This resource is three weeks worth of poetry planning for Free Verse Poetry aimed at Year 4 but, as always, its can be easily adapted to suit different year groups. In a nut shell, the children look at a few examples of free verse poems, write a shared poem as a class, break the poems down and look at the skills, build a bank of vocabulary, look at how to write poetically and write their own Christmas Eve themed free verse poem. The third week gives the children the opportunity to write Christmas themed Kennings, List Poems and Limericks. Loads fir them to do! I decided to put the Kennings etc as the last week as I will be teaching this in the last week of the Autumn Term and I don’t want the children trying to write an assessed piece in the whirlwind of chaos that is the last week before Christmas. The third week could easily be moved to the first week if you wanted it to. Hope this helps! P.S. I have the PowerPoints available but they will need editing! My school uses Lynx and you can’t upload them to TES, sad times. Comment if you want them, happy to share.

Here is a half terms worth of gymnastics planning with a focus on balance and travel. I am by no means an expert on this subject but thought that this might help a few people out and save a bit of time. The unit starts with a focus on individual balances and traveling before moving on to group work and building sequences. Cheers.

Here is a seven week unit of work for teaching football to children in Lower Key Stage 2 (although activities can be easily adapted to suit older or younger learners). The sessions cover ball control, dribbling, passing, shooting and goalkeeping. The sessions follow a structure of warm up games, introducing the activity, having a go at the whole skill, breaking it down into parts and building it back up as a whole skill again before going through a few drills. For many of the activities it might be worth splitting your class so you have the more competent players in the same group so they can challenge themselves appropriately. Hope this is of some use!

A short guided reading resources based on Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. The resource is a fictional advert for the Peggy Sue (renamed the Seggy Pue because it is funny) which covers a range of Reading Domains for KS2.

This resource is some writing planning based on the wonderful short film The Lucky Dip. The slides are split into Input slides where the teacher works closely and models to the children and writes with them. On the Independent slides, the lesson patterns are very similar but there is no modeling from the teacher. There are notes on some of the slides to explain what to do but I think it is fairly self explanatory. I used this with my class this year and they not only loved the clip but produced some decent work too. Hopefully you find the same. Any questions, please feel free to get in touch and I hope this helps/saves you some time. Some of the ideas for this unit were taken from the CPD provided by the lovely Jane Considine’s Write Stuff Sessions which took place during lockdown. Do yourself a favour and check out Jane Considine Education and The Training Space YouTube Channel for some excellent examples of planning and resources.

This resource is a guided reading activity I have prepared for my year 5 class to support our WW2 topic. Each page has a series of questions that link into the guided reading standards (2a-2h) in an attempt to find a simple, measurable way to find out what the children doing the activity can do well and need support with. I have tried to make the questions look and sound similar to the type of questions they will have in a SATs paper. Some of the pages have questions on the left and answers on the right, but not all of them; they are fairly straight forward though. I think I have made the questions relevant to each strand but feel free to comment if any need changing. Hope this helps.

This is a resource designed to help children remember how to spell those lovely words that they need to have mastered by the end of Lower Key Stage 2 (Year 3-4) and Upper Key Stage 2 (Year 5-6). They might not be the best at teaching children the meaning of the words or the context they can be used in but used just as a spelling tool, I have found them to be great. The children will need to look at each word carefully, say the word aloud (but not too loud) and perhaps say each letter at a time, cover the word so they can no longer see it, write it down in the box and then check to see if it is right. The last step can be done by the child, in partners or by the teacher (although the last step can be time consuming!). I have found that these are good early bitrd tasks, lesson starters, revision guides, homeworks, all sorts of stuff really. Also, I by no way invented these but they help me massively so might help you too. They are set up to last about a full term if one sheet is done per week consecutively. Enjoy!

This is a short set of plans for a setting description based on the wonderful POG by Padraig Kenny. The unit is aimed at Year 5 children but can be easily adapted for any Key Stage 2 learners. The children will write from the point of view of Penny or David to describe their new house on the first day that they moved into it just like they do in the book. This planning pulls on resources from Descriptosaurus and the Literacy Shed (because they’re great) and is hopefully useful to anyone wishing to use this book to inspire some creative writing. Hope it helps!

10 Weeks worth of planning about the Romans with a bit of a focus on Lincolnshire for a couple of lessons. This was planned to be delivered to KS2 children as the planning is flexible to be accessed by children from Year 3 to 6.

Here are the slides and resources for a unit based on the Ancient Mayans. They focus on using Dual Coding to embed the key knowledge in the first couple of lessons before moving onto chronology, daily life, legacy, beliefs and exploring a Mayan city. This is aimed at Lower Key Stage 2 but can easily be adapted for Upper Key Stage 2. I am by no means an expert in this field but you never know, it might be useful.

5 Weeks of Athletics planning, does exactly what it says on the tin! Mixture of Track and Field events.

Here is a simple, easily-editable resources that is aimed at giving the children the opportunity to practise their times tables skills. Each child gets one card each. Each card has a statement at the top and a question underneath. The first child reads their statement and someone else in the room will have the answer. They will then read their statement (answer) before reading their question aloud. This pattern continues until the child who went first reads their statement. This is a fun task that I have done for my Year 4’s in preparation for the MTC but can be used in UKS2 classes as a recap task. Its also fun to time the children and see if they can do it a little faster each time. Hope it helps