Activity 3: Wearing the crown

Recognising that kings and queens are usually important, powerful people who rule over others.

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Learning Objectives

  • To recognise that kings and queens are powerful people.

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.

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Before the lesson

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Activity

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Support and challenge

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

  • Remembering what the items are for.
  • Ask the children to draw their ideas of what they would do if they were king or queen for the day.
  • Challenge the children to think of a simple problem to solve as a king or queen.

Vocabulary

  • fairytale

  • king

  • power

  • queen

  • royalty

  • rule

Curriculum opportunities

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Kapow Primary, 
History specialist
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