This lesson is designed upper KS2 Giving opportunities for pupils to explain why it is important to follow rules when handling raw meat. To also outline and conclude why bacteria can be harmful when food is involved. After the activity pupils should successfully be able to prepare raw meat for cooking. The science lesson gives pupils a chance to explore how easy it is to transfer raw meat on hands over surfaces, and why it is important to wash hands immediately after handling raw meat, as the bacteria on the hands is harmful. Pupils will learn why it is important to follow rules when handling raw meat. By the end of the lesson from the watching clips on ‘You Tube’ and reading Jamie Oliver’s cooking skills on safety and avoiding cross contamination, pupils will be able to identify and make corrections to a set of instructions on handling raw meat or write own instructions.

Read and create Poetry This unit of work is for upper KS2. Lesson one starts with discussing how authors use language in poetry to capture the reader’s attention. Starting with synonyms and recapping what a synonym is. Asking pupils to write down on whiteboards what their interpretation of a synonym is. Lesson two continues with Identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning of a prose with a task; using personification and making kitchen utensils to life. As the weeks progresses, pupils will understand how to use personification, similes, synonyms in own writing; thinking how writing styles creates imagery. Pupils would take time reading different prose about food during the week and by the end of the week pupils would spend time refining and evaluating sentences using personification synonyms, metaphors, imagery and similes for impact. A review from this lesson would be appreciated.

KS 2 PE Athletics unit of work includes 7 lesson plans and instructions for the activities. Suitable for all KS2, Ideally for Yr5 - Yr6 Activities include running short sprints, long distances, hurdle jumping, long jumping, throwing, heaving and fling with a final lesson of a Multi Athletics Olympics

This lesson has been written for upper KS2. This lesson allows pupils to explore inventions of food and drink through the ages to modern day. A practical lesson where pupils will be able to blind taste test a range of white, milk and dark chocolate and rate the different chocolate; Opportunities to learn about The Cadbury story and talk through the benefits of cocoa and its impact on our lifestyles. The task would allow pupils to pick a medicine or vaccine, food or the pasteurization discovery from the past and research the person and produce a fact file. For example Louis Pasteur was a French microbiologist and chemist born on December 27, 1822 and died on September 28, 1895.

The following swimming lessons have been put together for teachers and support staff who take their classes swimming. There are 7 stages with Swim England website that are taught to children in schools. Attached is a six week block of lessons for children at level one at swimming. I am a qualified swimming teacher who teaches all levels of Swim England standards, and will be putting levels 2-7 together. Let me know if your teaching swimming in your school, and the level on poolside and would like some lessons in particular areas??

Biography Talk4writing yr 6 Harriet Tubman and the Underground railway The following 4 weeks of English has been carefully thought-out and planned for primarily yr 6, but can be taught to yr 5 as well. The first week looks at the features of a biography, and recognising the key features and with this children will learn about a famous abolitionist Harriet Tubman and her biography through a text and a BBC clip. Interesting activities have been included based around grammar and a reading comprehension to retrieve information about the text. Included in week one are 5 lessons of PPP, Also included is an overview of Harriet Tubman’s life for key features - NOT A STORY MAP, but could be used to learn all about Harriet’s life. The second week offers opportunities for children to identify grammatical features in a biography, using the box up plan to help develop ideas, before composing ideas orally and in writing. The English lessons links to History, where children will research another abolitionist/civil right campaigner or a Quaker during the 19th Century. This research will give children a deeper understanding on what life as a slave working on a plantation was like in the United States of America or as a worker in Great Briton in the work houses in Victorian Briton. During this week, children will use the box up grid to develop ideas before starting to prepare a shared piece of writing on either famous person. The third week focuses on continuing a shared write putting together a complete biography aiming to write five paragraphs. Other fun activities include role playing a Historian of American History/slavery radio phone in. In week four children will choose and write independently a biography about another historical person from the Victorian era who have made a difference to our lives today. This four week block will link to a cross curricular topics of: The Victorians or 19th Century American history. Take the time to read the biography of Harriet Tubman by Dorothy Sterling before you teach the 4 week block or read it as a class book. I enjoyed reading Harriet’s biography.

This lesson has been written for upper KS2. Geography/History – Changes in our landscapes Topic day- Methods of farming and changing land use. Q. How has methods of farming and land use changed over time? To gain an understanding of how land use and life has changed over time and recognise key topographical features using and reading OS maps identifying land use symbols and scales as well as locations and distances on all scales of maps, including national and world maps. This lesson is for upper KS2 and is an ideal lesson for a topic day where pupils would be looking into farming and land use seeing how much has changed over time. Pupils would use local maps of a county, regional and nationally from a local library - to see how land use has changed over a period of time in the history aspect of this lesson. With a focus on the different farming ways –studying beef, sheep, dairy, arable, mixed, pastoral and renewable energy using Google Earth as a source of information. The aim of the geography lesson is for pupils to consider the changes that can happen in an area and about the impact that these changes can have on both the environment and the people who live there. The curriculum links to Literacy W3 –W4 How farming has changed over time and why Fair trade products are so important, History- Atlantic trade routes /PSHE Fair Trade and Numeracy W5 – Time, distance and speed investigating how far food is exported to. These can be bought also as a bundle. I would appreciate any reviews and comments and if improvements can be made.

