This knowledge organiser is based on the novel Corlaine and supports children writing a ‘Horror Narrative’. It includes Y5/6 spellings, challenging vocabulary, objectives specifically for Y6, grammar prompts, and planning guidance.

A knowledge organiser based on the novel Street Child’ by Berlie Doherty to support children when writing a ‘classical narrative poem’ (based on the workhouse and chimney sweeps), when studying the novel at a deeper level. It includes key vocabulary, grammar requirements, suggested composition, line openers etc. Used in Y5, so objectives link to Y5/6 curriculum requirements.

A knowledge organiser based on the novel ‘Matilda’ by Roald Dahl to support children in studying the novel at a deeper level. It includes key vocabulary, themes, quotes and challenging vocabulary covered in the book.

This knowledge organiser supports children writing an explanation text for ‘Life Cycles of an Animal’ (here it is suggested as an owl or turtle after children had studied the Myans in Y5). It includes Y5/6 spellings, challenging vocabulary, objectives specifically for Y5, grammar prompts, and planning guidance. It is produced in Publisher. I have tried to keep it generic - however it can be adapted to focus on a particular animal study

This knowledge organiser supports children writing a non-chronological report based on studying the ‘Iron Age’. It was used in Year 3, so includes Y3/4 spellings, challenging vocabulary, EOY objectives specifically for Y3, grammar prompts, and planning guidance. It also offers suggested sentence openers for each paragraph. It has been created in Publisher

This knowledge organiser is based on the novel ‘ROOM 13’ byRobert Swindells and supports children writing their own version of a ‘horror narrative’. It is an A4 Publisher document, which includes Y5/6 spellings, challenging vocabulary, objectives specifically for Y6, grammar prompts, and planning guidance (along with sentence starters for each suggested paragraph).

This knowledge organiser is based on the novel The Iron Man (Ted Hughes) and supports children writing a discussion text (Should the Iron Man be called upon to fight the space dragon?). It includes Y3/4 spellings, challenging vocabulary, objectives specifically for Y4, grammar prompts, and planning guidance

An A4 knowledge organiser based on the novel ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ by CS Lewis to support children in studying the novel at a deeper level. It includes key vocabulary, themes, quotes and challenging vocabulary covered in the book.

This is a complete medium term plan for teaching 'Pointillism' to Y6. It is based on the Mongolian landscape from the book 'The Unforgotten Coat', but can be adapted for any scene. It is step by step and easy to follow for teachers lacking confidence in delivering Art.

This PowerPoint includes helpful hints and reminders about the key areas which the Y6 children will be tested on for the Grammar SATs test. It includes questions from past years, with related prompts.

This is a revision guide for Y6 children preparing for the Arithmetic test (SATs). It can be used in the days before as a last minute guide to the four calculations, BODMAS, percentages and fractions. My class found it very useful, and I shall use it again over the next few days.

This pack was aimed at Y5 during the summer holidays, however it could be adapted slightly for Y3-6. It consists of various activities including maths, spellings, descriptive writing and geography. It is meant to be fun to engage the children (e.g. wordsearch and time tables raps). Each task is awarded points (thus ensuring all children in the class can access it) which children accumulate during the pack to obtain broze, silver, gold or platinum award....you can decide whether you give any prizes in return.

This resource incudes the 'activinspire' flipchart taking the children through the process of understanding negative numbers (including double negatives). It includes various questions based on the 3 areas of maths (fluency, reasoning and problem solving). It also includes the independent work - 3 challenges for differentiation. (2 questions on fluency, 2 reasoning and 2 problem solving)

A Guided Reading lesson using extracts from the novel 'Matilda'. There is an introduction PowerPoint to share with the class, which introduces them to the concept of PEE (point, evidence and explanation), followed by an example. There are 3 differentiated comprehensions. This would ideally be used in KS2 All extracts are copyright to Roald Dahl

A 4 week unit of work based upon Graffiti. This includes the 4 lesson plans, which take up a half day session (can spend longer than 4 weeks if taught in shorter blocks). It leads the children through the process of using graffiti and is linked to Black History Month

A knowledge organiser based on the novel ‘Charlotte’s Web’ by E.B.White to support children in studying the novel at a deeper level. It includes key vocabulary, themes, quotes and challenging vocabulary covered in the book.

This planning was used post SATs as part of the children's transition work. If focuses on 13 lessons (depending on lesson lengths) and cover cross curricular. The children loved the novel and this planning helped to look at key themes which arose.

This can be used by subject leaders of anyone carrying out a Guided REading Scrutiny. It can obviously be adapted according to school ethos/practices, as it is generic.

This PowerPoint leads the children through two extracts from classics (Lord of the Flies and Treasure Island) - there are questions linked to the texts (including vocabulary choices, inference, and summarising the text). Prompts then follow to allow children the chance to still work independently, with clues to the mark allocations. There then follows the mark scheme. This process is repeated for both extracts. There are also two ‘Going deeper’ questions. I have used this with my children in class with great success. Due to the complexity of the text, this can be used with older children.

This resource includes the teacher text examples I use in class with my Y6 children for a variety of genres: poetry persuasion (animal testing) discussion (should robots replace teachers) report writing (snake) newspaper (linked to Kensuke’s Kingdom) Diary (linked to ‘Once’) Historical story: setting and characterisation (linked to ‘Once’) Contemporary narrative: setting and characterisation (linked to Skellig)