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

A complete scheme of work for 1st Grade. This scheme is based on the use of a high quality core text which drives the curriculum by making purposeful and interesting links with history, geography and science learning with poetry is built in to each unit. There are direct links to the Learning Challenge Curriculum. Each unit is broadly 6 weeks with flexibility built in to extend, adapt or introduce alternative activities based on rigorous on-going assessment. Outcomes and objectives are clearly identified and activities planned to ensure that they are based on the Y2 learning. Attention has been paid to looking at progression within each objective, breaking them down into steps towards achieving the end of year learning. Whilst there is a clear week by week sequence within each unit, skills, knowledge and understanding are built throughout the unit and provide the building blocks for the identified outcomes. There is a sharp focus on reading and the units offer questions and activities which may be used in whole class or group reading lessons. The beginning of each unit concentrates on understanding, responding to and deepening understanding of the text. This focus continues with on-going reading activities matched to the identified reading objectives. Word detective work should be an emphasis throughout. Additional texts have also been suggested which may be used as class reads or as preferred. This is not a definitive list, but serves as a starting point to ensure that children experience a range of reading during the year. Suggested incidental writing opportunities are identified throughout which includes working with vocabulary and sentences as well as responding to the text so that children have many opportunities to practise and consolidate writing skills. Grammar work is clearly identified with all grammar being taught purposefully, in context so that it can be used in the identified outcomes. Grammar taught early in the year may not always be identified in subsequent units, but activities from units may be used in context in subsequent units to revisit and consolidate learning as necessary. For example, the possessive apostrophe activity in Unit 2. Similarly, the vocabulary and grammar focused activities may also be used in context in other units. For example, the synonym wheel, question and exclamatory sentences and conjunction games. In addition, grammar games should be used to revisit and consolidate learning, including addressing any misconceptions or insecure learning from Kindergarten especially the concept of a sentence. Along with the focus on grammar to ensure effective and accurate writing, the high-quality texts provide models and scaffolds so that children are enabled to make independent choices about how they write and the effect they wish to create. In general, a week has been allotted to the writing of extended texts. This allows time for the children to write, evaluate, redraft and proof read. Suggested prompts are provided for this, but should be adapted as appropriate.

1st Grade - Scheme of Work - Focus English

The little old man collects bundles of junk as he tidies up his environment. Compare living and non-living things as you watch the forest grow. This beautiful book, in true Helen Ward style, will hook your children in and motivate them to find out more.    Livello adopts a thematic approach by using picture books and texts as an exciting springboard for learning. "Livello Modules' innovative and proven approach will help teachers to take their teaching from good to great by giving them a secure and supportive starting point from which to build exciting lessons."

Based on a Book

Comprehension

Composition

Module 1 - Inspired by: The Tin Forest by Helen Ward - Reading

Room on the Broom  Elementary School English Teaching Resources      Room on the Broom is a colorful, engaging and fun teaching resource for Elementary School based on the popular book by Julia Donaldson. The resource covers numerous elements of the National Curriculum for Elementary School Reading and Writing skills and is colorful, engaging and interactive.      Activities include:   information retrieval  recounting the narrative  exploring the themes and message of the story  talking and writing about characters and key events  considering the use of heroes and villains in the book  looking at language  words that rhyme  making predictions  creating a new book cover  Room on the Broom is a beautifully presented teaching resource containing interactive quizzes and activities.     The resource also contains 27 worksheets and a 6 lesson overview of the unit. 

Room on the Broom

A 1st Grade unit based on the book Daisy Saves the Day created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Writing

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

Daisy Saves the Day

Elementary School English Teaching Resources: Traditional Stories; (66-slide PowerPoint presentation with 16 worksheets)     This fun unit of work is designed to cover Traditional Stories and Fairy Tales at Kindergarten / 1st Grade. It includes a planning overview, assessment guidance, detailed lessons and activities, a 66 slide PowerPoint and 16 accompanying worksheets.    'Traditional Stories' includes a range of lessons and activities for Elementary School children of all abilities. The PowerPoint uses bright color, large and attractive fonts, vibrant imagery, sound, video and easy to follow, child-friendly language.     Activities include: Talk for writing and prior learning tasks, Exploring and discussing traditional tales and fairy tales, Using a range of text types - books, videos, cartoons and online storybooks, Individual, pair and group work, Assessment opportunities, Understanding characters - goodies, baddies and magical characters, Story sequencing and storyboarding, How to plan a story using the story mountain, How to begin a narrative - teacher modelling the writing process, Writing assessment task - how to write a traditional tale, Detailed teaching notes for lessons and assessment.

Traditional Stories

A 1st Grade unit based on the book Vlad The Great Fire of London created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Vlad The Great Fire of London

A 1st Grade unit based on the book Man on the Moon created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Man on the Moon

A 1st Grade unit based on the book Wild created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Wild

A 1st Grade unit based on the book Jack and the Baked Beanstalk created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Jack and the Baked Beanstalk

A 1st Grade unit based on the book Lila and the secret of Rain created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Lila and the secret of Rain

A 1st Grade unit based on the book The Baker's Boy and The Great Fire of London created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

The Baker's Boy and The Great Fire of London

A 1st Grade unit based on the book Traction Man created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Traction Man

A 1st Grade unit based on the book Paddington at the Palace created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Paddington at the Palace

A 1st Grade unit based on the book Little Evie in the Wild Wood created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Little Evie in the Wild Wood

A 1st Grade unit based on the book Owl and Pussycat created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Owl and Pussycat

