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

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.

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

Action Words  - Verbs - Worksheet

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

Grammar

Causal Conjunctions

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

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

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 and Year 4 Autumn Term Spellings allows teachers to assess spelling in the context of sentences using words taken from the Year 3 and Year 4, Term One statutory spellings list. The resource includes a worksheet with several dictation sentences - all of which contain the statutory spellings - and a 41 slide PowerPoint to introduce and structure the activity.  

Spelling

Year 3 and Year 4 Autumn Term Spellings Dictation

Year 4 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. 

Writing

Based on a Book

Year 4 Scheme Overview

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

The Present Perfect Form - Year 3 and 4 (a 20-slide PowerPoint lesson with 3 differentiated worksheet-based activities)     This lesson explains the difference between two seemingly similar tenses, the past simple and the present perfect. The resource provides whole-class and differentiated individual exercises to put knowledge into practice. Teachers can use this as a standard lesson or for additional support for EAL pupils.

The Present Perfect Form

Year 3 / Year 4 English Teaching Resources, Fronted Adverbials (21 slide PowerPoint slideshow and a booklet of 5 worksheets)     This Year 3 / Year 4 teaching resource introduces children to fronted adverbials as required by the National Curriculum English programmes of study for Years 3 and 4.     The resource includes the following:   - What are fronted adverbials   - Definitions and examples   - Interactive tasks (spotting fronted adverbials in sentences and in a piece of extended writing)   - Using fronted adverbials to develop sentence writing   - An activity which requires children to construct a descriptive story opening using fronted adverbials.

Fronted Adverbials

A Year 4 unit based on the book The Wind in the Willows 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.

Comprehension

The Wind in the Willows

The Prefix 'mis-' - Year 3 and 4; (16-slide PowerPoint and 3 differentiated worksheets).    This differentiated teaching resource introduces Year 3/4 learners to prefixes with a focus on the prefix 'mis'. It includes a definition of the prefix 'mis' with examples, whole-class activities and three differentiated worksheets to assess understanding. Full answer keys are included.

Prefixes & Suffixes

The Prefix 'mis-' - Worksheet

A Year 4 unit based on the book Roman Diary The Journal of Iliona 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.

Roman Diary The Journal of Iliona

Anxious Austen - Level 3 Spelling Bundle

Long and Short Vowels (15-slide PowerPoint teaching resource with 2 worksheets).    Long and Short Vowels is designed to help Year 3 / Year 4 children establish their knowledge of long and short vowel forms. The resource is made up of a PowerPoint presentation with two accompanying worksheets. It includes a detailed explanation of long and short vowels, a few examples to help clarify meaning and three consolidation activities to asses understanding. Although 'Long and Short Vowels' is designed with lower KS2 children in mind, it can easily be tweaked for use with other learners. 

Long and Short Vowels - PowerPoint

The Subordinate Clause: KS2 English Teaching Resource; 'The Subordinate Clause' is a handy 10 slide PowerPoint presentation that introduces pupils to this concept. It explores how to identify the subordinate clause in a sentence and how to use the subordinate clause with confidence in sentence construction.    Content includes: Learning objectives, Definition of a complex sentence, Definition of a subordinate clause, Subordinate clause activity with question and answer slides to enable peer assessment in the classroom, Add a subordinate clause to create better sentences 3 accompanying worksheets.     'The Subordinate Clause' can be used as a starter activity, incorporated into a unit of work or developed into a wider lesson on language, grammar and word choices.

