Lesson Two – Holiday Fun

This history teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise using drama to explore and illustrate some of the special games and events that can be experienced as part of a family seaside holiday.

The class can complete speech bubbles to record in matching sentences what members of a family might have said about different aspects of their holiday to the seaside.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using drama to explore and illustrate some of the special games and events that can be experienced as part of a family seaside holiday

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe games and events that can be experienced as part of a seaside holiday and a template to select and record what families might say about a seaside holiday now and in the past.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to use drama to explore games and events that can be experienced as part of a seaside holiday.

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to describe and compare how families enjoyed seaside holidays together in the past with similar events and experiences enjoyed by families today. 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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