Class Newspapers

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and illustrate how to structure and format reports using journalistic writing to publish newspapers about things happening in the school. The class can explain how to present answers to key questions in their news reports.

School News
Format and structure news reports about different events that might have happened in the school using the correct journalistic writing organised into paragraphs

Class Predictions
Explain and model how to compose newspaper reports to suggest some of the different things that might happen in the next school year

Summer News
Practise composing and publishing a newspaper report to record and illustrate some of the special events that the class experienced during the school summer holidays
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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