Harvest

This religious education scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and record how the autumn harvest is celebrated and marked in different communities around the world. The class can write thank you prayers and produce decorations to use when participating in a harvest festival in the school.

Explore and record how the autumn harvest is celebrated and marked in different communities around the world

Lesson One : Farm Crops
Practise identifying, sorting and comparing some of the different crops and foods that are grown and harvested on a farm

Lesson Two : Harvest Tapestry
Explore how to identify and record some of the different farming actions and jobs that are connected to the harvest that takes place in the autumn

Lesson Three : Harvest Collage
Investigate how to select and use a range of natural materials to create examples of different foods that can be harvested during the autumn

Lesson Four : Harvest Hymn
Explore and describe some of the different ways of celebrating the autumn harvest in Christianity by holding special festivals in churches

Lesson Five : Harvest Prayer
Explain and record how to write a prayer to thank God for providing the harvest in the autumn by supporting farmers to help them grow crops

Lesson Six : Harvest Decorations
Explore and describe some of the different ways that Christians celebrate the autumn harvest by holding a church festival
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Garden Numbers
Identify and model some of the different calculation techniques that can be used when adding pairs of single digit numbers
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Summer Stories
Practise composing and presenting narrative stories with familiar settings to illustrate the events and experiences that could happen during the summer
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Fraction Numbers
Investigate how to use concrete equipment, diagrams and calculations to identify and record the matching fractions of different numbers
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Family Holiday Lists
Explore how to compile sentences punctuated using commas to list some of the special things that families can use, complete and experience on a holiday