Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe some of the experiences that can be enjoyed when visiting different places on holiday and differentiated templates to select and compose a recount of a family holiday visit to a seaside location.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to compose a postcard to a friend describing a visit to a seaside on holiday to make comparisons between some other places.

This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and compare the physical and political geography of a seaside location with some other places found around the world. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.