Family Holidays

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to 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. The class can suggest how families might respond to different scenarios that could occur on a holiday.

Holiday Weather
Practise composing a recount to describe different types of weather patterns in countries around the world that might be experienced on a family holiday

Camping Trip
Explain and model how to write a diary entry about a camping trip to a special location using adverbials of place to structure the events and describe nouns in a recount

Summer Trips
Practise writing and publishing recounts of different events and experiences that could occur during a family summer holiday to somewhere special in the world
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Pounds and Pence
Identify, compare and illustrate the value of different money amounts that have been recorded in pounds and pence
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Addition Calculations
Practise using standard written methods of addition calculation to solve a range of abstract and contextual problems working with sets of four and five digit numbers
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Seasons
Select figurative imagery for use in poetry composing similes and metaphors to describe different seasons of the year
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Story Snacks
Design some print adverts using persuasive language that can be used to sell merchandise based on traditional tales