Greek Myths
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise composing narrative stories to illustrate the structure and format of myths based on culture and traditions from Ancient Greece. The can produce recounts and diary entries to show some of the things that can happen in a Greek myth.
Daedalus and Icarus
Explore how to develop and perform drama plays to illustrate the sequence of events in a scene from the Ancient Greece myth of Daedalus and Icarus
Persephone and the Pomegranate Seeds
Identify and describe the main narrative features of myths to use when writing a diary as a character from a story set in Ancient Greece
Theseus and the Minotaur
Investigate how to compose and present a narrative story based on the text features of a myth from Ancient Greece about a hero and a monster
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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