An engaging 45 slide assembly on the inspirational scientist Albert Einstein. Includes a clear, animated and bright PowerPoint, a video link and fun facts. The Einstein assembly shows how his life choices led to great things and how it is important to follow your passions from a young age. Celebrate a Great Scientist Use to celebrate his birthday on March 14th or as an interesting assembly for any day of the year. This science assembly includes: A memory game Young life Family life Working life Fun facts Images of his life Scientific Research Einstein quotes to inspire Why was he such a great scientist? Summary Relevant for KS1. Check out my other popular KS1 assemblies: World Poetry Day KS1 Assembly Charles Darwin KS1 Assembly Mental Health Awareness KS1 Assembly

A target sheet for a year 4 child, includes all of the objectives for this year group in child speak. Children can track their targets in the table and teachers can tick in the columns when these are evidenced and then achieved. The rocket sheet is an extra fun way for children to remember which target they are working on. Learning Objectives for year 4 in easy to understand short phrases. Can be stuck in the front of English books so children can refer to this in lessons or kept in a teacher’s file. Teacher can choose how much evidence needs to be collected before the children achieve the target. You can show recognition of the target achieved in their work with a sticker/star/symbol. Encourages responsibility for learning and ensures the children know their targets. All reviews welcome. Check out my other resources for teaching and assessing primary English: Year 3 Writing Assessment Guidance Year 3 Reading Assessment Questions Year 4 Writing Assessment Guidance Year 4 Reading Assessment Questions Whole School SMART Target Packs

A useful display for teachers, children, parent helpers and visitors showing the new curriculum in a bright and colourful, easy to use way. All the year 2 reading statements are simplified to child speak with engaging animals and speech bubbles, an easy way to jazz up your reading corner. Having the new curriculum statements on display for all to see will help everyone feel confident with knowing the learning objectives. All adults involved with the class will be able to ask effective questions when listening to children read. Assessments of children will be more accurate and relevant. Children could use these on an interactive display to self and peer assess and prompt reading discussions. Also included: 12 Bunting Triangles - with characters and relevant quotes from well known children’s books A large welcome title All the year 2 New Curriculum reading statements in speech bubbles from colourful animals Key reading vocabulary cards 10 Bubbles containing thought provoking questions Top Book Trump review cards Book Recommendation sheets A Reading Challenge All reviews welcome.

An engaging week of Christmas story writing for KS2. Includes planning, PPTs, resources and modelled texts, all ready-to-go. Enjoy teaching the well planned writing activities for each day, designed for a variety of learners. Short games, quizzes and videos are provided for starter activities and all challenges and plenaries are included. Each day use the structured activities to fine-tune their writing, extend their goals and build their self-esteem. By the end of the week each student will have written, edited and published their own version of this wonderful festive story. Ensure progress whilst exploring Scandinavian culture. Engage your pupils with Christmas and give them freedom and aspirations with their writing using these high quality and thorough PowerPoints. KS2 Writing Teaching Points Covered: Using other verbs for said, Correcting speech punctuation, Improving sentence openers, Choosing appropriate paragraph openers, Comparing extracts of modelled versions, Magpie-ing effective words, Using a range of relative clauses, Writing powerful personification phrases, Thinking of unusual similes and metaphors, Learning how to create atmosphere. Hand out the text extracts showing how characters change to capture that tricky KS2 writing skill. Relax while your pupils use peer assessment so your marking will be quick and delightful. Print out the story included about a creature who is similar to Father Christmas, but different. Be amazed at how it has been written to include essential writing skills for this age group such as relative clauses, parenthesis, powerful description, sentence openers and conjunctions. All resources and a detailed plan included so you will have time to go out and enjoy the wonderful feeling of Christmas throughout December. All reviews welcome. You might also like a week of exploring the Nisse tale activities to boost the children’s confidence and understanding of the story. For high quality cross curricular units on Scandinavia follow the links below: Scandinavia Geography Unit Scandinavia Art unit Or browse through my shop to find many more inexpensive, engaging and time saving resources.

