School Happenings

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate how to compose and publish recounts to describe and illustrate some of the special things that can happen in a school. The class can practise using adverbials of time to show the timing of events in their recount writing.

Perfect School Day
Explore how to select and use vocabulary words and sentence structures to write a diary entry listing some of the special events that might happen during the school day

School Flood
Practise writing a recount of something that could have happened in the school from different viewpoints related to a special weather event

Class Memories
Research and record some of the special things that have happened in the class over the past school year to use when composing a recount of an event
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Rounding Hundreds
Explain and model how to round some different numbers to the nearest hundred based on the place values of the digits in each number
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Rounding Tens
Identify and record how to round some different numbers to the nearest ten based on the place values of the digits in each number
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Classic Animal Stories
Investigate the structure and content of classic works of fiction by significant authors with animals as the main characters
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Cities, Towns and Villages
Research and present the history of a range of different buildings and people that are part of the local community using a school exhibition