I am a primary school teacher and assistant head. I love my job and my aim is to produce high quality teaching resources that motivate learners and make life easier for teachers! All of my resources are ready to teach, differentiated and easy to adapt.
I don't make resources just to sell, all uploads have been made to be used in my own classroom. Therefore, I can vouch for their suitability, pitch and quality.
I am a primary school teacher and assistant head. I love my job and my aim is to produce high quality teaching resources that motivate learners and make life easier for teachers! All of my resources are ready to teach, differentiated and easy to adapt.
I don't make resources just to sell, all uploads have been made to be used in my own classroom. Therefore, I can vouch for their suitability, pitch and quality.
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources based around Greta Thunberg’s Ted Talk on climate change.
This lesson begins by looking at the recent ‘School strike for climate change’ movement. It then moves on to explore the features of Persuasive Speeches and the students will annotate the speech to show their understanding. The lesson uses AFORRESTPIE as a vehicle for exploring the features.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat's 2a Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated)
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways.
The lesson has a dragon/monster theme.
All images are sourced from PIXABAY.
A set of complete English skills lessons, based around a variety of different grammar skills.
*Skills covered are: *
Expanded noun phrases
Relative clauses
Powerful verbs
Modal verbs
Inverted commas.
The lessons are suitable for both teaching and applying of each skill, and also as a revision lesson for Year 6.
Children will learn about the skill, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways. The lesson includes a plan, a detailed PowerPoint and three activities.
Lesson resources are fully editable where possible.
Each lesson has an animal/fantasy theme
All images are sourced from PIXABAY.
A complete scheme of work, presentations and resources for the story of ** ’ KING KONG by ANTHONY BROWNE.** Aimed at Upper KS2 but easily adaptable. Each lesson is differentiated at least 3 ways.
All lessons are ready to go (the only thing missing is the book!). This unit is genuinely ready to reach and planned to a high quality.
Editable versions of ppts and activity sheets are included wherever possible. The scheme starts and end with a cold and hot task to aid assessment and show clear progression of skills.
**There is a free sample lesson available here:**https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/king-kong-lesson-2-expanded-noun-phrases-free-sample-lesson-11877353
Lessons are based on the understanding of the text and its themes, as well as key narrative, and descriptive writing skills. Coverage includes: cohesion, conjunctions, Precise language choices, adverbials, sentence variety and structure, figurative devices and more.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay. CLips and images from king kong are sourced from Publicdomain.com
A scheme of poetry, across 7 lessons for Upper KS2. The unit is based around the iconic poem 'The Kraken' by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Each lesson is fully resourced, and includes full planning and a PowerPoint presentation. Fully differentiated 3 ways. The lessons explore figurative techniques and word effects. They then create a poem based around a sea monster of their own creation.
All images from Pixabay, pexels and openclipart.org.
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the legend of ‘Robin Hood’
This is lesson 1 in a series of 8. The whole scheme of work is available.
The whole scheme includes 8 full lessons, each fully resourced, and including a detailed PPT. The scheme culminates in the class writing a legend based on Robin Hood.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
I have run a very successful spelling bee at my school for over 5 years now. These are copies (adapted and improved year on year) that I use to organise and implement it.
Includes word lists, instructions for teachers and parents, certificates, power point score board and proformas of letters to parents and teachers etc..
Any questions or queries, please just ask, I am happy to explain and/or clarify anything
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A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’ PIG HEART BOY’ by Malorie Blackman.
Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on the use of varied openers in a narrative
This is lesson 5 in a series of 14. The whole scheme of work is available here:
The whole scheme includes a cold and a hot task, and culminates in the class writing a dilemma story
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat’s ‘Noun which/where/who’ Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated) Would fit neatly into a grammar or narrative unit based on sentence construction. Also works very well as a standalone skills lesson.
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways.
The lesson has a dragon theme.
All images are sourced from PIXABAY.
A complete Geography lesson, including a plan, editable slides and all the resources to teach the objective:
To compare conditions in Antarctica to the UK
This is lesson three in a series of 5 about the Extremes of Antarctica,
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A complete set of history and English plans that are fully resourced and ready to teach. Purchasing saves 70% on indivdiual prices
There are 2 English units, based around Shakespeare and Richard the third.
Art explores medieval lettering styles and heraldry
History explores the causes and battles of the Wars, before exploring the discovery of Richards body.
A Complete ART lesson, which includes a detailed PPT, resources and models.
UPDATED FOR 2023
The lesson covers feelings and how they can be expressed through art, children explore their characters (with the help of their friends) and then create a micrography portrait about themselves.
Perfect to help you get to know your class, whilst creating a fantastic display for the wall (ideal for the start of the year) Great for transition day too!
The children will produce a portrait for display.
Ideal for KS2/3
All images are either the authors own, or sourced from PIXABAY
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A complete lesson based on the features of the Cinderella Fairy Tale. This is lesson 5 of 7 in a unit that explores a variety of Cinderella stories from around the world. This lesson works well as a standalone lesson too.
This lesson explores the version of Cinderella from Egypt -The Egyptian Cinderella. The class explore the features within the story and respond by comparing the story to the original version. The independent task is differentiated three ways.
The planning for the whole 7 sessions is included in the download. Please take a look at the full lessons for the prepared resources and PowerPoints. The whole unit is also available as a bundle.
Images from Pixabay
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’ SKELLIG’ by David Almond. (lesson 8 in a series of 10).
Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on understanding the character . The resources and PPT are fully editable wherever possible. The whole unit plan (10/11 lessons ) is inlcuded along with the resources for lesson 8.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing in my year six class.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat’s DE:DE Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated)
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways.
The lesson has a dragon/monster theme.
All images are sourced from PIXABAY.
A complete lesson, written for KS1 (Year 1 and 2) all about the problems posed by plastic pollution.
Children learn about the issues and then make a written pledge to improve plastic pollution in the future.
Resource consists of a powerpoint presentation, with printable resources required for the lesson.
A complete lesson, written for UKS2 (Year 5 and 6) all about the problems posed by plastic pollution.
Children learn about the issues in and around school and their local area
Resource consists of a powerpoint presentation, with printable resources required for the lesson.
A Whole School set of complete lessons, written for the afternoon of Earth Day, pitched at each of the EYFS, KS1, LKS2 and UKS2 phases. They all touch on the problems posed by plastic pollution.
Children learn about the issues and then undertake various tasks.
Resource consists of a powerpoint presentation, with printable resources required for the lesson.
A descriptive writing scheme of work, presentations and resources for a series of 8 lessons. Aimed at Upper KS2 but easily adaptable. Each lesson is differentiated at least 3 ways.
All lessons are ready to go. This unit is genuinely ready to reach and planned to a high quality.
Each lesson is also available separately and includes a presentation and all resources.
Editable versions are included wherever possible.
Lessons are designed to teach children how to write in a clear and concise way. In grammar starters and individual lessons there is a focus on editing basic errors and writing sentences that make sense.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete English lesson, written for year 5/6 and differentiated 3 ways.
The objective covered is suspense writing, with a starter that looks at the passive voice.
The planning uses the animated film: Francis Brandywine, which is available on You tube. Directed by Richard Hickey
All images are public domain from pixabay.com
