This French video introduces teachers to a lesson where children combine family vocabulary, possessive pronouns, and house-related language to construct a descriptive text. Pupils revise terms for family members and practice using mon, ma, and mes before adding phrases for locations such as “on the ground floor” and “upstairs”.
year: Year 6
Teacher video: Places in a town
This French video introduces teachers to a lesson where children combine their knowledge of prepositions, sentence openers, and town vocabulary to give and follow directions. Pupils practise listening and repeating key phrases, such as “Where is…?” and “Where can I find…?”, along with directional vocabulary like “turn left” and “second right”, to navigate around a town map.
Teacher video: Sightseeing
This French video introduces teachers to a lesson where children learn vocabulary for places in a town and build complex sentences to share their preferences. Using connectives and adjectives, pupils explain why they like or dislike visiting particular places, starting with model sentences before creating their own.
Teacher video: Countries
This French video introduces teachers to a holiday-themed topic where children recap country names and practise the verb aller to form the near future tense. Pupils learn to say where they will go and give reasons for visiting their chosen destinations, supported by music and repetition to aid memory.
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: Carl Linnaeus and the Linnaean system
This Science video introduces teachers to the Linnaean system of classification, developed by Carl Linnaeus in the eighteenth century, and why it was a turning point in scientific organisation. Before his work, scientists in different countries used separate methods, causing confusion and duplication.
Pupil video: Cold-blooded vertebrates
Pupil video: Birds
Pupil video: Carl Linnaeus
introduces pupils to Carl Linnaeus and how he created a universal system for sorting and classifying all living things, solving the confusion caused by scientists using different methods