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Festive Decorations

This art and design scheme of work for all year groups gets the children to investigate how to shape and combine different materials to produce a selection of decorations to celebrate the festive season. The class can describe how other decorations have been made to use some of the ideas in their own artwork.

Santa’s Reindeer

Practise cutting and shaping different types of paper and other materials to produce a picture of one of Santa’s reindeer for a Christmas decoration

Santa’s Beard

Practise cutting and shaping different types of paper and other materials to produce a picture of Santa Claus for a Christmas decoration

Advent Boxes

Select and shape a range of different materials to make a set of cube shaped decorations that can be used to count down to Christmas

Christmas Wall Trees

Practise shaping and combining a selection of different materials to produce a 3D decoration of a Christmas tree that can be displayed on the classroom wall

Bottle Candles

Combine and shape a range of different materials to create a table top candle decoration to celebrate the festive seasons

New Teaching Resources

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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

  • Football Teams

    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

  • Sporting Poems

    Sporting Poems

    Practise writing poems with patterned language and rhythm structures to describe movements and actions connected to different sports and games

  • Food and Drink

    Food and Drink

    Select powerful and descriptive vocabulary to use in poems describing different types of food and drink that can be enjoyed for a range of meals