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Keystage One Topic Webs for teachers, using loan service collections
 
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English

  • Ask and answer questions using objects as a starting point
  • Describe your last or your favourite holiday
  • Make a list of things needed for a seaside holiday
  • Form a seaside vocabulary:
    Beach, cliffs, tide, waves
  • Create a story about a trip to the seaside
  • Listen to stories about seaside holidays

Art & Design

  • Draw or paint a picture of a holiday
  • Use different media to create a picture
  • Sand art
  • Shell collages
  • Printmaking
  • Plaster casts
  • Make a seaside display
  • Make a boat

Maths

  • Use words connected with the passing of time
  • Understand the seasons and holidays connected with them
  • Plan a journey using pictograms: time, distance, transport
  • Graphs, most popular ways of travelling
  • Volume: which bucket holds most
  • Weight: how much does a bucket of sand weigh
  • Size: who can build the tallest sand castle
  • Sort shells by size, shape and colour
  • Sequence holidays on a timeline
 

History

  • Handle objects from the past connected to seaside holidays
  • Use objects to find out how holidays have changed over time
  • Compare clothes: now and then


  Seaside Bucket

Seaside Bucket



Geography

  • Places to visit, home and abroad
  • Plotting routes
  • Using maps
  • Geographical features of the seaside

Science

  • Materials and their uses
  • How materials have changed eg. Plastic buckets now more common that metal ones
  • Animals found on the beach: sorting an classification
  • Sinking and floating: comparing fresh and salt water
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