Learn how effective modelling and questioning can boost musical progress in your classroom. Music specialist Laura Forster-Rea shares practical strategies to build pupils’ confidence, deepen understanding, and support skill progression – plus a Q&A to wrap up.
year: Year 6
Knowledge organiser – Spanish Y5/6 (B): Clothes
A Knowledge Organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit Spanish, Year 5/6 (B), Unit 3: Clothes in Spanish.
This resource is designed to support pupils in developing their Spanish vocabulary and grammar through the theme of clothing. The first page introduces a wide range of clothing items with clear illustrations and translations, such as una chaqueta (jacket), unas botas (boots), and un vestido (dress). The second page focuses on sentence structure, exploring gender and number agreement in adjectives and articles (e.g. cómodo/cómoda, unos zapatos/unas sandalias), and includes descriptive terms such as formal, elegante, and deportivo. It also models how to form phrases using de + noun, such as de invierno or de sol. This resource is ideal for supporting language acquisition and sentence construction in a real-world context.
Webinar: Teaching Remembrance in Primary Schools
In this recorded webinar, Kapow Primary History specialists, Khatija Shakir and Alice Faulkner, share thoughtful and age-appropriate ways to help learners engage meaningfully with Remembrance across the curriculum.
The session explores:
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Why Remembrance matters in the primary classroom
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Sensitive and relevant approaches to teaching Remembrance
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Cross-curricular opportunities for exploring the theme
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Practical ideas to encourage empathy, reflection and understanding
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An overview of Kapow Primary’s Remembrance lesson plans and resources
Annual Planner 2025 – 2026
We’ve highlighted the most relevant events for primary schools so you can see what’s coming up each month and plan with confidence.
Webinar: Code-Along Part 2 (KS2)
Webinar: Lead Your Subject With Confidence
Pupil video: An evacuee’s experience
This video introduces Kitty Baxter as she shares her personal experiences of evacuation during World War 2
Teacher video: Self-portrait
This archived Art and design scheme of work video is part of a lesson in which pupils explore self-portraits by combining technology and drawing.
Children begin by taking three selfies, before choosing their favourite to develop into a drawing. Using a sharp HB pencil and plain paper, they recreate their chosen image through a continuous line drawing, keeping their pencil on the page at all times. This approach encourages close observation, concentration and fine detail. The first attempt acts as a practice drawing. Pupils then create a final version, again without erasing, and may go over their lines with a fine liner to make their work bolder. By the end of the lesson, children will have created a self-portrait inspired by their own photograph while developing confidence and control in observational line drawing.
This video is part of Kapow Primary’s archived Year 6 Photography unit.
Teacher video: Introduction to sketchbooks
This archived Art and design scheme of work video is part of a lesson in which pupils explore how sketchbooks can be used as a creative tool rather than for completed pieces.
Children learn that sketchbooks are a safe place to experiment, make mistakes and develop ideas. They can use them to try different approaches, such as practising shading styles, experimenting with media, or sketching the same subject in several ways. Pupils are also encouraged to add short notes alongside their drawings, recording ideas and possible changes to help them reflect and improve. Through this process, sketchbooks become a space to practise skills, explore texture and detail, and build confidence in experimenting. By the end of the lesson, children will understand that sketchbooks are about creativity and growth, not perfection, and provide a record of their artistic development.
This video is part of Kapow Primary’s archived Art and design skills units.
