I am a teaching Deputy Head in a primary school in Hampshire and TES recommended author. I've been teaching in primary since 2007 with experience in most year groups, although my heart lies in Year 1! I enjoy making helpful, time-saving and engaging educational resources for teachers and pupils - I hope you find them useful!
I am a teaching Deputy Head in a primary school in Hampshire and TES recommended author. I've been teaching in primary since 2007 with experience in most year groups, although my heart lies in Year 1! I enjoy making helpful, time-saving and engaging educational resources for teachers and pupils - I hope you find them useful!
Children experiment with applique, running stitch, back stitch and over-sewing in this textiles unit of work. They design, plan and make a tabard-style Stone Age tunic for a teddy of their own from home. Finally, children evaluate their final product against their plan and look at textile artists in the UK.
My class loved this unit, they worked with such focus and I was very proud! Threading the needles was a bit tricky so I allocated some of my more able needle-threaders to tables to help sort out problems. One child sewed her tunic to her jumper, so warn your class about that classic mistake!
Contained in this unit:
Planning for a 7 lesson unit of work
Planning template for the tunics
Starter game
Evaluation scaffold
Less able evaluation writing frame
DT National Curriculum references:
When designing and making, pupils should be taught to:
Design
- generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated
sketches (and) pattern pieces.
Make
- select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks
[for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing], accurately
- select from and use a wider range of materials and components, including (construction
materials,) textiles (and ingredients), according to their functional properties and aesthetic
qualities.
Evaluate
- evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria and consider the
views of others to improve their work
Save 20% on these complete units of work for teaching the Stone Age in KS2! This bundle currently comprises of:
a literacy/English unit of work with planning and resources based on Satoshi Kitamura’s book, Stone Age Boy.
a DT/textiles unit of work where children learn and experiment with different stitches to design, create and evaluate a tabard-style Stone Age tunic.
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