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World War II / WW II & VE Day display pack
A set of headings, lettering, banners, posters and images for a WW2 / VE Day display:
WW II HEADING: Prints onto 1 A4 sheet, with the title 'World War II’
WW II BANNER X 2: In 2 sizes, one prints onto 3 A4 sheets, the other 4.
WW II A-Z LETTERING: Lower and upper case letters, plus numbers and punctuation to print and cut out.
WW II IN PHOTOGRAPHS: 15 titled photographs, showing images taken during the war -
The Women’s Volunteer Defence Corps
Rescue workers
Bombing at the library
Air raid warden
Ration book
Refreshments for the soldiers
Dunkirk
The Queen visits an Anderson shelter
Aftermath of a Blitz
Homeless
The Women’s land army
Bombings in Merseyside
Hawker Hurricane
Evacuees
Destroyed houses
WW II POSTERS: 10 A4 sheets containing photographs and explanations of different aspects of WW II -
WW II begins - Outlines the start of the war, with pictures of Neville Chamberlain, Adolph Hitler, and Winston Churchill
The Blitz - Explains what the Blitz was.
Blackouts - Curtains, and reasons why
Air raid shelters
Anderson shelters
Gas masks
Evacuation
Rationing
Participants of WW II
VE day
WW II INSTRUCTIONAL IMAGES: A collection of images made during the war to educate people about gas masks, enemy aircraft, air raid precautions, and fire precautions. (4 pages, with 3 or 4 images on each)
VE Day heading
VE day lettering
Union flag border
Small and large union flags

The Viking & Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England:powerpoints, worksheets, activities
A series of PowerPoint lessons, worksheets and activities to teach how the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons fought for the Kingdom of England up to the time of Edward the Confessor.
POWERPOINTS:
1) ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND AD 780
Life in in England before the main arrival of the Vikings towards the end of the 8th century / How the Anglo-Saxons lived / How the towns were structured / The importance of the monks.
2) VIKING RAIDS AND INVASIONS AD 797 - 783
Timeline / Introduces the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as evidence / The first known attack on Britain by the Vikings / The second attack on Lindisfarne/Holy Island / Viking longships / Viking warriors and equipment / Beginning of Viking settlement in England
3) THE VIKINGS SETTLE & ALFRED FIGHTS BACK AD 866 - 927
Viking invasions and settlement / The Heathen Army / York / King Alfred / Guthrum / Danelaw / Alfred the Great and his fight against the Vikings / Edward the Elder / Athelstan / The Battle of Brunanburh
4) VIKING DAILY LIFE
Family life / Clothing / Homes / Daily life / Viking law / Music / Food / Sport / Arts and crafts / Viking beliefs, Asgard and gods, days of the week named after Viking gods / Viking burials
5) ATHELSTAN, ETHELRED AND ANGLO-SAXON LAWS AD 927 - AD 991
Athelstan and government of England / The Witan / Hundreds / Moots / Reeves / Laws / / Punishments / Wergild / Ethelread the Unready
6) THE RETURN AND END OF THE VIKINGS AD 991 - 1066
Further Viking raids / St. Brice's Day massacre / Sweyn Forkbeard / King Canute / Edward the Confessor / Harold Godwinson / William the Conqueror / The Battle of Hastings / The end of the Viking era
7) LOOKING AT EVIDENCE
Place names / Viking sagas / Anglo-Saxon Chronicles / Surnames and DNA / The Bayeux Tapestry / Archaeology / Treasure discoveries / Runestones
RESOURCES TO PRINT (pdf): Most sheets are open-ended worksheets, with an image and lines for research, reports etc.
What I already know about the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings
What I would like to find out about the Vikings
The arrival of the Vikings
The Vikings attack the monasteries
Danelaw
King Alfred the Great
The Heathen Army
The Treaty of Wedmore
Viking daily life
Anglo-Saxon laws
Athelstan
Ethelred the Unready
Battle of Hastings
Battle of Stanford Bridge
Death of King Harold
Edward the Confessor
King Harold
The Vikings return
Bayeux Tapestry
Viking place names
Viking runes
Topic covers x 3
Viking ships
Viking warriors
Writing border - Edward the Confessor
Writing border - Viking ship
Plus a copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (in Word)
Vikings & Anglo-Saxons medium term adaptable plan, with web links.

