Family Homes

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate and illustrate how to structure and format explanations describing why and how some different things work in a family home. The class can identify vocabulary and sentence structures to use when writing an explanation.

Household Appliances
Identify and model how to compose written explanations to explain how and why different household appliances work and function to support a family
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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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Viking Settlement
Explore how the Vikings settled and built communities in Britain in the past by referencing their culture and traditions
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Changing Seasons
Investigate changes that can happen to the natural world during the four seasons of the year and reflect on similar changes that can occur in people’s lives
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Chinese Dragons
Select and combine different mouldable and other materials to create masks representing dragons that can be worn during a performance dance