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

  • Match Visit

    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

    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

  • Shape Matching

    Shape Matching

    Identify, describe and compare different 2D shapes by their matching individual properties including the number of sides, vertices and lines of symmetry

  • Buses, Trains, Planes

    Buses, Trains, Planes

    Select patterned language to use when writing poems describing ways of travelling when making different journeys

  • Toy Masses

    Toy Masses

    Explain and model how to measure, record and compare the mass of some different toys and games using scales, bucket balances and symbols for greater than and less than

  • Seaside Holidays

    Seaside Holidays

    Describe and compare how families enjoyed seaside holidays together in the past with similar events and experiences enjoyed by families today