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

• Science: Earth and Space
• History: The History of Space Exploration
• Art: Space Art
• English: Stories from Space

KS2 Science Objectives

Year 5/6 Working Scientifically

• recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs

Year 5 Earth and Space

• describe the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system
• describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth
• describe the Sun, Earth and Moon as approximately spherical bodies
• use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky

KS2 Art Objectives

• to create sketch books to record their observations
• use sketchbooks to review and revisit ideas
• 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 painting with a range of materials
• about great artists in history

English Objectives

Writing Transcription SPELLING

• use dictionaries to check the spelling and meaning of words
• use the first three or four letters of a word to check spelling, meaning or both of these in a dictionary
• use a thesaurus

Writing - Composition

• identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own
• noting and developing initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary
• in writing narratives, considering how authors have developed characters and settings in what pupils have read, listened to or seen performed
• in narratives, describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action
• assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing
• proposing changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning

Writing Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

• using expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely