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What are you wearing?

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of British Clothing 1066 to Present Day The History of British Clothing

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Objectives

English

  • Discuss learning and develop wider skills in spoken language.
  • Use language in a variety of situations and for a variety of audiences and purposes, including through drama, formal presentations and debate.

History

  • Study an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.
  • Study changes in an aspect of social history such as clothing.
  • Address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference and significance.

Lesson Planning

Explore the world of clothes and how we wear certain types of clothing. Examine how materials and styles have changed over time.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To discuss with others their thoughts, ideas and questions about clothing through the ages.
  • To understand that clothing has changed over time and to begin to ask questions about how and why.

Children will:

  • Consider why they like or choose certain clothes
  • Understand that clothes, fashions and styles have changed considerably
  • Think about what they already know about clothes and materials
  • Raise questions about what they don’t yet know about changes to British styles and materials

You Will Need

  • A collection of clothes for dressing up
  • Sticky notes
  • Good (but not essential): a variety of special and interesting outfits
  • Clothes hangers
  • Hat stand
  • Mannequin

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