Special Topics Teaching Resources

Discover some schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in all curriculum subjects in the Foundation Stage covering a range of special days, celebrations and festivals across the school year

  • Future Targets

    Future Targets

    Practise selecting and recording academic and behavioural targets for the next school year by reviewing past school work

  • Class Thanks

    Class Thanks

    Practise designing and producing special certificates, awards and cards to thank and reward classmates for things that have happened in the past school year

  • Remembrance Poppies

    Remembrance Poppies

    Practise combining and shaping materials to produce models of poppies that can be used to remember and commemorate the lives of others

  • Football Celebrations

    Football Celebrations

    Practise creative skills and techniques when working with different materials to create decorations to celebrate a football tournament

  • Easter Events

    Easter Events

    Explore and discuss the sequence of events in the Easter story and reflect on how and why Jesus was crucified by the Romans

  • Easter Egg Puzzles

    Easter Egg Puzzles

    Practise using art and design and maths skills to produce a range of puzzles on the theme of Easter eggs using matching and themed shapes

  • Easter Story

    Easter Story

    Explore and illustrate the main sequence of events in the Easter story and understand the role of different characters in the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus

  • Easter Decorations

    Easter Decorations

    Practise shaping and combining a range of different materials to produce decorations with matching patterns and shapes to celebrate Easter

  • Easter Egg Sums

    Easter Egg Sums

    Identify and record matching numbers of Easter eggs that make sums to five, ten and twenty when using different number skills

  • Christmas Counting

    Christmas Counting

    Practise counting and recording different numbers of Christmas objects to twenty using their matching numerical digits and vocabulary words

  • Christmas Shapes

    Christmas Shapes

    Investigate and model how to use different materials and art techniques to design and make decorations to celebrate Christmas

  • Christmas Food and Drink

    Christmas Food and Drink

    Identify, describe and compare some of the special food and drink that can be enjoyed by families at Christmas

  • Length Words

    Length Words

    Practise using special vocabulary words to compare the lengths and sizes of objects found and used in different locations

  • Speaking Skills

    Speaking Skills

    Explain and model how to use voices clearly and expressively when interacting with others in different situations and scenarios

  • School Friends

    School Friends

    Investigate, describe and model some of the special ways of providing practical, spiritual and emotional support to other pupils in the school

  • School Pictograms

    School Pictograms

    Explore how to count and record the numbers of different pieces of school equipment that can be found in trays stored around the classroom