These three lessons are suitable for upper KS2. Included in these three lessons are lesson plans, and two PPP , resources and weblinks including an opportunity for Children to interview a local farmer as well as watch the BBC programme – Jimmy’s Farm Heroes 2008 (1 hour in length), making notes about what is affecting today’s farmers the most. Children in Lesson 1 will compose questions to ask a farmer and interpret his/her answers In Lesson 2 children will understand the link between land use and economic activity.(Summary of Farmers interview is Lesson 2) This time allows children to summarize questions asked to a local farmer or from the video watched in part 2 of lesson one. By the end of lesson 1 children will be able to ask open ended questions. Interpret information from different sources and evaluate, from interviewing, that there are physical and human characteristics that affect farming. By the end of lesson 2 children will successfully identify land use; Identify the effect of land use on economic activity. As well as identify the distribution of food from its origin. Included is a photo of some notes the class teacher took when interviewing a local Cornish Farmer. Lesson three - Farm to Fork This lesson follows on from Farming in the UK interviewing local farmers; giving opportunities for researching different types of farming, expressing views and opinions on farming and how food ends up on our plates. Answering questions: do you know where our food comes from? As a nation should we be supporting our local farmers? There are links to a number of numeracy lessons on how far food travels from farms to end up on the supermarket shelves. Websites provide information on locations of locally sourced food products, and who these farmers sell their produce to. It is not just dairy, rearing animals, crop growing; fishermen are also farmers, catching fish to sell at markets and restaurants. This lesson provides opportunities for discussion on farming life and the produce that is sold to supermarkets and other sources for profit.

This lesson has been written for upper KS 2. The crux of the lesson is to find out as a class how water and nutrients are transported in the body to where they are needed. Also to gain an understanding of how blood has a function on the body and the role within the body; as well as understanding what the body’s circulatory system is responsible for and how it transports materials throughout the entire body. Discussions can also be generated on possible illnesses that are caused if the body doesn’t function adequately. Opportunities to invite st. Johns ambulance to offer talks to pupils can be arranged. (see website in web site links) Other First aid lesson plans can be found on this site. This lesson offers a good understanding on why water is vital to us humans, and how nutrients are transported around the body from the water we drink. Look out for the advanced water transportation lesson in the coming week. This lesson would be ideal to be taught over several days. files included: ppp lesson plan teacher background notes website list teaching resources Feed back and reviews would be appreciated

Surrey Cricket have produced a number of lesson plans to aid the teaching / coaching of cricket within primary schools. The lesson plans have been designed in conjunction with a primary school teacher to meet the needs of those teaching cricket in schools, and to improve the delivery of cricket within education. Included with the teaching of the key skills of cricket and lesson plans are teacher assessment/achievements of skills gained in the six week block that I put together. Lessons are suitable for KS 2 yr 5 & yr 6 For more information about Surrey Cricket Foundation, their web address is: http://www.surreycricketfoundation.org/page/schools/chance-to-shine/primary-school-lesson-plans-4952/ and if you register on their website You might wish to sign up to see what resources are available. Once registered if you click on Play- Learn – Inspire- Compete headings a variety of session plans will be accessible https://teachers.chancetoshine.org/s/login/SelfRegister?startURL=%2Fs%2F&ec=302&utm_medium=Free+Resources+page&utm_source=Website

This six week Design Tech unit of work is for upper KS2 This block is all about Menus, tasting and cooking. This block of work is a practical, fun and involves group work activities over the six week block. With the overall objective to create a menu, buy the ingredients and then prepare the food for their chosen menu. Inviting family members into school to share work produced over the past 12 weeks. There are a number of numeracy lessons that are linked to the DT unit of work which help them prepare for the family invite and presentation these include: Using the 12 & 24 hour clock, timings and preparation. The nutritional value of foods by creating a set of top trump cards, understanding direct and indirect ratio proportion; as well as budgeting, working out cost of ingredients, quantities of ingredients needed in preparing foods.

This lesson is for upper KS2 The lesson can be linked with the PSHE lesson - What does Fair trade mean to you? where pupils will learn all about Atlantic Trade Routes and to be able to explain the impact of exploration on the way we live today. By the end of the lesson pupils would be able to identify explorers who discovered trade routes and food from around the world; successfully explain how our lives today have been influenced from explorers discoveries. Finally able to explain the benefits of why specific food produce are fair trade. Learning objective - To explain the impact of exploration on the way we live today. By the end of the lesson pupils would have successfully learnt to identify explorers who discovered trade routes and food from around the world. To explain how our lives today have been influenced from explorers discoveries and the benefits of why specific food produce are fair trade.

