World Explorers

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise composing and publishing recounts describing voyages and expeditions to different locations around the world. The class can explain how to use adverbials of time to specify when, how long or how often something happened during their recounts.

Ocean Crossing
Identify and record how to structure and format a fictional recount describing a sailing expedition in a yacht across an ocean in the world

Mountain Expedition
Identify and record how to structure and format a fictional recount describing a climbing expedition to the summit of a high mountain in the world

Dangerous Expeditions
Explain and model how to write a recount of an imagined expedition to a dangerous location in the world using adverbials of time to indicate the timing of events
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Flower Gallery
Explore and model how to select, mix and use shades of different colours using a range of artwork techniques in a still life painting of a vase of flowers
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Pounds and Pence
Identify, compare and illustrate the value of different money amounts that have been recorded in pounds and pence
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Addition Calculations
Practise using standard written methods of addition calculation to solve a range of abstract and contextual problems working with sets of four and five digit numbers
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Seasons
Select figurative imagery for use in poetry composing similes and metaphors to describe different seasons of the year