The Subordinate Clause

Apostrophes to Mark Plural Possession - Year 3 and 4; (26-slide PowerPoint and 3 differentiated worksheets).    This resource revises the usage of possessive apostrophes with singular nouns, then explains how to use apostrophes with regular and irregular plurals. Each step is explained and illustrated clearly and simply, and the lesson contains whole-group discussion and exercises, and individually differentiated (Gold, Silver and Bronze) activities. Apostrophes to Mark Plural Possession - Year 3 and 4

Apostrophes to Mark Plural Possession

How to remember the spelling of the word 'Bicycle'

Sir Linkalot Spelling - Bicycle

How to remember the spelling of the word 'Average'

Sir Linkalot Spelling - Average

Causal Conjunctions - PowerPoint

Year 3 / Year 4 English Teaching Resources: Collective Nouns     This teaching resource can be used to teach pupils about collective nouns. English Teaching Resources: Collective Nouns includes a bright and colourful 32 slide PowerPoint presentation and two accompanying worksheets to help consolidate understanding. 

Collective Nouns

Roman Diary The Journal Of Iliona - Learning Sequence is a planning document that maps the learning and unit sequence provided in this English unit from Focus Education.

Roman Diary The Journal Of Iliona - Learning Sequence

Roman Diary The Journal Of Iliona - Teaching Slides is a PowerPoint presentation which contains a range of task modelling, group activities and teaching and learning opportunities that teachers can use as they explore the focus text in this English unit from Focus Education. 

Roman Diary The Journal Of Iliona - Teaching Slides

The Suffix '-ly' - Year 3 and 4 (19-slide PowerPoint lesson with 3 differentiated worksheet tasks).    This Year 3 / 4 resource explains how to spell words with the suffix '-ly' correctly. The lesson provides a definition of the '-ly' suffix with examples, and explains how to change an adjective into an adverb and a noun into an adjective by using the suffix '-ly'.     The lesson also covers the three main exception rules that children need to know when adding the '-ly' suffix. The resource includes three differentiated activities - Gold, Silver and Bronze - to enable children of all abilities to be challenged. Full answer keys are included.

The Suffix '-ly' - Worksheet

Egyptian Cinderella - Teaching Slides is a PowerPoint presentation which contains a range of task modelling, group activities and teaching and learning opportunities that teachers can use as they explore the focus text in this English unit from Focus Education. 

Egyptian Cinderella - Teaching Slides

Adverbs Teaching Resources (Year 3 / Year 4 English).     This adverbs teaching resource is an 11 slide PowerPoint presentation focusing on Reading and Writing skills. This PowerPoint lesson explores how the use of adverbs can affect a text and teaches students how to use effective adverbs to develop sentence structure.    Year 3/4 English Teaching Resources: Adverbs includes the following activities: Definition of adverbs and examples with images / illustrations, 'Spot the adverb' task, Question and answer slides to enable peer assessment in the classroom, How to create effective adverbs, Speaking and Listening activity and constructive criticism task, Adverb detective activity - 'How, when and where', Consolidation of understanding, 3 accompanying worksheets.    Adverbs can be used as a starter activity, incorporated into a lesson or developed into a lesson on language, grammar and word choices.

Adverbs - Worksheet

Easily Confused Words - Were, We're and Where     This English teaching resource focuses on the near homophones 'were', 'we're' and 'where'. It is an ideal teaching aid when covering these easily confused words as mentioned in the English programme of study - Writing - transcription: Spelling.     Content includes: Definitions and examples of; 'were', 'where' and 'we're', Consolidation of understanding activity, Peer assessment task, One accompanying worksheet.     'Easily Confused Words - Were, We're and Where' can be used as a starter activity, incorporated into a lesson or developed into a lesson on wider spelling rules and homophones. 

Easily Confused Words - Were, We're and Where - Worksheet

The Prefix 'inter-' - Year 3 and 4 (16-slide PowerPoint and 3 differentiated worksheets).    This differentiated teaching resource introduces Year 3/4 learners to prefixes with a focus on the prefix 'inter'. It includes a definition and explanation of the prefix 'inter', whole-class activities and three differentiated worksheets to assess understanding. Full answer keys are included.  Related Resources Prefixes Year 3/4 Writing

The Prefix 'inter-' - Worksheet

Conjunctions - PowerPoint

Causal Conjunctions - Worksheet

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar