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

• English: Describing Dinosaurs
• History: Mary Anning
• DT: Moving Dinosaurs
• Topic Enrichment Pack: Dinosaurs

KS1 English Objectives

Reading- Word Reading

• read words containing taught GPCs and –s, –es, –ing, –ed, –er and –est endings

Reading - Comprehension

• discussing word meanings, linking new meanings to those already known

Writing - Transcription HANDWRITING

• form capital letters

Writing Transcription SPELLING

• using –ing, –ed, –er and –est where no change is needed in the spelling of root words [for example, helping, helped, helper, eating, quicker, quickest]

Writing - Composition

• saying out loud what they are going to write about
• composing a sentence orally before writing it
• discuss what they have written with the teacher or other pupils

Writing Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

• leaving spaces between words
• beginning to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark
• using a capital letter for names of people, places, the days of the week, and the personal pronoun ‘I’

Spoken Language

• listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers
• use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary

English Appendix

• How words can combine to make sentences
• Separation of words with spaces
• Introduction to capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences
• Capital letters for names and for the personal pronoun I
• letter, capital letter
• sentence

KS1 History Objectives

• events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally [for example, the Great Fire of London, the first aeroplane flight or events commemorated through festivals or anniversaries]
• the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements. Some should be used to compare aspects of life in different periods

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

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
• 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.

KS1 Geography Objectives

• name, locate and identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom and its surrounding seas.
• 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 PE Objectives

• master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities
• perform dances using simple movement patterns
• recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things