Christmas Shapes

This art and design scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate and model how to use different materials and art techniques to make decorations to celebrate Christmas. The class can research colours, shapes and patterns used in other decorations to develop ideas for their own artwork.

Christmas Beads
Combine and manipulate sets of beads to design and make hanging decorations to show a selection of shapes that can represent Christmas

Holly Wreath
Practise different ways of shaping and joining a range of materials to produce a Christmas wreath decoration that can be hung on the classroom door

Christmas Star
Design and make hanging tree decorations by combining strips of foils with other materials to make a selection of different star shapes

Snowflake Prints
Practise different ways of printing repeating patterns of snowflake shapes and designs that can be used for paper to wrap Christmas presents
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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