This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate and model how to compose different sets of instructions for pirates to follow when working on board a pirate ship. The class can identify how to use imperative verbs to initiate commands for each instruction.

Pirate Party Cakes

Read and follow a set of instructions about how to bake and decorate cakes for a party on board a pirate ship

Pirate Soup

Read, sequence and write a set of instructions about how to prepare a vegetable soup for the crew of a pirate ship to make and enjoy eating when at sea

Pirate Ship Crew

Read and write different sets of instructions that can be followed by the crew to perform tasks and jobs on board a pirate ship

  • Sea Animals

    Sea Animals

    Identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a marine habitat including in the sea or on the beach

  • Number Bonds to Twenty

    Number Bonds to Twenty

    Investigate and model how to use mental calculation techniques when working with concrete objects and diagrams to identify pairs of numbers that make sums to twenty

  • Journeys Poems

    Journeys Poems

    Practise selecting powerful vocabulary words to use in poems that can describe some of the journeys made by families using different types of transport

  • Special Places Poems

    Special Places Poems

    Practise composing and presenting poems using descriptive vocabulary to illustrate some of the special places that can be found in the world