Special Topics Teaching Resources
Discover some schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in all curriculum subjects in Key Stage Two covering a range of special days, celebrations and festivals across the school year
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Sports Poems
Explain and model how to compose and present poems using special line structures and rhyming patterns to illustrate actions and themes connected to different sports
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Bonfire Party
Select and use formal and informal language to compose invitations, letters and speeches for a family and town party on Bonfire Night
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Conflict Poetry
Explore how different poets use figurative language in poetry to illustrate and compare themes and ideas about conflict to other objects and emotions
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Spooky Night
Select and use descriptive language in poetry to describe spooky sights and shadows that might be seen in a bedroom at night during Halloween
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Sports Rap
Select vocabulary and rhythm structures to compose and perform rap poems describing actions and events connected to different Olympic sports
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Sport Instructions
Read and write sets of instructions choosing vocabulary words and sentence structures for clarity about how to become successful at an Olympic sport
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Football Report
Research and write a non-chronological report presenting facts and information about one of the countries participating in a football tournament
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New Testament
Investigate and compare how the story of Jesus and the development of Christianity is presented in books in the New Testament
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Easter Events
Explore and discuss the sequence of events in the Easter story and reflect on how and why Jesus was crucified by the Romans
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Easter Egg Puzzles
Practise using art and design and maths skills to produce a range of puzzles on the theme of Easter eggs using matching and themed shapes
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Easter Eggs
Select and use special descriptive vocabulary words to create a shape poem describing different types of eggs given for Easter
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Easter Plays
Investigate how to structure and format play scripts to illustrate and perform some of the main scenes that occurred in the Easter story
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World Countries
Research and add facts and information to sentences using brackets about some of the different countries that can be found around the world
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Sports Poems
Explain and model how to compose and present poems using special line structures and rhyming patterns to illustrate actions and themes connected to different sports
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Bonfire Party
Select and use formal and informal language to compose invitations, letters and speeches for a family and town party on Bonfire Night
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Digit Combinations
Practise building and comparing a range of numbers by combining and matching sets of digits with different number values