Special Topics Teaching Resources
Discover some schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in all curriculum subjects in Key Stage One covering a range of special days, celebrations and festivals across the school year
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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
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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
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Easter Garden
Select and use descriptive vocabulary words to compose a poem describing different things that can be seen in a family garden at Easter
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Easter Decorations
Practise shaping and combining a range of different materials to produce decorations with matching patterns and shapes to celebrate Easter
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Easter Celebrations
Identify, describe and illustrate how people can demonstrate and celebrate their beliefs about God through special religious celebrations at Easter
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Easter Things Poems
Practise selecting and using special vocabulary words to compose poems that play with language when describing things that represent Easter celebrations
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Family Easter
Identify and model how to compose sentences using the correct punctuation for capital letters to describe special things that families can do to celebrate Easter
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Enormous Pancake
Investigate and record how to write a story illustrating conflict and resolution about making an enormous pancake based on the structure and content of a traditional story
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Pancake Instructions
Identify and model how to compose sets of instructions for families to follow when preparing pancakes to celebrate Shrove Tuesday
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Valentine Shapes
Investigate and model how to shape, colour and combine a range of different materials to produce shapes representing themes related to Valentine’s Day
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School Instructions
Select and compose sets of instructions for other pupils to review and develop their learning skills in different subjects and topics at school
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Christmas Models
Practise using a range of materials and art techniques to create models of different decorations that can be used to celebrate Christmas
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Contractions Word Sums
Practise building and contracting groups of different words using apostrophes to replace the omitted letters in each word pair
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Fraction Halves
Identify and record fractions that are halves of different shapes, quantities and numbers using concrete equipment and diagrams to model calculations
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Weather Postcards
Read and write recounts to use on postcards reporting the weather experienced on different family holidays
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Kitchen Masses
Identify and record how to measure, calculate and compare the masses of different things used in a kitchen working with units in grams and kilograms