This Topic Bundle includes 17 ready-to-teach schemes of work across different curriculum areas, giving you a seamless cross-curricular approach to your teaching.

Each of the 17 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: World War 1
• Art: In Flanders Fields
• English: White Feather: Diary Entries

KS2 History Objectives

• a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066

KS2 Art Objectives

• to create sketch books to record their observations
• 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
• to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including sculpture with a range of materials
• about great artists in history
• about great architects in history
• about great designers in history

English Objectives

Reading - Comprehension

• drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
• participate in discussions about books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, building on their own and others’ ideas and challenging views courteously
• provide reasoned justifications for their views

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
• assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing
• proposing changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning
• ensuring the consistent and correct use of tense throughout a piece of writing