School Debates
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explain and model how to compose a range of discussion texts to debate and present arguments about issues that are important to life in a school. The class can model how to present viewpoints of different groups about each school issue.
Classroom Rules
Identify and devise a set of behaviour and academic rules that are needed to run the classroom efficiently throughout the school year
School Rules
Select and compose a range of complex sentences to use in a discussion text containing facts and opinions describing different school issues and rules
Books or Laptops
Select and record the viewpoints of different groups about whether pupils in a school learn best by working using either books or laptops
Mobile Phones
Explore and model how to format and structure a discursive writing text to argue different points of view about whether pupils should be allowed to use mobile phones when at school
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School Grounds
Explain and model how to measure and calculate the perimeters and areas of different shaped locations around the school grounds
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Rainforest Presentations
Select, manipulate and combine different forms of media to create a multimedia presentation about an aspect of life in a rainforest habitat
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Flag Printing
Practise and refine different techniques when printing colours, shapes and patterns to design flags to match specific locations
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Angle Observations
Identify, locate and classify examples of right, acute and obtuse angles that can be observed in a range of different shapes, objects and locations