This lesson is suitable for upper kS2 Giving opportunities to research the principles of what a balanced diet is. Understand the reasons why we should eat a balanced diet, by explaining what a balanced diet consists off. By the end of the lesson pupils will be able to give an explanation of a well balanced and healthy diet through the ‘eat well’ plate; successfully categorise the different types of food that make up our diet. Explain what the proportions are; and how we should eat them, recall the differences of good and bad fats and identify processed sugars and natural sugars in food sources. With a focus on teaching Healthy food and exercise involves a balanced diet and keeping fit. Refer the teaching notes and websites. Independent/groups activities include placing foods correctly on the eatwell plate using the word vocabulary document. (Use hoops for the different food groups) Independently design a day’s menu that has the entire food groups in.

These three lessons are for upper KS2 Involving solving problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure. Pupils will apply skills in converting between miles and kilometres. As well as working out the time it takes on the high seas and distance in miles to reach a location in the UK or around the world. Applying knowledge is using the time, distance speed equation to all modes of transport – air, sail boat/sea & road. Then choosing a fair trade product and the distance, speed & time it would take to reach a supermarket In lesson two and three, pupils will choose a famous explorer and explore the routes they sailed and produce they brought back to Europe and the UK. There are a number of weblinks that pupils can use to research Explorers and the routes they traveled. These lessons are linked to History - Atlantic Trade Routes and PSHE- What does fair trade mean to you?

This Geography lesson has been written for upper KS2. Giving pupils opportunities to research where farms are locally; also finding out what produce is farmed and do these farms supply supermarkets? Pupils can also use the links provided to help them research crop and animal production from the different farms in the UK- Using the map pupils can work out the scale – distances in miles/km, then work out the time it would take to transport/deliver the produce to its destination, including counties/countries travelled through. The lesson gives pupils opportunities to research using the world wide web and ways of how they will present their findings from their research.

This lesson is designed for upper KS 2 The crux of this lesson is thinking about our diet and lifestyle and the impact it has on the human body. Asking the question ‘What is obesity?’ With further investigations and watching clips on fat and how it affects the body; what diseases and health implications are there on the human body when consuming too much bad fat. This lesson can also be purchased in a bundle with L2 why we should eat a balanced diet? & PE, Numeracy and PSHE Circuit Fitness, as there are links across all these lessons and would make an ideal mini cross curricular unit of work that KS 2 children will enjoy.

This lesson is a fun lesson that can involve teachers and support staff in the lesson. It gives pupils opportunities to find out about their level of fitness and their lifestyle they lead. Also offering opportunities to link this lesson to a maths lesson on data collection, as well as giving pupils their own personal fitness record. The lesson comes with three PE circuit fitness lessons to carry out the data collection. I have taught several classes this lesson when supply teaching, the children loved the fun involved in the circuit lesson and finding their pulses and recording their data. Additional Circuit fitness PE lessons can be purchased separately.

This lesson has been written for upper KS2 Food distribution is a current issue as is food production; this lesson is about both these issues. Children will consider both and investigate what foods are grown, produced and distributed in the UK; the impact farmers are facing with costs and profits when supplying their produce to supermarkets. Children will have opportunities in mapping food production and distribution in the Great Britain and around the world, and write a report on why there is so much food waste from vegetables grown and consider why supermarkets don’t take vegetables and fruit because they don’t math the criteria in size and shape. Updated files November 2022.

This lesson has been written for upper KS2. Food distribution can be affected by unfair food distribution, war, environmental disaster and climate conditions affect the lives of millions around the world. ‘Does war cause hunger?’ As Mercy Corp state ‘being hungry means more than just missing a meal. It’s a debilitating crisis that has more than 820 million people in its grip. Hunger is a perilous cycle that passes from one generation to the next: Families who struggle with chronic hunger and malnutrition consistently go without the nutrients their minds and bodies need, which then prevents them from being able to work, go to school, or improve their lives.’ Pupils will look into and discuss what things children in conflicted areas need each day for their survival. As well as locating war and conflicts around the world and how environmental disasters affect agriculture and crop production, answering the question does climate change have an impact

KS2 Science Circulatory system This lesson is suitable for upper KS2. Practical activities, interactive games and quizzes are included. Pupils will be able to identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system within the body; and explain the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood. Learning all about the circulatory system provides opportunities to learn and label the heart and the role of each part of the heart; the function of blood vessels and the role of the oxygenated and deoxygenated blood in the body. Invitations for a qualified first aider to visit would allow pupils to learn about CPR, the recovery position and general first aid. Included files : ppp lesson plan website list teacher background notes