Activity 2: My achievements

Recognising some interests and achievements from their own lives and the lives of their families and friends.

Learning goal

  • To recognise special achievements.

EYFS outcomes

Development matters

Understanding the world

  • Compare and contrast characters from stories, including figures from the past.

Characteristics of effective learning

  • Playing and exploring.
  • Active learning.
  • Creating and thinking critically.

See Development Matters (non-statutory curriculum guidance).

Understanding the World

ELG: Past and Present

  • Understand the past through settings, characters, and events encountered in books read in class and storytelling.

See Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage, 2021.

Before the lesson

Print in advance

Activity

Support and challenge

Adults can use the opportunity to discuss and/or support with:

  • Achievements from extracurricular clubs that parents have shared (e.g. “I heard that recently you….. what a fantastic achievement. You could draw that inside your rosette!”).
  • Challenging the children to think about what courageous person from the story they are similar to and encourage them to reflect on and compare what is similar and different.

Vocabulary

  • achievement

  • courageous

  • medal

  • proud

  • sticky tape

  • trophy

Curriculum opportunities

Created by:
Kapow Primary, 
History specialist
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