Rosie's questions

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Local Studies: Our School and Local Area Our School

Objectives

Geography

  • Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their school and its grounds and the key human and physical features of its surrounding environment.
  • Use simple compass directions and locational and directional language to describe the location of features and routes on a map.

History

  • Understand significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.

Lesson Planning

Can we answer Rosie’s questions about our school? But first we have to go on an egg hunt to find the questions, hidden in the outside learning area!

Teaching Outcomes
To refer to Rosie’s route to identify locations in her questions.
To use local research and knowledge to investigate and answer Rosie’s questions about Our School.

Children will:

  • Take part in an Egg Hunt to find Rosie’s questions.
  • Use local resources to investigate and answer Rosie’s questions about specific historical and/or geographical features of Our School.

You Will Need

  • Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins
  • Rosie soft toy or puppet
  • Plastic eggs, containing questions from Rosie
  • Resources about history of school, old photos, yearbooks, local history books