This Topic Bundle includes 4 ready-to-teach schemes of work across different curriculum areas, giving you a seamless cross-curricular approach to your teaching.

Each of the 22 lessons within this pack has been written by experienced teachers and contains:

1. An easy-to-follow lesson plan (including plenary and assessment questions)
2. An engaging slideshow for the teaching input
3. A main activity with three-way differentiation for adaptive teaching
4. An alternative activity
5. An overview (medium-term plan) so you can see the scheme contents at a glance
6. An assessment grid to track learning

• RE: Christmas Journeys
• DT: Seasonal Stockings
• English: The Snowman
• Special Days: Christmas Lessons 1

KS2 DT Objectives

• use research and develop design criteria to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products that are fit for purpose, aimed at particular individuals or groups
• generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, cross-sectional and exploded diagrams, prototypes, pattern pieces and computer-aided design
• select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing], accurately
• select from and use a wider range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their functional properties and aesthetic qualities
• investigate and analyse a range of existing products
• evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work

English Objectives

Reading - Comprehension

• increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally

Writing Transcription SPELLING

• write from memory simple sentences, dictated by the teacher

Writing - Composition

• discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar
• discussing and recording ideas
• composing and rehearsing sentences orally (including dialogue), progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures (English Appendix 2)
• in narratives, creating settings, characters and plot
• proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency, including the accurate use of pronouns in sentences
• read aloud their own writing, to a group or the whole class

Writing Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

• choosing nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition
• using fronted adverbials
• using commas after fronted adverbials
• using and punctuating direct speech

Spoken Language

• listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers
• use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary
• maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments
• use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas
• participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play/improvisations and debates

English Appendix

• Introduction to inverted commas to punctuate direct speech
• direct speech
• inverted commas (or ‘speech marks’)