A training powerpoint used for a 10-15 minute CPD session. I used this for both TAs and teachers.
In detail explanations of the different principles all in one place.
Examples of how they are implemented in the classroom.
Available as a PDF and an editable PPT.
This resource has got lots of activities on the different tenses they need to know in year 6. It is includes SATs questions along with other exercises.
Want simple, clean and bright looking displays? Look no further! I have collated this bumper display pack for all of your displays to give them a modern twist.
Titles are all included in both black and white flags and rainbow pastel colours. The sizing is two letters per page.
Subject titles included:
English
Literacy
Maths
Math
Numeracy
Science
RS
RE
Computing
History
Geography
Art
DT
PSHE
Growth Mindset
Reading
Reading Corner
French
Spanish
A-Z OF LETTERS
Bonus lettering saying ’ class of kindness’. 3 versions available.
All Pastel Rainbow
All black and white flags
Mixed
Bonus lettering saying ‘Our Wonderful Writing’
All Pastel Rainbow
This project is a fun project for children to learn all about Victorian architecture. The powerpoint takes you through the revolution of Victorian housing and some of the architecture from the era. There is also a seperate resource sheet for the children to use.
Here is a resource to use with year 6 pupils when thinking about transition to year 7. The lessons focus on the following topics:
Subjects
Timetables
Following a timetable
Getting lost
Making friends
Clubs and opportunities
Planner organisation
After school timetable
managing your time.
Lesson 1 includes:
A detailed overview of what they might cover in year 7 based on the KS3 curriculum. Each subject has an overview of what they might learn.
A worksheet for the children to complete about the subjects they will cover.
An example of a one week secondary school timetable and a quiz for the children to complete based on the timetable - e.g. where is this subject taught? Do you have the same teacher for English every lesson? etc
An example of a two week secondary school timetable and quiz for the children to complete based on the timetable - e.g. why might you need a two week timetable? How many times over the two weeks do you have chemistry?
Both timetables are included within the PowerPoint and can be easily printed off for the children.
Lesson 2 and 3 includes:
Powerpoint for two lessons, 34 slides in length covering the topic of homework and organisation. It includes planner examples, timetables and all of the resources they need to bring to their secondary school.
Planner example pages of good and bad planners and how to organise your workload.
Blank after school timetable template for the children to use next year.
Blank ‘What to take to secondary school’ template for the children to use next year (resource H).
Resource sheet A - matching activity of the different formats of homework they will receive.
Resource sheet B - Comparing the two planner examples activity using an example of a good and a bad planner.
Resource C and D - Using a list of tasks given by ‘teachers’ (resource D) the children have to fill in their blank planner (resource C) with the information as if they were being set the homework at school.
Resource E - elicit the children’s ideas on what they think they might need to bring to school.
Resource F, G and H - the children will be using an example timetable of a school day (resource F) and an example after school timetable (resource G) to create a resources list for each school day using the ‘what I need every day’ sheet (resource H).
Lesson 4 and 5 include:
Information on different clubs and how they might be beneficial.
Information on making friends.
Information on finding your way around schools.
Links to BBC transition resources.
Worksheets on making friends in secondary school (3 in total).
Here is a resource to use with year 6 pupils when thinking about transition to year 7. This lesson focusses on the subjects they might learn and timetables they might need to follow. It is a full lesson pack with a 30 slide PP and lesson worksheet included. This is 1 of 5 of a series of lessons I will be uploading this week.
Included:
A detailed overview of what they might cover in year 7 based on the KS3 curriculum. Each subject has an overview of what they might learn.
A worksheet for the children to complete about the subjects they will cover.
An example of a one week secondary school timetable and a quiz for the children to complete based on the timetable - e.g. where is this subject taught? Do you have the same teacher for English every lesson? etc
An example of a two week secondary school timetable and quiz for the children to complete based on the timetable - e.g. why might you need a two week timetable? How many times over the two weeks do you have chemistry?
Both timetables are included within the PowerPoint and can be easily printed off for the children.
This resource contains all of the unit outcomes for white rose/power maths resources. It also contains a full list of vocabulary for each unit along with a series of stem sentences to help the children with their speaking skills. It is available in both PDF and word form. The PDF uses the Twinkl looped font.
A leavers booklet for them to keep forever! I am going to make mine into special booklets for them. It is essentially a time capsule of their time at primary school and what their lives are like now.
Suitable for year sixes transitioning to secondary school - 2020 edition!
Pages included:
All about me
All about me time capsule page (favourite song, food, book, film etc)
All about my family
My Primary school years - teachers they have had in primary school, memorable moments
My Primary school years - blank pages to fill up with photos
All about my year in Year 6 - 3 memories
My friends - portrait activity
Things I will miss about primary school
All about my secondary school
What can I do now that I couldn’t do at the start of primary school
What are you thankful for? Teachers edition
What are you thnkful for? Parents edition
Acrostic poem activity: Primary School
Acrostic poem activity: My School
Autograph pages
My lockdown experience diary entry page
Drawings of my lockdown experience
Wishes for the future page
When I grow up I want to be…
PDF and editable word version available.
