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Word Square Puzzles for Boosting Vocabulary from Vocabulary Ninja Word Square Puzzles are great for flexing and building a pupils vocabulary repertoire. Use as a starter activity, extension, challenge, SPaG, homework or just for fun! Each square has a target word made up off all of the letters within the square, but how many words in total can pupils generate from the letters within! […]

How to Create a Reading Culture in your Primary or Secondary School These resources were written to support teachers with activity ideas – they are a great way in to creating a school culture where everyone celebrates reading for pleasure. Whether you want to embed some quick-but-effective changes, or you want to hold a school-wide reading celebration, these ideas will give you a great starting point. Activities […]

KS2 Maths, English & Science Lesson Plan – Design an Eco-Friendly Takeaway Menu with a Low Water Footprint Much of the water we use is for drinking, cooking and washing. This is known as our ‘domestic consumption’. On average, we each use 150 litres for these purposes per day. However, this is only a small part of the total water used. A big part comes from the ‘virtual water’ that is used in […]

Empire Windrush Black History Month lesson plan and resources

Windrush KS2 – History and English resource During this Windrush KS2 lesson, children will become aware of the discrimination that black people faced as they arrived in Britain on the Empire Windrush in 1948. It also provides opportunities for pupils to: Once you’ve explored what the Empire Windrush was and the reaction passengers received when they arrived, complete the lesson by writing […]

James and the Giant Peach lesson plans KS2

James and the Giant Peach lesson plans KS2 – Comprehension and fluency Use this three-part James and the Giant Peach lesson plan in KS2 to develop reading fluency, comprehension and immerse the children in the joy of Roald Dahl’s language. One of my favourite parts of James and the Giant Peach is when they ‘raise the peach’ to escape being devoured by the circling sharks (Chapters 19-22). […]

Staring into Space: 6 Creative Book-Inspired Activities from Lauren Child for KS1/2 Waterstones Children’s Laureate Lauren Child has teamed up with talented teacher and creator of arts and crafts, Josey Scullard, to come up with six inspiring ways to get children to think creatively. Together, they gathered up books that explore delight in thought and discovery, and that are all at once philosophical, artistic and highly personal. […]

Reading Magnifying Glass Worksheets for Close Reading in KS2 English Using a ‘magnifying glass’ to analyse text is a pupil-friendly way to promote close reading skills. If you’ve not followed the structure of this type of activity before, it’s a technique that promotes deeper understand of text through re-reading. On the first reading, pupils are encouraged to articulate what the text is about and to […]

Back-to-School Bingo Game with KS1 and KS2 Versions Help your new class get to know each other with this fun game. Give each child a ‘Find Someone Who…’ board (choose the KS1 or KS2 version), and let them go around the room to find somebody who can sign their name in each box on the board. The aim is to fill up their […]

KS2 PSHE and Financial Education Lesson Plan – Manage and Grow £500 of Virtual Savings Help children learn about financial risk and reward via a variety of games… Developed by charity RedSTART and Inspiration Youth, Money Matters is an interactive financial education workshop designed to teach primary pupils key financial principles in a fun, game-based way. Set up the four different activities throughout the classroom and explain that children can […]

Processing Food, Food Packaging and Nutrition Lessons for KS1 and KS2 Science, Literacy and D&T This resource features three separate food and snack-related PowerPoint lessons: Processing food Food packaging Researching nutrition All three include a teacher’s notes PDF, and the first two include pupil sheet PDFs too.

Fractions lesson – Teach fractions like a pirate Ahoy there, matey! Raise the Jolly Roger and set sail for Talk Like a Pirate Day on 19 September! Why would a teacher want to talk like a pirate? Shiver me timbers – why would any sane educator not want to do that? But will it help my class learn? Avast ye scallywag and I […]

Learn about Life Processes in Year 4 Science with Mrs Nerg This is a fantastic visually exciting way to help learners understand the life processes. These fantastic posters have broken down the seven areas in a clear, child-friendly way, giving them steps to success in their learning of key concepts for the science topic of living things. Find more resources from Apple for the Teacher at applefortheteacher.co.uk.

