Key Stage One - Special Topics

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

Bonfire Night

Christmas

Future Targets

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

Explore how to review and present information about some of the things that have happened in the school in the past year
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
Spooky Things

Investigate the structure and content of narrative fiction and poetry that describe some of the spooky things that might happen in the world
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

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

Select special vocabulary for sights and sounds to use when composing poems describing different fireworks used by families on Bonfire Night
Witch’s Cauldron

Select and write sets of instructions that a witch can follow when making a range of potions for casting different spells
Sport Races

Select and combine descriptive vocabulary words to compose and perform poems describing actions and events connected to competing in different sports.
Sports Diary

Select matching vocabulary words and sentence structures to use when composing diary entries describing how to participate in different sport competitions at the Olympic games
Match Visit

Select and use special vocabulary including conjunctions and time adverbials to plan and write a recount of a family visit to a football match as part of a tournament competition
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

New Teaching Resources for Key Stage One

Maths Measurement Assessment

Assess abilities in estimating, measuring and comparing a range of different measurements for length, mass and capacity
Family Life

Investigate and reflect on some of the special events and experiences that might happen in the life of a family
Final Sounds Word Guess

Practise playing some guessing and matching games to identify the spelling and meaning of words with different final sounds
Building Reports

Explore how to collect facts and information to work with when composing and presenting non-chronological reports about buildings that can be found in the local area