COME and JOIN the CELEBRATION AUTUMN TERM 2(A) KS2 Festivals and Key Events (Faith And

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AUTUMN TERM 2(A) KS2
Festivals and Key Events (Faith and Community / Expressive Arts)

Theme Map

• Chinese New Year
• Remembrance Day
• Eid
• Navaratri
• Weddings
• Anniversaries
• Harvest
• Christmas

• Food
• Clothes
• Gifts
• Ceremonies
• Stories
• Decorations
• Music
• Dance
• Games
• Specific activities i.e. firework display

• Dimensions Movie Channel ‘Chinese New Year’ and ‘Eid’

• – (Video clip)

• - ‘The Works’ collections (poems on any subject, category that you’ll ever need)

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AUTUMN TERM 2(A) KS2
Festivals and Key Events (Faith and Community / Expressive Arts)

Concept Flow Activities

• Make a Chinese Dragon/ Lion and learn a dance to perform at a Chinese New Year parade
• Learn some Chinese phrases and write your name

• Create a poppy wreath
• Watch the BBC footage of the Cenotaph. Talk about the armed services representatives, the invited guests- Queen, Prime Minister. Practice marching and saluting in unison.
• Have a remembrance service in school and write prayers to present
• Use the British Legion school materials to support learning and understanding in schools

• Design an Islamic tile pattern for a celebration card
• Look at and chart the changing moon throughout the month

• Make puppets or masks to retell the story of Good v Evil
• Create Batukamma (flowered pots) and perform Bollywood inspired dances around them
• Make a procession of elephants using clay, junk modelling

• Look at wedding photos from the past. Identify similarities and differences.
• Discuss ‘commitment’ and what things the children are committed to. Make rings as a symbol of commitment.
• Create a fictional couple or if someone the children are familiar with is getting married ask them design a wedding cake for the couple. Use Fimo to create cake toppings

• Which events do your family mark as anniversaries? Are there any traditions to mark the day?

• Make soup and distribute
• Collect tins, packets or essential cleaning items - toothbrush, shampoo etc. and donate them to a homeless shelter in your area
• Investigate food labels and find where in the world the food was harvested. Calculate the distance it has travelled.

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AUTUMN TERM 2(A) KS2
Festivals and Key Events (Faith and Community / Expressive Arts)

Theme Links

• Time – festival year calendar, New Year’s Eve
• 3D Shape – Make 3D decorations, using regular shapes

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AUTUMN TERM 2(A) KS2
Festivals and Key Events (Faith and Community / Expressive Arts)

Theme Links

• Lesson 1: Algorithm recap – Practical
• Lesson 2: Hokey Cokey – Repetition/loops within algorithms

• Lesson 1: Networks Introduction
• Lesson 2: Human LAN network
• Lesson 3: WWW & the Internet

• Use VoiceThread (An example from younger children here, created by a teacher ) , Photostory 3 or AudioBoo to share research they have undertaken about the chosen celebration.
• If available Purple Mash Themed resources are fantastic at Christmas time and for other celebrations.

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AUTUMN TERM 2(A) KS2
Festivals and Key Events (Faith and Community / Expressive Arts)

• Share ‘Twas the night before Christmas’
• Ask groups to perform each verse and make a class performance poem
• Think of the structure, rhyming and rhythm of the poem and use it as a framework to write about a different festival e.g. Diwali/ Hanukah
• Have a performance poet visit the children or watch a video
• Think of how a performance can be enhanced by movement and/or music
• Discuss the differences between performance poetry and songs
• Look at popular Christmas songs e.g. ‘When Santa got stuck up the Chimney’, ‘Rudolph’ and use them to perform
• Write a poem to finish the school play

• Look at written speech and how it is structured in fiction, non-fiction, in a report and in a script
• Take part in mini play scripts - read through, think of actions and bring the piece to life through performance, rehearse as a group and learn lines.
• Write alternative scenes for a Christmas play being put on in school
• Change a familiar story into a script, including stage directions, actor notes and a list of props
• Write a dialogue between Father Christmas and the Elves or Rama and Sita
• Make props and costumes to enhance a performance

• Instructions- making decorations, food for the party season

• Hot seat and interview characters / visitors and take notes
• Use different sources to collate information and write a report about a festival or event

Literacy Links Application

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AUTUMN TERM 2(A) KS2
Festivals and Key Events (Faith and Community / Expressive Arts)
Assessment

COME AND JOIN THE CELEBRATION
AUTUMN TERM 2(A) KS2
Festivals and Key Events (Faith and Community / Expressive Arts)

Learning Journey Overview

• Catalyst Question
• Higher Ability Challenge: Write an acrostic for harvest to be used in an assembly
• Bubbles LKS2 DRAMA‘Come and Join the Celebration’
• DT:Cooking – Celebration Food
• PSHE:Core Theme 3 Unit 4 Lesson 1: Money Choices – A Million Dollars
• PSHE:Core Theme 3 Unit 4 Lesson 2: Managing Money – Design Choices

• The Appliance of Science: Materials – Meltdown!
• Bubbles LKS2 MUSIC‘Come and Join the Celebration’
• Catalyst Question
• COMPUTING: Computer Science – DIMENSIONS COMPUTING: SCRATCH

• ART: Printing / Mixed Media
• COMPUTING: Multimedia

• ELE: See some Christmas lights
• Making it Real!:See some Christmas lights
• Bubbles LKS2 DANCE‘Come and Join the Celebration’
• Creative Challenge:Linked to celebrations / festivals studied

• Time – festival year calendar, New Year’s Eve
• 3D Shape – Make 3D decorations, using regular shapes

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