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Resources for innovative lessons based in upper KS2 and lower KS3.

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Resources for innovative lessons based in upper KS2 and lower KS3.
End of year art sessions
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End of year art sessions

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Concise, fun lessons which cover an artist’s work, a short discussion, skills practice and a short final piece. Can be easily extended if you want! With short explanatory videos to help teach.
Debate prompt
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Debate prompt

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Year round school: a good idea? Presentation detailing facts and stats and a format for a class debate. Great fun time filler or debate lesson!
Six full debate lessons with resources
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Six full debate lessons with resources

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These engaging, challenging debates fit into the new OFSTED framework, looking for emphasis on debate. Drawing upon reading, speaking and listening skills, these lessons have proven to be a huge hit with my Year 5 and 6 children!
Welcome back wellness sessions: 1 and 2
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Welcome back wellness sessions: 1 and 2

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Relating to cognitive behavioural approaches and art therapy ideas, I’ve been preparing some sessions for my children in upper KS2 for when they return to school. The focus is very much on metacognition and having the emotional vocabulary to describe feelings, but indirectly and through famous artworks and philosophical stories. This resource is lessons 1 and 2 of the series, where children reflect on themselves and ho others see them. I’d love to hear feedback as I produce more in the series!
30 different writing assessment lessons
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30 different writing assessment lessons

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Covering all genres of writing under the new curriculum and using varied and engaging topics, this resource is a fantastic way to get your class accumulating written evidence towards summative and formative writing assessment in upper KS2 and lower KS3.
Getting to know you
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Getting to know you

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A full day’s resources for the first day back, including informal assessment opportunities for writing, maths, speaking and reading: Morning starter (while children are registered): grammar, using an image to write sentences and identify word classes; Golden rules children decide as a class the rules for the year; Recount of holiday: writing assessment task; Maths treasure hunt which requires a little prep to hide all the tasks about the classroom/playground! Selfie biography task children get the chance to set goals and write about themselves. Reading task perhaps to precede a quiet reading time at the end of the day.
SATs style texts with questions
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SATs style texts with questions

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With less questions than the usual SATs test, this resource was used in my class this week in an hour session, allowing enough time to discuss the vocabulary and practice answering questions worded in a similar way to the tests from the last two years. The theme is ‘Mummies’, which the boys enjoyed. This is a non-fiction paper, but with longer texts and no subheadings.
Macbeth read and respond activities
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Macbeth read and respond activities

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A series of activities and comprehension questions based on Macbeth, using snippets of the original text and an abridged version to read as a class. The text is not my own, it is typed from Usborne Illustrated stories from Shakespeare.
Getting to know your class: a morning's work
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Getting to know your class: a morning's work

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Introductory games, worksheet and golden rules presentation included, which should take a teacher and his/her new class all the way up to breaktime :-) Contents: speaking activity game morning starter printable/editable resource for the children editable powerpoint slides for the teachers, with notes attached The ‘passport’ sets up targets for the child for the year and provides a nice way to reflect throughout. Designed to facilitate a smooth start to the year. I also used the time we had to design a logo for the front of the passports- r you could just stick your school’s logo on the front.
Selection of art lessons which build dialogue
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Selection of art lessons which build dialogue

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Using famous artworks, the children discuss the art and its producers, learning about the context of great works of art. They explain their opinions and write reflections before producing art. This has been shown to improve written and spoken English in my classes.
Fiction story generator
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Fiction story generator

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To help your children create stories, they roll the dice and select the option that comes up. I did this with my class and they loved it! The funny thing is that when they roll an option they don’t want, they suddenly know what they want to write anyway, so win-win! :-)
Afternoon of history and art to end the year
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Afternoon of history and art to end the year

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A fantastic spoken lesson leading into art and (potentially) written reflection after! First part of the lesson is a partner-talk then whole class discussion on the year: what has been the highlights? What has stood out? Scribe it all down then start the slideshow. Using images from the past such as cave painting, the Bayeux tapestry and Japanese woodblock art, the class discuss great works of art and historical artifacts before looking at the artwork of Keith Haring. Using his trademark style, the children then make their own large Bayeux tapestry posters depicting their year.