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Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of We Are Britain Celebrate Britain

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Objectives

Geography

  • Name, locate and identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom and its surrounding seas.
  • Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical features and key human features.
  • Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the United Kingdom and its countries.
  • Use aerial photographs and plan perspectives to recognise landmarks and basic human and physical features.
  • Devise a simple map.
  • Use and construct basic symbols in a key.

D&T

  • Instil a love of cooking in pupils.

Maths

  • Practical measuring and beginning to record mass/weight.

Lesson Planning

Activity sessions in order to prepare for the celebrations: baking for ‘We Are Britain Bake Off’; planning questions for ‘Around We Are Britain Quiz’; compiling fun fact boxes for the displays; drawing maps of an imaginary, typical place in UK.

Teaching Outcomes
 To consolidate learning about the physical and human geography of the British Isles.
To bake traditional bread, cake, scones for ‘We Are Britain Bake Off’.

Children will:

  • Follow recipe instructions to bake traditional bread, cake, scones.
  • Measure ingredients for baking.
  • Reflect on their learning in order to compile a question for the Quiz and write Fun Fact Boxes.
  • Consolidate their learning by taking part in child-initiated activities.

Provided Resources

  • Recipe for making Scottish Shortbread
  • Welsh recipe for Bara Brith

You Will Need

  • All resources as listed from Session 1
  • Construction kits
  • Books linked to topic
  • Play equipment required for child initiated activity.

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