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Awarded an OBE for Services to Education, Clive Davies has designed and built these schemes around progression and enquiry. Focus Education resources are of the highest educational quality.

Focus Education

Pzaz is a specialist, primary science provider, with schemes written for the non-specialist primary teacher. Created by a science education expert, Pzaz covers every statement of the National Curriculum for Reception to Year 6.

Reception - Year 6, Science

Pzaz

VotesforSchools provides award-winning PSHE resources to prompt discussion on challenging issues. Young people learn about everything from politics to climate change to ensure they have an informed opinion of the world, and are equipped with all they need to know when they leave school.

Years 1-6, PSHE

Votes For Schools

Created by primary specialists, Teacher of Primary offers a bank of in-depth, highly specialised lessons so that schools and teachers can focus on the particular learning goals of their setting.

EYFS-Year 6, Maths, English & Science

Teacher of Primary

PE Resources Bank firmly believes in the power of Physical Education and transforming young people’s lives. PE Resources Bank aims to provide high quality teaching materials for staff to use and promote a genuine love for learning. 

PE Resources Bank

Master The Curriculum

Striver

KS2 Gems

Guinea Pig Education

Livello is a specialist literary provider, they offer half-termly units built around highly engaging and exciting books that will inspire a love of reading while teaching comprehension, grammar and composition. Start from the books they love, succeed with strategies from Livello.

Years 1-6, English

Livello

Learning Mole uses fun and engaging animations to capture childrenâ€™s imagination and inspire curiosity. Use Learning Moleâ€™s videos as a perfect jumping off point to start great discussions and stimulate learning.

EYFS-Year 6, Maths, English, Topic & PSHE

Learning Mole

Music Playtime has been created by a Key Stage 1 and Early Years Music education specialist. The schemes are built in recognition of the fact that most primary teachers are not music specialists. Access the knowledge and the ideas you need to feel confident teaching music.

Music Playtime

1Decision

Active Music Digital

All Aboard Learning

Flashcards to add to your GCSE and A-Level revision lessons.

Years 10-13, Various

Quizlet

Sir Linkalot is the award-winning future of spelling. Students learn to spell any word they want from 'was' to 'onomatopoeia' by watching short, funny animations. Never fail a spelling test again!

Sir Linkalot

Get The Buzz! is a specialist in Maths Games for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. Engaging maths games can help to build an enjoyment for maths and can consolidate learning so that all students are benefitting.

Years 1-6, Maths

Get The Buzz

All students can enjoy and improve their achievement in mathematics. It is no longer acceptable to say that only certain types of people can learn mathematics. Can Do Maths provides resources to support teachers and parents to help children and students believe they 'Can Do Maths'.

CanDo Maths

PlanBee is the hive of ready-to-use primary resources for KS1 and KS2, with time-saving resources for busy teachers!

KS1 & KS2

PlanBee

Max Maths is a specialist primary school maths provider that uses the Singapore Mastery Approach to follow the Cambridge Primary maths curriculum framework.

Max Maths

Everyone can do maths: Everyone can! White Rose is used in most UK Primary schools and is the most trusted primary maths provider in the UK. Everything White Rose offers is created by maths experts and directed at teachers using a mastery approach to teaching maths.

White Rose

'How fertile is soil? - Thinking metacognitively' is a resource from 'What is soil?', a 2nd Grade Science lesson from the unit Rocks and soil. This lesson uses an enquiry-approach method, and will facilitate students answering the question 'What is soil?'

Rocks

How fertile is soil? - Thinking metacognitively

'Separating, filtering and dissolving - Thinking metacognitively' is a resource from 'How can mixtures be separated including through filtering, sieving and evaporating?', a 4th Grade Science lesson from the unit Reversible and Irreversible Changes. This lesson uses an enquiry-approach method, and will facilitate students answering the question 'How can mixtures be separated including through filtering, sieving and evaporating?'

Properties and Changes of Materials

Separating, filtering and dissolving - Thinking metacognitively

'Pulse rates - Thinking metacognitively' is a resource from 'What is the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on health?', a 5th Grade Science lesson from the unit Heart and the Circulatory system. This lesson uses an enquiry-approach method, and will facilitate students answering the question 'What is the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on health?'

Animals including Humans

Pulse rates - Thinking metacognitively

'Recreate the digestive system in the classroom - Thinking metacognitively' is a resource from 'How can the digestive system be recreated in a classroom?', a 3rd Grade Science lesson from the unit Digestive system. This lesson uses an enquiry-approach method, and will facilitate students answering the question 'How can the digestive system be recreated in a classroom?'

Recreate the digestive system in the classroom - Thinking metacognitively

'What do you think 'Romanisation' means? - Writing task' is a resource from 'What do we mean by the 'Romanisation' of Britain?', a 3rd Grade History lesson from the unit Romans. This lesson uses an enquiry-approach method, and will facilitate students answering the question 'What do we mean by the 'Romanisation' of Britain?'

Romans

What do you think 'Romanisation' means? - Writing task

The Twits by Roald Dahl is a nine lesson teaching unit which consists of a 87 slide PowerPoint presentation and a 13 worksheets.     The Twits (Roald Dahl) is a brilliant scheme of work for low ability learners featuring a series of detailed four part lessons designed to enhance and develop pupils' reading and understanding skills.     English Teaching Resources: The Twits (Roald Dahl) covers the key areas required by the National Curriculum at level 2/3 and includes a wide range of activities and lessons for pupils.     - A brief biography of The Twits author Roald Dahl with a short film about his life narrated by Michael Rosen   - A nine lesson scheme of work overview/plan using the four part lesson structure   - Exploring the text - making predictions using the title, blurb and front cover   - Descriptive writing study - creating character portraits using description from the text   - Analysis of key characters Mr Twit and Mrs Twit   - How Roald Dahl creates sympathy in the novel   - Storyboarding, comprehension questions and cloze exercises to consolidate understanding   - Writing empathetically as Muggle Wump the monkey   - Studying Roald Dahl's use of language - effective adjectives and verbs   - Understanding unfamiliar words - using a dictionary     Complete scheme of work overview - 87 slide PowerPoint - 13 pages of worksheets 

Based on a Book

The Twits - Lesson 5: Thinking About Words

'How quickly does mould grow - Thinking metacognitively' is a resource from 'What do you know about the planets?', a 4th Grade Science lesson from the unit Space. This lesson uses an enquiry-approach method, and will facilitate students answering the question 'What do you know about the planets?'

