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

Mayan Religion Lesson This Mayan religion lesson focuses on the religious practices of the Ancient Maya. This complete lesson aims to cover a broad look at Ancient Mayan religion, covering areas vocabulary linked to Mayan religion, the Ancient Mayan gods, pilgrimages and rituals. Three worksheets are also included as part of the lesson. Throughout the lesson, opportunities for reflection and partner talk are included to encourage pupil interaction. The worksheets are spread through the lesson, giving pupils the chance to revise and consider what they have been taught about Mayan religion. What’s included? 25 page slideshow about Mayan religion 3 worksheets linked to the slideshow (and introduced in the slideshow, so children know what to do)

These are Key Stage 2 Winter Reading Comprehension Worksheets that include a range of non-fiction winter texts for KS2, whilst also giving you a selection of winter reading comprehension activities. Each winter reading passage has a nonfiction reading text, followed by four comprehension questions, covering a range of reading strategies. There are then three reading activities, which can be used with any of the passages. Passages are: It’s a Snow Day! (A poem) Animal Adaptations: How They Win at Winter How Does Winter Clothing Keep Us Cosy? How to Make Your Own Paper Snowflake A Day in the Life of a Snow Plough Driver What’s included? 5 non-fiction winter themed passages - one poem, one set of instructions, two explanatory texts and a day in the life diary 20 reading comprehension questions - include questions on main idea and key details, quoting accurately from the text and vocabulary questions 3 reading comprehension activities - these can be used with any of the passages. There’s a comparison worksheet, a vocabulary worksheets and a main idea and key details worksheet Your class will enjoy the variety of passages and tasks. There is plenty to keep them busy, as they work through the questions and activities. The passages and activities could be printed out and given to pupils as a pack. This would make it perfect for a sub teacher day. There’s not much to prepare… All you need to do is print the sheets out and hand to students! The three activity sheets are designed to delve deeper into some of the standards: The comparing worksheet requires pupils to find similarities and differences between passages The vocabulary worksheet requires children to find synonyms for particular pieces of vocabulary within the passage The main idea and key details sheet requires students to consider the overarching theme of the passage and the supporting key details

Are you looking for Christmas morning challenges for Key Stage 2? These Christmas challenge slides are full of fun Christmas challenges, perfect for your Christmas morning tasks. There are Christmas teamwork challenges, Christmas competitive challenges, Christmas cheeesy challenges, Christmas tricky challenges, Christmas kindness challenges and Christmas creative challenges. The students are introduced to six characters: Mikey (the Christmas mouse), who loves setting cheeeeesy challenges! Mrs Claus, who loves setting creative challenges Josie (the head elf), who loves setting tricky challenges Elves, Jilly and Joey, who love setting teamwork challenges Santa, who sets kindness challenges Richie, the reindeer, who sets competitive challenges Each character has five challenges (30 challenges in total) and there is an editable slide for each character (the text box is editable - the images are all flattened). There are no materials, other than paper and pencil, required for these challenges, so they are easy for you, the busy teacher, at this time of year. Copyright © George and Smudge (I also make products under the name Ellie’s Tales for Learning) You may use this resource for your own classroom only.

Nowruz Lesson KS2 This Nowruz Lesson for KS2 introduces students to the festival of Nowruz - Iranian New Year. Students learn about Nowruz and then use this information to plan the celebrations for a boy called Kian. There is a Nowruz PowerPoint and a worksheet to use to plan Kian’s Nowruz. The PowerPoint covers: What is Nowruz? Customs and traditions Food Clothing Included in this lesson: 15 slide PowerPoint Worksheet

Roman Numerals Game This game is a Roman numerals starter activity. The students are tasked with finding the Roman numerals with a value higher than 30 before the teacher. This fun and engaging activity is an exciting way for pupils to consolidate their Roman numerals knowledge. The teacher must click on all the Roman numerals with a value higher than 30 on their interactive grid on the board. Meanwhile the pupils are finding the Roman numerals on their identical grid. Who will find them all first? Included is: An interactive teacher PowerPoint (editable) with a 30 second timer included A pupil activity sheet (not editable)

Female Football Heroes Biography Lesson Inspired to teach your pupils more about female footballing heroes? This female football heroes biography lesson teaches pupils about some of the greats in women’s football, whilst also teaching / revising biography writing skills. They learn about six of the best female football players of all time and choose one to write a biography about. Also included in this resource is a template that all / some of your students can use to structure their biography, a quotation-writing worksheet and a sheet of illustrations, which pupils can use to illustrate their biography. What’s included? Lesson PowerPoint packed full of facts/activities Three supporting printables

Euro 2022 Women’s Slideshow This Euro 2022 Women’s Slideshow teaches the children everything they need to know about the women’s Euros (of course won by the lionesses!). Students learn about the history of the women’s Euros, the stadiums, the countries taking part, the trophy and lots more. This is a fun and interactive slideshow, with quizzes, interactive activities and discussion points. No other resources, printing or worksheets required. What’s included? 26 slides These slides include: Introductory questions Match the facts to reveal the flags A brief history of the women’s Euros Which countries took part? Top scorers England and Northern Ireland Captains Key games The trophy True or false interactive quiz

Perfect Year 6 Easter Holiday Reading Homework! Do you need the perfect Easter themed reading comprehension? This one is interactive and would be perfect for your Year 6 students as Easter holiday reading homework. All answers to the 20 tasks are given to students, so no marking required. This interactive Easter reading comprehension is designed to be as inclusive as possible with no written answers required. Where appropriate, there are Explain It thought bubbles for students to explain their answers on paper. These could be set for all students, or just those requiring more of a challenge. us d Easter themes (new beginnings) are introduced, giving opportunity for RE links. I also like to explore different family types in my stories. This one features a boy, his step mum and baby brother. What’s Included? A 20 question interactive PowerPoint, also including correct/incorrect slides

