Unit A – Handa’s Surprise

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate the use of patterned language in a story from another culture, explore spellings of words with different vowel digraphs and practise punctuating and writing sentences using capital letters and full stops based on Handa’s Surprise, Eileen Browne.

Investigate and describe the use of patterned language and narrative events in a story from another culture

Lesson One : Fruit Basket

Identify, define and spell a selection of vocabulary words with the vowel digraph ir that can be used to describe different fruits

Lesson Two : Word Lists

Compile and illustrate lists of words from a narrative story set in a different culture that contain the ir and ur vowel phoneme digraphs

Lesson Three : Animal Sentences

Model how to add the correct punctuation and word spaces to complete sentences about different animals that might live wild in habitats around the world

Lesson Four : Animal Voices

Write a selection of different sentences to suggest what characters might have said in response to narrative events in a story from another culture

Lesson Five : Story Scenes

Practise using drama and role-play to illustrate one of the events that happened in a narrative story that is set in another culture

  • City Cafe

    City Cafe

    Select and combine different ingredients to design and make a range of foods including sandwiches and cakes that can be sold in café in a city location

  • Baking Cakes

    Baking Cakes

    Read and follow a set of instructions to bake and decorate some different cakes that can be sold to the customers in a cafe

  • Cupcake Designs

    Cupcake Designs

    Select and use a range of shapes to create different icing designs when making a selection of cupcakes to sell to customers eating in a cafe

  • Cafe Sandwiches

    Cafe Sandwiches

    Practise sequencing and following a set of instructions to make a range of sandwiches using different fillings that can be sold to customers in a cafe