Conflict Poetry
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how different poets use figurative language in poetry to illustrate and compare themes and ideas about conflict to other objects and emotions. The class can practise composing similes and metaphors to use in poems about conflict.
Wilfrid Owen
Investigate and edit a poem by a significant poet that uses figurative language to reflect themes and ideas about aspects of conflict that occurred during the first world war
In Flanders Fields
Practise selecting special vocabulary words to extend and develop a poem describing themes and actions connected to events that happened during the First World War
Charge of the Light Brigade
Explore how to select and compose example similes and metaphors to describe different features and aspects of a narrative poem about an event that happened between armies
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Three Digit Values
Investigate and compare the place value of the matching sets of digits in numbers to one thousand to indicate their hundreds, tens and ones values
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Conflict Poetry
Explore how different poets use figurative language in poetry to illustrate and compare themes and ideas about conflict to other objects and emotions
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Recycled Art
Explore how to shape and combine different recycled materials to produce a sculpture reflecting the theme of recycling
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Decimal Values
Investigate and record how to compare the values of different decimal numbers by the positions of their tenths, hundredths and thousandths digits