Year 1 and 2 Inspirational Women Home Learning Pack

This home learning pack is designed for children in Y1 and Y2 (ages 5-7) to complete, with some adult support where possible, over a week, based around the topic of ‘Inspirational Women’.

It offers a range of activities covering reading, writing, design technology and music, linked to the text ‘Inspirational Women: Dame Evelyn Glennie’, which could be used as part of a homeschool curriculum.

The resource could be used as part of Women’s History month in March or to learn about the achievements of women as part of International Women’s Day on 8 March 2021.

This resource pack includes:

• Reading practice – Inspirational Women – Evelyn Glennie
• Writing Task – A woman who inspires me
• Images of inspirational women
• Images of percussion instruments
• Make a musical instrument activity
• Listening and responding to music worksheet
• Themed writing paper

National Curriculum programme of study links

Reading

• Listen to and respond to texts beyond the level that they can read independently
• Answer questions about what they have read

Writing

• Write for different purposes

Music

• Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music
• Play tuned and untuned instruments musically

Design & Technology

• Select and use a range of tools and equipment to perform a practical task (make a musical instrument)

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• Reading practice – Inspirational Women - Evelyn Glennie
• Writing Task – A woman who inspires me
• Images of inspirational women
• Images of percussion instruments
• Make a musical instrument activity
• Listening and responding to music worksheet
• Themed writing paper