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4 outdoor lessons for teaching Year 5 & 6 grammar outdoors

UKS2 - Grammar

Bring grammar to life with this dynamic outdoor unit, where children actively explore word classes, phrases, and sentence structure through hands-on games, trails, and creative challenges. Packed with movement, collaboration, and practical application, these lessons make grammar memorable, engaging, and fun—perfect for inspiring confident writers while keeping your class energized and motivated.

Lesson Plans

Understanding different expanded noun phrases

During this creative and fun outdoor lesson, children will need to work together to create a piece of natural art. They’ll then use their knowledge of expanded noun phrases and prepositional phrases to describe it, in addition to revisiting the different types of nouns.

Learning objective:

To understand and use different types of noun and expanded noun phrases.

Using verbs, adverbials and prepositions

The main activity of this outdoor lesson requires children to create and follow activity trails in your outdoor space. They will need to apply their understanding of verbs, adverbials and prepositions in order to complete each trail successfully!

Learning objective:

To use verbs, adverbials and prepositions.

Using the full range of word classes from KS2

During this outdoor lesson, children’s understanding about a wide variety of word classes and grammatical terms will be reinforced. This lesson requires minimal resources and will promote physical activity as well as collaboration, while having a bit of fun with word classes!

Learning objective:

To identify and use different word classes.

Revising grammatical terms used in KS2

Have your children apply their knowledge of grammar in this active outdoor lesson! They’ll combine their knowledge of coordinate grids with their understanding of verb prefixes before moving onto a timed challenge which will allow them to identify and use a range of grammatical terms.

Learning objective:

To revise grammatical terms.

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