Roman Empire

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and model how to compose sets of instructions for Romans to follow when expanding their empire and civilization around the world. The class can identify how to use imperative verbs at the start of each instruction for the Romans to follow.

Roman Army
Read and write a set of instructions about how to prepare the Roman army for battle so that they can conquer different communities and settlements and expand their empire

Hadrian’s Wall
Practise composing a set of instructions about how the Romans could build and fortify Hadrian’s Wall to protect them from attack by other tribes and armies in Great Britain
-
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
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
Investigate the structure and content of classic works of fiction by significant authors with animals as the main characters
-
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