One of seven engaging lessons which bring Scandinavia into the classroom. Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go. This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3. This lesson teaches important map skills and an understanding of the world, key continents and oceans. All resources are included, so just print the map template and detailed lesson plan and your lesson is ready. All lessons in this unit are designed to link to and extend work in English with challenges linking to English objectives, e.g. persuasive writing features. All reviews welcome. To teach Scandinavia throughout the curriculum, download my English and art units: Scandinavia Art Unit Scandinavia Story Writing Unit You can find many more engaging and high quality resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop

A useful list of questions for guided reading, reading discussions 1:1 and reading assessments in Year 2. 43 question templates under 12 categories which match the expectations of the National Curriculum and build confidence in reading. Available in 3 formats to save you time and enhance your pupil’s reading: A4 black and white questions sheet. A4 colour coded questions sheet. Colourful leaflet for discussing reading at home. Can be used in guided reading, reading 1:1, writing comprehensions, at home to support parents and for assessment purposes. Useful for teachers, TAs and parent helpers. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular KS1 English resources: Year 2 Grammar Glossary Year 2 SMART Writing Targets Year 2 Reading Corner Display

A bright and clear PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging and memorable spelling lessons. All words follow the pattern of doubling the r when adding suffixes onto fer endings from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists. Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 3 thorough spelling lessons to enable children to learn these spellings in an active and successful way. Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome.

A target sheet for a year 3 child, includes all of the objectives for this year group in child speak. Children can track their targets in the table and teachers can tick in the columns when these are evidenced and then achieved. The rocket sheet is an extra fun way for children to remember which target they are working on. Learning Objectives for year 3 in easy to understand short phrases. Can be stuck in the front of English books so children can refer to this in lessons or kept in a teacher’s file. Teacher can choose how much evidence needs to be collected before the children achieve the target. You can show recognition of the target achieved in their work with a sticker/star/symbol. Encourages responsibility for learning and ensures the children know their targets. All reviews welcome. Check out my other resources for teaching and assessing primary English: Year 3 Writing Assessment Guidance Year 3 Reading Assessment Questions Year 4 Writing Assessment Guidance Year 4 Reading Assessment Questions Whole School SMART Target Packs

A complete KS2 reading comprehension lesson with the theme of Halloween poems. Includes a complete teaching input, starter, modelling, scaffolding, 5 differentiated poems, questions for each poem and plenary. Download to inspire and extend your pupil’s learning around Halloween. Highlights: Colourful engaging teaching PowerPoint Printable resources Challenge activity Each poem comprehension focuses on these key reading skills: Rhyming words Alliteration Identifying themes Summarising Engage your pupils this Halloween whilst strengthening and enhancing reading outcomes. Check out my other popular Halloween resources: Halloween Fractions Halloween Story Writing

6 engaging homework task printables for KS1, complete with instructions, colourful images and ideas to start. Excite and inspire your pupils about science for British Science Week. Provide them with a choice of activities, all of which are easy to set up, promote discussion and develop questioning skills. Written to achieve National Curriculum learning objectives these tasks will be a brilliant extension to any school work in British Science Week. Bright, colourful and clear these cards will save you time and encourage independence. Year 1 Task Cards Arts and crafts activity through learning about plants Writing activity linked to animal classification Arts activity about parts of the human body Year 2 Task Cards Presenting information creatively about body well-being Drawing interactive images about habitats Arts and crafts with materials Check out my other updated British Science Week resources: KS2 British Science Week Homework Tasks KS1 British Science Week Posters KS2/3 British Science Week Posters

An engaging 26 slide PowerPoint for a KS2 assembly on the life and success of Charles Darwin. Includes a video link, interactive activities and reasoning questions. Inspire your pupils by learning about this brilliant man, be amazed by his achievements and see how they are still relevant today. Includes many higher level thinking questions and a memory challenge to keep every child focused. Can be used on Darwin's birthday February 12th or for starting a topic on famous scientists or explorers. Takes the children through these key questions: What did Darwin think? How can we be a great scientist? Who was Charles Darwin? - Early Life, Careers, Big Break, Exploring, Thinking and Writing, Later Life What were Darwin's theories? What impact did his theories have? Is evolution important today? Differentiated writing tasks included and resourced: Task 1 - Draw or write a flow chart of Darwin's life journey. Task 2 - Write a radio script interviewing Darwin about his life. Task 3 - Write a comparison of Darwin with another famous person who inspires you. Writing templates provided. Other activity ideas also included. Lots of opportunities for discussion and higher level thinking. All concepts explained clearly. Relevant for KS2 and KS3. All reviews welcome. For a good and engaging science unit on forces click here to save yourself lots of time! You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy

A clear and animated PowerPoint leading you through a week of effective spelling lessons. All words are linked to WW2, a useful way to deepen the pupil’s understanding of important words and phrases from this topic. Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling and definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 3 Thorough spelling lessons to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way. Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome.

