Special Topics Teaching Resources

Discover some schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in all curriculum subjects in Key Stage Two covering a range of special days, celebrations and festivals across the school year

  • Conflict Poetry

    Conflict Poetry

    Explore how different poets use figurative language in poetry to illustrate and compare themes and ideas about conflict to other objects and emotions

  • Spooky Night

    Spooky Night

    Select and use descriptive language in poetry to describe spooky sights and shadows that might be seen in a bedroom at night during Halloween

  • Sports Rap

    Sports Rap

    Select vocabulary and rhythm structures to compose and perform rap poems describing actions and events connected to different Olympic sports

  • Sport Instructions

    Sport Instructions

    Read and write sets of instructions choosing vocabulary words and sentence structures for clarity about how to become successful at an Olympic sport

  • Football Report

    Football Report

    Research and write a non-chronological report presenting facts and information about one of the countries participating in a football tournament

  • New Testament

    New Testament

    Investigate and compare how the story of Jesus and the development of Christianity is presented in books in the New Testament

  • Easter Events

    Easter Events

    Explore and discuss the sequence of events in the Easter story and reflect on how and why Jesus was crucified by the Romans

  • Easter Egg Puzzles

    Easter Egg Puzzles

    Practise using art and design and maths skills to produce a range of puzzles on the theme of Easter eggs using matching and themed shapes

  • Easter Eggs

    Easter Eggs

    Select and use special descriptive vocabulary words to create a shape poem describing different types of eggs given for Easter

  • Easter Plays

    Easter Plays

    Investigate how to structure and format play scripts to illustrate and perform some of the main scenes that occurred in the Easter story

  • Easter Decorations

    Easter Decorations

    Practise shaping and combining a range of different materials to produce decorations with matching patterns and shapes to celebrate Easter

  • Easter Viewpoints

    Easter Viewpoints

    Explore some of the main narrative events in the Easter story and suggest how different characters might have reacted to what happened to Jesus

  • Three Digit Values

    Three Digit Values

    Investigate and compare the place value of the matching sets of digits in numbers to one thousand to indicate their hundreds, tens and ones values

  • Conflict Poetry

    Conflict Poetry

    Explore how different poets use figurative language in poetry to illustrate and compare themes and ideas about conflict to other objects and emotions

  • Recycled Art

    Recycled Art

    Explore how to shape and combine different recycled materials to produce a sculpture reflecting the theme of recycling

  • Decimal Values

    Decimal Values

    Investigate and record how to compare the values of different decimal numbers by the positions of their tenths, hundredths and thousandths digits