Lesson 2: Building towers

Learning ways to keep trying.

Learning objective

EYFS outcomes

Before the lesson

Print

Teacher knowledge

Lesson plan

Adult-led task

Prompts for learning

Observations

Adaptive teaching

Adults could provide support by:

  • Offering a short scarf for children to hold between themselves and the next child.
  • Modelling one way to move the hoop if the group becomes stuck.
  • Completing the challenge in a smaller group first.
  • Allowing children to move the hoop around or alongside their body rather than through it.
  • Showing the Resource: Picture prompts to remind the children what to do if something is tricky.
  • Asking the children to help by passing the hoop, suggesting an idea, encouraging the group or watching before joining in.

Key vocabulary

  • challenge

  • perseverance

  • tricky

Created by:
Kapow Primary, 
RSE & PSHE specialist
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