Conflict Poetry
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how different poets use figurative language in poetry to illustrate and compare themes and ideas about conflict to other objects and emotions. The class can practise composing similes and metaphors to use in poems about conflict.
Wilfrid Owen
Investigate and edit a poem by a significant poet that uses figurative language to reflect themes and ideas about aspects of conflict that occurred during the first world war
In Flanders Fields
Practise selecting special vocabulary words to extend and develop a poem describing themes and actions connected to events that happened during the First World War
Charge of the Light Brigade
Explore how to select and compose example similes and metaphors to describe different features and aspects of a narrative poem about an event that happened between armies
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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