Easter Story Poems

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise composing and publishing different types of poems that use line structures and vocabulary to illustrate scenes in the Easter story. The class can explain how to express ideas and thoughts about what happened to Jesus at Easter.

Easter Words
Read and compose a selection of acrostic poems to explain the meaning of some special vocabulary words that are connected to the Easter story

Easter Kenning
Read and write example Kenning poems to illustrate and describe some of the different characters that feature in scenes from the Easter story

Easter Haikus
Read and write example Haiku poems to express ideas and thoughts about some of the main events and significant characters that feature in the Easter story
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Moses
Explore and record the life and achievements of Moses from the Old Testament in the Christian Bible and his impact on the development of Christianity
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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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Number Thousands
Compare, order and sequence different sets of four digits numbers by using the place value of their numerical digits including counting in steps of thousands
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Lengths, Masses and Capacities
Solve a selection of contextual problems by comparing and converting between different units of measurement for mass, length and capacity