Prepare to play (1)

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Sports Tournaments Football Tournaments

Objectives

Design and Technology

  • Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, cross-sectional and exploded diagrams, prototypes, pattern pieces and computer-aided design.
  • Select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing], accurately.

Music

  • Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music.

Lesson Planning

Have a football tournament of your own. Decide on the team sizes and names, design emblems and mascots for each team. Work together to write a song for the tournament.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To design emblems and mascots for a football tournament.
  • To improvise a football tournament anthem.

Children will:

  • Design a 2D logo and a 3D model.
  • Consider what commonly held values should be promoted in sporting tournaments.
  • Improvise a piece of music.

You Will Need

  • One Love, One Rhythm album of World Cup songs
  • Old socks
  • Pieces of fabric
  • Coloured modelling material