This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to compose a selection of different types of poems using figurative language and poetry styles to illustrate relationships between friends and family members. The class can devise different similes and metaphors to use in poems about love.

Friends and Bullies

Select and compose a range of figurative language using similes and metaphors in poetry to describe and illustrate different relationships between pairs of friends

Love Twisters

Select and record matching vocabulary words with similar pronunciation to use in tongue twisters expressing ideas and themes about love

What is Love

Select and devise figurative language using similes and metaphors to create descriptive images that can be used in poetry describing ideas and themes about love

Family Life

Select powerful descriptive vocabulary phrases which can be used to compose Kenning poems about the relationships between different members of a family

  • Rounding Hundreds

    Rounding Hundreds

    Explain and model how to round some different numbers to the nearest hundred based on the place values of the digits in each number

  • Rounding Tens

    Rounding Tens

    Identify and record how to round some different numbers to the nearest ten based on the place values of the digits in each number

  • Classic Animal Stories

    Classic Animal Stories

    Investigate the structure and content of classic works of fiction by significant authors with animals as the main characters

  • Cities, Towns and Villages

    Cities, Towns and Villages

    Research and present the history of a range of different buildings and people that are part of the local community using a school exhibition