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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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