A set of powerpoint lessons looking at the history and geography of seaside holidays, plus activities, worksheets and display resources. POWERPOINTS Seaside mind map: For AfL Seaside introduction: Looks at why we go to the seaside, and how it differs from other places. It shows pictures of the countryside, town, and seaside, asking children to point out the differences. What is the seaside like?: Looks at photographs to explore the human and physical features of coastal locations When do we go on holiday and what do we see?: Looks at the different times of year we have school holidays, and how they coincide with religious festivals. It shows photographs of different objects and activities at modern seaside resorts. Seaside in the past: 18 seaside photographs from 1880 until the 2000s. The children are asked to talk about what they see in each picture. Human and physical features: A study of Blackpool, with photographs and maps, to explore the key human and physical features of the resort. The children can match features they see in photographs to a map. There are also links to British seaside tourist websites. Looking at aerial photographs: Eight seaside locations to look for human and physical features. How has the seaside changed?: Six pictures of seasides in the past to look at and discuss. Pictures of seasides in the past: Six pictures of seasides in the past to look at and discuss. The Victorian seaside: A look at how seaside resorts developed, and why people in Victorian times enjoyed going to the seaside. It looks at the different things that children did at the seaside, and compares them to what children do today. ACTIVITIES: Acrostic poem Aerial photographs of different seaside locations showing pictures of coastal locations around the UK Playing cards Colouring pictures My favourite environment worksheet Packing list: Ready to go on holiday My seaside holiday with seaside border, to write a description Passport of places visited to itemise and describe where they have been Passport: A blank passport to fill in Postcard; blank to fill in Stamps to use on the postcards Seaside border paper for writing Seaside holidays in the past: Compare 2 pictures to see how things were different in the past. Seaside pictures past and present: For activities such as ordering events, describing, comparing etc Survey – places visited: For a class survey Topic covers x 4: With ‘The Seaside’ / ‘Seaside Holidays’ headings Town country seaside description: To describe the different areas UK jigsaw: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales UK map: To mark out places visited What can you find at the seaside: For making a list What can you see? Pictures of the town, seaside and countryside to describe Plus lots more!

This pack is a collection of PowerPoints and printable resources in pdf. It will help give children experience how words rhyme, and to develop an awareness of rhythm in speech. Listening to and joining in with rhymes and playing rhyming games help children to develop skills to know how letters correspond to sounds. Fits in with Letters and Sounds Phase 1. PRINTABLE GAMES AND ACTIVITIES: • Dominoes – showing pictures of simple cvc words • Odd one out cards – print, cut and laminate for a rhyming game • Rhyming pairs – 40 images showing pictures of rhyming pairs. There are 4 per A4 page so can also be used for display or flashcards • Rhyming soup game – A printable version of the powerpoint. The children have to make a soup out of rhyming objects (eg snake, cake, rake etc) • Rhyming words bingo – 4 bingo cards with 7 pictures each. • Two rhyming worksheets • DISPLAY: • Large lettering: Rhymes (one letter per A4 page, if you want them smaller you can alter the print settings.) • Large lettering: Rhyme Time(one letter per A4 page, if you want them smaller you can alter the print settings.) • What rhymes with….posters – A set of 6 A4 colourful posters with pictures of rhyming words. Rhymes include what rhymes with…can / hat / pot / bug / cap and zip. POWERPOINT GAMES: • Can you think of words that rhyme - Simple introduction to rhyming. • Making up rhymes - Explains rhyming words, and then encourages the children to make up rhymes using the images. • Odd one out - Find the picture that doesn’t rhyme from a choice of 3, with immediate feedback. • Playing with words - 20 images of words with longer syllables. • Rhyming pairs - Find the rhyming pair from a choice of 3, with immediate feedback. • Rhyming puppets - 14 name rhymes for the children to finish. • Rhyming soup - ake - An interactive version of the game, the children click on the object to put it in the soup bowl. • Rhyming soup - an • Rhyming soup - at • Rhyming soup – ip • Rhyming soup – ox • Rhyming words - 11 sets of rhyming words, encouraging the children to make up rhymes with them. • Words that rhyme - Find the 2 pictures that rhyme from a choice of 3. • POWERPOINT RHYMES: • A pig who was big - 9 rhyming verses about pigs • Action Rhymes - 8 different rhymes: Two little feet / I wiggle / This is the way / Wind the bobbin up / A sailor went to sea / Jack-in-the-box / Clean up/ I’m a little teapot / Row your boat. • 5 fat peas • Dingle Dangle Scarecrow • Down in the jungle • Head, shoulders, knees and toes • Katalina Matalina • Peanut butter • Ten fingers • The Farmer’s in his den • The wheels on the bus • There was a princess

