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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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Classic Fiction Extensions
Identify and record how to use relative clauses to extend sentences taken from a range of classic fiction stories by significant authors
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Black Beauty
Practise selecting and using a range of relative clauses to change different sentences taken from the work of classic fiction Black Beauty by a significant author
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Word Spellings
Identify, match and record the spelling of words with a range of common spelling patterns to use when composing sentences on different topics
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Word Spellings or
Identify, match and record the spelling of different words with the common spelling patterns of or to use when composing sentences about a class topic