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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. By exploring the way music developed in Trinidad and Tobago, children can learn about how the lives of the Islanders […]

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 and, ever so sadly, photocopiable. While this is in some ways inevitable, it doesn’t mean that geography lessons can’t be […]

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 very familiar with the notion of making sounds and noise (as your long suffering ears will no doubt attested). But […]

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 metaphor to discuss with pupils but, as this lesson plan demonstrates, the connections can go far beyond this. Using […]

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 idea but with a bit of added sparkle, it’s also one with definite promise.

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 historical figures in school libraries and on the internet, this information is often consumed passively by children. To be truly […]

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 into your pupils’ level of musical understanding, and it also gives you the chance to ‘shake up’ your music lessons.

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 get students to use it appropriately and to really understand what it is and what it can do. In this […]

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 vary and are not identical to their parents. We are also asked to identify how animals and plants have adapted […]

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 the perfect opportunity. As the activities in this article demonstrate, the rhythms, energy and movement of bodies engaged in sport […]

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.

KS2 Science Lesson Plan – Use Dry Ice To Create Bubbling Potions In this lesson, you will ‘wow’ your class with the real science behind the effects seen in movie laboratories.

KS2 Literacy & Computing Lesson Plan – Let Children Digitally Create Science Fiction Images To Inspire Their Creative Story Writing Help children create their own unique pictures to form the basis for creative stories and poems.

Apostrophe KS2 lesson plan

Apostrophe KS2 – Contraction & possession lesson plan Use this apostrophe KS2 lesson plan that focuses on the dos and don’ts of proper punctuation placement to help pupils avoid an apostrophe catastrophe. These examples of high street signs show that it’s not just children who find using the apostrophe difficult. In fact, your class are about to help the adults out. These activities […]

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