A selection of theme based classroom displays covering elements of KS1 and 2.

1. During book week my Year One class made
these Harry Potter Characters, and the big pop-
up book, ‘Kipper and the Dragon’.

2. A Selection of Thematic
Classroom Displays For KS1
and 2

3. A Selection of Thematic

4. This was our 2005 Christmas board. We created the face with paper mache’
eyes, nose and mouth, and the hair with rolls of large cheap recycled paper,
from other projects. The children had created snowflakes using fold and cutting
techniques in art. The theme of our board was ‘Let it snow’, The children learnt
and sang the song.

5. This was one of the biggest
projects I had undertaken so
far. At the beginning of the
school year, during ‘All about
me’ lessons, it became clear
that the children enjoyed films
and stories set in space. We
began creating our space
display, using photographs of
the children and enlarging
them using a photocopier.
We all enjoyed making this
display and it remains one of
the most striking so far.

6. This was a display of Year One’s art work form their first two terms. We
did a lot of work on colour, portraits and shape. The children were very
proud of their work as was I. The portraits were created using photos,
which were photocopied before drawing on and coluring the shapes.

7. We began looking at characters in literacy. We created a great adjectives
display, and the children became very good at using these words to describe
the characters they were reading about especially the bad ones. We made lots
of wanted posters of both characters from books and teachers using the target
language. We then used the paper mache’ face from Christmas as the main
part of our L.S.I investigates display.

8. I have always found rhyme and
poetry to be a great way of
teaching key words and ideas, and
often bring in my guitar to sing with
the students.
We did a lot of work on rhyming
sounds, and using their dictionaries
for ideas the children created some
really nice poems. This picture was
taken during the Autumn term we
added new leaves every half term.

9. During a trip to Phuket, Thailand, I visited a Gibbon sanctuary, and adopted a gibbon named George.
When I got back to school the children were really interested in George and his story.
We made stories and poems about George and made this display outside our classroom to let
everybody know about George and what they can do to help.
We received E-mails about Georges progress which we posted outside to keep everyone informed of
what was going on.
George is very cute and continues to make good progress toward being released.

10. As a group of teachers we decide to brighten up our dining area with a mural. Using a
book on rainforests that I had been reading in literacy and geography for ideas, we
created this mural. I drew the outlines of the animals that the children chose and then
everybody helped to colour them in. It was a great project that lasted half a term.

11. This picture was taken just before the board was completed. In conjunction with the P.E. department,
we created a quiz based on world cup facts and predictions about the games. We also surrounded the
board with famous footballers and their funny quotes. E.g. Ian Rush’s “Playing in Italy, was like living in
a foreign country!”. The world cup was made from paper mache’ during ‘making things’ club and was
given to the winner of the competition during the schools final assembly, before the summer holidays.

12. My classroom is a word rich environment. There are displays right around the
classroom dealing with everything from using adjectives, and famous fairy tale
quotes to a high frequency word wall and the terms science topics. The heads
have been created over the last two years to accompany the ‘Kipper’ stories
that the children read, through the Oxford Reading Tree scheme.

13. At the start of the year, we
created non-fiction books on
our favourite animals. Many of
the children chose animals from
the sea. So we chose this
theme to create a welcome to
year one wall.

14. As part of a geography unit introducing continents and
countries, we learnt how to say hello in various languages,
and started a ‘Where are we from?’ board.

15. We wrote stories using the framework of ‘First, Then, Next, After that
and Finally’. We then put it on the wall for everyone to enjoy.

16. Lamps
made from
cardboard,
skewers,
and a
pomelo skin

17. Certainly the tallest
project undertaken so far.
We made this very large
Christmas tree from card.
The children made the
snowflakes during
symmetry lessons, and
the hands during lessons
estimating and
measuring length. Our
Christmas tree was over
60 hands tall!

18. A flower from a
science project. We
made this from a
broken plastic
didgeridoo (made
during an earlier
project), a broken bin
and scrap paper. Oh
and a giant red pom-
pom that took quite
some time to make!!

19. A Three Little Pigs
Christmas door. The
children each made a
stocking. The note
reads ‘Dear Mr Wolf,
sorry no-one’s here,
we’re all on holiday.
Hope the fire’s not
too hot.’

20. I decided to make our reading space a little more interesting, the
children all suggested themes. Having decided on castles we began
making the ‘Year One reading castle.’ We then went on to make a
horse, helmets, shields, and dragons, for role plays.

21. Following a school trip to Dreamworld, we did work on both fiction and
non-fiction and used it to create this stunning display.

22. During our fist term we looked at different ways of creating portraits of
ourselves and used them to decorate this board.

23. After looking at examples of stained glass, these students picked a
cartoon character, and traced it on to plastic before colouring it in. The
results were great, and the children loved showing off their work.

24. I love listening to and playing songs on my guitar, and this has been rubbing off on my
students. They really love to move to music, so we began creating a band.
In the picture you can see our guitars, drums, saxophones, and violin. Not pictured was
the didgeridoo (created during an earlier project, made from plastic pipe it worked
surprisingly well!)
The children love playing with the instruments and did very well miming songs by ‘The
Who’.

25. A rather more ambitious
‘night light’, created
following lessons on
fairy tales. We put bulbs
in each window and
made the same simple
switch from paper clips.
The castle itself was
made from tissue paper,
glue and water, over
some plastic bottles.

26. • One of my favourite projects so far. These very large
dinosaurs were created during my ‘Making Things’ club,
by children from yr 1— yr 6. Lots of classes had done
some work on dinosaurs and really wanted to make
something that would stand out. Following an initial
planning lesson, we picked our dinosaurs, using pictures
from books and the internet and began making
templates.
• We then made templates by adapting a small model
dinosaur. The templates were then blown up by 800%
and cut out. These shapes were them transferred to card
where they were cut out and painted, before being
assembled. These were long projects, and took a lot of
figuring out! But they were well worth the effort. The
hardest part was putting them up! They were made from
cardboard boxes!

27. Our Pteradon turned out great,
although getting him flying was not
easy.

28. The T-rex looks fantastic and guards the dining
hall!!

29. In order to
encourage spelling
in Year 1, we
created this
‘Spellephant’. The
students copy and
stick on difficult
words that they can
spell. The project
has worked very well
with students eager
to see how many
words they stick on
the wall.

30. Having been looking at different places in geography, we thought it
would nice to make some of the famous buildings that we had seen in
books. We made small models to begin with and then started to make
them bigger and bigger. The leaning tower is the biggest so far, but
we’re not finished yet.

31. The Coliseum. Rome

32. The Parthenon. Greece

33. Sydney Opera House. Australia

34. Arc de Triomphe. France

35. The Leaning
Tower of Pisa.
Italy

36. Tower Bridge. U.K.

37. Big Ben. U.K.

38. The Eiffel Tower. France

39. We were
looking at travel,
in geography.
Lots of us in
year 1 like
trains,
especially
Thomas the
Tank Engine.
‘All aboard the
year one
express!’

41. • All of these projects were completed by
the students and myself, and the best part
of each one was the fun we had making
them.
• The projects were completed by students
from Year 1 – year 8.