World Explorers

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise composing and publishing recounts describing voyages and expeditions to different locations around the world. The class can explain how to use adverbials of time to specify when, how long or how often something happened during their recounts.

Ocean Crossing
Identify and record how to structure and format a fictional recount describing a sailing expedition in a yacht across an ocean in the world

Mountain Expedition
Identify and record how to structure and format a fictional recount describing a climbing expedition to the summit of a high mountain in the world

Dangerous Expeditions
Explain and model how to write a recount of an imagined expedition to a dangerous location in the world using adverbials of time to indicate the timing of events
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Maths Arithmetic Assessment
Assess abilities in solving arithmetic number problems for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division when working with informal and formal written calculations
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Environment
Identify and describe some of the special landscapes and locations that can be found in the world and reflect on how they can be protected and preserved for the future
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Silent Letter Words
Explore and illustrate the meanings and spellings of some different words with silent letters when using them in a range of topics and scenarios
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Complaint Letters
Explain and model how to format and structure writing when composing letters of complaint about different issues and scenarios