Investigating airports and planes KS1 flight transport topic lessons and worksheets
A unit of work with 3 PowerPoint lessons, investigating air transport, visiting the airport and flying on a plane; plus 23 worksheets.
LESSONS:
INTRODUCTION TO FLIGHT: Looks at maps of the UK, Europe, USA and the world - encouraging children to discuss which modes of transport would be suitable for getting to different places. Introduces flying as the best kind of transport for travelling to places far away. (17 slides)
THE AIRPORT: A look at different things that are seen when travelling through the aiport, with pictures, descriptions and explanations. Explains the airport terminal, inside and outside; checking in; check in desk; baggage; baggage handlers; boarding card/QR scan; security; departure lounge; information boards; departure gates; boarding the plane; the runway; air traffic control and luggage carousel. (30 slides)
AEROPLANES: Explores different parts of a plane - the flight deck, engines, wings, flaps and spoilers, fuel, fuselage, the tail and wheels; plus the inside of the plane - the cabin, doors, overhead bins, seats, safety cards, flight attendants, windows, galley, food and toilet. (35 slides)
WORKSHEETS:
23 worksheets including -
Labelling airport signs
Making a passport
Writing a postcard
Describe the aiport pictures
Label parts of a plane
Maps of the world, Europe, the USA and the UK
A place I would like to visit
Plus A-Z lettering with airport picture background
3 pages of airport colour clipart
Writing border sheets
Some of the PowerPoints include a linked video to watch. This is a link shared through SafeShare TV - a programme that filters adverts and unwanted advertising from the clip. You may need to check if you can access this in school.
The links were checked before uploading, but if any don’t work, feel free to contact me and I will update them.

Toys KS1 topic resources - powerpoints, activity and display pack
A set of powerpoints showing photographs of the most popular toys of the pre-50s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and modern toys; an introduction to the history of toys - going back to dolls in Ancient Greece to computers today; a look at portraits of children from the past playing with toys; a sorting toy activity into old and new, and an old poem about the wonders of a toy shop.
There are also 4 maths powerpoints looking at addition and subtraction in the toy shop, with cards to print for games.
The activities include:
An acrostic poem template
Animal cut-out templates to join together to make a moving toy
Colouring sheets
Pictures of new/old teddy
Puppets for role play
Russian doll set to print and laminate for size ordering
6 x Santa lists to use around Christmas
A thaumatrope template with instructions
3 x cover templates for a topic book
Toy sorting cards - to sort into different materials/ properties.
Toys from the past questionnaire to take home to fill in with parents.
A copy of an old book 'What shall we do next' from 1907 full of games and activities that children played
The Wonderful Toymaker fairy tale to read
An outline planning document with cross curricular links that can be adapted.
DISPLAY
Old toys display - photographs
Children's portraits playing with toys
Toys banner
Toys heading
Toys in the past heading
Toys timeline

The Sixties lessons and worksheets KS2 1960s history topic resources
A set of PowerPoint lessons to teach different aspects of life in the sixties, plus headings and worksheets. It is suitable for teaching children aged 8-11.
It includes:
INTRODUCTION TO THE 1960S - A short introduction explaining what a decade is and how many decades ago the Sixties were. Poses some questions for the children to think about, with a follow up activity.
SIXTIES DAILY LIFE - How people in the 1960s had ‘never had it so good’; Money - Explanation of pounds, shillings and pence with illustrations of the coins and notes; Shopping - how supermarkets started expanding, Green shield stamps, and food eaten in the Sixties; Transport - Expansion of motorways, popular cars, and air transport; Technology - Police call boxes, public telephones, telephones in the home, computers, computer games, the forerunner to the Internet, lasers, calculators. (25 slides)
SIXTIES SCHOOL LIFE - What it was like going to school in the 1960s. (10 slides)
SIXTIES KEY EVENTS - A timeline of events from around the world from 1960 to 1969, with three highlighted events in each year. (11 slides)
SIXTIES HOMES - New housing developments, tower blocks and older houses that needed modernising; How the washing and cleaning was done; Home fashions - kitchens, lounges, ornaments, and furniture; Television, and how it progressed over the decade. (14 slides)
SIXTIES FAMOUS PEOPLE - Neil Armstrong, Yuri Gagarin, Alfred Hitchcock, John F Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Muhammad Ali/ Cassius Clay, Mary Quant, Francis Chichester, Andy Warhol, and Twiggy. There is a page for each person, with a short description of what they are famous for. (12 slides)
SIXTIES FASHION - How fashioned changed from the beginning to the end of the decade and how it was influenced by music. (17 slides)
SIXTIES MUSIC - How people listened to music in the Sixties - records and record players; radios and Pirate radio stations, introduction of tape players, jukeboxes; Sixties music fans - Mods and Rockers, Skinheads and Hippies; Sixties bands and singers - The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Chubby Checker, Cliff Richard, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Monkees, Jimi Hendrix, and the Woodstock Festival. There is a picture and description of each band / singer, and a their most popular hit of the Sixties. (21 slides)
SIXTIES TOYS - Pictures of popular Sixties toys, with short descriptions. (9 slides)
Plus a set of 11 worksheets with follow-up activities.
Some of the PowerPoints contain links to relevant videos though SafeShare T.v., which filters unwanted adverts from the clip. You may need to check that you can access this in school.
The links were checked before uploading, but if they stop working please feel free to contact me or email me: primaryteachingtools@gmail.com and I will update them.
This pack is an updated version of my previous Sixties pack.

