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Have you been volunteered (know what I mean?) to deliver Modern Languages at your Primary School? This bunch of resources, that I used in my decades of French teaching, will help. I’ve put them into groups to help you. the zip file has loads. I’ve put a selection as downloads so you can have a look at them. Highlights include: festivals games and activities how to ideas for lessons phonics poems loads of powerpoints songs stories

Some terrific planning. The last I did before retirement. It covers the whole of the Autumn term for year 5. It concentrates on Maths and English. But loads extra on the arts and humanities and pe. Sample planning To apply understanding of the structure of a Greek Myth to identify separate parts of a myth I can order key events in a quest I can identify how the events in a quest are separated by the writer, referring to the structure/content of the text I can identify key language features of Greek Myth Texts Starter Read “The 12 Labours of Heracles” to the children (58-66, The Orchard Book of Greek Myths). Recap features of quest – ask chn to identify these • A quest is a journey towards a goal, which usually requires great effort by the hero/heroine. • They need to overcome many obstacles, and it usually involves a lot of travel. • The hero normally tries to obtain something or someone through the quest, and then take this home. The object can be something new (golden fleece), something to fulfill a lack in their life, or to return something that was stolen from the hero or from someone with the power to send them on the quest. • If someone dispatches the hero on a quest, the reason may be false -Hero sent on a difficult quest in hope that they die, or in order to remove them from the scene for a time. • Tale usually ends with the dispatcher being unmasked and punished. • There may be a twist at the end of the tale, to punish any misdeeds of the hero/heroine, or because one of the Gods is displeased by the successful conclusion of the quest. MAIN ACTIVITY (Resources; boxed table) Split chn into groups and give them a Greek Myth text. Ask chn to box up text: Chn can draw/write about important places and events on the quest, and should quote words that show the passing of time. CT to model boxing up method for 1st event in “Heracles” text and identify how scene was set, by the writer. This activity requires children to identify details for the following sections, for EACH event on the quest: EVENT 1 • Setting • Obstacle (Elements of danger/safety at setting/ on the journey) • Any words used to show time has passed • Overcoming obstacle

77 files in total. The preview gives you an idea of the flavour. Sample planning: Reading as a Reader Introduction Discuss the purpose of instructions, what could they be used for? Allow the children to discuss for 1 minute the different types of instructions that there are that they know of. Take feedback and write on spider diagram. Inform the children that they are going to be going through several types of instructions over the next couple of days and analysing them as a reader. What made them successful for them, what they would have done differently etc. Main Activity Discuss the ‘Witches Fingers Recipe’ with the children, What do they notice straight away that is useful for us as readers? Annotate on WB. Inform them that we are now going to create these treats reflecting on the information provided and how useful it was for us as readers. Split the class into 2 groups - Create the treats – discussing the instructions as they go along. Ask the children to complete the reflection sheet in pairs. Discuss the instructions with the children and their reflection sheets, what made them successful? What would they have done better? Why? How would it have changed these instructions? Were the children ablet o follow the instructions? Were they able to evaluate the effectiveness of these instructions as a reader? Were they able to identify some of the key features that made them effective, such as the layout etc? Introduction Remind the children that they are evaluating instructions as a reader. Inform them that today, they are going to be evaluating different card game instructions and their effectiveness. Also that we are not to support them, as they need to evaluate them themselves and they are going to tell me whether they were effective instructions at the end of the lesson and why. Main Activity Children are to be in mixed ability reading pairs, read through the instructions and follow the instructions independently and play the card games. Carousel the pairs to the different games, allowing them 10 minutes at each activity.

Five powerpoints plus planning. I’ve converted the powerpoints to a pdf and you can download and have a good look. sample planning: Ask children to think about their literacy lessons – TTYP and name the important details that are needed in telling a story (e.g. time, place, characters and events). Ask children to the recall names of the four main Gospels. Do they all tell the same story? (Essentially yes but lead children towards idea that they are different versions of the same story). Use analogy of an incident occurring on the playground – would each child tell the same incident in the same way? No they would tell their version of the same event – some details and word choices would differ. Talk about today’s WALT and explain that we are going to be looking at some different Gospel accounts of the birth of Jesus Christ. Explain to ch that, in order to achieve their WALT, they will need to be comparing and contrasting everything which they read. Explain briefly that three out of the four Gospels deal with the birth or Christ; there are many similarities and many differences in the way in which the Gospels record and explain the event. For today’s lesson we are going to focus on Matthew’s Gospel and Luke’s Gospel. Children to have Bibles on carpet. Read the story of the birth of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew Mt. 1: 18-2:23 and the Gospel of Luke Lk. 2: 1-14. Using the PPT ask, show children the following table: Details found only in Matthew’s Gospel. Details found only in Luke’s Gospel. Details found in both Gospel’ Discuss possible reasons for the differences in the two accounts. They are coming from two different people; points of view; written at different times but the basic story is the same. Briefly recap last lesson. Which two Gospels did we look at? Which story were we reading? Did both Gospels tell the story in

500 questions on counting up Euro coins. 5 worksheets with 100 questions each. There are little pictures of the coins and the pupils have to add them up and write the answers on the sheet.

A zip file containing 500 French wordsearches I’ve designed. All answers provided. 10 sets of simple words. 50 different shapes. A big file so please be patient when downloading. Ideal for Friday afternoons, homeworks, fun etc. Each worksheet has 20 French words to find.

This is a zip file containing Literacy planning for a year 5 class (Autumn term) It consists of 14 short term plans I designed. There is one Literacy lesson per day. You will get 14 Microsoft Word documents. They are based on the Greek myths. I’ve also included for free some extra teaching materials that you can use. I’ve included too 3 medium term plans , one for each term). These cover plans and ideas not just for Literacy, but other subjects as well. I’ve also included an extra week from the next term. Feel free to use it to plug any gaps. This will help you do your own planning. Feel free to cut and paste into your own school’s plans. Ideal for someone who had to do a term’s supply like I had to do. Please bear in mind: every school is different. My plans assume you have the aide of a TA, but this is not essential. There is no differentiation in the planning. Everyone does the same thing to the best of their ability. you may want to add your own detail. These are short term plans remember. I have used walts and wilts. Your school may do something different. A very few number of weeks have a small gaps for things like tests and inset days. Use the extra week one planning for the next term (included for free) if you wish.