting timetables and line graphs. Modal verbs. Relative clauses. Creative writing. Determiners. Understanding the meaning of words. Punctuation. Parenthesis. Mini reading comprehensions. Editing/continuing writing e.g.play scripts. Items are downloaded as PPT or PDF files.

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons Clear teaching PPT explaining food chains and modelling a food chain with plants and animals of the rainforests. Engaging food chains activity with two levels of differentiation, students will use their fact files for different animals to work out the food chains in rainforests. Interesting and beautifully presented living things fact files for students to use to support them creating food chains. Whole unit plan. NC objectives: Science Y3: identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat Y4: construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey

Printable bundle, ideal in Year 2 to teach the coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or. -Coordinating conjunction activity sheets, children can practise joining words and phrases together using coordinating conjunctions and identifying the correct conjunction for the sentence. -Coordinating conjunction display cards. Differentiation Using and to join two words and create a phrase. Using and, but to join two phrases together. Using and, but, or to join two phrases together. National Curriculum Links# Pupils should be taught to learn how to use co-ordination (using or, and, but)

Printable bundle, ideal in Year 2 to teach the subordinating conjunctions: when, if, that or because. -Subordinating conjunction activity sheets x 2, children can identify the correct conjunction for the sentence as well spot the conjunction in the sentence. -Subordinating conjunction flash cards, a range of questions that you can use in small groups or pairs. -Subordinating conjunction display cards. Differentiation Using when and because. Using when, because and if to join two phrases together. Using when, because, if and that to join two phrases together. National Curriculum Links Pupils should be taught to learn how to use subordination (using when, if, that, or because).

A detailed and engaging fifteen-lesson writing unit, guiding learners towards writing a persuasive letter, convincing their headteacher to change the school week to four days. Throughout the unit, students read and refer to differentiated example texts to support their learning and understanding of what a persuasive letter is. The first ten lessons explore the text type and sentence level work. The final five lessons allow time to write the persuasive letter, one step at a time. Where appropriate, each lesson is differentiated and carefully planned to suit different students’ needs. Answers (or example answers) are provided, where appropriate. Lesson order: • Hook lesson: students will be given the chance to practise persuading each other to do simple tasks to understand what persuasion is. They will then read the example text, ending the lesson by exploring pros and cons for the idea of a four-day school week. • Identifying the key features of a persuasive letter, sorting and highlighting the features. • Speaking and listening lesson on exaggerating, students will explore what it means to exaggerate, and the language features used. Then practise exaggerating different reasons for having a four-day school week in pairs or groups. • Power of three, students learn what the power of three is, how it is used in the example texts and practise using it. • Talking directly to the reader using first and second person pronouns, students learn what first and second person pronouns are using a snap game. The independent activities include finding pronouns in the example texts, creating a word mat and re-writing sentences using incorrect pronouns. • Writing opinions as facts. Students learn the effect of writing opinions as facts to be persuasive and have the chance to practise writing some. • Fact finding lesson to create simple statistics, students create questions and poll class/staff members to create their own simple statistics for their letters. • Conjunctions to extend ideas, students explore how different conjunctions are used before the main activity, a matching card game where students need to match two parts of a sentence with a conjunction. • Understanding what rhetorical questions are and how they are used in persuasive letters, students either fill in the blank on an example text with rhetorical questions or create a word mat for rhetorical questions. • Planning our persuasive letter. • Writing the introduction and first paragraph, looking at examples and exploring the language used. • Writing the third paragraph, shared write to support students writing. • Writing the conclusion. • Students can practise editing using our ‘persuasive letter to edit’ before editing their own work. • Publishing texts. Lesson activities will be downloaded as PDF files

Four fun colouring sheets provide children with the opportunity to recognise numbers 1 - 20, supporting your teaching of Early Maths in the EYFS.

Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons. This lesson summarises our first enquiry Question: Who were the Anglo-Saxons and how do we know about them? Teaching PPT with a quiz to recap what students have learned so far. Cartoon strip activity. Whole unit planning. Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture. Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study. They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons Teaching PPT to guide students through their self-assessment at the end of this unit with an opportunity to add to the thought shower created at the start of this unit. Fun and engaging orienteering style question cards, summarising this rainforest topic. Whole unit planning.