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

War Horse is a complete 14 lesson scheme of work with a 138 slide PowerPoint presentation, 14 structured lessons and a 7 page booklet of worksheets.     KS2 English Teaching Resources: War Horse by Michael Morpurgo contains a range of lessons, tasks and activities designed to develop pupil knowledge and understanding of the historical context, plot, characters, language and themes of this wonderful novel.     Our War Horse teaching resources include a collection of activities for pupils of all abilities:     - A scheme of work overview with 14 four part lessons covering historical context, plot, character, themes and language   - Analysis of the characters of Joey, Albert, Father, Captain Nicholls and others  - Extension activities - 4 part lessons with starter activity, introduction, development and plenary   - Historical context understanding research activity   - Developing inference and deduction skills   - Empathetic writing - Joey's diary   - Hot seating to develop character knowledge and understanding   - Analysing Michael Morpurgo's use of language and narrative structure in War Horse   - Writing a newspaper story   - 14 lesson scheme of work with overview/teacher notes   - A 138 slide PowerPoint presentation  - 7 worksheets to accompany the PowerPoint slideshow 

Based on a Book

War Horse

KS2 ENGLISH - Romeo and Juliet teaching unit.     This brilliant teaching unit contains a 220 slide PowerPoint presentation, 30 worksheets and a step by step overview of 32 engaging lessons.     Our Romeo and Juliet teaching resource includes a variety of activities for students of all abilities and includes the following:     - A short Shakespeare biography and a guide to the Elizabethan theatre   - Tasks to help children understand the plot   - Analysing the characters of Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio, Tybalt and more   - Exploration of the key themes (love, hate, fate, etc)   - Developing understanding of Shakespeare's stagecraft   - Using evidence when writing about the play Examining Shakespeare's language in key scenes   - Shakespeare's employment of tension and suspense in Romeo and Juliet   - Empathy writing   - Hot seating activities

Romeo and Juliet

This ready to teach Year 5/6 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 Night's Dream

Year 5 / Year 6 English Teaching Resources: Writing to Persuade is an 81 slide PowerPoint unit of work with stage by stage lessons specifically designed to teach writing to persuade.    The resource contains seven lessons, each structured using the four part lesson format (starter activity, introduction, development and plenary) all of which can be edited, personalised and differentiated it to suit your teaching needs.     KS2 English Teaching Resources: Writing to Persuade is a comprehensive and exhaustive resource with lessons covering a range of activities:   - What is writing to persuade?   - Exploring purpose and form   - How audience affects writing to persuade   - Planning, structuring and organising persuasive writing   - Using fact and opinion, emotive language and flattery when writing to persuade   - Developing use of rhetorical techniques (rhetorical questions, rule of 3, etc)   - How to do well in the exam when writing to persuade 

Composition

Writing to Persuade

A complete KS2 scheme of work for David Almond's Skellig.     Skellig includes a huge 204 slide PowerPoint slideshow, 11 pages of worksheets and 23 step by step lessons for teaching the popular novel.     The resource uses the four part lesson structure: starter activity, introduction, development and plenary and all PowerPoint slides are clear and 'student friendly'. Bright and effective use of colour, photographs, cartoons and video clips are all used to create an excellent learning experience.     The resources also include a student booklet packed with worksheets created to be used alongside the PowerPoint slideshow. Skellig is a detailed and extensive resource that covers all the key areas required by the National Curriculum and includes a wide range of classroom activities for pupils of all abilities:   - Research tasks - William Blake and Angels   - Predictions about the text using the cover, author and blurb   - Activities to develop knowledge of the plot   - In depth analysis of the characters of Michael, Mina and Skellig   - Exploration of the key themes   - Developing awareness of the features of a novel ; narrative hooks, building tension, setting the scene   - Teaching the use of Point/Evidence/Explain;   - David Almond's 'message' - the author's purpose   - Cloze and sequencing activities to consolidate understanding of the plot   - Analysis of David Almond's use of language in key scenes   - Hot seating activities   - Empathy question preparation   - Diary writing   - Links to a range of Skellig games, websites and more lesson ideas   - Exploring David Almond's use of pathetic fallacy 

