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

This amazing picture book really puts succinct use of language into action. The strange illustrations stimulate rich discussion and the context draws children in to consider invasion in a new and exciting way.    These ideas would fit well with topics such as Invaders, travel, settlements    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 Rabbits by John Marsden and Shaun Tan - Reading

Introducing Pathetic Fallacy - Year 5 and 6    In 'Introducing Pathetic Fallacy - Year 5 and 6' pupils are introduced to the technique of pathetic fallacy. They learn how and why writers use pathetic fallacy in their writing and practise using it in their own writing. This PowerPoint teaching resource can be used as a standalone lesson, incorporated into an existing lesson or built into a wider unit of work. Content includes:    Pathetic Fallacy explanation  The difference between pathetic fallacy and personification  Pathetic fallacy and personification identification activity  Why writers use pathetic fallacy explanation  Writing sentences using pathetic fallacy activity with an accompanying worksheet

Introducing Pathetic Fallacy

Complex Sentences - Year 5 and 6.    In this upper KS2 teaching resource pupils are taught how to build complex sentences to improve their writing as per the curriculum objectives of the year 5 and 6 English programme of study (Writing - composition, Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation).     Content includes:   - Definition and examples of a complex sentence   - How to recognise the main clause in a complex sentence Identifying the main clause activity with accompanying worksheet   - How to recognise the subordinate clause in a complex sentence   - Identifying the subordinate clause activity with accompanying worksheet   - Adding a subordinate clause activity with accompanying worksheet   - 1 further worksheet

Complex Sentences

A Year 6 unit based on the book The Golden Horsemen of Baghdad 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

The Golden Horsemen of Baghdad

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.

Climate Change - Unit 2 - Non-Chronological Report

Climate Change - Unit 1 - Silver Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Climate Change - Unit 2 - Example Report Worksheet

A Year 6 unit based on the book Tales from the Arabian Nights 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.

Tales from the Arabian Nights

A strange and bewitching tale - with not such a happy ending! The clever tale of Jub and how she deals with a meddling witch.    A 6 week module, including yearly planning overviews, medium term plans for English and maths, plus a wealth of activities to use in the classroom.    These ideas would fit well with topics such as Traditional Tales, Woodlands, The Environment, Magic    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: The Lost Happy Endings by Carol Ann Duffy and Jane Ray - Reading

A Year 6 unit based on the book Darwin's Dragons 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.

Darwin's Dragons

This Year 5 / Year 6 teaching unit will develop learners knowledge of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius through several English reading and writing activities.     The PowerPoints includes a range of individual, paired and group activities which will encourage discussion and focus on vocabulary and language choices for writing.     Learning outcomes include:   - Find and retrieve comprehension skills   - Dictionary activities  - First person recounts

Volcanoes - Unit 1 - Reading Comprehension PowerPoint

Volcanoes - Unit 4 - Reading Comprehension Worksheet

This amazing picture book really puts succinct use of language into action. The strange illustrations stimulate rich discussion and the context draws children in to consider invasion in a new and exciting way.      The activities in this Year 6 English Lesson are clearly linked to objectives for composition, comprehension, grammar and punctuation using the book as the stimulus to learning. The engaging ideas provide super starting points for KS1 learning and are driven by probing questions.

Inspired by: The Rabbits - Week 1

Introducing Pathetic Fallacy - PowerPoint

Climate Change - Unit 1 - Bronze Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Climate Change - Unit 4 - Example News Report Worksheet

Complex Sentences - Worksheet

Complex Sentences - PowerPoint

Inference Skills Teaching Resource Year 5 / Year 6  Reading & Comprehension; 16 slide PowerPoint presentation with 2 worksheets.    Inference Skills is ideal for helping children improve their inference and deduction skills at upper KS2. The PowerPoint uses a number of optical illusions to convey the concept of looking for hidden meanings in a text. The resource then uses an extract from Jamaica Inn to explore inference in a piece of fiction and to assess understanding.

Inference Skills - PowerPoint

Volcanoes - Unit 1 - Mount Vesuvius

Volcanoes - Unit 1 - Mount Vesuvius Worksheet

Climate Change - Unit 1 - Reading Comprehension PowerPoint

Volcanoes - Unit 3 - Poem about Mount Vesuvius PowerPoint

Medium Term Plan for the Livello Module inspired by My Secret War Diary by Marcia Williams.    Follow the exploits of Flossie Albright, aged 9, as she chronicles her life through World War 2. A quirky and often humorous look at a child's life through the war, providing lots of opportunities to investigate elements of the war such as rationing, the war effort, and war statistics.

Inspired by: My Secret War Diary - Medium Term Plan

Volcanoes - Unit 4 - Write a First Person Recount

Inference Skills

Volcanoes - Unit 3 - Mount Vesuvius Acrostic Poem Worksheet

Climate Change - Unit 4 - News Report

Climate Change - Unit 5 - Persuasive Advert

Bullying - Discussion Texts    Year 5 / Year 6 English Teaching Unit    (Unit of Work made up of a 45-slide PowerPoint and 9 worksheets)    This KS2 English unit of work has been designed to help Year 5 / 6 learners get to grips with discussion writing and explore the subject of bullying. It includes the following tasks and activities:    - Define and discuss bullying and the different forms it can take    - Sort and role play different bullying scenarios to understand different viewpoints    - Create a mind map of the effects of bullying    - Analyse videos to understand the mind-set of a bully     - Review and practise the discussion text features such as: statistics, formal language choices, technical language use and opposing conjunctions.    - Learn how to structure a discussion text    - Edit and redraft writing using a checklist

Bullying - Discussion Texts - Worksheet

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)