These three lessons are suitable for upper KS2. Included in these three lessons are lesson plans, and two PPP , resources and weblinks including an opportunity for Children to interview a local farmer as well as watch the BBC programme – Jimmy’s Farm Heroes 2008 (1 hour in length), making notes about what is affecting today’s farmers the most. Children in Lesson 1 will compose questions to ask a farmer and interpret his/her answers In Lesson 2 children will understand the link between land use and economic activity.(Summary of Farmers interview is Lesson 2) This time allows children to summarize questions asked to a local farmer or from the video watched in part 2 of lesson one. By the end of lesson 1 children will be able to ask open ended questions. Interpret information from different sources and evaluate, from interviewing, that there are physical and human characteristics that affect farming. By the end of lesson 2 children will successfully identify land use; Identify the effect of land use on economic activity. As well as identify the distribution of food from its origin. Included is a photo of some notes the class teacher took when interviewing a local Cornish Farmer. Lesson three - Farm to Fork This lesson follows on from Farming in the UK interviewing local farmers; giving opportunities for researching different types of farming, expressing views and opinions on farming and how food ends up on our plates. Answering questions: do you know where our food comes from? As a nation should we be supporting our local farmers? There are links to a number of numeracy lessons on how far food travels from farms to end up on the supermarket shelves. Websites provide information on locations of locally sourced food products, and who these farmers sell their produce to. It is not just dairy, rearing animals, crop growing; fishermen are also farmers, catching fish to sell at markets and restaurants. This lesson provides opportunities for discussion on farming life and the produce that is sold to supermarkets and other sources for profit.

This lesson has been written for upper Ks 2 Geography - Seasons - Understand and gain knowledge on impact of seasonality on food production around the world. By the end of the lesson children would be able to: summarise and give an explanation why foods are grown in seasons. Identify the climates and locations where food is grown, reared, caught and produced. To locate where food is exported in the world. This lesson entails using search technologies effectively, appreciate how results are selected and ranked and be discerning in evaluating digital content. To use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly.

KS 2 PE Athletics unit of work includes 7 lesson plans and instructions for the activities. Suitable for all KS2, Ideally for Yr5 - Yr6 Activities include running short sprints, long distances, hurdle jumping, long jumping, throwing, heaving and fling with a final lesson of a Multi Athletics Olympics

This six week block is for upper key stage 2 and includes lesson plans, artwork, photos and ppp 's . Based on how food has been represented through the ages by famous artists, by looking at photos of food today and evaluate them according to the media used and style. To taking photos of displays of food to then use in creating own pop art based on Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. This will lead into sketching using different resources and techniques from photos to use for a food package and study how art is used in the packaging of food. By the end of the six weeks children will use examples of artwork to design a food package by researching the web to base own ideas on. This six week art block would lead into a six week block in Design Technology that can be purchased with additional numeracy lessons. I would appreciate any feedback and reviews.

An interesting and interactive based unit of work planned for upper key stage two. This unit of work is a six week block that gives pupils opportunities to research about the different religions and the food they are allowed to eat. The following objectives are laid out below week by week. W 1 To Research foods that are forbidden and permitted from different religions from around the world. W 2 Understand through research different cultures have different celebrations and dietary requirements W 3 Research a religion and continue researching about its culture and celebrations W 4 To study in further detail a religion continuing research about its culture and celebrations. W 5 To design a menu for the religion already research selecting food that can be eaten for that religion. Identify the foods that are excluded from their diet from previous research. W 6 To explain what the religious beliefs are. To give an oral account of the religion researched, the festivals, celebrations and the menus designed.