This is a set of 7 posters, file dividers, lettering and headings for the three prime areas and four specific areas of learning and development in the EYFS

A set of 22 A4 posters describing, naming and explaining different types of punctuation The posters cover all the punctuation outlined in the English National Curriculum. The titles of the posters are: Punctuation Capital letters Spaces Sentence Full stop Question mark Exclamation mark Apostrophes for contractions Apostrophes for ownership Comma Commas for lists Inverted commas Ellipsis Hyphen Colons to introduce a list Colons for independent clauses Semi-colon Bullet points Dash Brackets Plus 2 'DO NOT...' posters: Do not use an apostrophe for 'its' when it is a possessive adjective Do not use an apostrophe for plurals Each poster contains the title and explanation and an image / examples Plus a 'Punctuation' banner that prints onto 3 A4 pages and a border to frame a display.

A set of A4 posters containing all the homophones identified in the Y2 spelling appendix plus other common homophones that children will encounter in KS1. Each page is split into 2 so that 2 homophones are printed on one page. You can cut them in half and use as flashcards or leave them whole and display them. There are 25 pages, plus 3 pages containing just one word. The homophones are: bare bear be bee blue blue here hear there their they’re night knight one won quiet quite see sea sun son to too two PLUS been bean four for new knew no know pair pear red read right write wear where sew so saw tail tale through threw week weak which witch

A large pack of resources. It includes: POWERPOINTS: The Gingerbread Man Story The Smelly Cheese Man (an alternative version of the story) The Gingerbread Man poem ACTIVITIES Acrostic poem (spelling out Gingerbread Man) Blank speech / thought bubbles: 8 different sizes and shapes to print out and fill in. Counting cards: 0 to 20 in numerals and Gingerbread Man faces to match up / play snap etc. Vocabulary cards: 18 words and matching pictures. Can be used for games, display or labelling activities. Counting cards: Cards to laminate different numbers of Gingerbread men and a box for writing in the number. Characters to print and use for stick puppets Larger characters - 2 per A4 page for display / other activities. Gingerbread Man clipart: black and white to colour Gingerbread Man clipart: Colour Gingerbread men to print: Large men in black and white, different versions, to make own faces / clothes etc. Sequencing pictures: 10 small pictures. The children can cut them up and stick in sequence, or they can be laminated and used for an activity. Story sheets: Contains the same images in the sequencing pictures but there is one picture per A4 page with lines for the children to compose their own story. Wanted poster Word mat containing vocabulary needed for the story. Writing border: 2 different designs; colour and black and white. DISPLAY A4 Heading x 2 A-Z lettering - to cut out for display Lettering/banner: The Gingerbread Man - prints onto 6 pages. There are 3 different designs. Border: Images of the Gingerbread Man to frame a display Alphabet a-z in lower case with a gingerbread man background Number line 0-20 with digits and written numbers with a gingerbread man circle background The Gingerbread Man poem MASKS 13 character masks to act out the story.

Powerpoint on the development of canals and canals around the world today. Explains how canals were the method of transporting goods before the railways; how the barges were pulled along by horses; and how they were built.

Resources to teach the spelling rules for: The use of apostrophes in contractions POWERPOINT Introduction to contractions: Explains what contractions are and shows examples of them in newspaper headlines. It then demonstrates how different contractions are formed. It ends with an oral activity for the children to say the long form of the contraction in each sentence. Writing contractions: A writing activity where the children have to change the words into contractions Changing contractions to the full form: As above, but the other way round Its or it’s: Explains the differences, with sentences for the children to guess which is correct Your or you’re: As above ACTIVITIES Cards - Sentences with contractions: The children can rewrite them in the long form Cards - Contractions snap Show me cards - its or it’s Show me cards - your or you’re Worksheet - Change the words into contractions Worksheet - Change the contractions into the long form Worksheet - Complete the contraction matrix Worksheet - Find the contractions in the story Newspaper report TEACHER RESOURCES Y2 Spelling Appendix planning - Contractions: An adaptable outline plan Word List - With relevant contractions

A powepoint and display file to help children remember a range of cohesive devices in their writing. POWERPOINT: Cohesive devises: Looks at and explains cohesive devices such as synonyms; pronouns; verb tenses; repetition of a phrase; adverbials and ellipses PRINTABLE FILE (PDF): Cohesive devices display: For reference - it contains all the terminology above.