KS2 history topic The Tudors, Henry VIII and his wives - Powerpoint lessons and activities
A set of lessons and activities looking at the Tudors and Henry VIII
POWERPOINTS
Who were the Tudors?
Explains who the Tudors were, and when they lived. It shows a timeline of British history and where this period fits in. It looks at the Plantaganet dynasty who ruled before the Tudors. the Tudor Rose, how Henry Tudor defeated Richard III at Bosworth, and how the remains of Richard III have recently been discovered.
Who was Henry VIII?
Looks at his parents, his siblings, how he became king and a brief overview of his life.
What was Henry VIII like?
A look at different portraits of Henry showing how he changed over the years with contemporary descriptions of him at different times of his life.
Henry VIII's pastimes
Descriptions of all the pastimes Henry VIII did in his spare time
The wives of Henry VIII
The story of his marriages and wives over time in chronological order and explanations of why he married six times
What did Henry VIII do for his country?
A look at what life was like in Tudor times and how Henry made changes to: religion; the monasteries; the Navy & Mary Rose; coastal defences; Government and the union of Wales and England.
The poor in Tudor times
How the poor lived in Tudor times; it explains the hierarchy of Tudor society, unemployment, workhouses, almshouses and the Poor Laws. It describes poor Tudor homes, punishments and disease amongst the poor.
The lives of rich Tudors
Explains how we know much more about the lives of rich Tudors compared to the poor. It looks at what the rich ate; what they did in their leisure time; schools; clothing; punishments; homes (including styles and rooms). It shows images of two inventories from Tudor homes with a transcription.
How different were the lives of rich and poor Tudors?
Compares different aspects of the two groups: jobs; clothes; homes; food; education and entertainment.
Edward VI
His life story
Mary Tudor
Her life story
Elizabeth I
Her life story
Tudor fun activities and facts
Tudor recipes, facts and origins of words and phrases.
WORKSHEETS/ PRINTABLE RESOURCES IN PDF
Description of Henry VIII: Description written by the Venetian Ambassador in 1519
Difference between rich and poor Tudors: For recording
Farringdon inventory
Inventory of Clement Swallow
Portraits of Henry VIII: 10 different portraits to compare how he looked over the years
Rich and Poor Tudor pictures
The House of Tudor: Pictorial family tree
Tudor family portraits: Henry VII, Elizabeth of York, Henry VIII, Mary I, Elizabeth I and Edward VI on one A4 sheet
Wadley inventory
Wives of Henry VIII: Small portraits

