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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New Start
Explore how to prepare for and deal with some of the new events and special occasions that someone might experience in life
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Viking Settlement
Explore how the Vikings settled and built communities in Britain in the past by referencing their culture and traditions
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Changing Seasons
Investigate changes that can happen to the natural world during the four seasons of the year and reflect on similar changes that can occur in people’s lives
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Chinese Dragons
Select and combine different mouldable and other materials to create masks representing dragons that can be worn during a performance dance