This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and model the events and characters that feature in traditional tales written as fables to teach the reader a moral lesson. The class can suggest and illustrate how a fable might change with some other characters and story settings.

The Hare and the Tortoise

Select and change some of the main characters in a retelling of a traditional fable story to illustrate how the narrative events might alter

Town and Country Mouse

Dramatise and retell a traditional story with animal characters that has been written as a fable to teach the reader a moral lesson related to the story narrative

The Dove and the Ant

Plan and write a story with animals as the central characters based on a fable read by the class which is used to teach the reader a moral lesson about life

  • Fraction Divisions

    Fraction Divisions

    Identify, calculate and record how to divide different shapes, quantities and numbers to illustrate the fractions of halves and quarters

  • Number Quarters

    Number Quarters

    Explain and model how to use concrete objects and pictorial diagrams to calculate one quarter of different numbers that are multiples of four

  • Shape Quarters

    Shape Quarters

    Practise identifying and dividing different types of shapes into four equal parts to illustrate the fraction values for quarters

  • Number Halves

    Number Halves

    Explain and model how to use concrete objects and pictorial diagrams to calculate one half of different numbers that are multiples of two and ten