KS2 Book Topic – Investigate Exciting Scientific Theories with The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day Author Christopher Edge once said that when ‘you open the pages of a book you step into a parallel universe’. This is what we all hope for when we choose a new title for our class; to whisk them away from the stress of exams, to open their minds – and The Infinite Lives of […]

Supply Teacher Feedback Form A great little form for either supply teachers or teachers preparing for their cover. It has simple headings that help teachers pick out the key information needed for a good handover between professionals, so that everyone knows what is meant to be happening and what has happened. The Feedback Form includes: Emma Middlemiss has over […]

Dyslexia facts for children

Dyslexia facts – Fact sheet for children This dyslexia facts download is from The Week Junior‘s ‘All About…’ series. This series gives children information on various subjects in a bite-sized, age-appropriate way. Use it during Dyslexia Awareness Week in October to help pupils understand what life is like for the up to one in five children who have dyslexia. The article covers: […]

KS2 computing lesson plan – Use children’s coding skills to beat a hacker Set up an exciting imaginary emergency to help children showcase their computing talents, says Adam Parkhouse… Now we’ve been working with the new computing curriculum for a while, you will probably find that the children in your class are able to work in a variety of coding languages and can solve a range of problems […]

EARTH Acrostic Poem Template for KS2 Science, Art and Literacy This printable worksheet tasks students with writing an acrostic poem using the word ‘Earth’, all about our planet, and why it’s important to look after it. There’s also space for children to draw illustrations to accompany their poems. Find more resources from Staedtler Teachers’ Club at teachersclub.staedtler.co.uk. Browse more resources for World Environment Day.

Tractors and Harvesting Lesson Ideas for KS1 and KS2 Science and Literacy These materials are intended to provide lesson ideas for Science and Literacy. The ideas and materials are suitable for children at KS1 and KS2 although some differentiation will be necessary for the youngest children. In particular, younger children will not be able to follow the written instructions on the pupil sheets. However, they should be […]

Happy Hens Science, D&T and Literacy Lesson Ideas for KS1 and KS2 These materials are intended to provide lesson ideas for Science, D&T and Literacy. The ideas and materials are suitable for children at KS1 and KS2 although some differentiation will be necessary for the youngest children. In particular, younger children will not be able to follow the written instructions on the pupil sheets. However, they should […]

KS2 Science & Music Lesson Plan – Write a Piece of Music About Fossils Combine two different areas of the curriculum in this innovative percussion lesson from Abby King. Providing a broad and balanced curriculum can put school timetables under increasing amounts of pressure. With some careful planning, a cross-curricular approach can be an effective way to maximise teaching time and make the learning engaging and memorable. In this […]

James and the Giant Peach science lesson

James and the Giant Peach KS2 science lesson – Who can make the biggest seagull splat? 500 birds make a lot of mess! Use Deborah Herridge’s Roald Dahl-inspired lesson to look at forces and pattern seeking. Poor James Trotter. Beginning with the ‘unstoppable’ charging rhinoceros that killed his parents, our hero has been at the mercy of forces throughout Roald Dahl’s story of transatlantic adventure. Perhaps it’s about time James started […]

KS2 English Book Topic – Delve into Creative Activities Inspired by Karthika Nair’s The Honey Hunter Shonu lives on an island in the Bengal delta surrounded by mangrove forests – an area known as the Sundarbans, where bees build their combs like golden palaces in the treetops. Shonu’s father is a honey collector and Shonu understands the natural laws of the forest. When indiscriminate logging disturbs the environmental balance, cyclones, floods […]

2018 World Cup Country Factfiles – Printable PDFs for all 32 Teams This PDF resource features a country factfile of all 32 national football teams competing in the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia this June and July. Each country file includes the nation’s flag, its name in its native language(s), geography facts such as continent, area, population, capital city, most populous cities, major language(s), most common […]

14 Primary English Teaching Resources for Birthday Boy by David Baddiel This download includes 14 separate PDFs full of activities to complement the book Birthday Boy by David Baddiel, published by HarperCollins Children’s Books. There are comedy caption competitions, a task that gets students to draw out a scene from the book into comic-style panels, word-list challenges and many other grammar and writing tasks.

KS2 PE Lesson Plan – Host your own Four-Person Mini Tennis Tournaments for Wimbledon Pick a tennis star’s name from a hat and enjoy an exciting four-person mini tournament. For two weeks in July (2nd-15th), millions of tennis fans avidly follow the fortunes of the world’s top players. Wimbledon offers a wonderful opportunity for pupils to identify with the values on show and will motivate them to improve their […]

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