Your guide to using our new resources to plan and teach great lessons

You're all ready to start saving time by using our new teaching resources as a head start! Here are are a few tips to make your lesson planning and classroom teaching go even more smoothly when using our new curriculum and resources.

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Lesson page

When you click into a set of our lesson planning and teaching resources, you will find:

• Lesson title
• Lesson outcome which describes what pupils should know or be able to do by the end of your lesson.

Lesson details

As you scroll down, you can find additional information about the resources including tips for when you plan your lesson:

Key learning points - describes the knowledge explored in the resources

Common misconception - empowering you to anticipate where pupils might have a misconception and how you could address this in your lesson

Keywords that will appear in the teaching resources

Teacher tip - a suggestion from the teacher who designed the resources of how you might bring them to life in your classroom

Additional materials - extra materials you might need for teaching the lesson

How the resources are structured

Our teaching resources are adaptable, but as a rough guide, we've designed them to be used to teach lessons for approximately 50 minutes to 1-hour blocks (except at KS1 where they are closer to 40 minutes). They have a common structure which makes them easier for you to use and adapt.

• Prior knowledge starter quiz - to activate and check prior knowledge. Our prior knowledge starter quizzes are downloadable as PDFs for printing or to display on a screen.
• Learning cycles - our resources are designed to help you break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each cycle is formed of two pairs: explanation, peppered with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback for pupils. These are indicated in the slide deck using icons in the top right of the slides:

You can see these learning cycles in the lesson outline in our slide decks. It's a quick and simple way of scanning ahead.     

              The practice tasks are in the slide decks and collated into worksheets - both of which you can download and edit.

• Assessment exit quiz - this quiz checks understanding of the key learning points, keywords and misconceptions in the lesson you teach. Download and print them or display them on your whiteboard - the choice is yours!