A collection of resources for anti-bullying, many of which will spark ideas for your own planning with your class. I have included a short assembly with the excellent short animation Narrated by Kate Winslet and lots of additional resources. NEW I have included this as Mac Keynote (will work on iPad) and also newly edited PowerPoint file. An excellent idea during this week is to approach ‘dealing with anger’ with the children. A great way to do this is to use the ‘Angry Birds’ video game to spark their interest I have included a powerpoint and some posters / worksheets to help. Also some sheets that go well with the Pixar short movie included. I have also written an example ‘anti-bullying letter’ example written in shared writing with the children and a ‘Dealing with dilemmas’ PowerPoint (i.e. what to do in certain situations.) I have always found the website ‘Go-Givers’ to be excellent. NB I do not claim to own the video sections of this resource. Although many are fantastic to use!

Ideal for a year 7-9 year olds and can be differentiated accordingly. This lesson involves following a short section of the film Shrek and its script that I have typed out. Children then go on to write a short section of the script by converting a piece of text into a playscript. Children have loved this lesson and it always provides some funny voices too from the class. A great way to get boys interested in writing. Includes Required short video clips, cut to measure Lesson plan Required worksheets Required script sections Please comment if you find this resource useful.

Completely ORIGINAL and works fantastically. Developed in collaboration with an esteemed colleague. These are some of the resources I used and created when the children were doing fantasy stories, we linked it to the Thundercat cartoon, did character descriptions and settings. I always do this topic with the children in year 3/4, the short episodes of the series all offer a clear beginning, middle and end which lends itself very well to some excellent short stories by the children. The ‘cave of time’ is an especially good episode with a clear problem, build up and solution etc Included a weekly plan and a map that can be printed over 2 pieces of paper for display. I have also included a set of Top Trump example attributes for this resource which really gets the boys extremely motivated and could be used as an additional activity to be played later on in Golden Time. This is very comprehensive and I have used this many times successfully with years 3-5. The boys especially don’t stop talking about it!

Weekly lesson Plan / medium term plan Year 3/4 Characteristics of materials.

This is a professionally written pub style quiz, beautifully formatted and with full answers. There are two versions of the quiz provided, one with the answers underneath the questions and one with just the questions in case the quizmaster wants to take part in the quiz themselves. There are a mammoth 70 questions in total with a blank numbered template provided for quizzers to write their answers on, if you would like to use it. The quiz includes: Questions 1-12: A mixed picture round with 12 questions. Questions 1-4: Name the celebrity that has sadly passed away in 2020. Questions 5-8: Name the shop that went into administration in 2020 from the partial logo. Questions 9-12: What are the missing words from the UK Government slogans? *Questions 13-30:General knowledge questions and answers, starting easy and getting progressively more difficult, the majority being around the theme of ‘2020 a year in review. For example, one question included is "first announced on March 20th, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme provided grants to employers to pay up to what percentage of peoples’ wages?" (Answer: 80%) Questions 31-35: An exclusively edited video with 3 catchphrases to identify and two ‘fun’ questions based around 2020 happenings. Questions 36-40: Music round video included with the lyrics displayed on screen and an audio clue of the song. (Both videos in mp4 or mov format.) Questions 41-45: Identify the colour multiple choice general knowledge questions Questions 46-55: Connections round - 9 general knowledge questions, with the tenth being to identify the common 2020 based connection. Questions 56-60: What month of the year did the given events eg. "In which month of 2020 did Captain Tom Moore walk a total of one hundred laps of his garden to raise money for the NHS?: (Answer: April.) Questions 61-65: 5 slightly more difficult questions Questions 66-70:The final 5 questions are the ‘Wipeout Round.’ Each question is worth 2 points, however if one question is answered incorrectly your team ‘wipes-out’ and scores NO points for the round, questions can however be missed out by leaving them blank This really is a quality resource and has taken many hours to formulate. I present professional live quizzes at www.facebook.com/quizinators this is one of the quizzes used in the past in it’s entirety. There are also lots of quizzes for sale at: www.quizinators.com

