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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.
Twelve weeks of morning work tasks, four tasks per week. These activities are ideal for Year 5s in the Spring term as it focusses on what is commonly taught in the second term of the year, they can also be used at any point of the year for recap and consolidation.
Each week consists of two Maths based activities and two English based activities, covering the following:
Four Operations.
Times tables facts, including factors.
Multiplication and division.
Place value.
Rounding.
Fractions, decimals and percentages.
Area and perimeter.
Interpreting timetables and line graphs.
Modal verbs.
Relative clauses.
Creative writing.
Determiners.
Understanding the meaning of words.
Punctuation.
Parenthesis.
Mini reading comprehensions.
Editing/continuing writing e.g.play scripts.
Items are downloaded as PPT or PDF files.
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.
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 illustrating where on the map of the world the lines of tropics are, explaining the difference between tropical and temperature rainforests and what they mean.
-Engaging main activity to find and mark tropical rainforests on the map of the world with three levels of differentiation, some will work towards finding both tropical and temperate rainforests and understanding that tropical rainforests lie within the lines of tropics.
Continent maps with tropical and temperate rainforests marked on for students to use as reference points when plotting rainforests on their world map.
Geography
Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of
Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions,
key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities
Identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern
Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the Prime/Greenwich Meridian and time zones (including day and night)
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
Detailed and interesting teaching PPT detailing the different layers of the rainforest: including how their features make them suitable for different animals and the animals which live there.
Interesting and fun ‘lift the flap’ book activity for students to add information about each layer of tropical rainforests to.
NC objectives:
Science:
Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.
Y3: explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant
Y3: identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
Y4: recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways
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
-Detailed PPT explaining the difference between vertebrate and invertebrate and introducing some of the rainforest animals.
-Interesting and beautifully presented living things facts files to support students learning.
World map activity with three levels of differentiation. Students will use the animal fact files to work out the location of animals and add them to the world map, some will add vertebrate/invertebrate and add extra information about each animal.
NC objective:
Geography
Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of
Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities
Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and
describe features studied
Science
Y3: explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant
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: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?*
Clear teaching PPT introducing a range of Anglo-Saxon past times with opportunity to solve some Anglo-Saxon riddles as a whole class.
Carousel of activities: Beowulf storytelling activity, Tafl game and riddle solving.
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.
Ideal when teaching how to add prefixes to verbs in Year 5 or consolidation in Year 6.
Matching cards for children to match prefixes to verbs, ideal for use in small groups or pairs.
Activity sheets for children to add a range of prefixes to create new verbs and understand their meanings. Prefixes: de, mis, dis, over and re.
National Curriculum
Year 5 Statutory content to be introduced: verb prefixes [for example, dis–, de–, mis–, over– and re–].
Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to use further prefixes and suffixes and understand the guidance for adding them.
Perfect when children are learning how to create verbs by adding suffixes in Year 5 or consolidation in Year 6.
Matching cards for children to match nouns and adjectives to a range of suffixes. Ideal for use in small groups or pairs.
‘Ise’ activity sheets with three levels of differentiation allowing children to add suffixes using the correct spelling rule and using them in sentences.
‘Ate’ activity sheets with three levels of differentiation allowing children to add suffixes using the correct spelling rule and using them in sentences.
‘Ify’ activity sheets with three levels of differentiation allowing children to add suffixes using the correct spelling rule and using them in sentences.
‘En’ activity sheet allowing children to add suffixes using the correct spelling rule and using them in sentences.
National Curriculum
Year 5 Statutory content to be introduced – Converting nouns or adjectives into verbs using suffixes [for example, –ate; –ise; –ify]
Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to use further prefixes and suffixes and understand the guidance for adding them.
Differentiation
Adding suffixes when no changes need to be made to the root word or when ‘e’ needs to be removed.
Adding suffixes when no changes need to be made to the root word, when ‘e’ needs to be removed and removing ‘y’ when adding ‘ify’.
Adding suffixes when no changes need to be made to the root word, when ‘e’ needsto be removed, removing ‘y’, ‘ation’, ‘able’ to add the suffix and exceptions to the rule.
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.
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.
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Fun, Christmas themed crack the code activity! Aimed at Years 3 and 4, students need to solve addition and subtraction problems using formal written methods in order to crack the Christmas themed codes. This resource includes:
A PPT with a quick warm up, a practise code breaker and a missing number addition problem.
Code breaker activity with three levels of differentiation.
Addition and subtraction with 2 and 3 digit numbers involving some carrying for addition and no exchanging for subtraction.
Addition and subtraction with 3 digit numbers involving carrying for addition and exchanging for subtraction.
Addition and subtraction with up to 4 digit numbers involving carrying for addition and exchanging for subtraction.
Challenges with three levels of differentiation, challenges 1 and 2 involve missing number calculations. Challenge 3 involves word problems using different words to mean addition and subtraction.
Answers.
Looking for more Christmas themed activities? Try our KS2 Advent Calendar or our KS2 activity bundle.
Aimed at Years 3 and 4, students need to solve a range of mental and written code breaker problems using the four operations. This resource includes:
A PPT with a quick warm up, a practise code breaker and a ‘spot the mistake’ task.