Living Things and their Habitats

How quickly does mould grow - Thinking metacognitively

From strawberry tigers to hairy nosed marsupials, we count down 15 of the rarest near-extinct animals ever to walk the Earth.
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15 Rarest & Critically Endangered Animals on Earth

The Twits - Lesson 5: Thinking About Words - PowerPoint

The Twits - Lesson 5: Thinking About Words - Worksheet

The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl is an eight lesson 2nd Grade/4 teaching unit which consists of a 77 slide PowerPoint and a 15 worksheets.     The Magic Finger (Roald Dahl) contains a variety of lessons and activities designed to develop pupil knowledge and understanding of the novel's plot, characters, language and themes.     The Magic Finger (Roald Dahl) teaching resource includes teaching about plot, characters, themes and genre.    Exploring how Roald Dahl creates characters, Writing-frame to help children write about characters, Examining Roald Dahl's use of language in The Magic Finger (using effective verbs and adjectives), Creating; a comic strip version of The Magic Finger; to assess understanding of the plot, Tips for tackling new words.     Cross curricular - Endangered species and wild birds research and poster task (Geography, Citizenship, nature and the environment).

The Magic Finger - Lesson 5: Thinking About Words

The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl is an eight lesson 2nd Grade/4 teaching unit which consists of a 77 slide PowerPoint and a 15 worksheets.     The Magic Finger (Roald Dahl) contains a variety of lessons and activities designed to develop pupil knowledge and understanding of the novel's plot, characters, language and themes.     The Magic Finger (Roald Dahl) teaching resource includes teaching about plot, characters, themes and genre.    Exploring how Roald Dahl creates characters, Writing-frame to help children write about characters, Examining Roald Dahl's use of language in The Magic Finger (using effective verbs and adjectives), Creating a comic strip version of The Magic Finger; to assess understanding of the plot, Tips for tackling new words.     Cross curricular - Endangered species and wild birds research and poster task (Geography, Citizenship, nature and the environment).

The Magic Finger - Lesson 5: Thinking About Words - Worksheets

The Magic Finger - Lesson 5: Thinking About Words - PowerPoint

'Why do you think the Romans believed that the Iron Age people were primitive? - Worksheet' is a resource from 'What did the Romans find when they first arrived in Britain?', a 3rd Grade History lesson from the unit Romans. This lesson uses an enquiry-approach method, and will facilitate students answering the question 'What did the Romans find when they first arrived in Britain?'

Why do you think the Romans believed that the Iron Age people were primitive? - Worksheet

3rd Grade / 4th Grade English Teaching Resources - Billionaire Boy by David Walliams is a complete 13 lesson teaching unit with a 120 slide editable PowerPoint presentation, a 29 page booklet of worksheets and a lesson by lesson overview.    The resource contains a range of lessons, tasks and activities designed to develop knowledge and understanding of the historical context, plot, characters, language and themes of David Walliams's novel.  Resources include:      - A unit overview with 13 four-part lessons covering plot, character, themes and language      - Analysis of the characters of Joe, Mr Spud, Bob and Lauren      - A variety of starter and plenary activities      - Discussion of key themes: bullying, family, friendship, money, etc      - Developing inference and deduction skills       - Empathetic writing - Joe and Bob's diary      - Speaking and Listening task - Hot seating to develop character knowledge and understanding      - Studying David Walliams's use of language, symbolism and structure in Billionaire Boy      - Writing a book review for Billionaire Boy      - Studying and producing a newspaper story

Billionaire Boy - Lesson 10 - Who do you think you are

Billionaire Boy - Lesson 10 - Who do you think you are PowerPoint

This ready to teach 4th Grade/6 resource contains a series of progressive lessons that explore the play's plot, characters, themes and language. As with all our resources, the PowerPoint slides can be tweaked and differentiated to fit your teaching needs perfectly.    Lessons cover a range of activities for students of all abilities and include:  An introduction to the Elizabethan theatre and Shakespeare, analysis of the aristocrats, the labourers and the fairies, Shakespeare's use of structure, language and imagery, non-fiction writing and empathetic writing, discussion of the play's main themes, the comedy of Shakespeare - creating and resolving conflict, links to external resources, video and audio to help the teaching and learning of key scenes  

A Midsummer Nights Dream Lesson 8: What a Muddle! - What Were They Thinking? Worksheet 2

A Midsummer Nights Dream Lesson 8: What a Muddle! - What Were They Thinking? Worksheet 1

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Astronomy

How the Universe is Way Bigger Than You Think

Buckle up for a trip to the asteroid belt -- though it's not nearly as dangerous out there as you might think. But there's a LOT waiting to be discovered, including some crucial clues about the formation of the solar system itself.
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http://www.space.com/25108-rare-asteroid-star-eclipse-observing-tips.html

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http://www.space.com/51-asteroids-formation-discovery-and-exploration.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2013/10/20/dwarf-planet-ceres-may-harbor-life-nasa-spacecraft-enroute/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2013/01/31/why-our-main-asteroid-belt-is-hardly-the-remnant-of-an-exploded-planet/

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