A set of resources looking at the festival of Hanukkah and how Jewish people celebrate it. There are 4 powerpoints: Hanukkah and light: introduces the theme of light Hanukkah and the Maccabees: The history of Hanukkah The Hanukkah menorah: what it stands for and how it is lit The dreidel game: How to play it and what the letters mean. Plus lots of activities, worksheets and display resources.

A set of activities looking at the Iron Age and the Celts in Britain, consisting of an informative Powerpoint, printables and display resources. POWERPOINT (26 PAGES): Description of different aspects of Iron Age life including Sources of information Iron Age Britain Iron Age people & tribes Iron Age life Buildings: Hill Forts Art and Culture Religion Battle Arrival of the Romans IRON AGE WORKSHEETS: (for recording research) Iron Age sites recording sheet Iron Age tribes in the local area Iron Age art and culture Iron Age farming Iron Age hill forts Iron Age tribal kingdoms Topic covers (x2) For topic books Iron Age writing border sheets (x2; lined and unlined) IRON AGE DISPLAY: A4 title A-Z lettering in a metallic iron background The Iron Age banner Iron Age artefacts Iron Age border for display boards

Spelling resources to teach the statutory requirements in Appendix 1 of the English curriculum: COMMON EXCEPTION WORDS POWERPOINT RESOURCES: The following PowerPoint lessons contain groups of words with similar spellings. Each grapheme-phoneme correspondence that is new to the children (depending upon phonics programme used) is introduced and explained. The children then are given opportunities to read and then write the words. CEW 1 – door poor floor CEW 2 – find kind mind etc CEW 3 – most only both etc CEW 4 – after fast last CEW 5 – every, everybody, even CEW 6 –great break steak CEW 7 –move prove improve CEW 8 – sure sugar CEW 9 - who whole CEW 10 - any many CEW 11 - could would should The following PowerPoint lessons contain individual common exception words. There are examples of different strategies the children can use for remembering how to spell the words, such as using mnemonics, saying the word as it is spelt, using the look write cover check method and highlighting the tricky part. Each strategy is demonstrated visually. CEW Spelling strategies PEOPLE CEW Spelling strategies BEAUTIFUL CEW Spelling strategies AGAIN CEW Spelling strategies BECAUSE CEW Spelling strategies BUSY CEW Spelling strategies CHRISTMAS CEW Spelling strategies CLOTHES CEW Spelling strategies EYE CEW Spelling strategies HALF CEW Spelling strategies HOUR CEW Spelling strategies MR & MRS CEW Spelling strategies PARENTS CEW Spelling strategies PRETTY CEW Spelling strategies WATER WORKSHEETS: Spelling activity sheets - A variety of pdf sheets that can be used for different spelling activities. They include: Acrostic poems Bubble words Colourful words Cut out words Look write cover check spelling sheet Rainbow spellings Shape words Silly Sentences Spelling with both hands Stories with spellings Word search with spellings Words in words Writing a poem Writing fun TEACHER RESOURCES Y2 Spelling Appendix planning - Common Exception Words: An adaptable outline plan Word List - With relevant words

The bunting has a hessian photograph background, and is in two sizes: 2 letters per page and 1 letter per page. There is a choice of either black font or white font with a black border. The font is Sassoon Infant. The number line goes from 1 to 20. There are 7 separate pdf files.

A set of posters, headings, lettering, borders etc for an Ancient Egypt display.