Code breaker activity where students read and solve clues to crack three padlock codes, before using formal written methods, times tables and related division facts to crack the final code. The activity sheets have three levels of differentiation:
– Addition and subtraction with 1, 2 and 3 digit numbers. 2, 5 and 10 times tables problems.
– Addition and subtraction up to 3 digit numbers. 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 times tables problems and their related division facts.
– Addition and subtraction with up to 4 digit numbers, a mix of times tables problems and their related division facts, formal written methods for multiplication and division.
Challenges with three levels of differentiation. Challenge 1 involves spotting the mistakes in addition and subtraction problems (3 digits), challenge 2 requires students to complete a Maths story, solving problems along the way. Finally, challenge 3 gives students the chance to solve a range of clues to fill in the mystery keypad.
Answers included.
This fantastic lesson is aimed at Years 5 and 6, students need to solve a range of mental and written code breaker problems using the four operations.
This code breaker resource includes:
A PPT with a quick warm up, a practise code breaker and a ‘spot the mistake’ task.
Code breaker activity where students read and solve clues to crack three padlock codes, before using formal written methods, multiplication and division problems to crack the final code. The activity sheets have three levels of differentiation.
Challenges with three levels of differentiation. Challenge 1 involves spotting the mistakes in addition and subtraction problems (3 digits), challenge 2 requires students to solve Maths riddles. Finally, challenge 3 gives students the chance to solve a range of clues to fill in the mystery keypad.
Answers included.
The activities and answers are downloaded as PDF files
A fifteen-lesson writing unit, leading students towards writing their own information text based on Anglo-Saxon society.
Students spend time at the start of the unit researching the different ranks of Anglo-Saxon society so they can write a text comparing and contrasting two ranks.
This would make a great unit to be taught alongside a History unit on Anglo-Saxons, or as a way to revisit Historic knowledge.
This unit begins with ten lessons exploring the text type and sentence level work. The final five lessons allow them to write their information text. The unit uses three differentiated example text types about Anglo-Saxon society to supports students’ understanding.
Where appropriate, each lesson is differentiated and carefully planned to suit different students’ needs.
Lesson order:
Hook lesson: introducing information texts, what they are and their purpose. Students read information texts with key information crossed out, allowing them to work out what the texts are about and reinforce the idea that information texts need to be clear for anyone to read.
Key features, students highlight features in differentiated texts.
Research Anglo-Saxon society, students will record what they find on mind maps. You will need access to topic books and/or the internet for this lesson.
Answering questions about Anglo-Saxon society, students engage in a fun chatterbox activity to make sure they know everything about the ranks of Anglo-Saxon society they are researching.
Tense, students explore the tense the texts are written in and practise writing in both the past and present tense.
Writing with conjunctions, students will explore a range of conjunctions and their purposes to compare and contrast in the sample texts. They will then have time to write their own sentences comparing and contrasting using different conjunctions.
Using appropriate language, students explore the tone of the sample texts and re-write very informal extracts.
Relative clauses, explore how relative clauses are used and practise changing their position within a sentence. Students cut out main and relative clauses and arrange them to make the most effective sentences.
Using parenthesis, students will look at how parenthesis has been used in the sample texts before practising writing their own sentences using parenthesis.
Planning the information texts.
Writing the text - the final five lessons give students chance to write their text looking back at the examples, modelling writing and editing what they have written.
Lesson activities will be downloaded as PDF files
Ten lessons containing teaching resources and PPTs on Anglo-Saxons, covering two enquiry questions. Aimed at Year 5 but suitable across Upper KS2.
**Enquiry Question One:Who were the Anglo-Saxons and how do we know about them?
**Enquiry Question 2: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?
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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
Detailed PPT discussing the needs of different animals and why the different layers may suit them, using the living things fact files to support learning.
Creative and fun main activity with 3 levels of differentiation, students will create their own rainforest animal or plant depending on the layer they live in, some will move on to work out the layer in which a brand new animal lives in, based on their features.
Interesting and beautifully presented living things fact files to support students independent learning.
Whole unit planning.
NC objective:
Science
Y3: explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant
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.
Enquiry Question: Who were the Anglo-Saxons and how do we know about them?
Clear teaching PPT illustrating when the Anglo-Saxons lived using a timeline and who they were.
Engaging main activity using extracts from Anglo-Saxon texts to understand more about who the Anglo-Saxons were.
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
Detailed teaching PPT detailing the largest tribe in the Amazon, the Yanomami. Explore their way of life, focus on the food they eat and how they source it with the help of this resource.
An engaging main activity with 2 levels of differentiation, students will identify the foods that tribal people eat and how they source them, some will compare it to food that we eat and how we source it.
Whole unit planning.
NC Objectives:
Geography
Describe and understand human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity
including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy,
food, minerals and water
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: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?*
Clear teaching PPT introducing Anglo-Saxon battles and modelling the main activity.
Information text on key Anglo-Saxon battles.
Main activity - students summarise the battles they have read about and create ‘battle cards’ which show the key information about these battles ie. who won, when it took place etc.
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.
Enquiry Question: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?*
Clear teaching PPT introducing Anglo-Saxon defences.
Main activity: create an Anglo-Saxon burh.
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.