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World Wars Poems

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to 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. The class can practise adding their own verses to each of the poems.

1914, Wilfred Owen
Read and answer comprehension questions about a classic poem illustrating life during the first world war from the view of a soldier
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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