Planning

A class of 28 reception children were invited to take part in the seventeenth century drama at Clarke Hall as part of the Autumn Term's topic - Food & Festivals. The visit was cross-curricular and great emphasis was placed upon food and traditional fayre especially during the preparation towards the visit.

Learning Opportunities

Early Learning Goals

Literacy

Mathematical

 Knowledge & Understanding

Creative
Preparation :
Make Christmas cake, bread, gingerbread & mince pies

Practice nursery rhymes

 Listen & respond to rhyme Comparing quantities, weighing & measuring
During Visit :
Make pomanders. tussie mussies, kissing bough, prepare food & make butter

Tour around the house

To imagine & recreate role & experiences Use of mathematical language.

Recognise and recreate simple patterns.

 Find out about past & present events in their own lives Handle tools and materials

Use imagination in art & design & role play

Respond to what they see, hear, smell & touch
Follow-up :
Compile written work about visit

Candle making/Electricity

Old & new artifacts

Paintings / drawings & collage

 

 Retell narratives in the correct sequence

Attempt writing for different purposes

Write captions & simple sentences

 Look at similarities, differences and change.

Ask questions about why things happen and how things work.

Past and present objects.

 Explore colour, and texture.

Handle tools and materials

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