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

  • Sports Poems

    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

  • Bonfire Party

    Bonfire Party

    Select and use formal and informal language to compose invitations, letters and speeches for a family and town party on Bonfire Night

  • Conflict Poetry

    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

  • Spooky Night

    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

  • Sports Rap

    Sports Rap

    Select vocabulary and rhythm structures to compose and perform rap poems describing actions and events connected to different Olympic sports

  • Sport Instructions

    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

  • Football Report

    Football Report

    Research and write a non-chronological report presenting facts and information about one of the countries participating in a football tournament

  • New Testament

    New Testament

    Investigate and compare how the story of Jesus and the development of Christianity is presented in books in the New Testament

  • Easter Events

    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

  • Easter Egg Puzzles

    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

  • Easter Eggs

    Easter Eggs

    Select and use special descriptive vocabulary words to create a shape poem describing different types of eggs given for Easter

  • Easter Plays

    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

  • World Countries

    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

  • Sports Poems

    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

  • Bonfire Party

    Bonfire Party

    Select and use formal and informal language to compose invitations, letters and speeches for a family and town party on Bonfire Night

  • Digit Combinations

    Digit Combinations

    Practise building and comparing a range of numbers by combining and matching sets of digits with different number values