A storm is brewing. Thunder rumbles in the distance! In this session children use a text as a starting point for a musical composition. Using their own instruments made in the previous session they compose, record and perform their own music in groups.

Exploring magnets and materials. Look at image of lodestone. Free exploration of magnets and materials around classroom. Focussed activity: sorting magnetic/non magnetic objects. Predicting and recording results. Look at games that use magnets. Suitable for Year 1 pupils. Find other lesson plans and resources at www.hamilton-trust.org.uk.

Explore how some materials can change shape when a force is exerted on them. Practical activity to find out what happens when you stretch, bend, twist or squash materials. Record findings on a table. Use books to find out more. Suitable for Year 2 pupils. Find other lesson plans and resources at www.hamilton-trust.org.uk.

Your lunch is what you find to eat in the rainforest, not the contents of mum’s packed lunch! But there are other important differences too! Children use their notes from the previous session to compare their lives to those of children in the Jungle.

Discuss what animals and humans need to grow. Name the parts of a plant and what plants need to grow. Have a Plants Parts Party and consolidate vocabulary. Sing ‘Flowers and leaves and stems and roots’. Suitable for Year 1 pupils. Find other lesson plans and resources at www.hamilton-trust.org.uk.

Introduce words push and pull and simple definition. Read story which will focus on movement, pushes and pulls. Adult led activity sorting objects into pushes, pulls and both. Independent activities exploring and playing with equipment/materials. Suitable for Year 1 pupils. Find other lesson plans and resources at www.hamilton-trust.org.uk.

A range of poetry structures is identified through examples of poetry written on the theme of weather. Children consider the effect of patterned language, imagery and rhyme. They write and perform their own weather poems.

Plant seeds, set up investigation to find out if seeds need water, light, air and soil to germinate and grow. Use books to find facts and draw pictures. Explore website. Suitable for Y2 pupils. Find other lesson plans and resources at www.hamilton-trust.org.uk.

Revise the vocabulary of food groups. Begin to learn about digestion through a good online animation. Make class food pyramid display. Design favourite healthy balanced meals. Find facts about digestion and label a diagram. Look at food packaging details. Suitable for Y3 pupils. Find other lesson plans and resources at www.hamilton-trust.org.uk.

Start to explore and describe the way some materials change when they are heated. Practical class investigation about toasting bread, with a focus on observation. Introduce concept of reversible and irreversible changes for more able learners. Suitable for Year 2 pupils.

Explore report writing (and some explanation writing) through the fantastic book The Vanishing Forest by Richard Platt. Identify the causes of deforestation and look at both sides of the question. Research the importance of the rainforest and write a report.

Children learn the word ‘texture’. They look carefully at their favourite toy and talk about the feel and appearance. They decide which media they want to use to represent it and do a beautiful drawing! They talk about their work and the work of other people. Suitable for years 1 and 2.

Children investigate persuasive writing devices in a variety of magazine and newspaper adverts and cinema and TV adverts. They produce an individual poster, work in groups to write a TV or radio advert and then create a trailer for a children’s DVD.

Using the wonderful book Augustus and his Smile, children are stimulated to write patterned poems, to use onomatopoeia and to produce rhyming couplets. Following a traditional patterned dance poem, they write and perform their own version based on the book. Find other lesson plans and resources at www.hamilton-trust.org.uk.

Evaporation is the name of the game in this session as children use it to separate materials in solutions. They investigate a variety of liquids to see which leave a residue after evaporation and grow their own salt crystal. Suitable for Y6 pupils.

Revision: Shape (two days). Children discuss turns of multiples of 90° on the clock face, and rotate shapes through 90°. They sort shapes according to their properties, e.g. number of right angles, obtuse angles, acute angles, lines of symmetry, and pairs of parallel sides. They practise measuring angles accurately with a protractor. Find additional lesson plans and resources at www.hamilton-trust.org.uk.

Use proverbs to stimulate creation of some short plays based on everyday life. Children then look closely at playscript features and stage directions to develop characters and setting. Finally children create scenes based on events in their favourite Roald Dahl books. Find other lesson plans and resources at www.hamilton-trust.org.uk.

During WW2 people were encouraged to dig up their gardens to grow food. Should this scheme or a similar one be re-introduced? What benefits would this bring? Children research WW2 posters and design one for a new campaign to encourage healthy eating. Hamilton’s cross-curricular topics provide extensive planning resources to facilitate teaching a range of subjects under specific historical, geographic or thematic umbrellas.

In this session children shed light on how day and night is created on Earth, international time zones and why their length changes throughout the year. They then take a safe look at sun spots on the surface of the Sun. Suitable for Year 5 pupils. Hamilton’s science scheme uses hands-on investigative science activities to promote a deep understanding of scientific concepts and help children develop effective methods of scientific enquiry. Our scheme is fresh, original and free!

Take part in classification training, gaining credits along the way to gain your Classification Connoisseur qualification. Discover Linnaeus’ classic system and identify a range of living things. Your training culminates in the design of your own new creatures that fit within Linnaeus’ system. Includes 6 session plans & resources: 01 - Finding Linnaeus 02 - Odd one out 03 - The sweetness of classification 04 - Classification in your back yard 05 - Quirky creatures 06 - New creature feature Hamilton’s science scheme provides children with a broad but comprehensive experience of primary science that systematically covers all of the National Curriculum for England objectives. Each year group is split into 6 blocks of 6 sessions, each of which can be completed within a half-term. We present them in a recommended teaching order, but you may adapt this to fit your requirements. Working scientifically, investigations and meaningful outcomes are fully incorporated in each block. Find out more: www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/scites