All About Me Topic Enrichment Pack

Help your KS1 class to find out more about themselves and what makes them unique with this engaging and creative cross-curricular pack! This All About Me KS1 Topic Enrichment Pack offers six engaging lessons spanning Art, DT and Music, all carefully crafted to help your class develop key skills across the curriculum.

Your class will:

• Make clay portraits, create emotion masks and use their name as inspiration for an artwork
• Design, make and evaulate photograph frames and personalised notebooks
• Create their own lyrics and actions for a song

Whether you’re looking to enrich an existing topic or deliver a mini cross-curricular project, this pack provides everything you need—lesson plans, slides, activity sheets and resources—ready to download and teach.

This pack can be found in our All About Me KS1 Topic Bundle which also includes History, Geography and Science schemes of work.

Clay Portraits

This lesson shows your class how to use clay to create their own hanging clay self-portraits. After looking at what portraits and self-portraits are and how they are used by artists, they will then have the chance to design and make their own self-portrait out of clay. They can even create a portrait showing what they want to be when they grow up!

During the lesson, children are asked to think about what they look like and how they can show this using clay. They are shown different ways to use clay in order to make a self-portrait. The children are challenged to use different tools to create different marks in their clay to achieve a desired look or texture.

This Clay Portraits lesson pack includes an easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

View Art Lesson 1

Emotions Masks

In this lesson, after thinking about what emotions are and how they are feeling today, your class will look at lots of different facial expressions to see what emotions are being portrayed.

Children will then find out how to translate these into drawings, as well as how colours can be used artistically to portray emotions. They follow the step-by-step process for making an emotions mask portraying two contrasting emotions.

Included in this ready-to-teach pack is a detailed plan, a set of engaging PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

View Art Lesson 2

Name Art

This expressive lesson starts by encouraging children to think about why our names are special. Your class are then challenged to create artwork using their name as the basis!

Children are asked to reflect on their names and how they are part of their personalities. They are challenged to decorate the letters of their name to show different parts of their personality. Some children can be extended to think of decorations starting with the same letter as their name.

Ths ready-to-teach, downloadable pack includes an easy-to-follow plan, printable resources and a set of engaging PDF slides for the teaching input.

View Art Lesson 3

Special Photo Frames

This Photo Frames DT lesson looks at why and how photos can be special, before showing your class how to make a photo frame for a special picture of themselves or their family.

The step-by-step process on the slides shows a simple way to make a sturdy frame, or they can create their own by experimenting with a variety of different materials, tools and techniques. Children can then decorate their frame to reflect their personality. Finally, they are challenged to evaluate their frame.

As well as a detailed lesson plan, this Photo Frames DT pack includes PDF slides for the teaching input, activity ideas and printable resources.

View DT Lesson 1

Personalised Notebooks

This KS1 DT lesson allows your children to design, make and evaluate their own embroidered notebooks, personalised with their initials.

Children are challenged to use felt and card to create an embroidered notebook which is special to them. The slides demonstrate simple ways to do this with sewing, either using card or fabric. They can choose to appliqué a design onto the front of their notebook or use stitching to create a design.

This Personalised Notebooks lesson pack includes an easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

View DT Lesson 2

My Body Songs

In this fun Music lesson, your class is reminded of the songs, The Wheels on the Bus and Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, and is challenged to change the lyrics to be about body parts and their actions!

Consolidating knowledge of different body parts, your children will make up verses such as 'The hand on my arm goes wave, wave, wave,' or 'Hips, ankles, chin and cheeks, chin and cheeks'. They can then rehearse their new songs as a group, ready to perform for others!

This ready-to-teach, downloadable pack includes an easy-to-follow plan, printable resources and a set of engaging PDF slides for the teaching input.

View Music Lesson 1