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Rosie's second walk

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

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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.

Lesson Planning

Rosie takes a 2nd walk around our school!  She’s occasionally a little naughty and might run in the corridor, skip around the hall or knock on HT’s door and run away! Devise a route for Rosie.

Teaching Outcomes
 To plan a route for Rosie to journey around the school.

Children will:

  • Plan with TP a journey for Rosie around the school.
  • Write instructions as captions, using prepositions.
  • Combine captions with others and plot on plan of school; ensure a consecutive order.
  • Make a playdough Rosie to journey the route.

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

You Will Need

  • Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins
  • ‘Rosie’ soft toy or puppet
  • Using images from the book list of prepositions used: across, around, over, past, through, under
  • Compass points poster
  • Strips of A4 card for caption writing
  • Copy of plan of school for each group

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