Lesson One – School Journeys

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify, describe and record some of the different journeys that can be made around the school building for a range of purposes.

The class can practise using the correct vocabulary words for position to describe the matching locations of objects found in some of the rooms around the school.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify, describe and record some of the different journeys that can be made around the school building for a range of purposes

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to explain how to use vocabulary to describe the position and direction of different objects and a set of cards to identify and describe the position of different locations and rooms that can be found around the school.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the different journeys that can be made around the school building for a range of purposes.

This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and compare some of the different journeys that could be taken in the local and wider community. 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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