This two-week scheme of work has been specifically designed and written for you to build a connection with your new class right from the beginning of the academic year. Through the book, ‘Sunflower Sisters’, each child will get to share their identity with you, share who they look up to and develop a strong sense of belonging in their new class. Through fun and creative English, DT and PSHE learning, the children will get to know you quickly which will propel the fundamental relationship between you and your class. This download is week one of the two-week scheme. The second week can be downloaded at www.teachingfromtext.com for FREE!

Week 1 from the full scheme of work described here: This is the first week from a full scheme of work for Upper Key Stage 2 children comprises of 60 x 1 hour English lesson plans and ALL resources (differentiated) for a 12 week unit centered around ‘Journey to the River Sea’ by Eva Ibbotson. The unit covers non-chronological report writing (based on the Amazon Rainforest); biography writing, poetry and persuasive writing. As well as four rich writing opportunities (non-chronological report writing, biography writing, poetry and persuasive writing) the unit covers many punctuation and grammar aspects through bespoke teaching videos and teaching slides. The unit covers word classes, prepositions, relative clauses, determiners, cohesion, subject and verb agreement, perfect form of verbs and irregular verbs. The English unit has strong links with PSHCE as it explores the themes of prejudice and discrimination in ‘Journey to the River Sea’ as well as learning that personal behaviours can affect other people.

This two-week scheme of work has been specifically designed and written for you to build a connection with your new class right from the beginning of the academic year. Through the book, ‘Sunflower Sisters’, each child will get to share their identity with you, share who they look up to and develop a strong sense of belonging in their new class. Through fun and creative English, DT and PSHE learning, the children will get to know you quickly which will propel the fundamental relationship between you and your class. This is week one of the two-week scheme. The whole scheme can be downloaded from Teaching From Text’s website for FREE!