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 25 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

• History: Stone Age to Iron Age
• Science: Rocks, Fossils and Soils
• Art: Stone Age Art
• English: Stone Age Boy

KS2 History Objectives

• changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age

KS2 Science Objectives

Year 3/4 Working Scientifically

• setting up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests
• making systematic and careful observations and, where appropriate, taking accurate measurements using standard units, using a range of equipment, including thermometers and data loggers
• gathering, recording, classifying and presenting data in a variety of ways to help in answering questions
• reporting on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations of results and conclusions (editor delete )
• using results to draw simple conclusions, make predictions for new values, suggest improvements and raise further questions (edit ordelete )
• using straightforward scientific evidence to answer questions or to support their findings

Year 3 Rocks, Fossils and Soils

• compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties
• describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock
• recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter

KS2 Art Objectives

• to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing with a range of materials
• to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including sculpture with a range of materials

English Objectives

Reading - Comprehension

• listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks
• reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes
• increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally
• checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and explaining the meaning of words in context
• asking questions to improve their understanding of a text
• drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
• predicting what might happen from details stated and implied

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)
• organising paragraphs around a theme
• in narratives, creating settings, characters and plot
• assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements
• proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors

Writing Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

• using and punctuating direct speech

Spoken Language

• listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers
• ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge
• articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions
• maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments
• participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates

English Appendix

• Introduction to inverted commas to punctuate direct speech