The Owl and the Pussycat (5-lesson unit of work with a 150-slides in PowerPoint and 16 worksheets)    The Owl and the Pussycat; is a new and innovative unit of work  and bright color Animated film of The Owl and the Pussycat.     This unit of work contains:     Retelling strategies and comprehension questions, Cloze exercise, sequencing and storyboarding activities, Tackling unfamiliar words, using a dictionary and alphabetical order, Rhyming words lesson with interactive game, Identify adjectives in The Owl and the Pussycat, Using adjectives to improve writing, Compound words activities including an interactive game, Create a children's story book based on The Owl and the Pussycat task

The Owl and the Pussycat

Using the Senses includes a range of varied lessons and activities  to stimulate discussion and description, Using words and phrases to describe personal experiences, Describing a special place using a writing frame, How to plan a poem, Writing a poem using the senses (with scaffolding), Writing assessment task - write a simple poem

Poetry

Using the Senses

Twas the Night Before Christmas - 1st Grade and 3 is a unit of work that includes a PowerPoint presentation, 6 worksheets and a five-lesson overview.     This detailed and engaging English teaching resource covers a number of the English curriculum objectives in the English programme of study.    Content includes: Unit overview with 5 lessons, Making predictions, A version of the poem with colorful animations, Animated video telling of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas', Recount and comprehension activities with worksheets, Storyboarding comic strip creation task and accompanying worksheets, Unfamiliar words and using a dictionary task and worksheets, Rhyming words activities and worksheets, Identifying adjectives in 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' and using adjectives to improve writing and worksheets, Spotting similes and using similes to develop a description and accompanying worksheets.

Twas the Night Before Christmas

Rudolph Saves Christmas - Elementary School is a cute English teaching resource where pupils practise re-telling and sequencing events in a story.

Rudolph Saves Christmas

Mr. Grinling is a well known children's book character. In this story he joins in the games and races at the annual village picnic but then he and his wife get stranded by the tide. Mr.Grinling's friend, Sam, helps him get his hands on some tasty snacks and the story ends with a balloon trip. A beautifully illustrated book with many avenues to explore.    Livello adopts a thematic approach by using picture books and texts as an exciting springboard for learning. "Livello Modules' innovative and proven approach will help teachers to take their teaching from good to great by giving them a secure and supportive starting point from which to build exciting lessons."

Module 5 - Inspired by: Lighthouse Keeper's Picnic by R & D Armitage - Reading

This busy market scene gives plenty of opportunities to explore the life style of a bygone era. Role play visiting the market and imagine shopping in a bustling street. Capitalise on opportunities to explore other works of art by Lowry or link to present day food shopping.    Livello adopts a thematic approach by using picture books and texts as an exciting springboard for learning. "Livello Modules' innovative and proven approach will help teachers to take their teaching from good to great by giving them a secure and supportive starting point from which to build exciting lessons."

Module 2 - Inspired by: Market Scene in a Northern Town by L.S. Lowry - Reading

Meet Bob, the man on the moon. His daily work involves keeping the moon clean and tidy as well as entertaining the tourists! A real trip of fantasy! Use this bold, engaging book as a stimulus for exploring what aliens might look like, what might be lurking in a moon crater or simply discussing how different people spend their days.    Livello adopts a thematic approach by using picture books and texts as an exciting springboard for learning. "Livello Modules' innovative and proven approach will help teachers to take their teaching from good to great by giving them a secure and supportive starting point from which to build exciting lessons."

Module 3 - Inspired by: Man on the Moon by Simon Bartrum - Reading

The knight in this tale is not your ordinary courageous knight. He is helped on his quest by his horse, who is scared of heights and accompanied by a shield that reacts to the situations he encounters. Will he be successful in his quest?    Livello adopts a thematic approach by using picture books and texts as an exciting springboard for learning. "Livello Modules' innovative and proven approach will help teachers to take their teaching from good to great by giving them a secure and supportive starting point from which to build exciting lessons."

Module 4 - Inspired by: Good Knight Sleep Tight by David Melling - Reading

This timeless children's picture book puts an interesting perspective on aspects of family life! A humorous tale of a mother elephant trying to get some peace to read her paper, but her children incessantly pester and follow her - even into the bath! A wonderfully messy breakfast creates numerous opportunities for learning.    Livello adopts a thematic approach by using picture books and texts as an exciting springboard for learning. "Livello Modules' innovative and proven approach will help teachers to take their teaching from good to great by giving them a secure and supportive starting point from which to build exciting lessons."

Module 6 - Inspired by: Five Minutes' Peace by Jill Murphy - Reading

Room on the Broom - Story Sequencing - Worksheet

Room on the Broom - Additional Activities - Story Sequencing

1st Grade Scheme Overview is a document that provides information about the focus texts, genres and key skills that students shall engage with on a half-termly basis. 

1st Grade Scheme Overview

1st Grade English Teaching Resources: Nouns for Names ; 'Nouns for Names' is an English teaching resource that can be used to introduce Nouns for Names and proper nouns.

Grammar

Nouns for Names

Capital Letters and (remove - used in relation to 'full coverage') Stops - Elementary School Kindergarten English programme of study - Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation: students should be taught to: begin to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop use a capital letter for people, places, the days of the week, and the personal pronoun 

Capital Letters

The Prefix '-un' - 1st Grade    This 1st Grade resource explains how to use the prefix '-un'. The lesson provides a definition of the '-un' prefix with examples.

Prefixes & Suffixes

The Prefix 'un' - Worksheet

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)