POWERPOINTS: THE ROMAN EMPIRE INTRODUCTION: Introduces the topic by putting the era in context with the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age in Britain, on a timeline. It includes an explanation of how Rome was founded, where it is, and how it changed from a kingdom to a republic and then an empire. JULIUS CAESAR: Explains who Julius Caesar was and the attempted invasions in 55 and 54BC. THE ROMAN EMPIRE BY AD 42: Begins by discussing the assassination of Julius Caesar and the formation of the Roman Empire. Looks at the first Emperor, Augustus, mentions Tiberius and Caligula, then talks about Claudius and how he gained power. Then looks at the Roman way of life in the Empire, how powerful it was and what area it covered. THE ROMAN ARMY: Investigates how the Roman Army was made up; of centuria, cohorts and legions; and auxiliary soldiers.Looks at how they were trained, what types of jobs they did, and why nobody could beat them in battle. THE ROMAN INVASION OF BRITAIN: A detailed account of the invasion by Claudius in AD 43, British resistance by Boudicca and Caractacus, Hadrian's Wall, and the end of Roman rule. THE ROMANISATION OF BRITAIN: Looks at how the Romans build civitas, or towns for different tribes in Britain, looking briefly at Caerwent. Explains and gives examples of Roman technology, culture and beliefs and what lasting impacts they have had. TIMELINE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: A 1 page timeline, can be printed or viewed as an animated show. TRIBES CONQUERED BY THE ROMANS: A 4 page presentation, detailing how the Romans conquered each tribe in Britain. Can be printed or viewed as a show. WORKSHEETS: Roman Empire topic covers x 4 What I already know / would like to find out about the Roman Empire Worksheet - Romulus and Remus Writing sheets - Julius Caesar (lined and unlined) Blank map of Europe Worksheet - living in the Roman Empire in AD 42 Design a Roman scutum Worksheet - weapons of a Roman soldier Pictures of Roman soldiers in black and white Writing sheets - The Roman Army (lined and unlined) Map of tribes in Britain Tribes in the local area Worksheet - Living in Britain in the Iron Age Writing sheet - Boudicca Report writing sheet - Roman settlements in the local area OTHER: De Bello Gallico - Accounts written by Julius Caesar of his first and second visits to Britain Roman Empire Planning - An adaptable outline medium term plan in Word

The powerpoint covers the following: Where is Portugal?: With maps showing the location of Portugal. What is Portugal like?: Images of Portugal; different geographical features Living in Portugal: Pictures of everyday life in Portugal - streets, shops, schools, houses etc. Portuguese people: What life is like in Portugal - culture, traditional dress, language etc The history of Portugal: a brief history from Roman times to present.

A set of wpowerpoints and printable activities to teach children how to identify and name a variety of animals, describe and compare their structures and identify animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.

Resources to teach the spelling rule: The /l/ or /əl/ sound spelt le, el, al and il at the end of words WORDS ENDING IN LE: POWERPOINT Le at the end of words: A short powerpoint with 18 common words to read ending in le. ACTIVITIES Cards containing words ending in le - 45 word cards to play games Wordsearch - le words WORDS ENDING IN EL: POWERPOINT El at the end of words: A short powerpoint explaining that this spelling is not as common as le, but is usually found after m, n, r, v, w, and s. It displays 12 common words to read ending in el. ACTIVITIES Cards containing words ending in le - 27 word cards to play games Wordsearch - el words WORDS ENDING IN AL: POWERPOINT Al at the end of words: A short powerpoint explaining that not many nouns end in al, but many adjectives do. It displays 16 common words to read ending in al. ACTIVITES Cards containing words ending in al - 27 word cards to play games Wordsearch - el words WORDS ENDING IN IL: POWERPOINT IL at the end of words: A short powerpoint explaining that not many words end in il. It displays 9common words to read ending in il. ACTIVITES Cards containing words ending in al - 27 word cards to play games Wordsearch - el words ALL SPELLINGS OF THE /L/ SOUND POWERPOINT Which 'l' sound to use - shows all four spellings, with 22 words for the children to find which spelling is correct. It points out that the most common spelling is le. ACTIVITIES Loop cards containing pictures and all 4 spellings of the /l/ sound. Although every effort has been made to check wordsearches for unintentional inappropriate words, it is recommended that teachers double check them before giving to children. TEACHER RESOURCES Word list Planning - An adaptable outline plan of the resources included and objectives

Four powerpoints looking at past and present verb tenses. POWERPOINTS Introduction to tenses: Explains what tense means, and past and present tense, giving examples including the progressive form of verbs.It ends with some examples and opportunities for children to change the tenses of sentences. Changing present into past tense: Sentences to change Thinking of verbs and past and present tense: Look at pictures and describe the actions in the present and the past tenses. Irregular past tense verbs: Explanation and lists of irregular past tense verbs.

A PowerPoint lesson explaining what subordination and co-ordination are with accompanying worksheets and posters, designed to teach the Y2 Sentence objectives. The set contains: POWERPOINT: Subordination and coordination A 7 page PowerPoint explaining how to connect sentences and clauses using subordination (when, if, that and because) and co-ordination (using or, and or but.) It gives examples of how to use them in sentences then gives sentence starters for the children to complete using the words above. ACTIVITIES / WORKSHEETS: Co-ordination writing sheets x 4: Each sheet has a different picture. The children have to write sentences using the words and, but and or. Subordination worksheets x 4: Each sheet has a different picture. The children have to write sentences using the words when, if, that and because DISPLAY: Two posters explaining subordination and co-ordination with examples and a heading.