Reading Ordering Events Mystery KS2 This order the events and solve the mystery reading comprehension activity is a fun way to help your students learn how to order events in a text. They have to order the events to solve the mystery of who threw the ice bucket of water over Mr Lee, everyone’s favourite Year 5 teacher! In this activity, students are given accounts written by each of the five suspects. They must order the events to check who is telling the truth. By the end of the activity, they will be able to see who is lying and therefore who threw the ice bucket! The activity teaches students how to use a colour-coded key to help order the events. With this in mind, there is a separate copy of the texts for pupils to use to practise this technique. What’s included? 14 slide solve the mystery activity (PowerPoint) 3 page pupil copy of texts

Charshanbe Suri Lesson This Charshanbe Suri lesson teaches students about the preparation for the festvial of Nowruz, known as Charshanbe Suri. In the lesson, they must use what they have learnt from the PowerPoint to design an invitation for a Charshanbe Suri party. This lesson teaches students: What Charshanbe Suri is About the custom of spoon banging About fireworks and bonfire displays Included in this resource: 13 slide PowerPoint 2 worksheets

Haft Seen Table Lesson This haft seen table lesson teaches students about the seven symbolic items placed on the haft seen table during the festival of Nowruz. During the lesson, pupils plan their own new year table with seven symbolic items of choice. Covered in this lesson: What is the haft seen table? What are the seven items? What do the items symbolise? Creating own new year table There are three worksheets included (two of them are differentiated versions of the same sheet) and a PowerPoint to guide the children through the lesson. Included: 13 page PowerPoint 3 worksheets

Want an informative and interesting assembly about the Coronation of King Charles and the Queen Consort? This assembly has been carefully put together to be full of information and about everything that will happen in the Coronation ceremony. There are also three worksheets which pupils can complete after the assembly, to help embed all that pupils have learnt about the Coronation. Slides on: When and where it will take place The King’s procession The procession inside the Abbey The Recognition The Coronation Oath The Anointing The Homage The Sovereign’s Orb The Sceptre The Rod With the Dove St Edward’s Crown Crowing of The Queen Consort Procession back to Buckingham Palace Archbishop of Canterbury Great Lord Chamberlain The Pages of Honour The Dean of Westminster The Coronation Concert What might be different from previous coronations? 3 worksheets included: The parts of the ceremony The sacred items Writing a diary entry

Want an assembly to use during the National Walking Month of May? This assembly is all about the benefits of walking and how 10 minutes of brisk walking can be incorporated into our day. It covers some of the barriers we may experience in walking to school and how these could be overcome. There’s plenty of opportunity for discussion about the benefits and barriers. During the assembly, pupils are introduced to case study pupils and encouraged to think of what they would say to these pupils so that they can see the value of walking. There are then three worksheets which can be used to consolidate the main points from the assembly and to encourage pupils to reflect on what they have learnt. Can be used to encourage walking to school or as part of a wider introduction to the benefits of walking.

Want to teach your Year 6 pupils how to avoid common errors when answering inference questions? This PowerPoint goes through three common SATS inference errors, one by one. There’s plenty of change to practise, with two texts (and sets of questions) per error. The errors covered are: Not using the clues (not using the evidence to help answer the inference question Short answers (missing key parts of the answer and, thus, missing out on marks) Dangerous general knowledge (using general knowledge in a SATS answer, rather than using the text to answer the question). With six enjoyable texts and six sets of questions (three questions per text), there is plenty of SATS reading practice to be carried out here. Please note that this resource is not editable for terms of use reasons.

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.

Looking for an assembly to celebrate Space Day 2023? Here is all you need! A 34 slide assembly full of interesting facts about the solar system and planets. Key facts are introduced about the 8 planets in the solar system, as well as some more unusual ones! There is a true or fase quiz at the end for pupils to test their knowledge. To continue the Space Day theme, there are worksheets provided to accompany the worksheet. Pupils will enjoy consolidating their knowledge of the planets as they complete them. The slides cover: What the solar system is Each of the 8 planets, in turn Awards for the planets e.g. bumpiest planet award; coldest planet award Did you know facts True or false quiz The worksheets are: Write two facts about each of the planets True or false activity Design a poster about your favourite planet

Want something a bit different to use as a lesson starter or discussion prompt this World Oceans Day? This game is packed full of facts; it is a plastic pollution pairs activity focusing on effects of plastic pollution on our oceans. As the class click on a fact, an image of a sea creature is revealed beneath. They must find the matching piece of information to reveal the pair. This activity would be great as part of an assembly on plastic pollution or as part of Eco Week. Included: PowerPoint Presentation (pairs game)

Maths Starters This PowerPoint contains 5 maths esson starters with answers. Questions cover mass, ratio, time difference and date difference. Great for UKS2. Extra challenges included on slides.

Father’s Day Writing Lesson Emotive Language This download is a Father’s Day writing lesson to teach Key Stage 2 pupils how to improve their use of emotive language. Pupils can choose to write the emotive letter to their father (for Father’s Day) or a special person in their lives. Although their is a mention to Father’s Day at the beginning, the lesson is designed to be inclusive of all family types. Pupils learn to elicit emotion through: Using the power of three Using superlative adjectives Using abstract nouns Using examples to illustrate points Pupils are tasked with writing the letter to a special person in their lives (which could be their father) to tell them why they are special to them. There are three differentiated challenges to allow pupils to stretch themselves. The lesson guides pupils through the planning and writing process, with teacher examples and tasks given along the way. Included: PowerPoint teacher’s presentation and PDF version of the same presentation.