Year 1 Our Country

This unit is made up of four lessons. Each lesson Includes a fully comprehensive powerpoint and word resources catering a range of abilities. Lesson 1 - To describe the differences between the town and the countryside. Lesson 2 - To locate and name the countries of the UK. Lesson 3 - To locate the capital cities of the UK. Lesson 4 - To compare two capital cities Brasilia and London. All lessons start with active rewind (recap) tasks. These provide an informal assessment for teachers, remind children of their prior learning to help learning go into their long term memory and put relevant prior learning in the forefront of children’s minds as they acquire new learning. Children will have stem sentences to support oracy and enable children to focus on the learning rather than forming sentences. Independent task In each lesson children will be built up to completing an independent task/s. Every task has a helping hands task which aims to remove barriers to children accessing the main task such as using stem sentences to allow children to focus on their learning not the structuring of sentences. The chilli challenge should be provided to all learners the ’ differentiation ’ will be based on how children complete the task.