Lesson Four – Shirt Production

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explore how to design and produce a shirt that is suitable to be worn on a family holiday to the seaside by adding matching pictures using sets of shapes.

The class can build and record some shape designs to represent special objects that they might be seen and used at the seaside when on holiday.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to design and produce a shirt that is suitable to be worn on a family holiday to the seaside by adding matching pictures using sets of shapes

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and use vocabulary to describe different shapes that could be used for the design for a holiday shirt and a template to select and record the design for a holiday t-shirt that could be worn to the beach.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to design and produce a shirt that is suitable to be worn on a family holiday to the seaside.

This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to produce items of clothing to wear on a holiday to a particular location by selecting and using shapes to represent different places. 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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