This is a two week writing resource focusing on description. It uses parts from chapters 1 -4 of War Horse. It is for the children to write about leaving the pen after being sold to arriving at the stables. This goes through a writing process in the following format:
Analysing Joey’s feelings in the first chapter
Key vocabulary searching
Reading and analysing example texts and high quality descriptive writing from other novels
Planning the writing
Drafting the first paragraph (Joey leaving the pen after being sold) with modelled writing
Drafting the second paragraph (The journey to the stables) with modelled writing
Drafting the third paragraph (Arriving at the stables) with modelled writing
Big writing the final piece
Each lesson also has a grammar focus beginning with identifying main clauses and subordinate clauses and then moving onto relative clauses in the second week. The PowerPoint has guidance on this but I have used resources from elsewhere for the activities the children need to complete (only for the grammar).
Resources included in this pack:
A comprehensive PowerPoint for all of the sessions including examples (48 slides)
Resource pack 1 contains: success criteria, key vocabulary in 2 sizes, feelings matching resource for lesson 1, PEE paragraph templates for lesson 1, Chapter 2 and 3 summary notes crib sheets, key vocabulary and definition matching activity for lesson 2, 3 x differentiated planning sheets, sentence starters, modelled text for the first paragraph
‘Roll on the wall’ horse template
extracts from high quality texts - differentiated 3 ways
matching activity for emotions
Resource pack 2 contains: success criteria, writing frames for each paragraph, key vocabulary, sentence starters for all three paragraphs.
This resource is a 6 week unit of work learning about saints. The unit of work consists of:
Week 1 - What is a saint? Investigation into saints and the children’s prior knowledge.
Week 2 - Researching different saints lesson
Week 3 - Investigating the terms martyr and revered
Week 4 - The impact saints have had on people’s lives and what they sacrificed. This is research on Martin Luther King and Mother Theresa. I used Twinkl comprehensions to help with this lesson.
Week 5 - debate questions -Do you think Jesus is a saint? Should saints be dead before they are recognised? Do saints have to be believers in God?
Week 6 - evaluation lesson
There is a powerpoint for each lesson along with worksheets, planning and resources where relevant.
This is a really enjoyable unit of work and I hope you enjoy teaching it as much as I do!
This lesson is an investigation into the causes of deforestation. It is an activity where children are learning to read information and record it in their own words. This activity can be used in the classroom where the different causes are posted around the room and the children have to investigate. It can also be used as a distance learning tool. It also includes a bonus grammar activity on plurals as a grammar warm up.
This pack includes:
PDF version of the deforestation lesson presentation
PP version of the deforestation lesson presentation
Plurals activity
Investigation activity cards
Worksheet for recording their answers
I hope you enjoy the resources!
Based on David Attenborough’s ‘A Life on Our Planet’ I am creating a full English unit based on this programme on Netflix.
Start off by showing your class the documentary. Before the documentary do a KWL grid to see what they know already. We also did a cover page in our books to start the unit.
This is a 2 week module on writing an information text about an endangered animal. It includes:
A Powerpoint to cover the two weeks
Example texts
Where to find grammar starters
Success criteria and learning challenges
Vocabulary list for the whole unit
There will be a further 6 weeks of work to follow this module.
This task is for assessing where the children are at in their fiction writing. There are two pictures to use as a stimulus and clear guidance on the task. It is suited to both Year 5 and Year 6.
Looking for some last minute time fillers? Here is a quiz which your class are sure to enjoy!
This quiz contains:
A sports round
A geography round
A movie round
A music round
An animals round
A whole year’s worth of spellings in an editable word document format. 31 weeks of spelling words. 15 words each week and 2 weeks of 20 words leading up to SATs.
Includes:
Year 5 and 6 statutory words
Year 5 and 6 spelling patterns
Year 3 and 4 statutory words
Preparing for year 7 words
The format is look, cover, write, check and works well with the read, write inc spelling scheme.
This resource contains excerpts from different texts of descriptive writing. This resource is useful for providing high quality texts for the children to read and also has many examples of ‘show, don’t tell’.
The resource has 3 different challenges of text:
Challenge A
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone excerpt.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe excerpt.
Challenge B
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone excerpt.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe excerpt.
Description of a picture (picture included)
Challenge C
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone excerpt.
Description of a picture
Excerpt from The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Excerpt from Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
This resource is designed to support Victorian leisure time. The resource talks through the history of Punch and Judy shows, includes a video and tasks for the children to complete. There are also some puppet templates to use.
This is a summer reading challenge that is suitable for 9-10 year olds. They can work through it over the summer and return it to school when they come back in September. It is a great way to encourage reading and introduce children to new authors.
This would be a great transition resource for children moving from year 4 into year 5. It is also a great home learning resource.
The idea is the children colour in the smiley face once they have read the book.
I hope you enjoy!
I have taken all of the example assessments from the new maths guidance for Year 6 and made them into end of unit assessments.
There are 12 units in total all linking to the skills from the original document.