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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
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Ancient Egyptian Pyramids
Explore how and why the Ancient Egyptians constructed and used different pyramids and tombs to reflect their beliefs about the afterlife
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Earthquakes
Investigate and record some of the different causes and effects of earthquakes on locations around the world
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Family Belongings
Identify and record how to use apostrophes for possession with singular nouns to describe some of the different things that might be owned and used by a family
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Friendship
Read and illustrate some of the stories from the Bible that were told by Jesus about how to use different skills to support friends in a range of life situations and scenarios