Unit A – School Stories

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to read and respond to a story with a familiar setting and identify initial phonemes in different words based on When an Elephant Comes to School by Jan Ormerod. The class can role-play how to support visitors to the classroom.

Read and respond to a story with a familiar setting and identify initial phonemes in different words based on When an Elephant Comes to School by Jan Ormerod

Lesson One : New School

Read and respond to a story with a familiar setting about school events and identify and record the initial phonemes of names of the characters in the narrative story

Lesson Two : School Friends

Practise using a story with a familiar setting that takes place in a school location to identify the initial phonemes that can be used to spell matching groups of words

Lesson Three : School Words

Practise using a story with a familiar setting to identify and model writing initial sounds for some of the different objects that can be found in a school location

Lesson Four : School Cupboard

Read and respond to a story with a familiar setting about starting in a new school and identify the initial phonemes that comprise different words

Lesson Five : School Visitors

Select and role play events and experiences that might happen in a school and identify and record the initial sounds that can be heard in matching cvc words

  • 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