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Lesson Three – Local Journeys

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify, describe and record some of the different journeys that can made around the school neighbourhood. The class can use the correct language to describe places that they could visit close to the school.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify, describe and record some of the different journeys that can made around the school neighbourhood

Learning Objectives

Know about similarities and differences in relation to places. Talk about the features of their own immediate environment.

Learning Outcomes

I can describe ways to travel to locations that are in the school neighbourhood. I can describe the position and direction of different locations.

Local Journeys

Teaching sequence to help the children identify, describe and record some of the different journeys that can made around the school neighbourhood

Local Visits

Display posters for whole class discussion to help the children describe some of the different places that could be visited in the local area

Local Places

Activity cards to help the children make models of different objects that can be found in places in the local area close to the school

Local Journeys

Interactive activity to help the children identify, describe and record some of the different journeys that can made around the school neighbourhood

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify, describe and record some of the different journeys that can made around the school neighbourhood

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