Skellig

Descriptive Writing - Year 5/6 is made up of six lesson overview, an 82 slide PowerPoint presentation and a 9-page booklet of worksheets.     The PowerPoint contains stage by stage lessons specifically designed to teach writing to describe at upper KS2. The resource contains a number of lessons which can be tweaked, personalised and differentiated to suit your teaching needs.    Descriptive Writing - Year 5/6 uses colour, imagery and engaging activities to create a vibrant and stimulating learning experience. It is a comprehensive and detailed resource.     The lessons are made up of a range of activities for learners of all abilities, including:   - The features of writing to describe   - Using adjectives effectively to create descriptive imagery   - How to use verbs effectively in descriptive writing   - Planning, structuring and organising writing   - Using similes to bring writing alive on the page   - Developing a wider vocabulary   - How to draft and redraft when writing to describe

Descriptive Writing

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

Muscle May Alcott - Etymology Bundle

Biscuit Byron - Etymology Bundle

Sergeant Shelley - Etymology Bundle

Boy (Roald Dahl) is a brilliant scheme of work featuring a series of 10 lessons designed to enhance and develop pupil knowledge and understanding of the book Boy by Roald Dahl.     Our Boy (Roald Dahl) resource includes a wide range of activities and lessons for pupils of all abilities:   - A brief biography of Boy author Roald Dahl with a short film about his life narrated by Michael Rosen   - Exploring the difference between biographical and autobiographical writing   - Create a Roald Dahl family tree - to develop knowledge of the early chapters of Boy... and lots more! 

Boy by Roald Dahl

The Silver Sword is a complete 17 lesson Year 5 / Year 6 teaching unit. 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 Ian Serraillier's The Silver Sword.     Resources include:   - A unit overview with 17 four part lessons covering historical context, plot, character, themes and language,   - Analysis of the characters of Joseph, Ruth, Edek and Bronia Balicki and Jana   - Varied extension activities.

The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier

This unit of work contains a series of progressive lessons designed to help teach Writing to Entertain. Resources include eleven complete lessons, each created using the four part lesson plan structure (starter activity, introduction, development and plenary) and all of which can be fully edited and differentiated to fit your teaching requirements.     Writing to Entertain is a thorough and detailed resource with lessons covering a number of activities:   - What makes a good opening, narrative hooks Improving vocabulary   - How to structure a story and set the scene  - The five stage narrative plan when writing to entertain   - Using similes, metaphors, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in your writing   - Drafting and redrafting writing. 

Writing to Entertain

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 and all slides can be edited and differentiated to suit your teaching requirements. 

Autobiography

This KS2 resource is a complete and ready to teach unit of work and is an ideal introduction to Macbeth for children at KS2. All lessons follow a four part lesson structure (starter, introduction, development and plenary) and all have been carefully planned and designed to enhance and develop knowledge and understanding of the play.     Within the PowerPoint slides you will find a mix of activities for children of different abilities including: A brief outline of Shakespeare's life and times and the Elizabethan theatre, Understanding the plot, activities, Key features of a drama text and lots more. 

Macbeth by Shakespeare

Writing a Formal Letter - Year 5 and 6 is a mini unit of work containing 3 lessons which teach pupils how to write a formal letter and covers many of the curriculum objectives in the year 5 and 6 English programme of study (Writing - composition).     Content includes:   - The difference between formal and informal writing  - How to write formally  - How to lay out a formal letter  - The dos and don'ts of writing a formal letter  - How to draft and redraft.

Writing a Formal Letter

Year 5 / Year 6 English - Christmas Poetry Teaching Unit - a teaching unit uses a variety of poems with a Christmas theme to teach upper KS2 children how to write about poetry in detail.     The resource explores themes, structure, poetic devices, imagery, context and more. Poems studied include 'The Christmas Truce' by Carol Ann Duffy, 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' by Dr Seuss and 'Winter-Time' by Robert Louis Stevenson. 

