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 24 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

• Geography: Let's go on Safari
• Art: African Art
• English: Safari Adventures
• English: We're Going on a Lion Hunt

KS1 Geography Objectives

• name and locate the world's seven continents and five oceans.
• understand geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area of the United Kingdom, and of a small area in a contrasting non-European country.
• use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical features, including: beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather.
• use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the United Kingdom and its countries, as well as the countries, continents and oceans studied at this key stage
• use simple compass directions (North, South, East and West) and locational and directional language [for example, near and far; left and right], to describe the location of features and routes on a map

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 develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space

English Objectives

Reading – Comprehension

• Listen to, discuss and express views about a wide range of contemporary and classic poetry, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently
• Be introduced to non-fiction books that are structured in different ways
• Discuss the sequence of events in books and how items of information are related
• Become increasingly familiar with and retell a wider range of stories, fairy stories and traditional tales
• Recognise simple recurring literary language in stories and poetry
• Discuss and clarify the meanings of words, linking new meanings to known vocabulary
• Discuss their favourite words and phrases
• Check that the text makes sense as they read and correct inaccurate reading
• Answer and ask questions
  

Writing – Composition

• Write narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real and fictional)
• Write about real events
• Write for different purposes
• Plan or say out loud what they are going to write about
• Write down ideas and key words, including new vocabulary
• Encapsulate what they want to say, sentence by sentence
• Evaluate their writing with the teacher and other pupils
• Re-read to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the continuous form
• Proof-read to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation (for example, ensuring sentence endings are punctuated correctly)
• Read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the meaning clear

Writing – Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

• Use expanded noun phrases for description and specification (for example, the blue butterfly, plain flour, the man in the moon)
• Use the present and past tenses correctly and consistently, including the progressive form
• Use some features of written Standard English