An ever growing range of primary teaching resources carefully created by us. Our resources are here to help you build amazing lessons for your pupils without starting from scratch.
An ever growing range of primary teaching resources carefully created by us. Our resources are here to help you build amazing lessons for your pupils without starting from scratch.
Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons
-Clear teaching PPT introducing the topic of rainforests with a quiz as a fun way to introduce a range of interesting facts about the topic.
-Thought shower template to use as an assessment tool at the start of the lesson.
Key word leaf templates for display, laminate and write down key words or facts about rainforests.
NC objective:
Geography - Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers,
mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.
Spelling activity cards with 30 different challenges for children, perfect for practising spellings in fun and creative ways. Activities range from written activities, challenges that can be done alone, games for pairs or teams to outdoor tasks. These activities can be used or adapted for all ages.
Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons.
Summarising enquiry Question: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?*
Teaching PPT with prompts for discussion about what students have learnt so far.
Activity: students will create a wall of everything they have learnt throughout this unit.
Whole unit planning.
Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots
Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture.
Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study.
They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.
Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons.
This lesson summarises our first enquiry Question: Who were the Anglo-Saxons and how do we know about them?
Teaching PPT with a quiz to recap what students have learned so far.
Cartoon strip activity.
Whole unit planning.
Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots
Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture.
Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study.
They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.
Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons
Teaching PPT to guide students through their self-assessment at the end of this unit with an opportunity to add to the thought shower created at the start of this unit.
Fun and engaging orienteering style question cards, summarising this rainforest topic.
Whole unit planning.
A perfect resource to support your teaching of the subjunctive form in Year 6.
Activity sheets with three levels of differentiation, allowing children to identify and write sentences in the subjunctive form.
National Curriculum
Year 6 statutory content to be introduced – The difference between structures typical of informal speech and structures appropriate for formal speech and writing for example the use of subjunctive forms such as If ‘I were’ or ‘were they to come’ in some very formal writing and speech.
16 photo cards with a variety of play dough shapes and patterns for children to recreate. These cards provided a fantastic opportunity to develop children’s fine motor skills by creating a range of shapes with play dough, as well as encouraging their creativity to create new shapes or patterns.
Ideal for early EYFS, as part of an independent play dough station, or for encouraging development of fine motor skills for children with SEN.
A fun road map activity allowing children to practise counting from 1 - 10 and 1 - 20 through play. Using the printed out road map, encourage children to follow the correct path with a toy car counting from 1-10 and 1-20. Once children have mastered this, they can cut out the numbers from 1 - 20 and place them on the blank road map, creating different pathways for themselves or their peers.
Three interactive and printable spinner activities, perfect to explore how different conjunctions can be used.
Each spinner activity is available as an interactive version on a PPT perfect for whole class teaching or quick burst grammar sessions. The printable versions are ideal for small group work and encouraging talk between students.
Conjunctions for cause and effect – 6 different conjunctions including because, since and so.
Conjunctions for cause and effect – 12 different conjunctions including in order, seeing that, due to.
Conjunctions for contrast – 12 different conjunctions including unlike, rather than, however.
A PPT with top tips for learning and recalling times tables, as well as a times tables wheel for students use or display.
The PPT covers:
Times tables wheel, this shows the essential tables that a student needs to learn as times tables questions are commutative. If I know 2 x 3, I also know 3 x 2!
Silly rhymes for remembering times tables facts.
Pattern spotting in the 2, 6, 8 and 10 x tables.
Using your hands to work out the 9 x tables.
A fun bundle of activities aimed at Years 5 and 6 to keep students busy and focussed. It includes:
Spelling anagrams - rearranging Years 5 and 6 common exception words.
Silly story writing - completing a story with different word classes and clauses.
Four operations colouring picture.
6, 7, 8 and 9 x tables race game.
Drawing challenge.
End of year reflection.
Answers.
Ideal for use in lower KS2 or in later years for consolidation, to help children understand how pronouns can be used to avoid repetition or to aid cohesion.
‘Prepositions to avoid Repetition’ activity sheets with three levels of differentiation, including different activities to help children identify the purpose of pronouns and where to use them to avoid repetition.
‘Prepositions to avoid Repetition’ story, a short story that children need to improve by identifying the nouns and choosing which to change to pronouns.
National Curriculum Links
Statutory content to be introduced in Year 4: Appropriate choice of pronoun or noun within and across sentences to
aid cohesion and avoid repetition.
Year 3 and 4 statutory requirements: pupils should be taught to develop their understanding of the concepts by choosing nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition.
Differentiation
Third person pronouns, including possessive pronouns.
First and third person pronouns, including possessive pronouns
First, second and third person pronouns, including possessive pronouns. Used in a range of multi-clause sentences.
Writing Bites!
Ten writing prompt sheets, perfect for: morning tasks, English lesson starters or even as a stimulus for a piece of writing. Each sheet has a different image and eight prompts for writing including: vocabulary, writing an alliterative sentence, generating questions and more.
PDF document of ten ‘writing bites’ and a PPT with writing bites explained, as well as an example writing bite.
Ideal for use in Key Stage Two, whether this is introducing the concept of subordinate clauses in Year 3 or consolidating in later years.
Subordinate clause activity sheets with three levels of differentiation including a range of activities to help children recognise and complete subordinate clauses. Answers included.
Subordinate clause passages, short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation where children need to identify the subordinate clauses in the sentence. Ideal as a short activity or a grammar session to discuss the purpose of subordinate clauses. Answers included.
National Curriculum Links – Years 3 and 4
Terminology to be introduced in Year Three: subordinate clause.
Pupils should be taught to extend the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including when, if, because, although.
Differentiation
Subordinating clauses beginning with conjunctions: when, because, if, that, however, although.
Subordinating clauses beginning with conjunctions: when, because, if, that, however, although, as, until, before, while, even though.
Subordinating clauses beginning with conjunctions: when, because, if, that, however, although, as, until, before, while, even though, since, provided that, unless. Identifying subordinate clauses at the start and end of sentences.
Worksheets (with three levels of differentiation) allowing students to convert past tense verbs to present tense and use them in sentences. Answers included.
Past to present tense verb matching cards.
A fun bundle of activities aimed at Years 3 and 4 to keep students busy and focussed. It includes:
Spelling anagrams - rearranging Years 3 and 4 common exception words.
Silly story writing - completing a story with different word classes.
Four operations colouring picture.
6, 7 and 12 x tables race game (the full collection of 1 - 12 tables race games is available here).
Drawing challenge - students must follow the instructions to see what they create.
End of year reflection.
Answers.
A great resource for teaching or consolidating this spelling rule, use in spelling sessions or as part of your grammar lessons. This resource includes:
Activity sheets for children to add a range of prefixes to create nouns and understand their meanings. Prefixes: auto, anti, super, fore, mid, sub, tele, mini, micro, multi, semi. Includes definitions of each word for further support or teacher reference.
Matching cards for children to match a prefix to a word and create a new noun, ideal for use in small groups or pairs.
National Curriculum Links
Year 3 – formation of nouns using a range of prefixes.
Lower KS2 – use further prefixes and suffixes and understand how to add them.
– apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (etymology and morphology) as listed in English Appendix 1, both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words they meet.