The Rainforest - powerpoint lessons and activities
Series of lessons looking at where the rainforests of the world are, what they are like, their climate, flora and fauna, with a case study of the Amazon Rainforest.
INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD RESOURCES (POWERPOINTS)
Rainforest introduction: A beginning to the topic, asking what children already know. It shows where all the world’s rainforests are located on a map, and describes the four main areas where rainforests grow. It explains the definitions of a tropical rainforest, and how it differs from a temperate rainforest. It ends with questions.
Rainforest climate: Explains the difference between climate and weather, and looks at world climate zones, and what they are called. It describes temperature, rainfall and humidity in tropical rainforests.
Rainforest plants: Looks at, and explains the different layers that grow in a rainforest. It explains plant adaptations, with questions on how different plants have adapted to living in the rainforest.
Natural resources in the rainforest: Looks at the different natural resources that are found in rainforest areas, such as palm oil, wood, the cacao tree, the rubber tree, and medicines. It explains their uses in a global society.
Saving the rainforest: Explores all the different reasons why the rainforest is disappearing - logging, settlement, agriculture, cattle rearing, road building, and extraction of natural resources. Discusses why it is important to save the rainforests, and what could happen if they disappear. It looks at different viewpoints - governments, companies, inhabitants, and the global community. It explains what is being done to save the rainforests, and what we can do to help.
The Amazon Rainforest: Locates the Amazon Rainforest, river, and basin on maps, and shows the different countries that the Amazon rainforest spans. Looks at the history of the rainforest, the people who live there, and the animals. Explains interdependence, and how important plants and animals in the rainforest are to each other. It explains the current threats to the rainforest, and why it is so important to the rest of the world.
PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS (PDF)
Locating the rainforests: A blank world map, for the children to locate the rainforests.
Rainforest layers: Drawing of the layers in the forest for the children to label and describe.

The Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age display pack: Posters headings timelines banners headings
STONE AGE DISPLAY:
A4 title
A-Z lettering in a stone background
The Stone Age banner
Stone Age timeline
Stone Age artefacts
Stone Age border for display boards
BRONZE AGE DISPLAY:
A4 title
A-Z lettering in a bronze background
The Bronze Age banner
Bronze Age timeline
Bronze Age artefacts
Bronze Age border for display boards
IRON AGE DISPLAY:
A4 title
A-Z lettering in a metallic iron background
The Iron Age banner
Iron Age artefacts
Iron Age border for display boards

Transport topic - George Stephenson and the history of trains - powerpoints and activities
Two powerpoints looking at how and why trains developed over time, and the Father of the Railways, George Stephenson, plus 3 worksheets.
George Stephenson and locomotives: Looks at James Watt and his steam engine design; Richard Trevithick and his steam engine improvements, and the life of George Stephenson, and how he became known as the 'Father of the Railways'. Tells the story of the first steam locomotives; the Rainhill Trials; the Liverpool and Manchester Railway; and new steam locomotive designs up to 1941. Also briefly and simply explains how steam engines work.
Trains now and then: Shows different parts of a steam locomotive, and looks at pictures of different locomotives, and how they developed from George Stephenson's Rocket, to the modern bullet trains of today.
Steam train worksheets: 3 different worksheets, showing a picture of a steam train to label and caption.
The Rocket worksheet: To compare modern trains with old steam locomotives.
Steam train template: An outline of a steam train, to use for colouring, collage, paint etc.

Transport EYFS topic pack - powerpoints and activities
A set of 13 PowerPoint resources and several printable activities looking at different types of transport for early years.
POWERPOINT FILES:
5 Little men in a flying saucer: The song
A-Z of transport: Pictures for every letter of the alphabet, related to transport
How does it travel: A simple quiz
Old and new transport: Compares old and new kinds of transport
Row your boat: The song
The history of cars: Pictures of cars, how they have changed
The history of transport: From the Stone age to the modern age.
The Wheels on the bus: The song, with sounds and animations
Types of transport: Different kinds with labels
Transport 2: Different kinds, why we need it etc.
Transport shapes: Simple shapes in the environment related to transport
Vehicles that travel in the air: Pictures and facts
Vehicles that travel on water: Pictures and facts
Vehicles that travel on land: Pictures and facts
Transport advertisements - Adverts from the past 100 years showing old cars etc. Can be printed or viewed as a show.
PRINTABLE PDF ACTIVITIES:
Transport lotto: Game to print out and laminate
Shape car: A car to make by cutting out shape
Black and white pictures with headings to colour / write on
5 Little Astronauts - props, heading and rhyme
5 Little Firefighters - props, heading and rhyme
5 Little men in a flying saucer - heading, props, masks and earth

