Laylat ul Qadr Ramadan Lesson KS2
Do you want to take a more detailed look at Ramadan with your class? Why not teach them about Laylat ul Qadr? Known as the night of power, Laylat ul Qadr takes place during the last 10 days of Ramadan. It is a night of deep worship, prayer and giving to charity.
The lesson covers what Laylat ul Qadr is and how it forms part of Ramadan, how people mark this date and why certain activities take place. The main activity is to take on the role of Aadil, who is writing an email to his boss requesting time off work to mark Laylat ul Qadr. They must use what they have learnt to persuade his boss. Links are made with persuasive techniques, so this would fit well with a persuasive writing unit in writing lessons.
What’s included?
18 slide lesson PowerPoint
Email worksheet (including differentiated version)
Mayan Clothing PowerPoint / Clothes worn by the Ancient Maya
This PowerPoint is a Mayan clothing teaching resource. It is a complete lesson and includes questions, tasks and answers on clothes worn by the Ancient Maya.
Pupils learn:
which materials were used for Mayan clothing
typical clothing worn by men and women
about Ancient Mayan jewellery
how clothes differed among richer and poorer Mayans
Included: Editable PowerPoint (30 slides) and a PDF version of the same presentation for easy printing.
Creating a Class Agreement Lesson
This is lesson to write a class agreement, charter or set of class ‘rules’ during the first day or week back in September or your first day/week with a new class. It is a complete lesson to create your class agreement together. The lesson takes the class through the process of writing the agreement, with worksheets to complete along the way.
There is a focus on how an agreement or charter is different from rules, taking into account the vocabulary which makes an agreement effective. There is also a section on modal verbs, providing some cross-curricular SPaG coverage.
Two worksheets feature as part of the lesson and I have also included two further worksheets. These can either be integrated into the lesson, or used as extension activities for particular pupils.
What is included?
17 page PowerPoint main lesson resource
4 worksheets (two for main lesson and two bonus worksheets)
Do you want to raise the importance of reducing pollutions in our oceans by making World Oceans Day 2023? This World Oceans Day 2023 Assembly is perfect for ensuring pupils know about this day and, more importantly, the key causes of ocean pollution.
There are slides on:
What World Oceans Day is
This year’s theme
Ocean pollutants
How we can do our bit to help protect marine life
True or false quiz
There are then 3 worksheets to accompany the assembly:
Recalling facts about four of the pollutants
True or false activity (answers included)
Design a poster to raise awareness of ocean pollution
Please note this resource is not editable due to some slides needing to be flattened.
Ancient Mayan Deities Lesson
This Ancient Mayan deities lesson teaches pupils about five of the most well-known Mayan gods and goddesses. There are then three activities for pupils to apply their knowledge of Ancient Mayan deities.
The deities covered are:
Itzamna
Chaac
Kukulcan
Kinich Ahau
Ix Chel
Pupils learn facts about each of the deities listed above, before applying their knowledge in the following activities:
Deciding which deity should win one of four ‘awards’ e.g. most powerful
Linking facts about the gods and goddesses
Designing a cloak for a deity
What’s included?
Lesson slides
3 worksheets
1 answer sheet for one of the worksheets
Profile sheet
Healthy Eating Week 2019 Assembly
This download is a Healthy Eating Week 2019 assembly. It is fun and interactive so that the students or teacher leading the assembly can decide which areas of healthy eating they would like to explore first. It is ready to use, informative and clear. It is the perfect way to start Healthy Eating Week 2019!
Students learn:
about saturated and unsaturated fat
about free sugars
about reducing salt
about the importance of breakfast
about five-a-day portions
Included: Assembly PowerPoint
Desertification Lesson
This download is a desertification lesson. Teach your students what desertification is and raise awareness of the global issue of desertification. This lesson will teach your students all they need to know about desertification.
Students learn:
What desertification is and how it differs from deserts
Causes of desertification
Consequences of desertification
What they can do to help reduce their carbon footprint
Included: Desertification lesson PowerPoint
Famous Scientists Quiz
This download is a famous scientists quiz. It’s the perfect end of year quiz or can be used as part of a unit on famous scientists. There are five fun areas for your students to explore in this famous scientists quiz. This science quiz is interactive: there are buttons to take the students to the different areas. Answers and student answer sheet are both provided.
Areas included:
Newton’s Tree: Students identify scientists from an image of them
Inventors’ House: Students say which scientist invented the featured items
Association Beach: Which scientists are associated with the featured items?
Hall of Fame: Students identify fictional scientists from images
The Laboratory: Students identify which scientists have been using the laboratory from the items left behind
The science quiz is the perfect way to introduce students to some scientists they may not have previously known (although I have included well-known scientists too). I imagine this quiz leading on to a research activity, with students finding out more about those they didn’t know about before the quiz.
Y6 SATs SPAG Revision Quiz
This download is a Year 6 SPaG SATs revision SPaGbot Quiz. Help your Year 6 class revise for their SPaG SATs paper with a fun, interactive quiz!
On the menu page, pupils can choose to answer a SPaGbot question (SPaG revision focused), a Funbot question (a fun, pop-culture or sports question) or a lucky dip question (mix of SPaG and fun questions).