Poetry

Christmas Poetry

Searching for Shakespeare (Reading Non fiction, research and note making skills) is a unit of work for teaching research and note making skills. This series of lessons teaches pupils the cross curricular skills of how to research a topic efficiently. The resources cover skills such as skimming and scanning, using contents and index pages, searching on the web and how to make independent notes. Designed for KS2 English

Searching for Shakespeare

The unit is made up of 8 lessons, each created using the 4-part lesson structure and all of which can be personalised and differentiated to fit into your individual teaching requirements.     Our A Christmas Carol teaching resource covers a range of tasks and activities:   - Christmas today and in Victorian Britain  - The use of time and structure in A Christmas Carol  - Developing key inference and deduction skills  - Scrooge on a TV talk show  - Exploring character  - Charles Dickens' use of language  - How to write about A Christmas Carol using Point, Evidence, Explain.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Demon Headmaster - KS2 English (146-slide PowerPoint-based unit of work with 28 worksheets).    This Year 5/6 Unit of Work explores the novel 'The Demon Headmaster' by Gillian Cross and is designed to help Year 5/6 learners develop key English reading skills.     Contents include: Reading and comprehension activities (answers included), Analysing characters and writing about them in detail using quotations, Developing inference and deduction skills, Exploring the author's use of language, Developing descriptive writing skills, Quizzes to assess understanding informally, crossword, word search and quiz, Using constructive criticism to improve key skills, Exploring and discussing the novel's themes, Examining how the author builds tension, Writing empathetically in character to show understanding, Post-reading review writing and lots more! 

The Demon Headmaster

War Horse is a complete 14 lesson scheme of work with a 138 slide PowerPoint presentation, 14 structured lessons and  a 7 page booklet of worksheets.     KS2 English Teaching Resources: War Horse by Michael Morpurgo contains a range of lessons, tasks and activities designed to develop pupil knowledge and understanding of the historical context, plot, characters, language and themes of this wonderful novel.     Our War Horse teaching resources include a collection of activities for pupils of all abilities:     - A scheme of work overview with 14 four part lessons covering historical context, plot, character, themes and language   - Analysis of the characters of Joey, Albert, Father, Captain Nicholls and others  - Extension activities - 4 part lessons with starter activity, introduction, development and plenary   - Historical context understanding research activity   - Developing inference and deduction skills   - Empathetic writing - Joey's diary   - Hot seating to develop character knowledge and understanding   - Analysing Michael Morpurgo's use of language and narrative structure in War Horse   - Writing a newspaper story   - 14 lesson scheme of work with overview/teacher notes   - A 138 slide PowerPoint presentation  - 7 worksheets to accompany the PowerPoint slideshow 

War Horse Lesson 1: Making Predictions

The Main Clause' is an English teaching resource focusing on developing key reading and writing skills. This handy 8 slide PowerPoint lesson explores how to identify the main clause in a sentence and how to use the main clause with confidence in sentence construction.     It includes:   - Lesson / learning objectives   - Definition of the main clause with example sentences   - Question and answer slides to enable peer assessment in the classroom   - Identify the main clause in a complex sentence.

Grammar

The Main Clause

Subjunctive Form - Year 5 and 6     Year 5 and 6 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 by: recognising vocabulary and structures that are appropriate for formal speech and writing, including subjunctive forms     In this upper KS2 English teaching resource, pupils learn about subjunctive forms and how they are used in formal writing as per the year 5 and 6 curriculum objective listed above. 

Subjunctive Form

A Christmas Carol - Lesson 1 - First Impressions

Christmas Poetry Unit - Lesson 1 - Once there was a snowman

English Poetry Writing Teaching Resource Summer Haiku Poetry - Year 5 and 6 Resources include: 38 slide PowerPoint and 2 Worksheets.    This unit of work is designed to cover creative writing and poetry.     Summer Haiku includes a range of lessons and activities for pupils of all abilities. The PowerPoint uses bright colour, large and attractive fonts, vibrant imagery and easy to follow, child-friendly language.    English Teaching Resources: Summer Haiku includes:   - Discussion - what is a haiku?   - Exploring and discussing haiku poetry - reading, listening to and talking about haiku poems   - Create a class haiku activity Individual, pair and group work opportunities   - Reflecting on learning through constructive criticism   - Writing an individual haiku about summer   - Using colour photographs of summer scenes as writing stimulus   - Drafting - how and why we redraft   - How to plan and structure a haiku Exemplar poems   - Writing assessment opportunity - write a simple haiku poem about summer

