School Debates
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explain and model how to compose a range of discussion texts to debate and present arguments about issues that are important to life in a school. The class can model how to present viewpoints of different groups about each school issue.
Classroom Rules
Identify and devise a set of behaviour and academic rules that are needed to run the classroom efficiently throughout the school year
School Rules
Select and compose a range of complex sentences to use in a discussion text containing facts and opinions describing different school issues and rules
Books or Laptops
Select and record the viewpoints of different groups about whether pupils in a school learn best by working using either books or laptops
Mobile Phones
Explore and model how to format and structure a discursive writing text to argue different points of view about whether pupils should be allowed to use mobile phones when at school
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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
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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
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Classic Animal Stories
Investigate the structure and content of classic works of fiction by significant authors with animals as the main characters
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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