There are:
15 SPaGbot questions
15 Funbot questions
10 lucky dip questons
Transition Workbook Year 6 to Year 7 / Primary to Secondary / New School
This download is a Year 6 transition workbook for primary to secondary. It prepares pupils for the transition to a new school. It would also work for any pupil about to move schools to prepare them for the transition.
There are pages on timings of the day at their new school, rewards and consequences, how they will get there and the all important school dinner! Most of the information required could be found on the website for their new school.
Included: workbook (23 pages including front cover) editable (PowerPoint) version and also a PDF version for immediate printing.
These hockey worksheets are differentiated three ways. Answers are included for each worksheet.
Included:
General hockey fact sheet
Fact sheet on hockey positions
Bronze, silver and gold worksheets
Bronze, silver and gold answers
Ideal for non-participants . No additional resources needed as all theory required is given in the fact sheets.
This assembly is all about diversity of families and different family types. It would be perfect for a diversity week or just as part of your assembly schedule. The assembly PowerPoint teaches pupils about different family types, guides discussion, introduces case studies about different types of family and also has a quiz at the end.
Also included are three worksheets:
A celebrating families crossword (and answers)
A family portrait
A true or false quiz (and answers)
What’s included?
A 23 slide PowerPoint
3 worksheets and answers
England Lionesses Euros Comprehensions
Capture the excitement of the England Women’s Euro 2022 winning team with this set of four reading comprehension tasks. Each set focuses on a different team member (four in total). Each of these four England Euro 2022 activities feature a text for pupils to read all about the player. There are then five questions about each one.
The comprehension questions are a mixture of retrieval, inference, author’s intent, support with evidence and agree/disagree questions (amongst others). There is an answer page for each activity too, featuring sample answers to help with assessing work.
This resource contains:
Four texts focusing on England women’s Euro 2022 team members
A set of five questions for each team member
An answer sheet for each member
Image credits
Inference Maze - KS2 Fun Inference Activity
Looking for a fun way to teach or revise inference in reading lessons with your KS2 students? In this activity, pupils must use their inference skills to guide TV presenter, Mya, through a maze.
The PowerPoint revises the meaning of inference before guiding pupils through the process of finding Mya’s route through the maze. At each step, there are two objects to follow. Pupils must use infer which object to select from the clues given by Mya. At each step, answers are given so that pupils know if they are on the right track.
Make reading lessons more fun and use this fun activity to reinforce the meaning of inference!
Included:
*50 slide PowerPoint (including answers) guiding students through the activity
Printable PowerPoint handout with student copy of maze
A whole unit of work with all resources included. It consists of six presentations (one is an introduction and the other five are complete lessons) and four worksheets with opportunities for extra challenges to stretch more able pupils where appropriate. Pupils are tasked with coming up with a vegan dish which will compete with meat-based dishes on the school lunch menu.
The lesson teaches pupils to:
*Use internet search terms correctly
*Know the important components of a vegan diet
*Carry out market research to decide on final dish
*Cost a dish (for the whole school) and ensure good value for money
*Advertise the dish to fellow pupils
*Use persuasive language to encourage the catering manager to make the dish and fellow pupils to buy it
A variety of subjects are covered: DT, business studies, English and maths. The slides could be easily edited to suit the school and the desired outcome.
Could be used as a Year 6 enterprise project.
Healthy Eating Week 2019 Complete Lesson
This download is a Healthy Eating week 2019 complete lesson and worksheet on vitamins. The teacher PowerPoint teaches pupils about each of the vitamins in turn, explaining its role in keeping us healthy and food it can be found in. There is then a pupil worksheet to complete, where pupils must create a mini poster for each vegetable for a greengrocers, advertising the wonderful vitamins found in it.
Pupils learn:
what are vitamins?
names of key vitamins essential for a healthy diet
functions of these vitamins in keeping us healthy
food/drink containing each vitamin
There are three differentiated challenges on the teacher PowerPoint.
This would be an excellent lesson to use as part of the Healthy Schools curriculum.
Included: Teacher PowerPoint (editable + PDF version for immediate printing if required) and editable pupil worksheet.
Transition to New Class Workbook / Move Up Day / Meet the Teacher Day
This download is a transition to new class workbook for Key Stage 2 teachers meeting their new class on move up day / meet the teacher day.
The ten varied transition activities are to be used on move up day to:
Reflect on the past year
Set new subject-related targets for this year (SMART targets)
Reflect on their hopes and concerns for the upcoming year
Learn more about each other
Learn more about their new teacher
Included is:
an editable PowerPoint file
a PDF version of the same document, which is ready to print and turn into a booklet
School Sports Week 2019 Assembly
This download is a School Sports Week 2019 assembl. A fun and interactive way to celebrate School Sports Week, this 40 page presentation will engage your students. Kick off School Sports Week with some fun!
There are 3 main sections:
Guess the sport: descriptions of sports and students need to work out which sport is being described
Real or made up sport?: students need to guess whether they think the sport described is real or made up
Which sport uses this ball/equipment: students guess the sport from the image of the ball/equipment
Growth Mindset Assembly
This download is a growth mindset assembly. Key terms related to growth mindset are explained clearly with examples. This assembly is interactive, fun and thought provoking. It is a great way to introduce growth mindset to students of different ages.
Pupils learn:
Definitions of key terms related to growth mindset
What a growth mindset is
About fixed mindsets
How to challenge some of their own/others misconceptions
Included: Assembly PowerPoint