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 23 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

• Science: Pets and Gardens
• DT: Moving Minibeasts
• RE: Our Wonderful World
• Art: Andy Goldsworthy

KS1 Science Objectives

Year 1/2 Working Scientifically

asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different waysobserving closely, using simple equipmentidentifying and classifyingusing their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions

KS1 DT Objectives

• generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing, templates, mock-ups and, where appropriate, information and communication technology.
• select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing]
• select from and use a wide range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their characteristics
• evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria
• explore and use mechanisms [for example, levers, sliders, wheels and axles], in their products

Year 1 Plants

• identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees

Year 1 Animals, including Humans

• identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals
• identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores
• describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including pets)

KS1 Art Objectives

• to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
• to use drawing to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
• to use painting to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
• to use sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
• to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space
• about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.