Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to suggest how to prepare different materials to use when making a potion, a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a set of instructions about how to make a potion to cast a spell, a worksheet to complete and extend a set of instructions about how to make a potion for a specific function and a set of cards to sequence a set of instructions about a witch’s potion.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to sequence and adapt a set of instructions about how to make a potion to cast a spell.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to select and write sets of instructions that a witch can follow when making a range of potions to use when casting different spells. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.