This curriculum topic scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to select and combine different shapes, colours and patterns that can be used to design and print a t-shirt for a specific function or event. The class can identify and describe the individual properties of each element added to their t-shirt design.

Select and combine a range of different shapes, colours and patterns that can be used to design and print a t-shirt for a specific function or event

Lesson One : What Clothes

Identify, describe and compare different types of clothing and describe each of their matching functions to suggest when and how they might be worn

Lesson Two : T-shirt Materials

Identify, describe and compare properties of materials that can be used for different items of clothing including t-shirts

Lesson Three : T-shirt Designs

Devise and create a range of t-shirt clothing designs that can be worn for different family occasions and special events

Lesson Four : T-shirt Printing

Explore and test different ways of printing shapes and patterns on fabric to represent occasions and events to use on example t-shirts

Lesson Five : T-shirt Shapes

Investigate and record some of the different shapes that can be used to make pattern designs on clothing to match a special function, occasion or event

Lesson Six : Fashion Parade

Select and design clothing patterns to use on t-shirts matching a range of different family functions, events and occasions

  • Halving Things

    Halving Things

    Explain and model how to find and record the halves of some of the different objects that can be used at home and in school

  • School Friends

    School Friends

    Identify and learn classroom routines and organisation by exploring and describing information and likes and dislikes for each of their classmates

  • Classroom

    Classroom

    Identify the location and function of different objects used in the classroom and explore how to formulate rules to manage the classroom safely

  • Shape Patterns

    Shape Patterns

    Identify, describe and compare the sequences of geometric shapes that have been used to create a range of different patterns