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A range of outstanding resources for across the primary age range. All the resources have been tried and tested and are in line with the new national curriculum. Enjoy!

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A range of outstanding resources for across the primary age range. All the resources have been tried and tested and are in line with the new national curriculum. Enjoy!
Modern day slavery -Balanced argument - 4  lessons
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Modern day slavery -Balanced argument - 4 lessons

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These smartboards are for 4 lessons based on modem day slavery. The lessons allow the children to investigate modern day slavery before planning and writing a balanced argument based on this topic. The unit of lessons are looking at what modern day slavery is around the world, debating, planning and writing. Ideal for year 6 classes. Please leave positive feedback
Yr  5 / 6 Slavery letter writing 3 lessons
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Yr 5 / 6 Slavery letter writing 3 lessons

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This smartboard includes 3 lessons based on writing a letter from the point of view of a slave on the plantations. This is a wonderful resource to apply their knowledge from previous lessons Complete lessons with starters-main activity and plenary. Please see my other resource that includes a series of lessons based on learning about slavery and is a bulk buy of 8 lessons Please leave positive feedback
Upper KS2 Slavery Unit of Work- 8 lessons
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Upper KS2 Slavery Unit of Work- 8 lessons

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These smartboards are complete lessons with a starter, differentiation, main activity and modelling and plenaries. All lessons include all the resources. There is a focus on developing historical skills and using this in 2 genres of writing. There are 8 lessons based on the subject of slavery and focus on: triangulation trade and summarising key events, interpreting a range of sources linked to middle passage and plantations , letter writing as a slave ( 3 lessons), looking at modern day slavery to draw conclusions before planning and writing a balanced argument on modern day slavery ( 2 lessons) Please leave positive feedback.
Year 3-4 Gansta Granny Reading lesson
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Year 3-4 Gansta Granny Reading lesson

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This smartboard is based on the first two chapters of the book. It is an entire lesson based on the reading skill of retrieval. Children focus on finding out about a character in the book. Please leave positive feedback
Street Child Reading Lessons
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Street Child Reading Lessons

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These smartboards are for 6 worth of teaching lessons based on Street child. The lessons focus on chapters 1-6. These lessons are focused on the key reading skills in question style questions. The lessons are based on preparing the children for year 6 SATS. The lessons focus on being able to understand unfamiliar words in the text ( 2 lessons), making inferences and summarise key events, find the key words and retrieve information. Smartboards include the whole lesson and activities for most of the lessons.
Street Child - Victorian Child Character Description Week Planning
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Street Child - Victorian Child Character Description Week Planning

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This smartboard has a week's worth of lessons to support the writing a character description for the landlord in Street Child. The smartboard focuses on developing the children's use of: -descriptive figurative language ( group work) -identify the key features of the character in terms of appearance and personality ( group work) -writing a character description Ideal for Year 5 and 6
Street Child Character Description
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Street Child Character Description

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This smartboard is a lesson based on Street Child. The smartboard has the basics of a lesson to describe the landlord in the book using chapter 2 as a basis. The lesson focuses on using powerful vocabulary and describe a character and using the text to find out about the character from action and speech to write their description.
KS2  Street Child
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KS2 Street Child

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This is a smartboard based around Street Child and in particular a reading lesson. The lesson focuses on the workhouse and making inferences about life in there from the text.
Year 6 Street Child - Reading
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Year 6 Street Child - Reading

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This smartboard focuses on reading Street Child and developing their reading skills. The 3 lessons that are attached to this smartboard are linked to Chapter 1 and 2 of the text. The 3 lessons focus on inference to find out more about a character and understanding unfamiliar words. The lessons that have been planned have an element of SATs style questions such as tick the right box, underline the word that, find the word..... All the lessons have a starter, main activity and plenary for each lesson
Year 6 Parts of a Sentence
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Year 6 Parts of a Sentence

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This smartboard is a SAT's style lesson based on grammar -parts of a sentence. The lesson looks at identifying verb, noun, adjectives etc in a sentence but also looking at the different times to use capital letters. The main activity are SATS style question from previous papers. This lesson includes a starter-main activity-mini plenary and plenary. Ideal for SATs practice
WW2 Evacuation and Evacuees
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WW2 Evacuation and Evacuees

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This smartboard links looks at evacuation in WW2. The lesson uses Carrie's War video to look at what evacuation was before the bulk of the lesson being focused on evacuees. The children work together to explore the feelings and thoughts of the evacuees when they are on the platform. The main task allows children to collect ideas using adjectives, similes, metaphors etc. Tasks are differentiated and there is a whole lesson with introduction, main task and plenary. This lesson can be the preliminary lesson before a writing lesson based on writing a recount, letter or diary of evacuation.
World War 2 Radio Broadcast Writing Lessons
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World War 2 Radio Broadcast Writing Lessons

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This smartboard includes 3 lessons based on writing a world war 2 radio broadcast to recruit men to the war. The lessons entail a planning lesson and two writing lessons. All of the lessons include a starter, success criteria linked to writing, modelling and a plenary. Highly informative and ensures the children are able to use their own ideas in writing. Ideal for upper KS2.
KS2 Winton Churchill Biography Writing
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KS2 Winton Churchill Biography Writing

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This smartboard includes 3 lessons on biography writing for Churchill. The lessons in a starter explore what a biography is before writing the actual biography. The smartboard has all three lessons including the starter, main activity and plenary. The key elements that are focused on in the writing are using conjunctions, relative clauses, passive voice and a range of punctuation.
KS2 Winston Churchill - Planning a Biography
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KS2 Winston Churchill - Planning a Biography

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This smartboard is a lesson that focuses on Churchill's achievements linked to the Battle of Britain. The lesson focuses on using Churchill's famous speech and a video to find out about Churchill's life. The main activity is linked to the learning in the introduction
KS2 Setting Writing Alma
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KS2 Setting Writing Alma

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This smartboard consists of two lessons based on writing a setting description based on the video, Alma from Literacy Shed. The lessons have a starter, main activity and a plenary. The children need to be able to use: - expanded noun phrases for feelings -fronted adverbials -conjunctions -a relative clause -commas correctly
KS2 Character Description - Road's End
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KS2 Character Description - Road's End

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This smartboard has 2 lessons based on the Literacy Shed- The Road's End. The lessons are complete with starters, main activities and plenaries. The lesson focuses on watching the Road's End before planning their own character description and writing their own. The lesson has is a writing lesson that focuses on using similes, metaphors, conjunctions and a range of punctuation All resources attached Good lessons for lesson observation
Year 5/6 Discussion Writing - balanced argument-sugar tax
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Year 5/6 Discussion Writing - balanced argument-sugar tax

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This smartboard includes three lessons based on balanced arguments. The first lesson is planning the writing and the second lesson is on writing the text. The writing is based around the sugar tax and the pros and cons of this for different people. In the lessons the children will watch a video to develop ideas for and against the sugar tax , followed by writing their own work. The lessons have starters and plenaries attached. All the resources are on the smartboard.
KS2 Formal Letter Writing
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KS2 Formal Letter Writing

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This powerpoint and resources is linked to formal writing - the lesson is linked to a pop band splitting up DIfferentiation and lesson plan attached