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

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

Wonder teaching resource is a unit of work for the novel 'Wonder' by R J Palacio. The unit begins with an introduction to the author and book before closely focusing on the text. It contains 47 lessons which explore the text from Chapter One, 'August' to the end of the novel. The unit contains a range of teaching and learning activities including:     - Developing reading and vocabulary skills and building a personal dictionary   - Differentiated tasks (Gold, Silver and Bronze) to provide appropriate learning for all abilities   - Reading and comprehension tasks   - GPS activities that cover contractions, time adverbials, pronouns, homophones, synonyms and word classes   - Language study - comparing American English with British English   - Class discussion of key themes   - Character analysis   - Formal and informal writing   - Drama activities and ze framing.

Wonder

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

Spelling

Anxious Austen - Level 3 Spelling Bundle

Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl contains a variety of lessons and activities designed to help children understand the book's plot, characters, language and themes. 'Fantastic Mr Fox' includes lessons about plot, characters, themes and genre. It contains writing frames to help children write about characters.

Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl

Patient Potter - Level 3 Spelling Bundle

Muscle May Alcott - Etymology Bundle

Biscuit Byron - Etymology Bundle

Determined Duffy - Level 4 Spelling Bundle

Grammar

Rules & Patterns Level 3

Sergeant Shelley - Etymology Bundle

Weird Wordsworth - Level 3 Spelling Bundle

Homophones Level 3

Diamond Dickinson - Level 3 Spelling Bundle

This teaching unit is made up of a series of progressive lessons designed to teach the features of autobiographical writing. All lessons have been put together using the four-part structure. 

Composition

Biography and Autobiography

The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl is an eight lesson Year 3/4 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

Year 3 / Year 4 English Teaching Resources: Action Words - Verbs is a very useful 36 slide PowerPoint teaching resource, with 3 worksheets, intended to encourage pupils to develop their use of verbs to improve both reading and writing.     English Teaching Resources: Action Words - Verbs explains how to use verbs effectively to improve their vocabulary. The 36 slide PowerPoint resource can be used as either a starter, a standalone activity or incorporated into a wider unit of work in which knowledge and understanding of verbs is relevant.    The teaching and learning activities in this resource include: Definition of verbs and the importance of verbs, Identify verbs as single words and within the context of a sentence, Improving vocabulary and writing engaging sentences by using effective verbs.     The resource includes a 36 slide PowerPoint presentation and 2 accompanying worksheets for pupils to use along side the lesson and a further worksheet with answers.

Action Words  - Verbs - Worksheet

Spellings - Year 5 and Year 6 enables teachers to assess spelling using words taken from the statutory spellings for Year 5 and the Year 6 as assessed in KS2 SATs. This teaching resource contains 10 spellings sets. Each set uses the words from the Year 5 and Year 6 National Curriculum. Each word is given within a sentence to enable children to contextualise each one.

Causal Conjunctions - Year 3 and 4 (13-slide PowerPoint and 3 differentiated worksheets)     This resource introduces LKS2 children to the concept of causal conjunctions and allows learners to practice using them in sentences. It starts with whole-group activities before letting children attempt differentiated individual worksheets where they match sentences, choose suitable causal conjunctions and write sentences of their own

Causal Conjunctions

Expanded Noun Phrases - Year 4     Year 3 and 4 English programme of study - Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation; Pupils should be taught to: develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2: Year 4 (Sentence) - noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives.     In this lower KS2 English teaching resource, pupils learn about expanded noun phrases and how they can improve their writing as per the year 3 and 4 curriculum objective listed above.

Expanded Noun Phrases

Making Inferences - Year 3 and 4; KS2 English Teaching Resources - Reading Year 3 / Year 4 Making Inferences is a 19-slide PowerPoint-based lesson which includes three differentiated worksheets and answer keys.     It can be used to introduce making inferences for the first time or to consolidate existing knowledge. In this resource, pupils learn what 'infer' and 'inference' mean; they practice making inferences from both pictures and texts and evidence their answers from the source.     Teachers should consider the example texts together and use the discussion prompts to assess understanding before assigning the appropriate level worksheet for each pupil.     There are three differentiated worksheet activities - Bronze, Silver and Gold. Each level has a different text to read and specific inference questions to answer with evidence. 

Comprehension

Making Inferences

Retrieving and Recording Information - Non - Fiction - Year 3 and 4; Year 3 / Year 4 Retrieving Information From Non-Fiction is a 33-slide PowerPoint, including 3 differentiated worksheets and answer keys, that can be used to introduce this topic for the first time or as general comprehension practice.     In this resource, children will learn what non-fiction and fiction are, how to quickly and accurately find and retrieve information, and how to present this information in full sentences. Look at the example texts together and use the discussion prompts to assess understanding before assigning the appropriate level worksheet for each pupil.    Bronze Activity: Scan the text, look for keywords and answer comprehension questions in full sentences.     Silver Activity: Scan the text, look for keywords and answer comprehension questions in full sentences.     Gold Activity: Scan the text, look for keywords and answer comprehension questions in full sentences. Use reference materials, such as dictionaries or the internet, to answer additional questions.

Retrieving and Recording Information - Non-fiction

Using Commas teaches pupils how and when to use commas when writing a sentence and covers many of the curriculum objectives in the English programme of study.     This 10 slide PowerPoint resource includes: How to use commas in a list, Using commas to replace 'and' or 'or', Using commas with adjectives and adverbs, How to use commas when writing dialogue, Consolidation and assessment activities, 2 accompanying worksheets.

Punctuation

Using Commas

Year 3 / Year 4 English Teaching Resources: Conjunctions is a 9 slide PowerPoint presentation with 2 accompanying worksheets focusing on how to use conjunctions to create better sentences and improve writing skills. The resource explores how the use of conjunctions can help to develop word and sentence level skills in writing.     English Teaching Resources: Conjunctions includes the following tasks and activities:    1. Definition of conjunctions with examples.   2. Highlighting conjunctions in a sentence task.   3. Question and answer slides to enable peer assessment in the classroom.   4. How to use conjunctions to create better sentences activity.   5. Consolidation of understanding.   6. Conjunctions interactive game link.

Conjunctions

Year 3 / Year 4 English Teaching Resources: Creating a Christmas Card.

Creating a Christmas Card

A Bear called Paddington is a series of lessons by KS2 Gems oriented around the book whilst teaching students key English skills.

A Bear called Paddington

Biography and Autobiography - Lesson 5 - Holiday in Norway

Make a Father's Day Card includes a range of activities for Year 3 / Year 4 children.     The PowerPoint uses bright colour, large and attractive fonts, vibrant imagery and easy to follow language. Make a Father's Day Card includes: Task and lesson objectives, Exploring a range of greeting cards, Discussion of purpose and audience, The greeting card 'rules',  How to make your card, Reflecting on learning through constructive criticism, The drafting process - how and why we redraft.

Make a Father's Day Card

Biography and Autobiography - Lesson 3 - Roald Dahl Family Tree

Wonder Lesson 1: Investigating the Text

Simple Sentences - Year 3: English Teaching Resource 'Simple Sentences - Year 3' is an English Teaching resource designed to help children recognise simple sentences and learn how to use them in their own writing. This handy 22 slide PowerPoint presentation includes: definitions of simple sentences with examples assessment tasks consolidation activities 3 worksheets.

Simple Sentences

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)