Welcome to my shop! As a dedicated teacher with over a 10 years of experience, I strive to provide fellow educators with a wide range of resources, providing value! Your support is greatly appreciated and motivates me to create even more materials. Please feel free to share your suggestions in the comments—I’d love to know what resources you’re looking for! Together, we can make teaching even more rewarding.
Welcome to my shop! As a dedicated teacher with over a 10 years of experience, I strive to provide fellow educators with a wide range of resources, providing value! Your support is greatly appreciated and motivates me to create even more materials. Please feel free to share your suggestions in the comments—I’d love to know what resources you’re looking for! Together, we can make teaching even more rewarding.
Writing Unit: The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
This engaging writing unit, inspired by Ted Hughes’ The Iron Man, develops a range of key writing skills:
Descriptive Settings: Pupils will begin by writing vivid descriptions of the eerie and atmospheric settings from the story, focusing on sensory details and rich vocabulary.
Wanted Poster: Using their descriptive skills, pupils will create a wanted poster for the Iron Man, detailing his appearance, traits, and the potential “dangers” he poses.
Debate: Pupils will engage in a class debate, exploring whether the Iron Man is a hero or a threat, practising persuasive speaking and writing techniques.
Letter Writing: Pupils will take on the role of a character from the story, writing a letter to the authorities or another character to express their viewpoint about the Iron Man.
Menu: In a creative twist, pupils will design a menu for the Iron Man, inspired by his unusual eating habits, incorporating imaginative ideas and humour.
This unit offers a mix of imaginative and practical writing activities, fostering creativity, critical thinking, and a love for storytelling.
Unit Overview: Yokki and the Parno Gry
This six-week unit, based on Yokki and the Parno Gry, guides pupils through developing key writing skills:
Week 1: Introduction to the story and exploring descriptive language.
Week 2: Crafting descriptions using subordination and coordination.
Week 3: Understanding key features of descriptive writing and making inferences.
Week 4: Oral storytelling, focusing on retelling the story and describing settings.
Week 5: Planning a narrative using the Boxed-Up Method to structure ideas.
Week 6: Writing and completing their narratives, incorporating rich language and refining their work.
The unit includes adaptive worksheets, structured activities, and engaging resources, making it ideal for diverse classrooms. Perfect for developing descriptive and narrative writing skills while fostering creativity.
This is a comprehensive resource for teaching Earth and Space, tailored for primary students. It covers key concepts such as the solar system, planet characteristics, Earth’s rotation and orbit, phases of the Moon, and the Sun’s role in sustaining life. Activities and worksheets encourage hands-on learning, with visual aids to simplify complex ideas, vocabulary support for key terms, and fun experiments like creating model planets and simulating moon phases. This resource is designed to engage students’ curiosity and help them understand their place in the vast universe.
Explore our collection of assembly PowerPoint presentations, available at a discounted price when purchased as a bundle. Covering topics such as Holocaust Memorial Day, Remembrance Day, and other key historical and cultural events, each presentation is thoughtfully designed to engage, educate, and inspire students. With ready-to-use slides that include images, reflective prompts, and key talking points, these assemblies make it easy to deliver meaningful messages. Perfect for schools looking for a versatile and cost-effective way to honor important occasions throughout the year.
The Tower of London, a historic landmark and UNESCO World Heritage Site, has stood for nearly 1,000 years as a royal palace, prison, and symbol of British history. Its imposing walls housed some of the most infamous prisoners in history, but not all stayed confined. Tales of daring escapes, such as those of John Gerard, who fled using a rope smuggled into his cell, or the Earl of Nithsdale, disguised in women’s clothing, add an element of intrigue to its legacy. These incredible stories highlight both the resilience of the prisoners and the Tower’s fascinating past as a place of both oppression and ingenuity.
Based on the evocative imagery and themes present in Grahame Baker-Smith’s “Wild is the Wind,” a comprehensive four-week unit of work could be developed to explore similes, adjectives, and poetry through the lens of nature’s power and beauty.
This resource would feature a detailed lesson plan structured in the style of a Medium-Term Plan (MTP), outlining learning objectives (LOs), activities, and assessment opportunities across the four weeks. Accompanying this would be a series of engaging PowerPoints, each visually rich and designed to introduce and reinforce key concepts, drawing directly from the book’s descriptive language and illustrations. To cater to diverse learning needs, the unit would include a set of differentiated worksheets, offering varied levels of challenge and support, with a specifically adapted version thoughtfully designed to meet the learning requirements of a SEND child, perhaps focusing on visual prompts and simplified language inspired by Baker-Smith’s artistic style.
This multi-faceted resource aims to immerse students in the poetic language of “Wild is the Wind,” fostering their understanding of literary devices while celebrating the awe-inspiring force of the natural world depicted in the book.
