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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Theme Park Visit
Practise identifying and calculating the timing and duration of rides and events when visiting a theme park on a special family trip
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Family Holiday Trips
Identify and record how to compose and publish recounts using adverbials of time and place to describe family holidays to different places in the world
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Money Multiplication
Explain and model how to use standard written calculation methods to multiply money amounts in pounds and pence when solving number problems
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Sport Teams
Explain and model how to use brackets and dashes to add extra information to sentences describing how to play sports and games as part of a team