This resource provides teaching notes for Cobweb by Michael Morpurgo, aimed at KS2 teachers. What is Cobweb by Michael Morpurgo about? The story follows Cobweb, a Pembrokeshire Corgi, as he ...

Imagine the scene: a child wakes up in the morning, peers out of the window, and sees it is snowing thickly outside. School is cancelled. All they want to do for the day is play. What’s important to ...

Brrr, it’s cold outside. When the weather is terrible, it’s heartwarming to see a group of children huddled inside a classroom enthusiastically playing board games or getting stuck into maths problems ...

This engaging KS2 instruction writing resource is perfect if you’re looking to bring a little creativity to your literacy lessons. Designed to cover key areas of the English curriculum, it provides a ...

This Year 5 reading collection contains 11 weeks of planning. Use the resources to complete three lessons over the course of each week. The resource list sets out each week’s theme, and there’s a ...

There are three components to reading fluency: accuracy, automaticity and prosody. Accuracy provides the foundation – readers must be able to decode words on the page accurately to be in with a chance ...

The level of grammatical understanding needed rises significantly between LKS2 and UKS2. One area requiring a very strong grammatical understanding in KS2 is relative pronouns and relative clauses.

It is a strategy of power to state that schools should be apolitical, without any sense of the ridiculousness of that position, to force children to sing the national anthem and memorise ‘The Charge ...

The benefits of a structured ‘circle time’ session as a vehicle for teaching and learning with young children cannot be underestimated, especially after a year of very little social contact for many.

This snow activity focuses on the wonders of snow, and the intricate details that make up each individual snowflake. The complex, exquisite patterns created naturally as the flakes fall from sky to ...

Use an imaginary crime scene to teach children how to read, spell and use question words and question marks with this free KS1 lesson plan. Teach your KS1 students all about how question marks are are ...

In September this year, the Daily Telegraph reported that “From next summer, secondary schools in which children do not learn about same-sex, transgender and bisexual couples are likely to have their ...