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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
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Classroom
Identify the location and function of different objects used in the classroom and explore how to formulate rules to manage the classroom safely
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Shape Patterns
Identify, describe and compare the sequences of geometric shapes that have been used to create a range of different patterns
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Supermarkets
Read and produce labels to identify and describe items that can be sold in different shops and match initial sounds of words to the correct letters of the alphabet
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Family Support
Investigate and illustrate some of the special ways that members of a family can use to support each other in different events and experiences