This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to practise composing and presenting poems using descriptive vocabulary to illustrate some of the special places that can be found in the world. The class can model how to use the selected vocabulary to construct poems with different forms.

Forest Life

Select and use descriptive language to edit and change a poem describing some of the things that can be seen and experienced in a forest location

Seaside Visit

Select a range of descriptive vocabulary words to use when composing tongue twister poems about what can be seen and experienced during a visit to the seaside

  • Sporting Poems

    Sporting Poems

    Practise writing poems with patterned language and rhythm structures to describe movements and actions connected to different sports and games

  • Food and Drink

    Food and Drink

    Select powerful and descriptive vocabulary to use in poems describing different types of food and drink that can be enjoyed for a range of meals

  • 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