Commonwealth Day

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Beyond Living Memory: Commemorating History Commonwealth Day

Objectives

PE

  • Participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending.

Music

  • Use voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.
  • Play tunes and untuned instruments musically.

Lesson Planning

Consolidate and celebrate the learning throughout this block. Children host an invited audience to celebrate their learning. The monarch congratulates children.

Teaching Outcomes
To participate in team games.
To perform a song to an invited audience.

Children will:

  • Play a traditional game to invited audience.
  • Present their learning to invited audience.
  • Host the celebration and celebrate achievements.

Provided Resources

  • PowerPoint presentation with Commonwealth Quiz

You Will Need

  • Refreshments
  • All creative outcomes from this block on display
  • Scrolls
  • Commonwealth flags and children's flags ready for display