Lesson Five – Beachwear

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise designing a set of matching clothes that could be worn on a family seaside holiday using different shapes, colours and patterns.

The class can explain why they might use specific designs for each item of clothing that can be worn on a holiday to the seaside to represent a specific location or experience.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise designing a set of matching clothes that could be worn on a family seaside holiday using different shapes, colours and patterns

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to select and use special vocabulary words that can be used to describe different items of clothing and a template to design some different clothes that are suitable to be worn on a family seaside holiday.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to design a set of clothes that could be worn on a seaside holiday using different shapes, colours and patterns.

This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to produce items of clothing to wear on a holiday to a particular location by selecting and using shapes to represent different places. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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