Unit A – School Issues

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore the narrative structure and characters that feature in a story about school and friendship, investigate rules for adding suffixes to word roots and write sentences using more than one clause based on How to Write Really Badly, Anne Fine.

Explore the narrative structure and characters that feature in a story about school and friendship, add suffixes to word roots and write sentences with more than one clause

Lesson One : Suffix Rules
Practise adding a range of different suffixes to word roots using the matching spelling rules to use when describing events in a fiction story that raises issues about school life

Lesson Two : Sentence Combinations
Practise linking pairs of sentence clauses about a range of different events that might happen in a story that is set in a school using a range of conjunctions

Lesson Three : School Happenings
Identify and model how to add fronted adverbials to say when, how or where things happened in sentences about some of the different things that might happen in a story set in a school

Lesson Four : Sentence Changes
Identify and record how to change sentences about things that might happen in a school using the correct forms of Standard English for auxiliary verbs

Lesson Five : Golden Rules
Practise writing a set of rules for another pupil to follow based on one of the main events in a narrative story that raise issues about school life and friendship
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Times Tables Division
Practise using facts in each of the times tables to support the division of pairs of numbers when solving a range of problems
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Football Teams
Investigate and record how to format and structure letters that could be sent to and from football teams for different purposes and functions
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School Letters
Practise composing and publishing letters to different members in the school community for a range of functions and purposes
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Living Things and Habitats
Identify, group and compare some of the different plants and animals that live in a variety of habitats around the world