Separating Materials
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on separating materials. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students separate solids using sieves and magnets. They then identify solutions and mixtures before removing materials by filtering and evaporation. Through…
Light and Sight
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on light and vision. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students identify sources of light and revise facts such as light travels in straight lines and opaque objects form shadows. They understand that to see, light…
Further Circuits
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on electricity. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students begin with revision of simple circuits before gaining lots of hands on experience with symbols, diagrams and incomplete circuits. They investigate the effect…
Drugs and Bugs
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on medicines and microbes. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students look at microbes in detail, gaining an understanding of their size and variety. They discover the beneficial and harmful effects of different microbes.…
Water
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on water. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Water exists as solid, liquid and gas in everyday conditions. Students investigate the properties of these different states of matter and how they change from one to the…
Space
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on space. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students find facts about the Sun, Moon and Earth. They develop an understanding of day and night, the four seasons and the Moon’s phases. The Sun and planets making…
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Circulation
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on circulation. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students explore the structure of the heart and lungs. The double circulation system is explained and children learn more about blood. Children ask the questions.…
On the Move
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on the human skeleton and movement. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students have fun investigating their own skeletons and muscles. They look closely at bones, joints and muscles. They compare human skeletons with…
Separating Solids and Liquids
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on separating materials. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. The lessons reinforce students' understanding of solids, liquids and states of matter. They find out how solids and liquids can be separated when they…
Circuits and Conductors
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on electricity. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. The lessons reinforce students' understanding of simple circuits and the use of symbols to draw them. They go on to investigate which materials are the best electrical…
Rocks and Soils
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on rocks and soils. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students find out about what is under their feet. Students are always fascinated by rocks and, in this strand, they describe rocks and compare their properties…
Eating
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on food, diet and digestion. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students find out about food groups and a healthy balanced diet. They look at the human digestive system and the diets of herbivores, carnivores and omnivores.…
Attracting and Stretching
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on forces. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students are introduced to the mysteries of magnetic forces, and springs are revealed during this topic. During an investigation into magnets, students find out which materials…
Year Six Teaching Sequences Resources
These printable resources in PDF format from the Hamilton Trust for Year Six link to the plans for the teaching of sequences provided in this collection for each of the three terms. There are resources for place value and addition of decimals, solving problems, negative numbers involving temperature, ordering fractions and decimals…
Year Five Teaching Sequences Resources
These printable resources in PDF format from the Hamilton Trust, for Year Five, link to the teaching of sequences for each of the three terms. There are resources for place value of five digit numbers and decimals, reading distances, ordering decimals, rounding decimals, halving and doubling numbers with one decimal place and common…
Year Four Teaching Sequences Resources
The resources from the Hamilton Trust for Year Four are for the autumn term and complement the weekly plans in this collection. They are in PDF format to enable them to be printed or displayed on a screen and include place value, locating four digit numbers, converting units of measurement, ordering decimals and multiplying or dividing…
Year Three Teaching Sequences Resources
In this collection, the Hamilton Trust has provided printable resources in PDF format for each of the teaching sequences in the three terms in Year Three. There are landmarked lines for numbers and money and resources for reading prices, pairing numbers to 20 and 100, multiplication by 10 and 100, adding and subtracting money,…
Year Six Weekly Resources
The resources provided here by the Hamilton Trust are for teaching Year Six during the autumn term. They are in PDF format to enable them to be printed or displayed on a screen and are designed to be used in conjunction with the weekly plans. The resources include ordering and addition of decimals with three decimal places, area…
Year Five Weekly Resources
The resources provided here by the Hamilton Trust are for the autumn term in Year Five. They are in PDF format to enable them to be printed or displayed on a screen and are designed to be used in conjunction with the weekly plans. There are resources for place value of five digit numbers, reading distances from a table, as well as…
Year Four Weekly Resources
The resources provided here by the Hamilton Trust are for the autumn term. They are in PDF format to enable them to be printed or displayed on a screen and are designed to be used in conjunction with the weekly plans. There are resources for place value of four digit numbers, landmarked lines, number grids, a spinner for probability…
Year Three Weekly Resources
The resources from the Hamilton Trust for Year Three are for the autumn term and complement the weekly plans in this collection. They are in PDF format to enable them to be printed or displayed on a screen and include landmark lines, a money place chart, addition and subtraction with three digit numbers, calculations involving money…
Year Four Weekly Plans
These Year Four weekly plans in Word format from the Hamilton Trust complement the autumn term teaching sequences. They describe daily lesson plans, each with differentiated activities on place value of four digit numbers, rounding three digit numbers to the nearest hundred, recognising multiples of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 and multiplying…
Year Five Weekly Plans
These weekly plans for Year Five from the Hamilton Trust give a series of daily lessons on place value, knowing what a digit represents in five and six figure numbers, comparing and ordering numbers up to one million. Further lessons cover drawing lines to the nearest centimetre and millimetre, measuring lines accurately, measuring…
Year Six Weekly Plans
These weekly plans, in Word format, from the Hamilton Trust for Year Six are broken down into daily lesson plans. During week one of the autumn term the differentiated activities cover the revision of ordering numbers and place value, knowing what each digit represents in a number with up to two decimal places. The lesson plans…
Year Three Weekly Plans
Place value, ordering numbers and using addition and subtraction facts to 20 are covered in these weekly plans for Year Three from the Hamilton Trust. These plans complement the teaching sequences for the autumn term by breaking down a sequence with differentiated activities for whole class or targeted groups of students. Desired…
Year Six Teaching Sequences
The teaching sequences, provided for each term, are produced by the Hamilton Trust. The autumn and spring plans describe a series of lessons on place value of numbers with decimal places, mental and written methods for multiplication and division. An overview of progression in learning is given, as are prerequisites, objectives…
Year Five Teaching Sequences
These Year Five teaching sequences, of which there are three for each term, are provided by the Hamilton Trust. In the autumn and spring terms they focus on place value, rounding and ordering numbers with decimal places. The summer term's sequences include positive and negative numbers and multiplication and division. Each…
Year Three Teaching Sequences
For Year Three, the Hamilton Trust has provided three teaching sequences for each term covering place value, ordering three digit numbers and progressing to multiplying by 100. Each sequence describes a series of lessons for that topic. An overview of progression in learning for the sequence is given, as are prerequisites, objectives…
Year Four Teaching Sequences
These nine teaching sequences, produced by the Hamilton Trust, deal with progression in place value, multiplication facts, using decimal notation for tenths and hundreths, rounding and ordering four digit numbers. An overview of progression in learning for the sequence is given, as are prerequisites, objectives and misconceptions…