SEELB European Key Stage 2

Key Stage 2 Activities

There are 30 countries to link with in Europe

Development Education is growing all the time

Geography | History | PE | Science | ICT

English at KS2

The topics are taken from everyday KS2 classrooms and could be easily enhanced and exploited to deliver the International Dimension with partner schools. Many subjects other than English will be included in the outworking of the project.

Speaking and Listening

Discussions on:

Everyday issue

Characters and plots from class novel

Tape recordings of

Personal introductions of pupils, school, locality

Poetry reading, nursery rhymes, pupilsí personal stories

Dramatisation of stories, poems and extracts from novel

Reading and Writing

Novels

Jointly read an agreed novel, discuss and critique, characters, plot

Write and swop reviews, illustrate the novel and swop

Rewrite ending

Present questions to the author

Dramatise and video

Poetry

Seasonal poems

Contextual poems

Top and Tail, one school starts and another finishes

Joint poetry books, one school writes and another illustrates

Stories

Swop and discuss local folk tales

Research popular Fairy Stories

Procedural And Creative Writing

Explanations of local traditions, games, recipes, customs

Joint newspaper

English | History | PE | Science | ICT | TOP

Geography at KS2

The topics are taken from everyday KS2 classrooms and could be easily enhanced

and exploited to deliver the International Dimension with partner schools. Many

subjects other than Geography will be included in the outworking of the project.

Choose a topic, record agreed data and compare and contrast results.

Where we live

Accommodation, layout, design, equipment, heating, architecture
Modes of transport, to school, in town
Home town, population, facilities, evolution, map, street furniture
Our place & your place
Agriculture, industry, employment survey among parents, neighbours

Local Study

A day/month/year in the life of a local ...farmer, factory, fisherman, forest

park, beauty spot, beach, market,
Environmental issues, traffic, pollution, habitat distribution on a local

scale
Changes in rural and urban areas
Common street furniture and road signs

English | Geography | PE | Science | ICT | TOP

History at KS2

The topics are taken from everyday KS2 classrooms and could be easily enhanced

and exploited to deliver the International Dimension with partner schools. Many

subjects other than History will be included in the outworking of the project.

Choose a topic, record agreed data and compare and contrast results
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Vikings

Trace their origin, why did they leave? and arrival in Ireland, what did they

find?
Influence on local area, originally and in new environment

Victorians

Research Queen Victoria's family tree and its links across Europe today
Trace lifestyles across Europe during the period
Track inventions across Europe during the period

Local Study

Construct a historical tour of their own area with explanatory notes and

digital photos
Research the history of their school, track what was happening in their own

and partnersí countries at that time

Physical Education and Sport at KS2

The topics are taken from everyday KS2 classrooms and could be easily enhanced

and exploited to deliver the International Dimension with partner schools. Many

subjects other than Physical Education will be included in the outworking of the

project.

Choose a topic, record agreed data and compare and contrast results.

Survey

Games played at school, after school clubs, rules, national games, equipment,

adopt each otherís games, play and video the game
Sports played at school, rules, national sports, equipment, adopt each otherís

sports, play and video the sport
Amount of time allocated to PE in the schools within the partnership
Gender differences in attitude and participation
The playgrounds, markings, usage
Arrange a joint Sports Day, agree events, record results and award 1, 2 and 3

from the partnership with commonly designed certificates

English | Geography | History | PE | ICT | TOP

Science KS2

The topics are taken from everyday KS2 classrooms and could be easily enhanced

and exploited to deliver the International Dimension with partner schools. Many

subjects other than Science will be included in the outworking of the project.

Choose a topic, record agreed data and compare and contrast results.

Water

Functions, rivers, canals
Maintenance
Origin, boundaries
Structures, canals, locks
Pollution, cleanup, hazards
Users and useage, tourism
Boats and craft

Diet, daily routine, local recipes
Exercise, PE in school, facilities in school
Playground games, rules
Sports, favourites, local, native, rules, joint Sports Day

See CCEA Accreditation for ICT at KS2 How fit are you?

Animals

Pets, indoor, outdoor, favourites

Wildlife, around school, native, seasonal
Minibeasts, in playground

Materials

Local Building materials
Manufactured materials
Structures and buildings, architecture

Surveys

Common wild flowers, season, frequency, size of leaf and flower
Common seasonal birds
Popular bedding plants, cost, climate, planting and flowering times
Hedgerows ,and wildlife boundaries, routeways
Hibernation
Migration
Garden life, balcony, patio, farm

Weather

The effects of weather on the lives of people here and elsewhere including
Our clothes
Our food
Our homes
Our holidays

ICT

For Word processing - Write Away
For surveys using graphical representation and database - Information Workshop and Information Workshop 2000.
For Multimedia presentations of information - Slideshow and Internet Odyssey 2
For Desktop Publishing - Pawprints
For Homes and Weather - Pick a Picture
For fieldwork supporting Weather - NumberBox and Numberbox2
Classroom 2000 SchoolBox



This page last updated September 2002