3 lesson bundle
suitable for year 5 and year 6
engaging maths lessons based on saving for a holiday.
lesson 1: Pupils must pick flights and hotels
lesson 2: Pupils must pick items they are taking on holiday
lesson 3: Pupils must pick the activities that they are completing on the trip
pupils have a budget and they must then calculate the total cost
Includes:
Teaching slides
differentiated questions
modeled questions
answers for questions
Overview of the Unit:
Lesson 1: Engage Through Drama
Kick off the unit with playscripts and hot seating to spark interest and immerse pupils in the Viking topic.
Lessons 2–4: Master Relative and Embedded Clauses
Build technical skills by focusing on relative clauses and embedded clauses using dashes. Scaffolded tasks include identifying, practicing, and applying these skills to descriptive paragraphs about the Vikings.
Lesson 5: Expanded Noun Phrases and Prepositional Phrases
Teach pupils to add detail and precision to their writing by crafting vivid sentences about Viking roles and lifestyle.
Lesson 6: Ad Same Ad Sentence Structure
Introduce Allan Peat’s Ad Same Ad sentences to help students create impactful, descriptive sentences.
Lesson 7: Describing Viking Clothing
Apply learned skills to describe Viking clothing and settlements, blending expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases, and Ad Same Ad sentences.
Lessons 8–10: Using Formal Language
Guide students to write formally, using generalizers and precise vocabulary, while practicing formal sentence construction.
Lesson 9: Plan the Report
Pupils organize their ideas under clear subheadings, ensuring all features—relative clauses, formal language, expanded phrases—are included.
Lessons 10–12: Writing the Non-Chronological Report
Over three lessons, pupils draft their reports, working to different ability levels with sentence starters, scaffolds, and modeled examples.
Lesson 13: Publish with Style
Pupils polish their work, adding illustrations and neat formatting to create a final report ready for display or assessment.
Key Features:
Fully differentiated tasks to support lower ability, age-related, and greater depth learners.
Focus on grammar skills: relative clauses, embedded clauses, expanded noun phrases, and formal language.
Engaging activities including hot seating, sentence crafting, and publishing with illustrations.
Scaffolds, WAGOLLs, and success criteria provided for every step.
Perfect for cross-curricular links with history or thematic units on the Vikings.
Why Teachers Love It:
Saves time with ready-to-teach lesson plans and resources.
Encourages creativity alongside rigorous grammar skills.
Supports writing progression with clear success criteria and scaffolded tasks.
Engages learners with a high-interest topic and varied teaching methods.
What’s Included:
13 detailed lesson plans with objectives, activities, and differentiation.
WAGOLL examples for each skill.
Printable planning templates, worksheets, and success criteria.
Editable resources for tailoring to your class.
Year 5 PSHE Career unit
Lo: What influences peoples decision about careers
Starter: Match up salaries to careers
Discussion around the influences on peoples career choices
Main task: Continuum of whats most important and least important to people
Extension: Write down skills, attributes, knowledge and qualifications for their chosen career path.
Planning a holiday on a budget
Engaging lesson where children have to pick excursions for their chosen destination
Teaching slides
3 worksheets with added challenges including:
Calculating VAT
Outstanding teaching resource for teaching year 6 children about salary, tax and wages.
Includes teaching slides for four high quality lessons.
Lesson 1: Defining salary, tax and wages
Gives visual representations for net and gross salary
Lesson 2: Calculating wages based on hourly rates
Lesson 3: Calculating tax deductions from salary
Lesson 4: Calculating net pay
Throughout each lesson their is ping pong slides for “I do, you do”
The lessons include sentence stems and steps to calculating net pay and tax deductions.
Small steps with differentiated questions.
The purple questions are the easier questions and each slide progresses in difficulty.
Visual representations for the difference between net and gross salary.
This unit allows children to practice their calculator skills ready for year 7.
This is also an appropriate resource for Key stage 3 and year 5 depending on the ability of the children.
How to train your dragon isntructions writing unit
Can be adapted for year 3- year 5
Features:
Time conjunctions
Compound sentences
Complex sentences
Sub headings
Adverbs
Imperative verbs
Fun RE lesson looks at forgiveness and reconciliation.
Looks at Elton John and Cher songs to engage children
Looks at quotes from the song and children are asked to draw illustrations based on the quotes.
Followed by a story analysis about forgiveness linked to religion.
Story board activity to follow.
2 week literacy setting desciption writing unit
WAGOLL
Modelled slides
Edit lesson
Publish lesson
Hook lesson
Success criteria
Lesson 1
Understand how an author can effectively describe a setting
Lesson 2
-Use show not tell to effectively describe a setting
Lesson 3
-Use figurative language within parenthesis and fronted adverbials
Lesson 4
-Plan my setting description
Lesson 5
Write my first two paragraphs for the setting description
Lesson 6
Write my third and fourth paragraph for the setting description
Lesson 7
-Edit my writing
Lesson 8
-Publish my writing
Lesson 2: luggage
Children must choose the items that they are bringing on the plane in their luggage
They must calculate the total cost of the weight and the suitcase
They must also calculate the total cost of the items that they need to purchase.
Maths lesson based on planning a holiday
TASK 1: Children have to calculate the cost of the flights, choose their seats and then choose their destination.
Challenge: Calculate added tax
Cost of the plane journey is calculated based on hours on the plane.
TASK 2: Children have to calculate the cost of the hotel choosing one hotel per destination.
Challenge: Calculate added cost for all inclusive package
Modelled ping pong
Teaching slides to go alongside the input.
Lesson 1: Prediction based on front cover, reviews and blurb
Read the prologue
Lesson 2: Word meaning lesson based on the prologue
Lesson 3: Retrieval lesson based on the prologue
Year 5 lesson can be adapted for year 4 and year 6
Orders decimals with tenths then hundredths and then into thousandths
Mastery approach with sentence stems
Small steps throughout the lesson with modeled practice
4 worksheets to accompany the lesson
6 weeks of lesson plans
Differentiated work sheets
Teaching slides
Matchstick video tutorial
Week 1: Research LS Lowry
Week 2: Shading, Hatching and cross hatching
Week 3: Perspective
Week 4: Match stick people
Week 5: Viewpoint
Week 6: Painting
All images are copyright free.
Year 5,6 Guided reading and English planning
Based on the jungle book
Researching Rudyard Kipling
Making inferences of characters from the text
Making predictions based on what I have read
Understanding playscripts
Creating dialogue for characters in a narrative
Based on “The lighthouse keeper” animation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HfBbSUORvo
Newspaper report plan:
5 day lesson plan aimed at writing a newspaper report based on the incident.
Aimed at upper Key stage 2 but could be differentiated for year 3 and 4.
VE day Maths lesson on dividing by 10
Uses place value charts to support
Uses images of items and the children must determine the price of 1 cupcake when 10 cupcakes cost ÂŁ6.50
Fun challenge at the end.
Complete unit of planning
Small steps
Bar models
Sentence Stems
Mastery style of teaching
Differentiated worksheets for each step
Matches Whiterose maths style of teaching