Teacher Pack – Early Years Foundation Stage

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Teacher Pack

Early Years Foundation Stage

Thank you for downloading The Big Class Challenge teacher pack for EYFS.

Here you’ll find everything you need to deliver your lesson, including a plan and resources, as well as this link to a slide deck. The lesson has been developed with the main body of content designed as continuous provision, but activities could be adapted into a teacher-led format.

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Pre-reading and preparation

Everything is ready to go, but do spend some time having a read through so you are confident in how the content fits together. There are some images used on slides 9 and 10 which could be replaced with ones that feel more personal to you and your pupils. It’s also worth noting that there are a lot of continuous provision activities suggested in the main body of the lesson. Feel free to select just a few for this lesson, with the option to re-visit the content multiple times, offering different activities at each.

All the key information you need to guide your pupils through the lesson is included in the notes on the slide deck, and you don’t need to do any special preparation or research to be able to lead the lesson effectively. However, if you do want to gain a bit more of an understanding about promoting positive post-school outcomes for your pupils, do download and have a look at our Post-School Success Toolkit.

Join the Big Class Challenge community

If you deliver the lesson during the national Big Class Challenge weeks between 11-22 December, you and your pupils will be part of a movement including other schools up and down the country taking part in this activity at the same time. It may be that time just isn’t available at your school during December, and if that’s the case, don’t worry; this lesson can be delivered at any time.

Share your experiences

We’d love to hear if you took part in the Big Class Challenge via Twitter. You can share your experience of getting involved by posting your own tweet and incorporating our Challenge the Impossible campaign hashtag #TFChallenge, or use our template tweet

‘I just took part in the Big Class Challenge with my class at [insert school name, using your Twitter handle if you have one] #TFChallenge’.

You might also like to attach a picture to your tweet.

Please encourage fellow teachers in your school and network to take part in the Big Class Challenge and deliver this lesson to their pupils! Teacher packs from EYFS to Key Stage 4 can be found on our Big Class Challenge website.

Finally, remember that to complement the lessons teachers are running, we are asking volunteers to deliver talks to pupils about their careers, and the journey they took from school to get there. Share our volunteer guidance pack with people you know working outside the classroom and encourage them to deliver a talk in your school.

Good luck, and have fun!

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Lesson Plan

Lesson overview This lesson focuses on exploring a range of jobs within the community through a variety of teacher-led and continuous provision activities. The lesson will prompt pupils to think about the jobs they see around them, what those jobs entail, and which they might like to experience. There is also a focus throughout on promoting positive attitudes around diversity and equality – pupils should engage with the lesson on the basis that they are all able to access any job of their choosing regardless of gender, ethnicity or familial background.

Lesson objective To explore some different jobs and think about which ones we might like to do.

Success criteria 1. To have imagined yourself in at least one job role.2. To have explored what acting in at least one job role might be like.3. To understand that you can do whatever job you want to.

Resources (dependent on stations chosen)

• Resource 1 – printed onto card, cut out and string attached to form masks – 8 pages• One photo of each child’s face for station 3• Resource 2 – printed onto A4 – 1 per pupil• Paints/colouring pencils/glue/craft items for station 3• Resource 3 – 1 colour A3 version for station 3• Resource 4 – 3 or 4 A3 versions for station 4• Resource 5 – printed onto A4 – 1 per pupil• Appropriate big book for station 1 – see session plan• Additional dress up props for station 2 if possible• Play dough for station 4• Construction materials e.g. different-sized cardboard boxes for station 6

Lesson outline and timings

Teacher Pupils

Beginning(15 minutes)

N.B. We acknowledge that 15 minutes of carpet time may be too much for some EYFS pupils during term 1. If this is the case for your class, focus on the first two activities up to slide 4.

As pupils come in, have them sit on the carpet and explain that in this lesson we are going to be thinking about some of the things we might want to do when we grow up. (slide 2 – optional)

Show pupils video 1 (slide 3) developed by Little Airplane Productions for the BBC, and facilitate a discussion about some of the jobs that the small potatoes wanted to be.

Using the cut out masks on resource 1 and additional props and dress up clothes if available, nominate a few pupils to come to the front, put on a mask, and tell the class who they are and what their job is (slide 4) – what do they do every day? Your TA or colleague/s could model this initially, with pupils voicing thoughts and suggestions from the carpet.