Summer Haiku Poetry

Onomatopoeia' is a Year 5 / Year 6 English Teaching resource focusing on writing skills. It explores how authors use onomatopoeia to create aural imagery and teaches pupils how to use onomatopoeia in their own writing.     'Onomatopoeia' is a handy 11 slide PowerPoint presentation with 2 worksheets that includes:   - Learning objectives   - Definition of onomatopoeia and examples using images and sound effects   - Question and answer slides to enable peer assessment in the classroom   - Matching activity   - Using onomatopoeia to improve sentences task   - Descriptive writing activity   - Links to a video and matching game and an onomatopoeia Hangman interactive game     'Onomatopoeia' can be used as a starter activity, incorporated into a lesson or developed into a wider lesson on language, grammar and word choices.

Word Work

Onomatopoeia

Romeo & Juliet Lesson 1: Shakespeare's Life and Times

Our "Descriptive Writing - Lesson 1 - Adjectives" resource is meant to help your students master the art of describing things in writing. The resource has an overview of six lessons, a PowerPoint with 82 slides, and a 9-page booklet with worksheets. The PowerPoint has step-by-step lessons for upper KS2, year groups 5 and 6, that were made just for them. It has a variety of activities that can be changed and adapted to meet your students' needs. The lessons cover important skills like: <ul> <li>Using adjectives well to create vivid mental pictures</li> <li>Choosing the best verbs to describe your topic</li> <li>Adding more words to your vocabulary</li> <li>Planning, organising, and structuring a piece of writing</li> <li>Using similes to make writing on the page come alive</li> </ul> In addition to the PowerPoint, the resource has a number of other helpful materials, such as word cards, word mats, and adjective cards. You can use these to round out your lessons and help your students learn more about: <ul> <li>Possessive adjectives</li> <li>Interesting adjectives</li> <li>Using more than one adjective</li> <li>Word classes</li> </ul> No matter how old your students are or what year they are in, our "Descriptive Writing - Lesson 1 - Adjectives" resource will engage and challenge them. This resource is a great addition to your other materials for teaching English. It focuses on how to use adjectives and other language tools to make writing come alive on the page.

Descriptive Writing - Lesson 1 - Adjectives

This upper KS2 teaching unit uses the topic of climate change to help develop key non-fiction reading and writing skills. It introduces climate change through text, video and graphics and contains a variety of differentiated reading and writing tasks.     Contents include:   - Differentiated reading comprehension tasks (Gold, Silver and Bronze - high, mid and lower ability)   - Exploring the features of non-chronological reports (layout, language, facts and statistics)   - Planning, editing and writing a non-chronological report   - Writing a letter (formal and non-formal writing, layout and language, audience and purpose)   - Developing key spelling skills within the context of the unit   - Creating a news report (layout, language, audience, etc) about climate change.

Comprehension

Climate Change - Unit 2 - Non-Chronological Report

Year 6 English Teaching Resources; Holes by Louis Sachar; a medium term plan overview, 23 lesson plans and 20 worksheets along with 161 slides of PowerPoint presentations.     Our Holes teaching resource is made up of an extensive assortment of activities for upper KS2 students.  It explores the following in detail:    Youth detention in the USA and boot camps, The historical context of the American South (racial segregation, civil rights, Jim Crow laws), Analysis of the characters of Stanley Yelnats, Mr Sir, Mr Pendanski, The Warden, Kate Barlow, Sam and Zero, Exploring key themes - crime and punishment, friendship, redemption, Key features of a novel - narrative hooks, building tension, setting the scene, Writing about the book using Point/Evidence/Explain, Louis Sachar's purpose and viewpoint, Activities to consolidate understanding of the plot, Language study in key scenes, Hot seating activities, Empathy writing tasks - diary and letter writing - to show understanding of plot, character and themes, Links to online games, quizzes and more lesson ideas.   

Holes Medium Term Plan

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)