Who were the Celts?
Learning objectives Learning outcomes
The purpose of this lesson is:
for the children to develop a clear understanding of who the Celtic people
were.
Children should learn:
• to select and record information about Celtic ways
of life;
• about aspects of life in Celtic Britain, using a variety
of sources.
Class objective:
• to find out about the Celts
Children should be able to:
• select relevant information from a number of
sources;
• record relevant information about the Celtic way of
life
Includes Lessons Plan and resources for activities
The purpose of this lesson is:
to develop a clear understanding of where the Vikings came from
and where they settled.
Children should learn:
• about the Viking homelands;
• the places that the Vikings visited;
• where the Vikings settled when they came to Britain.
Class objective:
• to find out where the Vikings came from and where
they settled
Children should be able to:
• locate the Viking homelands on a map;
• locate countries in the world that the Vikings
visited;
• identify Viking settlements on a modern map.
Includes Lesson Plan and Activity Sheets
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This unit links to the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements in the Programme of Study and considers the key historical enquiry question, How do we find out about Florence Nightingale? It introduces the children to the idea of historical sources, introduces the concepts of old and new, and encourages them to think about the life and times of a famous person. The approach used could be applied to the study of other famous people. It provides a wide range of opportunities for children to develop their spoken language. It is helpful if the children have: ordered events in time and used everyday terms about the passing of time; answered questions about people/ events in the past using pictures and written sources; recounted episodes from stories about the past; looked for similarities and differences between today and the past.
Lesson 1: How do we find out about a famous person?
Lesson 2: The story of Queen Elizabeth I.
Lesson 3: Recording the life of a famous person: Why do we remember Queen Elizabeth I?
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7 activities to support the understanding of the Naples and Campania Region as part of a location study aimed at Keystage 2 children.
Activity 1: Where is Italy?
Activity 2: The Regions of Italy
Activity 3: Base Map of Naples and the Campania Region
Activity 4: Reading Train Timetables: Circumvesuviana line table (The train around the Bay of Naples).
Activity 5: Holiday Brochure
Activity 6: Understanding Volcanoes- The Vesuvius Crater
Activity 7: A Section Through a Volcano.
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5 worksheets:
Alphabet – to put words into alphabetical order.
Dictionary – to understand that a dictionary gives the meaning of words. Word Families – to recognise members of a word family.
Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings.
Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings.
Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings.
Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 3
Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination.
Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules.
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2 lessons covering UK Counties and Major Cities
Lesson 1: Counties in the UK
Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• the UK is divided into countries and counties.
Success criteria
Children can:
• understand that the countries in the UK are
divided into counties and can name some of the
counties.
Lesson 2: Major Cities in the UK
Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• about the major cities in the UK.
Success criteria
Children can:
• understand that there are a number of major
cities in the UK and can name and locate them.
Taken from LCP’s LKS2 Geography Resource File
Taken from -RE Resource File RE Resource File Key Stage 2 Years 3 Key Stage 2 Years 3 & & 4
Includes:
Introduction
Unit resources
Medium-term plan
Lesson 1: What does a baby need?
Lesson 2: What is sin?
Lesson 3: Christian baptism
Lesson 4: Muslim birth ceremonies
Lesson 5: Sikh birth ceremonies
Lesson 6: Making comparisons
All lesson plans and printable activities included
This unit is designed as an introduction to Religious Education at Key Stage 2. It introduces pupils to some of the religions they will study during their four years in Key Stage 2. All religions treat the birth of a new life as special and celebrate its importance in different ways. In the religions covered in this unit, God is acknowledged to have an important role in the creation and safe delivery of a new life and is thanked for the new baby. Prior learning: The class will have spent time in Key Stage 1 studying religious belief and practice. This unit will build on their previously gained understanding. Lesson length: The lessons are designed to last approximately 60–70 minutes.
At the end of this unit most children will: • Be able to explain the meaning behind the symbols and actions in the different birth ceremonies. • Be able to explain the importance of committing the baby to the community of God. Some children will have made less progress and will: • Be able to share their own experiences of babies and explain what some people believe are babies’ spiritual needs. Some children will have progressed further and will: • Be able to explain similarities and differences between the themes in the different birth ceremonies.
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8 Activities for Years 1 or 2 linked to the study of 1950’s Britain.
Activity 1: My Kitchen Today
Activity 2: Understanding a 1950’s Kitchen
Activity 3: Let’s Go Food Shopping in the 1950’s
Activity 4: Favourite Food now and then
Activity 5: New Toy, Old Toy (Sort the cards into the box 2 sheet activity).
Activity 6: Draw your home
Activity 7: Understanding the Names of Different Homes
All worksheets can be done as homework or for home learning.
Taken from the KS1 History Resources File (available to purchase on our website).
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5 worksheets to inspire learning and encourage geographical curiosity both at home or at school. Focused on a location study: South Wales. Taken from Keystage 2 Geography Resource File.
Available as PDF to print.
These worksheets include:
Rainfall and Temperature in the UK worksheet
Climate Statistics in Cardiff
Types of Coal
The Railway Children Comprehension
Reading a Map (Distrubition of Iron and Steel in South Wales)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a famous engineer who lived in Victorian times. He was a very good engineer and he won a competition to build a bridge over the River Avon. This bridge became the Clifton Suspension bridge.
This unit links to the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements in the Programme of Study and considers the key historical enquiry question, How do we find out about Isambard Kingdom Brunel? It introduces the children to the idea of historical sources, introduces the concepts of old and new, and encourages them to think about the life and times of a famous person. The approach used could be applied to the study of other famous people. It provides a wide range of opportunities for children to develop their spoken language. It is helpful if the children have: ordered events in time and used everyday terms about the passing of time; answered questions about people/ events in the past using pictures and written sources; recounted episodes from stories about the past; looked for similarities and differences between today and the past.
Lesson 1: How do we find out about a famous person?
Lesson 2: The story of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Lesson 3: Recording the life of a famous person.
3 worksheets focuses on the teaching of adverbs
Sheet 1: to revise adverbs of manner
Sheet 2: to revise adverbs of time, frequency and place.
Sheet 3: to investigate how adverbs can affect adjectives
Taken from Grammar and Creativity Year 6 (by LCP)
Clear sheets that have instructions so easily to follow.
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4 worksheets and 1 poster
Designed to support the teaching of Commas.
Sheet 1: to revise commas and full stops.
Sheet 2: to explore the ways commas help to create meaning in a sentence.
Sheet 3: to use commas to avoid ambiguity
Sheet 4: to use commas to punctuate speech
Taken from LCP’s Grammar and Creativity Year 5 book.
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Invaders and settlers
The purpose of
this lesson is: to establish that the Anglo-Saxons both invaded and settled in Britain.
Children should learn:
• to use the terms ‘invade’ and ‘settle’;
• to place the Anglo-Saxon period in a chronological
framework.
Class objective:
• to discover the difference between invaders and
settlers.
Learning Outcomes
Children should be able to:
• use a dictionary to find the meanings of the words
‘invade’ and ‘settle’;
• sort words or phrases correctly under the headings
‘invade’ and ‘settle’;
• locate the Anglo-Saxon period on a time line;
• discuss ideas associated with invasion and
settlement.
Includes Lesson Plan and Activity Sheets
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In this unit children find out about the way people lived in the ancient Greek empire. They use a range of archaeological and written sources, select and record information and interpret the past in different ways. It is helpful if the children have: learnt about the way of life of people from different cultures who lived in the distant past; considered some of the attitudes and values of people living in the distant past, their motives and the results of their actions; used artefacts and pictures as sources of information.
Includes:
Contents
Introduction
Medium-term plan
Preparatory information
Useful websites about the Greeks
Lesson 1 Greece today
Lesson 2 Ancient Greek city states
Lesson 3 Athens and Sparta
Lesson 4 Triremes and hoplites
Lesson 5 The battle of Marathon
Lesson 6 Who did the ancient Greeks worship?
Lesson 7 Theseus and the Minotaur
Lesson 8 Ancient Greek theatre
Lesson 9 The play’s the thing
Lesson 10 The modern Olympic Games
Lesson 11 The ancient Olympic Games
Lesson 12 What we know about the ancient Greeks
Picture Prompt sheets
All lesson plans and activity sheets included.
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3 lessons including lesson plans and resources- What and where is Europe?
This has been written as two lessons as there is so much to learn about Europe. Lesson 1 will be the introduction, finding out about the continent as a whole, whilst Lesson 2 will concentrate on Europe related knowledge. The interactive games may be played in both lesson.
Lesson 1:What and where is Europe
Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• to begin to identify countries in Europe and their
major cities.
Success criteria
Children can:
• locate and understand that Europe is a continent
that has a number of countries and a range of
major cities
Lesson 3: Regions in Europe
Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• countries and capital cities in Europe;
• to work together to design a tour of a region of
Europe.
Success criteria
Children can:
• understand that Europe is a continent that has a
number of countries and can produce a tour of a
region in a country in this continent.
Taken from LCP’s LKS2 Geography Resource File
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15 sheets with Answers
Alphabet – to put words into alphabetical order.
Compound Words – to investigate compound words.
Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to improve my vocabulary.
Nouns – to revise word classes – nouns.
Nouns – to recognise abstract nouns.
Suffixes – to use suffixes: ship, ment, hood, ness.
Pronouns – to revise word classes – pronoun.
Possessive Pronouns – to use possessive pronouns correctly.
Determiners – to explore determiners.
Verbs – to revise word classes – verbs.
Verbs – to choose the correct form of a verb.
Verbs Challenge – to correct past tense verb endings.
Prefixes – to use the prefix: re.
Adjectives – to revise word classes – adjectives. .
Adjectives Challenge – to revise word classes – adjectives
Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 4
Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination.
Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules.
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All five questions link to:
Understand the effect of and relationships between the four operations, and the principles (not the names) of the arithmetic laws as they apply to multiplication.Begin to use brackets.
Includes 4 pages with strategies to help problem solve
Problem 1: Eating Sweets
Problem 2: Shopping Trip
Problem 3: On the Scales
Problem 4:Passengers
Problem 5: Coloured Cubes
Problem 6: Darts Scores
Taken from Problem Solving Year 5&6
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Ancient Greek theatre.
The purpose of
this lesson is: to investigate the ancient Greek theatre.
Children should learn:
• to deduce information about an aspect of the Greek
way of life from pictures of buildings and texts;
• to combine information from several sources;
• about the role of the theatre in the way of life of the
Greeks;
• to structure work in the form of a play.
Class objective:
• to investigate ancient Greek theatre and what
happened there.
Children should be able to:
• recognize the main features of a Greek theatre;
• understand the religious connections between
theatre and religious festivals;
• find out the sorts of plays the Greeks liked and who
wrote them;
• contribute to the preparation and performance of a
play that demonstrates the key features of Greek
drama.
Includes full lesson plans and activities