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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Future Targets
Practise selecting and recording academic and behavioural targets for the next school year by reviewing past school work
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End of Year Review
Explore how to review and present information about some of the things that have happened in the school in the past year
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Class Thanks
Practise designing and producing special certificates, awards and cards to thank and reward classmates for things that have happened in the past school year
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World Wars Poems
Explore and reflect on how poets can use figurative language and verse structures to express themes and ideas about conflicts that have happened in the world
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Scary Tales
Investigate and replicate the structure and format of narrative stories and poetry about different spooky and mysterious people, places and events
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Remembrance Poppies
Practise combining and shaping materials to produce models of poppies that can be used to remember and commemorate the lives of others
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Football Celebrations
Practise creative skills and techniques when working with different materials to create decorations to celebrate a football tournament
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New Start
Explore how to prepare for and deal with some of the new events and special occasions that someone might experience in life
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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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Theme Park Visit
Practise identifying and calculating the timing and duration of rides and events when visiting a theme park on a special family trip
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Family Holiday Trips
Identify and record how to compose and publish recounts using adverbials of time and place to describe family holidays to different places in the world
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Money Multiplication
Explain and model how to use standard written calculation methods to multiply money amounts in pounds and pence when solving number problems
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Sport Teams
Explain and model how to use brackets and dashes to add extra information to sentences describing how to play sports and games as part of a team