Parties and Celebrations

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate how to compose and present invitations, speeches and toasts to manage and organise a special party or celebration using examples of formal language. The class can model how to convert between informal and formal writing.

Royal Invitation

Practise selecting matching vocabulary words and sentence structures to write formal and informal letters of invitation for a special Royal garden party

Wedding Speeches

Explore how to devise and record example sentences using formal and informal language to use when composing and presenting speeches at a wedding

School Banquet

Practise composing and publishing some example invitations and toasts using formal language to present at a school banquet with a range of special guests

  • Rounding Hundreds

    Rounding Hundreds

    Explain and model how to round some different numbers to the nearest hundred based on the place values of the digits in each number

  • Rounding Tens

    Rounding Tens

    Identify and record how to round some different numbers to the nearest ten based on the place values of the digits in each number

  • Classic Animal Stories

    Classic Animal Stories

    Investigate the structure and content of classic works of fiction by significant authors with animals as the main characters

  • Cities, Towns and Villages

    Cities, Towns and Villages

    Research and present the history of a range of different buildings and people that are part of the local community using a school exhibition