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KS2 PE Lesson Plan – Let Children Discover Their Own Sporting Talents, Whether It’s Performing, Coaching, Announcing Or Organising Games teaching at Key Stage 2 is too often characterised by remedying some flaw in a pupil’s technique. We’ve all seen lessons where it’s decided that the children’s passing skills aren’t good enough, so we[...]

KS2 Geography Lesson Plan – Go Outside And Discover The Wonders of Your Local Area Your local environment is a rich resource for cross-curricular learning, whether you're in an urban or rural location. Take time to go outside and find the extra in the ordinary.

Billy and the Minpins lesson plans

Billy and the Minpins – Primary lesson plans Explore the themes of Roald Dahl's Billy and the Minpins with these read-along resources that include extracts, literacy and art learning objectives, lesson plans and fun activity sheets. Use these resources to bring this lesser-known[...]

KS1/2 Music Lesson Plan – Explore The History Of Caribbean Steel Pan Bands We are all aware of the impact the slave trade had on the world, but hidden among the stories of hardship, sacrifice and defiance is the fascinating history of how steel pan bands were born.[...]

KS1/2 PSHE Lesson Plan – Learn About Food Groups In This Pacy Seven-Part Lesson Splitting a lesson into seven parts helps you to maintain pace and energy and keeps children hooked from start to finish. Here's two food related examples that demonstrate how this works in practice.

KS2 Geography Lesson Plan – Learn About Survival Via An Imaginary Emergency Situation When it comes to learning about another country, it really is very difficult to embrace its climate, locations and environments without actually going there. As a result, a lot of geography teaching becomes fact based[...]

KS2 Science Lesson Plan – Use Simple Experiments To Help Children Visualise How Sounds Are Made And Transmitted We can't see noises as they travel through the air, so making popcorn dance on a speaker is just one of the ways you can help children visualise the science behind sounds. Children will be[...]

KS2 MFL Lesson Plan – Use French Authentically and Purposefully by Learning About the Circus Juggling and learning a foreign language might seem like disparate skills, but both require perseverance and allow for mistakes – if you drop the ball, you just pick up where you left off.It’s an interesting[...]

KS2 Maths Lesson Plan – Develop Mathematical Reasoning With A Currency Conundrum In the lesson, children explore how they would pay for different items if the only coins they had were a 3p and a 5p coin. On the face of it, it seems a really simple[...]

KS1/2 History Lesson Plan – Use An iPad App To Bring Famous Historical Figures To Life Much of the primary curriculum hinges around key people from the past and how they have helped to shape the world as we know it today. But while there’s no shortage of information about famous[...]

Resources To Help Primary Teachers Develop MFL Knowledge Afraid of French? Scared of Spanish? Don't worry – there's plenty of help out there

KS2 Music Lesson Plan – Use ‘Dance Listening’ To Shake Up Your Music Lessons This topic uses the technique of ‘dance listening’ – the process of listening to music and converting what we hear into movement. With judicious use of questioning, dance listening can give you a real insight[...]

KS2 Computing Lesson Plan – Teach Children How To Use Wikipedia As An Effective Digital Source Love it or hate it, Wikipedia is a big part of our lives and it’s certainly a big part of our online browsing experience. One of the challenges for educators using Wikipedia is trying to[...]

KS2 Science Lesson Plan – Use Chinese Whispers To Explore Evolution and Adaptation For the first time in KS2, the new curriculum asks us to think about how living things have changed over time and to recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind but who[...]

Dame Alison Peacock – The People Who Made Me The chief executive of the Chartered College of Teaching shares her list of personal heroes

Last Meeting’s (Unedited) Minutes – Our New Behaviour Policy It's been decided that the policy is well overdue a renewal, especially given the recent behaviour of Y9, who are starting to exhibit character traits seemingly inspired by post-apocalyptic literature and film

KS1/2 Art & Design Lesson Plan – Draw From Life To Create Sporting Sketchbooks Armed with a sketchbook, children have the freedom to let loose their imagination and experiment with artistic techniques - not to mention a visual aid to problem-solving in any subject. This sporting sketchbook project provides[...]

KS2 PSHE Lesson Plan – Create A Video Selfie And Find Out About The Lives Of Others Capture the diverse experiences of children today and provide an opportunity for children to compare their experiences with other.

KS2 Computing Lesson Plan – Create A Program That Works Out How To Give Change This lesson looks at how a computer could be programmed to give various amounts of change.

KS2 History Lesson Plan – Examine Local Gravestones To Help Children Draw Inferences Children like the immediate relevance of studying their own locality, and nothing seems more local than the churchyard and cemetery.

KS2 History Lesson Plan – Tweet like Boudicca and practise voicing opinions and writing persuasively In this lesson, children will use a range of skills in different subjects to understand the beliefs, ideology and agendas of historical people.

KS2 Literacy Lesson Plan – Use ‘Suffishes’ To Introduce Suffixes ‘Suffishes’ are a fun way to introduce suffixes and the spelling rules associated with them.Watch a video of part of this lesson plan here.

KS2 Maths Lesson Plan – Use Mazes To Help Children Become Better Problem Solvers Use mazes to help pupils practise their addition skills and work in a systematic manner.

KS2 Computing Lesson Plan – Creating And Programming Their Own Robot Gives Kids Plenty Of Coding Problems To Solve Create a robot using equipment mostly found in the backs of cupboards.

KS2 Science Lesson Plan – Mix Blood And Learn Its Biological Functions From Forming Scabs To Fighting Disease In this lesson you will name and describe the components of blood and understand and describe some of its functions.

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