The Tudors display pack
A set of Tudor display resources to print - posters, titles, banners, and borders.
Headings
Henry VIII Banner: Prints onto 2 A4 sheets, bordered with pictures of his wives.
The Tudors title: 3 versions - black lettering, red lettering, and embedded Tudor Rose lettering
The Tudors A-Z lettering: 2 versions, one with embedded with the Tudor Rose, the other with red lettering.
The Tudors Banner: 2 versions, one with text embedded with the Tudor Rose, the other with red lettering
'The Tudors' lettering to cut out: large lettering, fills 3 A4 pages.
Borders - for display boards
Henry VIII's wives border
Tudor rose border
Posters
The Tudors posters: 12 A4 posters:-
Tudor punishment
Tudor clothes for women
Tudor clothes for men
Tudor world map
Tudor British Isles map
Tudor surgery
Tudor medicine
Tudor houses
Tudor theatre
Tudor explorers (x2)
Tudor artefacts
Tudor woodcuts: 17 Tudor images made for illustrations in printed materials:-
Tudor house building
Tudor fish market
Tudor geographer
Tudor coin makers
Tudor warfare
Tudor fun and games
Tudor shepherds
Tudor hunting lessons
Tudor village life
Tudor beggar
Tudor fool
Tudor printers
Tudor water carrier
Tudor shoe makers
Tudor school punishment
Tudor scribe
Tudor engravers
The Tudor Monarchs: Six posters, each containing a Tudor monarch, with a picture and the dates they reigned, plus an A4 title 'The Tudor dynasty 1485 - 1603'.
The six wives of Henry VIII: Six posters each containing a wife, with the dates they were married, how many children they had, and when and how Henry got rid of them. Also contains a title.
The Tudors timeline: 24 pages of the main events that occurred between 1485 and 1603. The dates are displayed along the top so they can be placed along the wall in a timeline. Each event contains pictures and descriptions.
Tudor coat of arms: The coat of arms of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Mary I, and Elizabeth I.
The Tudor Rose: a large Tudor Rose to print
Activities
The Tudors A4 writing border
Tudor rose - black and white

SPaG Year 1 : Plural noun suffixes powerpoint and worksheet
A powerpoint lesson, worksheet and plan on plural noun suffixes:
Plural noun suffixes: A powerpoint explaining the meaning of singular, plural and what a suffix is. It explains what effect the addition of s or es has on nouns.It ends with an interactive game.
Plural noun suffix worksheet

The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain pack - Powerpoints , activities and worksheets
POWERPOINTS:
THE ROMAN EMPIRE INTRODUCTION: Introduces the topic by putting the era in context with the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age in Britain, on a timeline. It includes an explanation of how Rome was founded, where it is, and how it changed from a kingdom to a republic and then an empire.
JULIUS CAESAR: Explains who Julius Caesar was and the attempted invasions in 55 and 54BC.
THE ROMAN EMPIRE BY AD 42: Begins by discussing the assassination of Julius Caesar and the formation of the Roman Empire. Looks at the first Emperor, Augustus, mentions Tiberius and Caligula, then talks about Claudius and how he gained power. Then looks at the Roman way of life in the Empire, how powerful it was and what area it covered.
THE ROMAN ARMY: Investigates how the Roman Army was made up; of centuria, cohorts and legions; and auxiliary soldiers.Looks at how they were trained, what types of jobs they did, and why nobody could beat them in battle.
THE ROMAN INVASION OF BRITAIN: A detailed account of the invasion by Claudius in AD 43, British resistance by Boudicca and Caractacus, Hadrian's Wall, and the end of Roman rule.
THE ROMANISATION OF BRITAIN: Looks at how the Romans build civitas, or towns for different tribes in Britain, looking briefly at Caerwent. Explains and gives examples of Roman technology, culture and beliefs and what lasting impacts they have had.
TIMELINE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: A 1 page timeline, can be printed or viewed as an animated show.
TRIBES CONQUERED BY THE ROMANS: A 4 page presentation, detailing how the Romans conquered each tribe in Britain. Can be printed or viewed as a show.
WORKSHEETS:
Roman Empire topic covers x 4
What I already know / would like to find out about the Roman Empire
Worksheet - Romulus and Remus
Writing sheets - Julius Caesar (lined and unlined)
Blank map of Europe
Worksheet - living in the Roman Empire in AD 42
Design a Roman scutum
Worksheet - weapons of a Roman soldier
Pictures of Roman soldiers in black and white
Writing sheets - The Roman Army (lined and unlined)
Map of tribes in Britain
Tribes in the local area
Worksheet - Living in Britain in the Iron Age
Writing sheet - Boudicca
Report writing sheet - Roman settlements in the local area
OTHER:
De Bello Gallico - Accounts written by Julius Caesar of his first and second visits to Britain
Roman Empire Planning - An adaptable outline medium term plan in Word