I have designed a unique set of resources designed to engage children in Literacy. Also excellent for a futuristic topic. Please note this is a set of unique resources, not a unit of work or lesson plan. It is designed for teachers to ‘dip into’ as they wish or even as part of a whole school topic. There is tonnes of material and this took many hours to assemble. Resources Updated 2023 2015 was the year that in the Back to the Future films they visited the ‘future’. October was the month of ‘Back to the Future Day.’ The resources could be used as part of a thematic unit or within other units of the curriculum. Excellent for Newspapers and Non-Fiction writing opportunities in particular. Included in this resource pack… Multiple sets of Newspaper articles (edited by myself and made highly visual in worksheet form) with comprehension and activity worksheets I made for them. -Additional extension activities fitting the articles -Punctuation activity -Original trailer and Poster from the movie with activities I designed around them -The stuff the film got wrong! -Punctuation activity -Ideas for a Back to the Future week / day. -Display materials -Movie clips ‘making of’ -Hover Chase Video …and much more! Due to the popularity of this resources I have added some futuristic robot activities which tie in well with the topic! An up to the minute and current set of resources that children will love, especially boys and a brilliant way to encourage creative writing / comprehension skills as well as looking at the features of Newspapers. Designed for KS2 but could be easily differentiated for lower KS3. Please check my other resources out here… https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/dave_orritt

26 worksheets, sutable for years 2-4 and adaptable, mostly in ‘word’ format. Designed to ‘dip into’ regarding word problems and puzzles. Updated Dec’19

A few homophone resources. Including correcting homophones and inserting the right ones. Used with my year 4 class but can be adapted!

We gave our classes a homework project based around finding about an animal of their choice. These sheets were given out once a week to help guide them with 'how to write a homework project.&' They can obviously be adapted. Extract..... &';So far you have... -Gathered together resources -Made a title page -Decided on sections to split your project into and made brief notes. -Written the introduction and ‘where they live.’ -Written about what they look like -Written about what they eat / how they hunt' If you find the resource useful please comment or rate.

Worksheet for year 3/3 division by grouping

Spend a full day, or even more with all these resources based around Remembrance Day! This is primarily designed to be a huge amount of resources to ‘dip into’ during the day or week of this event. I have now also included a Literacy unit plan including a Remembrance Day segment suitable for years 3-6 based on comments and feedback recieved. Included in this resource pack… -A Powerpoint to introduce Remembrance day with included example poems to read to the children to help scaffold their own -Acrostic Poem Templates -Planning (please note this is under ‘Creating images weekly plan’) in the resources. This follows on from Bonfire night planning. -Comprehension , unique, questions and answers. A Fantastic Veterans Day Video -Information about Poppy Day -Crossword -Poems -Using a dictionary activity -Newspaper articles uniquely writted designed to discuss England and the FIFA Poppy Ban from the England football match from the last World Cup, an excellent PSHE lesson. NB: An EXCELLENT movie is 'The Piano' - this is absolutely perfect, emotional for the occasion and can be used in assemblies or the classroom to promote discussion.

A set of materials I made based on the Marks and Spencer’s Food Adverts. The lesson objective was to use interesting adjectives in their writing. We watched M&S food adverts, as a class explored describing different foods and then wrote our own. Included… Weekly plan (just a few ideas in a weekly plan format including this lesson, you can make your own lesson plan with some of these ideas) Word bank for this lesson Video example of advert to pick out language QUALITY Presentation (the same one) in the following formats… Mac / iPad / Keynote Powerpoint Movie Format (Following this lesson, children then wrote their own advert using descriptive language and we filmed the advert.)

Powerpoint used to illustrate what powerful verbs and adverbs are. Extremely effective for years 3-5. Due to the popularity of this resource I have included a word bank I have made of adverbs that are very effective in writing.

An awesome lesson (please watch the weblink for enthusiasm) that really works! Hope these worksheets help.

Lesson Plans for teaching the area of Calligrams / Shape poetry. Ideal for year 3/4. I have also included a set of resources for use in the genre. Reduced price.

UPDATE NOV: added Dahl resources. A unit of work and worksheets I made for children to analyse and produce an 'Oompa Loompa' song based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This also has drama / dance links! A truly unique lesson idea you won't find anywhere. Please note these are resources to write lyrics to a tune plus lots of other extras, mostly Literacy based. I have now included the backing track (Karaoke version to the original tune.) UPDATE: I have added a collection of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory resources (including the first 3 book chapters and questions based on this) and additional files for the Oompa Loompa song resource

A termly medium term plan for word processing in year 3/4.

A lesson plan I used with my year 3 class for using 'Dance EJay&' in our ICT lessons and supporting worksheet.

Myths and Legend Lettering 'Greek Myths.&'

The Twits Comprehension. Based on the first 3 chapters of the book.