A ready-to-go week of comprehension lessons on famous Christmas songs. Includes 5 lessons, 5 PowerPoints, a detailed plan and all the necessary differentiated resources. Planned for year 5, could easily be adapted for other KS2 classes. Children read and listen to these Christmas songs, then evaluate them in deep and meaningful ways showing their thinking with a variety of activities designed for all styles of learners. Highlights Short effective starters to hook your pupils into the lesson Modelled writing activities Higher level thinking challenges Each lesson is differentiated for two ability groups Success criteria for each lesson Engaging and effective plenaries An excellent week of reading lessons for the build up to Christmas whilst maintaining focus and high quality outcomes. 5 Learning Objectives explore the meaning of words in context summarise the main ideas identify themes explain the effect of language ask questions to improve understanding Video links in the PowerPoint will bring the festive cheer into your class while keeping a hardworking atmosphere. Songs Covered: Happy Christmas, I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday and Peace On Earth. Detailed weekly plan and all resources included. All reviews welcome.

An engaging and detailed lesson teaching children how to convert percentages to decimals. Includes a 29 slide PPT, plan, resources, challenges and all answers. Steps to Mastery The starter reviews times and divide by 10 to build into the main concept of the lesson. Lots of clear images included to model each concept and develop mastery of this area. Learning is scaffolded with many examples to do with the class before independent work. Covering these key aspects: What are percentages? The meaning of the word is explained and what this means in maths with a visual representation. 6 examples covered and linked to fractions. What are decimals? The meaning of the word is explained and compared with whole numbers, shown on number lines to represent the value of tenths, hundredths and thousandths and so on. How do they link? Visual representation showing decimals and percentages as parts of 100 or 10, showing the same amount written in different ways. How do I convert between percentages and decimals? Modelled examples showing how to divide and multiply to convert between the two. How do I times and divide by 100? Links back to starter and shows an example using a place value chart. Can I remember this? Children now try 8 examples independently before discussing answers as a class. Resources Place Value chart for scaffolding. Differentiated worksheets for 3 groups with calculations and word problems included. Extra challenge for fast finishers. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in these high quality KS2 maths resources: Converting Fractions to Decimals Word Problems Place Value Display Multiply and Divide Decimals

An engaging assembly about public speaking and debating. 18 Interactive slides lead you through 6 key areas in this topic. Includes aspirational role models, ideas and stories. This animated presentation will explain, inspire and motivate children to try out this essential life skill. Areas covered How to debate The purposes of public speaking Famous speeches Famous speakers Famous debaters Famous debates. Highlights of this colourful resource: Each section contains an equal balance of role models, including gender, race and era. Top quality open questions are provided throughout to encourage higher level thinking and discussion. It includes a model showing the essential cycle needed for debating. A copy of a speaking and listening success criteria for speaking and debating. A video link to a famous debate. Ideas for celebrating debating. You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy Shop You might also be interested in: Whole School Speaking and Listening Success Criteria Discussion Text Week of English Planning and Resources Imitate Discussion Text Week of English Planning and Resources Invent

Inspire your pupils with this KS1 assembly celebrating World Poetry Day. Includes an engaging PowerPoint, 4 poems, geography map skills, video link, reasoning questions and interactive activities. This ready-to-go 27 slide PowerPoint leads you through the assembly explaining World Poetry Day and poetry. Read the children 4 world habitat poems written about environments from across the globe. Choose poems from a world map, before reading about the animals, landscape and climate of jungles, grasslands, deserts and the arctic. Enhance geography skills whilst developing vocabulary and a passion for poetry. An engaging video is included to provide a range of role models who clearly enjoy reading poetry and bringing it to life. Celebrate World Poetry Day every year on March 21st to encourage diversity and a shared understanding of the world. Use this assembly to inspire your pupils to become writers, enjoy the video link of a range of people reading a poem about how poets can write anywhere. Check out my other popular KS1 assemblies: Mental Health Awareness Week KS1 Assembly Albert Einstein KS1 Assembly Charles Darwin KS1 Assembly