Home > Foundation Stage : Literacy > Writing > Recounts
Holiday Outings

This literacy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise devising story boards using word phrases and illustrations to recount some of the special events and experiences that might happen on a family holiday outing. The class can role-play some of the different things can take place on each trip.

Farm Visit
Explore how to compose and present a personal recount about a family visit to a farm using a storyboard to sequence sentences and illustrations for the outing

Family Shopping
Explore how to compose and present a personal recount about a family shopping trip using a storyboard to sequence sentences and illustrations for the outing

Circus Show
Explore how to compose and present a personal recount about a family visit to a circus using a storyboard to sequence sentences and illustrations for the outing

Zoo Visit
Explore how to compose and present a personal recount about a family visit to a zoo using a storyboard to sequence sentences and illustrations for the outing

Seaside Holiday
Explore how to compose and present a personal recount about a family visit to the seaside using a storyboard to sequence sentences and illustrations for the outing
-
School Friends
Investigate, describe and model some of the special ways of providing practical, spiritual and emotional support to other pupils in the school
-
School Pictograms
Explore how to count and record the numbers of different pieces of school equipment that can be found in trays stored around the classroom
-
Listening Skills
Develop and refine listening skills when practising how to follow commands and instructions when playing games and role-playing actions
-
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