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

KS1 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 Year 1 / Year 2. 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 KS1 children of all abilities. The PowerPoint uses bright colour, 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.

Based on a Book

Traditional Stories

Room on the Broom  KS1 English Teaching Resources      Room on the Broom is a colourful, engaging and fun teaching resource for KS1 based on the popular book by Julia Donaldson. The resource covers numerous elements of the National Curriculum for KS1 Reading and Writing skills and is colourful, 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

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 colour 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

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

Spelling

Orange Orwell - Level 2 Spelling Bundle

Patient Potter - Level 3 Spelling Bundle

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

Rudolph Saves Christmas - KS1 is a cute English teaching resource where pupils practise re-telling and sequencing events in a story.

Rudolph Saves Christmas

Homophones Level 2

Twas the Night Before Christmas - Year 2 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 colourful 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

Great Grimms - Level 2 Spelling Bundle

Christmas Caroll - Level 2 Spelling Bundle

Muscle May Alcott - Etymology Bundle

Biscuit Byron - Etymology Bundle

Sergeant Shelley - Etymology Bundle

Room on the Broom - Lesson 1

Using the Senses - Lesson 1

The Owl and the Pussycat - Lesson 1

The Verb 'To be' - This handy 49 slide PowerPoint grammar teaching resource introduces pupils to the different forms of the verb 'to be' in the present simple tense. Content includes: An explanation of the different forms of the verb 'to be' with examples, Interactive activities, An explanation of contractions, 4 accompanying worksheets and 1 further worksheet.

Grammar

The Verb  To be

Questions and Question Marks: KS1 English Teaching Resource     This English punctuation teaching resource explains how to identify questions and how to use question marks accurately.    'Questions and Question Marks' is a cute 36 slide PowerPoint presentation that includes: A definition of a question and question marks with examples, An exploration of question words with accompanying activity, Question marks activity and accompanying worksheet, Think of the question activity, Further worksheet ; 'Questions and Question Marks'.

Punctuation

Questions and Question Marks

25 slide PowerPoint presentation with 25 accompanying worksheets;    Jack and the Beanstalk is a fantastic reading resource from the makers of Storytime magazine. Teaching resources include a copy of the beautifully illustrated short story, a 25 slide PowerPoint presentation and a pack of 25 worksheets chock-a-block with fun teaching activities.     This resource is ideal for KS1 pupils and reluctant readers and ESL students at lower KS2. Activities include: Word Watch ; Understanding homophones and discussing tricky words Who's who? ; Matching characters from the story Character Masks ; Opportunities for drama and role play And more; Maths, Science, P.E., Design and Tech and Art teaching ideas      Year 2 English Teaching Resources: Jack and the Beanstalk  Related Resources KS1 Reading Resources All KS1 Resources

Jack and the Beanstalk

Making Predictions      Year 1 /2 English Teaching Resources: Making Predictions is a PowerPoint presentation designed to help children develop the important reading skill of making predictions in a story.     The lesson includes:     - An introduction with examples of simple narrative predictions using words and images.  - A simple narrative activity to help strengthen prediction making skills with accompanying worksheet  - A consolidation plenary to reinforce understanding of making simple predictions   - Bold clear fonts, simple language, bright colours, child friendly imagery and easy to follow text.

Comprehension

Making Predictions

Handy resource for teaching about the features of a book - cover, blurb, contents, index. 

All About Books

Rudolph Saves Christmas - Lesson 1

Writing a Letter to Father Christmas; This KS2 English teaching resource is designed to cover some of the objectives set out in the national curriculum (Writing - Composition).     Writing a Letter to Father Christmas examines the rules and formalities of writing a formal letter. This engaging and colourful 22 slide PowerPoint presentation includes: whole class discussion on letter writing examples of different types of letters, identifying the differences between informal and formal letters, identifying common words found in letters, letter writing rules, correct letter layout letter, writing top tips, write a letter to Father Christmas activity. 

Composition

Writing a Letter to Father Christmas

Using the Senses - Lesson 2: Exploring the Senses: Exploring the Senses

Capital Letters and Full Stops - KS1     Year 1 English programme of study - Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation: Pupils 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 'I'.    Year 2 English programme of study - Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation: Pupils should be taught to: use both familiar and new punctuation correctly, including full stops and capital letters.     This KS1 punctuation teaching resource has been designed to introduce pupils to the use of capital letters and full stops in their writing.     Content includes: Using a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence and a full stop at the end explanation, Using capital letters and full stops in a sentence activity with an accompanying worksheet, Using capital letters for proper nouns explanation, Using capital letters for proper nouns activity and an accompanying worksheet 2 further worksheets with answers .

Capital Letters and Full Stops - Worksheet

How to remember the spelling of the word 'Question'

Sir Linkalot Spelling - Question

How to remember the spelling of the word 'Sword'

Sir Linkalot Spelling - Sword

Traditional Stories - Lesson 1

How Words Make Sentences - English - KS1 Year 1/2; (21-slide PowerPoint and 3 differentiated worksheets)    This KS1 English lesson explains how sentences are structured and what a sentence must contain to make sense. The resource provides whole-class practice and opportunities for discussion. The differentiated worksheets-based tasks give every child a chance to construct and punctuate sentences, and full answer keys are included. 

How Words Make Sentences

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)