This French video introduces teachers to a creative sentence-building activity inspired by Spike Milligan’s playful poetry. Pupils combine animal nouns and body parts to invent fantastical creatures, applying prior learning on gender, liaison, and sentence structure.
year: Year 5
Teacher video: About a beast
This French video introduces teachers to a dynamic, movement-based approach for teaching adjectival agreement. Pupils explore how adjectives change according to the gender and number of the nouns they describe, starting with a sorting task to group adjectives into “families” and spot patterns in endings.
Teacher video: Fantastic French beasts
This French video introduces teachers to the final stage of the “Fantastic Beasts” unit, where pupils bring together all the grammatical elements they’ve learned to produce a longer, original text in French. The focus is on modelling from familiar sentence structures rather than encouraging guesswork or over-reliance on dictionaries.
Teacher video: Interpretations of the past
Teachers learn strategies to help Year 5 and 6 children understand differing interpretations of the past and develop critical thinking skills in history.
Teacher video: Investigating dissolving
This Science video introduces teachers to a Year 5 investigation into how temperature impacts the rate at which sugar dissolves in water. The lesson begins with a demonstration using sweets on a plate and hot water to spark curiosity before pupils plan their own fair test.
Pupil video: Evaporating solutions
Pupil video: Factors affecting dissolving
Pupil video: Reversible changes
Teacher video: Conductivity
This Science video introduces teachers to an investigation where children build on their knowledge of electrical conductivity and explore thermal conductivity. Begin by demonstrating how heat travels through a material using spoons and paper clips. Attach paper clips along the spoon’s handle using petroleum jelly, then gently heat the spoon with a candle.
