Family Adventures

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to explain and model how to compose recounts using time adverbials to sequence the events in family visits to familiar and unfamiliar locations. The class can select sentences and vocabulary to structure diaries and recounts of different events.

Swimming Pool
Read and write a personal recount about a family visit to a swimming pool or other leisure attraction in the local area to relate the sequence of events

Zoo Encounters
Plan and write a personal recount of a family visit to a zoo describing encounters with some of the different animals that could be seen in this location

Mountain Expedition
Plan and write a personal recount to describe a visit to a mountain landscape as part of a family holiday using time adverbials to sequence events

Sea Voyage
Plan and write a diary entry to describe a voyage as a member of the crew on a tall ship that is sailing across an ocean in the world
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Vehicle Numbers
Investigate and record how to make and count models of objects to ten, twenty and thirty to match objects related to different types of vehicles
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Bible Stories
Research and illustrate how the teachings of Jesus are presented in different stories from the Bible
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Word Matching
Identify, match and record the initial sounds that have been used in a range of cvc words beginning with different letters
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Family Toys
Investigate and record how a selection of different toys and games that were owned by families have changed and developed over time