My experience with Plan Bee was very disappointing. I had repeated issues accessing and downloading the materials, which made the service unreliable and difficult to use. I also felt pressured into... See more
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I have used Plan Bee off and on since they first set up their service, purchasing my first set of History planning in 2014. Their new membership offer is excellent value for money. While decidin... See more
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I used to teach and used plan bee regularly . Great PowerPoint resources and differentiated work sheets ! Now I’m a private tutor and have come back to plan bee - I adapt the sessions for one to one w... See more
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My Daughter has started to Home-School my Granddaughter and asked me to help with some wok. I looked on the internet and came across PlanBee, some of the areas are free educational packs, they also ha... See more
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PlanBee provides ready-to-teach primary resources containing everything you need to teach a lesson, including lesson plans, presentations and printables. All our schemes of work are created by dedicated professionals who know what it takes to deliver fantastic lessons, all with the aim of helping ease the planning burden for busy teachers.
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Great resource
Great resource. Fun and thorough. Lovely crowd curricular activities. Thanks!
23 August 2022
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We're so pleased to hear that you're enjoying the resources - thank you for taking the time to leave us a review :-)
Excellent value
So pleased to have taken out a year group membership. Just by ordering plans for first term I’ve already recouped the annual fee by a huge amount. Thank you.
29 August 2022
Reply from PlanBee
We're absolutely thrilled to hear you're happy with your membership! We hope it makes your life a lot easier this year. Thanks so much for sharing 🤩
A good starting point.
My main issue is that schools don't teach a unit of writing in one week. It is usually built up over 3 weeks. Resource is very well written and follows a logical sequence. The slides are well presented and link well to features within the text. The subject knowledge is good. The planned activities are differentiated and there were some great thinking skills resources included, such as the diamond nine game. But I felt it trying to achieve the amount suggested over 5 days is not realistic for the majority of Year 4s. I used this planning, but padded it out and elongated it with other resources and ideas e.g I planned an extra day analysing good and bad persuasive letters, we edited another text in addition to this, we didn't try to write the letter in one day but spread this out over 3 days, I also used a differentiated task strip. I also used more video and music clips throughout the unit for further 'immersion' in the Amazon, planned two guided research days. The final published letters being sent to a relevant organisation, so children writing for a purpose and an intended audience. Overall, this was a good resource that I used to enhance my unit planning but I felt wasn't suitable as stand alone planning for a unit.
27 August 2022
Reply from PlanBee
Thank you so much for your feedback on the scheme. We're so glad that you felt that it enhanced (will enhance) your class's learning on this topic. Whilst we endeavour to create planning that is ready-to-teach for most teachers, we do understand that there will never be a one-size-fits-all for the planning and teaching within schools. As we plan, we are limited to a certain number of lessons per unit to minimise costs for customers, and try our best to pick out the most important sections or learning milestones within each unit. As ex-teachers ourselves, we know that this will not always fit into a class's timetable of teaching, but aim to provide the useful resources we can, to ensure an engaging and rich unit of learning.
KS1 Planning
I have used Plan Bee off and on since they first set up their service, purchasing my first set of History planning in 2014.
Their new membership offer is excellent value for money. While deciding which topics I wanted to download after signing up for a single user membership and adding them to my cart, it soon became clear that I had already made my money back before I had even downloaded a quarter of what I needed.
The resources are interesting, well thought out and easy to use. The lessons build on prior learning and develop children's knowledge and skills throughout the unit of work.
25 August 2022
Reply from PlanBee
Sarah, thank you SO much for leaving this review. You have no idea what it means to us to know that the memberships are doing what they set out to do and are being appreciated. Thank you and all the best for the start of term :-)
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Thank you, Stephen! We're so pleased to hear that you are finding the resources useful :-)
Super resources
Super resources, just what I was looking for but I struggled to download in the first instance. Resolved after a couple of goes.
21 August 2022
Reply from PlanBee
Hi Larraine, thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We're sorry to hear that you initially had problems downloading your purchases. We hope that you and your children enjoy using the resources. If you have any other questions or issues, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@planbeee.com
Such a large range of free resources…
Such a large range of free resources covering many subjects and topics.
Fab!
Love the fact you have free and paid resources - and all good quality.
17 August 2022
Reply from PlanBee
Thank you Sharon! We're so pleased to hear that you are enjoying the FreeBees :-)
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Hi Jo, I can see that we have been in contact with you about this issue. I hope our emails explained a little more about why we were unable to cancel this order but if you need any further clarification, please do not hesitate to get in touch again. Please also see our refund policy for further information. We're sorry you were disappointed this time.
Excellent resources.
Great lesson plan and perfect resources. I usually stay clear of pdf as I like to edit but I had no need to change anything. The planning and resources met the ks1 objectives perfectly.
13 August 2022
Reply from PlanBee
We are so pleased to hear that you are happy with the resources, Alison! Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review :-)
Never disappoints!
Informative, detailed planning as always - Plan Bee never disappoints!
12 August 2022
Reply from PlanBee
Thank you so much for your comments, Gill!
Always so easy to find what you need…
Always so easy to find what you need and such perfect resources!
6 August 2022
Reply from PlanBee
Thank you so much for your comments, Jane! We hope you enjoy using the resources :-)
Easy to use website
Easy to use website. Lots of great topics with planning that fits the current curriculum.
2 August 2022
Reply from PlanBee
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review, Karen - we hope you enjoy using the resources :-)
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We're so pleased to hear that, Mrs D!
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We're so pleased to hear that we have saved you time - that's PlanBee's main aim!
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We're so pleased that you think so, Christina!
Reply from PlanBee
Thank you, Miv! We hope you enjoy using them :-)
Excellent resources
Plan Bee resources are always top notch! I will always recommend their units of work and their freebees are fab! :)
26 July 2022
Reply from PlanBee
Thank you so much, Sheila!
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