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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    Length Measurements

    Practise estimating, measuring and converting the lengths of different objects working with measurements in millimetres, centimetres and metres

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    Levers, Pulleys and Gears

    Research, test and illustrate how to use different types of levers, pulleys and gears to change the direction and strength of a range of forces

  • Fraction Comparisons

    Fraction Comparisons

    Practise using pictorial diagrams to record the values of different unit and non-unit fractions so that they can be ordered and compared

  • Amazing Animals

    Amazing Animals

    Select and use special vocabulary words to use when composing poems with different forms to describe a range of animals