Toy Factory

This physical education scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to select, develop and perform dance steps to represent and illustrate movements of different toys and games. The PE lesson plans get the class to combine dance steps at different levels and speeds to show how toys might be made in a factory.

Select, develop and perform a range of dance steps to represent and illustrate some of the movements of different toys and games

Lesson One : Trains
Devise and perform a selection of dance steps to represent the movements connected to a train journey

Lesson Two : Kites
Develop and perform a range of different movements to represent the power of the wind as shown in toys

Lesson Three : Cars
Practise using a range of dance movements on different levels to represent a car journey

Lesson Four : Race Cars
Develop and practise actions to suggest dance movements representing toy race cars

Lesson Five : Factory Robots
Create and perform a range of dance movements to illustrate movements made by different toys

Lesson Six : Toys Performance
Develop and perform a range of dance actions and steps to represent different movements for toys
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Sporting Poems
Practise writing poems with patterned language and rhythm structures to describe movements and actions connected to different sports and games
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Food and Drink
Select powerful and descriptive vocabulary to use in poems describing different types of food and drink that can be enjoyed for a range of meals
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Sea Animals
Identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a marine habitat including in the sea or on the beach
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Number Bonds to Twenty
Investigate and model how to use mental calculation techniques when working with concrete objects and diagrams to identify pairs of numbers that make sums to twenty