The Titanic - powerpoint lessons, worksheets and activities suitable for KS1 KS2
This is a set of 6 PowerPoint lessons and printable worksheets; suitable for teaching children aged 7-11
PowerPoint lessons:
TITANIC INTRODUCTION
A page for recording what the children already know, and a brief outline of the 1900’s, the Titanic, and her maiden journey.
BUILDING THE TITANIC
Who built and designed the Titanic and where it was built.
ON BOARD THE TITANIC
A 28 page PowerPoint, looking at who was on board - the crew, the different classes of passengers, and what each class was like, and what the Titanic was like inside.
TITANIC’S MAIDEN VOYAGE
A 30 page PowerPoint, telling the story of the Titanic’s fateful maiden voyage. It includes an explanation of how icebergs travel to the Atlantic Ocean, and looks at some survivors and what happened to the victims of the disaster.
TIMELINE OF THE VOYAGE
A detailed step by step report of the events of the Titanic’s maiden voyage.
FINDING THE TITANIC
Looks at how the Titanic was rediscovered in 1985, and what has happened to her since. Includes pictures and artefacts from the wreck.
PDF FILES :
BLANK MAP:
For the children to map out the route the Titanic took
WHAT I ALREADY KNOW ABOUT THE TITANIC:
sheet for the children to record what they already know and what they would like to learn
WRITING SHEET:
For creative writing
NEWSPAPER REPORT:
For report writing
SEQUENCING:
Images for sequencing the story

SPaG Year 2 Word: Formation of nouns using suffixes such as -ness and -er and by compounding
The pack recaps what suffixes are and explains how to form nouns using the suffixes -er and -ment and by compounding. Also included is a list of compound words and 2 sets of jigsaw cards.
INTRODUCTORY POWERPOINT
What are suffixes: Explains what they are and what meaning they add to words
FORMATION OF NOUNS USING SUFFIXES: er, ment, ness
POWERPOINTS: The three resources below recap on what a suffix and a noun is, then explain what each suffix means, and what effect it has on words. They ask the children to add the suffix to words and explain how the meaning has changed.
Formation of nouns using the suffix er
Formation of nouns using the suffix ment
Formation of nouns using the suffix ness
ACTIVITIES
Jigsaw cards er ness and ment - to make words
FORMATION OF NOUNS BY COMPOUNDING:
POWERPOINT
Formation of nouns by compounding: Explains what compound nouns are, then gives lists of words to make new compound nouns.
ACTIVITIES
Creating compound words: For the children to make words
Compound word list

Castles & the Norman invasion - powerpoint lessons, worksheets and activities
A set of powerpoint lessons with an adaptable MT plan. The pack goes alongside the Castles activity/ worksheet pack

Year 4 Science - Sound powerpoints, worksheet, planning and display pack
A set of resources to help children understand about sounds and how they are made. It follows the objectives of the 2014 curriculum.
POWERPOINTS:
LISTENING TO EVERYDAY SOUNDS: Twelve everyday sounds to listen to as an introduction to the topic
HOW WE HEAR: Explains how we hear and looks at different parts of the ear and what happens when sound enters it. It asks questions to encourage the children to think about sound and hearing.
WHAT ARE SOUNDS: Explains that sounds are vibrations, discussing how sounds are made and how vibrations travel through air and through solids. Discusses loud sounds, the effects of wind, and how light and sound travel at different speeds, giving examples.
PROPERTIES OF SOUNDS: Explains pitch and volume; how volume changes with distance but pitch does not unless the source of sound is moving. It ends with an activity to describe a selection of sounds.
THE VOLUME OF SOUNDS: Activity to listen to sounds and think about distance and volume.
MAKING SOUNDS: A look at different musical instruments and how they make sounds. Includes drums, piano, and guitar. Suggests different objects the children cound use to create different sounds.
SOUND - MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: Pictures of different instruments for the children to look at and work out how they make sounds.
WORKSHEETS:
SOUND CONCEPT MAP: For the children to record what they already know and what they would like to find out
LISTENING TO SOUNDS SHEET: To use on listening activities
TOPIC COVER X 2: With 'Sound' title; one with a picture, the other without.
DISPLAY:
A4 Sound title
A-Z lettering, with Sound title, one letter per A4 page
INVESTIGATION SHEETS:
A set of different sheets for investigations and recording
PLUS a medium term plan with activities and web links

SPaG Year 5 Sentence Grammar: Degrees of possibility using adverbs or modal verbs
A powerpoint teaching about how to indicate degrees of possibility using adverbs or modal verbs might, should, will, must.