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Christmas Tree Ornaments

This art and design scheme of work for all year groups gets the children to investigate how to use different modelling techniques when shaping and combining materials to create Christmas tree ornaments. The class can use shapes, colours and patterns displayed on other decorations to develop their own artwork.

Cuboid Tree Decorations

Select and combine range of different materials to produce a hanging tree decoration in the shape of a cuboid decorated with shape patterns or illustrations

Prism Tree Decorations

Select and combine range of different materials to produce a hanging tree decoration in the shape of a triangular prism decorated with shape patterns or illustrations

Christmas Tree Stars

Produce star decoration shapes for a Christmas tree by combining a range of different materials using modelling and shaping techniques

New Teaching Resources

  • Sentence Combinations

    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

  • Suffix Rules

    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

  • Family Homes

    Family Homes

    Explore the sequence of events and characters in a story with a familiar setting, identify and spell words with the /v/ sound at the end of words and compose sentences orally before writing

  • Family Rooms

    Family Rooms

    Select sentences to complete speech bubbles to record what different characters might say in response to some of the different events that happened in a story with a familiar setting