Finally, show pupils the pictures on slides 5-10 and see if they can guess what the buildings are and who might work there. The final image is a university – explain that we will go to a couple of bigger schools as we get older, and when we are all grown up we can choose to go to an even bigger school, maybe far away from where we live now, and we call that university. There is the potential here to ask pupils if they have older brothers/sisters/cousins/know of anyone who goes to any of the secondary schools in the area/if they have heard of the secondary schools to help them visualise what bigger schools are.

On arrival sit on the carpet and watch video 1, and think about the jobs the small potatoes want to do – some will have the opportunity to feedback thoughts.

Some will have the opportunity to come to the front and pick a mask to wear cut out from resource 1, and imagine they work in that job.

Guess what buildings are being shown on the board.

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Lesson outline and timings

Teacher Pupils

Middle (40 minutes)

Explain the continuous provision activities you have selected to pupils, modelling/having your TA/s model what pupils need to do at each station. Give pupils 1 minute to think about what they’d like to start with, before letting them go to a station of their choice. N.B. If an alternative routine to transition into continuous provision is preferred, please use here instead.

Suggested continuous provision activities:

Station 1Activity: Teacher/TA read aloud an appropriate big book story with a focus on achieving greatness despite setbacks and challenges/challenging stereotypes. A Mighty Girl has a lot of suggestions specific to EYFS if you are able to purchase something.Success criterion: 3Resources: appropriate big bookCurriculum links: literacy, communication and language

Station 2Activity: Pupils have an opportunity to dress up in job roles using a box of props and dress up clothes in the designated role play area. The masks from resource 1/station 3 could be used.Success criterion: 1, 2 and 3Resources: Props and dress up clothes related to job roles, masks from resource 1/station 3.Curriculum links: personal, social and emotional development

Station 3Activity: Pupils stick/draw an image of their face onto a self-drawn outline or the outline on resource 2, and then decorate/paint themselves as one of the job roles.Success criterion: 1 and 3Resources: photos of pupils’ faces, arts and crafts supplies, copies of resource 2, A3 version of resource 3 for stimulus.Curriculum links: expressive arts and design

Station 4Activity: Pupils make items related to each job out of play dough.Success criterion: 2Resources: resource 4 printed to A3 and stuck down as play dough mats, play doughCurriculum links: expressive arts and design

Station 5Activity: Pupils to devise questions that they would like to ask people in different jobs. Pupils can fill in pro forma or complete verbally with teacher/TASuccess criterion: 2Resources: Copies of resource 5Curriculum links: literacy, communication and language

Station 6Activity: pupils construct workplacesSuccess criterion: 2Resources: construction materials e.g. cardboard boxes, slides 5-10 printed and displayed as stimulusCurriculum links: expressive arts and design

Engage with continuous provision activities as desired.

Teacher may wish all pupils to have visited teacher-led station during period of activity

End (10 minutes)

Bring pupils back together five minutes before the end, and ask them if anyone has an idea of what they want to be when they grow up (slide 11). Take some thoughts, praising ideas as appropriate, particularly aspirational/stereotype-challenging feedback.

Think about what they would like to be when they grow up.

Follow Up Invite any visitors from the jobs explored in this lesson/visit workplaces and link learning back to this lesson

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Resource 1

Job role play masks

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Job role play masks

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Job role play masks

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Job role play masks

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Job role play masks

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Job role play masks

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Job role play masks

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Resource 1

Job role play masks

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Resource 2

Which job will you do?Stick your photo onto the outline. Add your uniform!Stick your photo onto the outline. Add your uniform!

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Resource 3

Jobs in our community

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Resource 4

Jobs in our community

Make a walkie talkie for the policeperson.

Make a brick for the builder.

Make a bucket for the firefighter.

Make a stethoscope for the doctor.

Make a spoon for the chef.

Make a thermometer for the nurse.

Make a spanner for the mechanic.

Make a letter for the postperson.

Play dough mat

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Resource 5

Questions we would like to ask

I would like to ask a policeperson about...

I would like to ask a firefighter about...

I would like to ask a chef about...

I would like to ask a mechanic about...

I would like to ask a doctor about...

I would like to ask a nurse about...

I would like to ask a builder about...

I would like to ask a post person about...

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