This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to practise writing personal recounts describing events and experiences that could happen on a family holiday to different locations around the world. The class can select sentences and vocabulary to structure diaries and recounts of different events.

Seaside Holiday

Read and write a personal recount describing some of the different things that could happen during a family visit to a seaside as part of a summer holiday

Royal Parade

Identify and model how to complete postcards to recount some of the things that could happen during a visit to London to watch a parade for a special royal occasion

Holiday Diary

Practise writing a personal recount to describe some of the special events and experiences that could happen during a family holiday to the French Alps

  • Sporting Poems

    Sporting Poems

    Practise writing poems with patterned language and rhythm structures to describe movements and actions connected to different sports and games

  • Food and Drink

    Food and Drink

    Select powerful and descriptive vocabulary to use in poems describing different types of food and drink that can be enjoyed for a range of meals

  • Sea Animals

    Sea Animals

    Identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a marine habitat including in the sea or on the beach

  • Number Bonds to Twenty

    Number Bonds to Twenty

    Investigate and model how to use mental calculation techniques when working with concrete objects and diagrams to identify pairs of numbers that make sums to twenty