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

  • 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 Garden

    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

  • 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 Celebrations

    Easter Celebrations

    Identify, describe and illustrate how people can demonstrate and celebrate their beliefs about God through special religious celebrations at Easter

  • Easter Things Poems

    Easter Things Poems

    Practise selecting and using special vocabulary words to compose poems that play with language when describing things that represent Easter celebrations

  • Family Easter

    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

  • Enormous Pancake

    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

  • Pancake Instructions

    Pancake Instructions

    Identify and model how to compose sets of instructions for families to follow when preparing pancakes to celebrate Shrove Tuesday

  • Valentine Shapes

    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

  • School Instructions

    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

  • Christmas Models

    Christmas Models

    Practise using a range of materials and art techniques to create models of different decorations that can be used to celebrate Christmas

  • Contractions Word Sums

    Contractions Word Sums

    Practise building and contracting groups of different words using apostrophes to replace the omitted letters in each word pair

  • Fraction Halves

    Fraction Halves

    Identify and record fractions that are halves of different shapes, quantities and numbers using concrete equipment and diagrams to model calculations

  • Weather Postcards

    Weather Postcards

    Read and write recounts to use on postcards reporting the weather experienced on different family holidays

  • Kitchen Masses

    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