LESSON PLAN – Phase 1

Student: 2331018M Class Primary 1

Date: 27/11/2019

Lesson Title: IDL: Postman

Experiences & Outcomes (maximum of 3)

By exploring my local community, I have discovered the different roles people play and how
they can help. SOC 0-16a
I am developing my awareness of how money is used and can recognise and use a range
of coins. MNU 0-09a
I have experimented with everyday items as units of measure to investigate and compare
sizes and amounts in my environment, sharing my findings with others. MNU 0-11a

Learning Intentions (Focus on the LEARNING – use assessable verbs)

The pupils will learn to discuss the role of people in the local community (The Postman)

Success Criteria (Clearly linked to each Assessment of Children’s Learning

LI and related to the process) Evidence
What have the learners to say/write/do/produce
– to demonstrate success?)

 I can describe what the postman
does
 I can name different items that the
postman delivers
 I can explain how a post office works
Formative Assessment: Assess children on their
prior learning and knowledge about people who
help us.
Children will be able to tell what the postman
does and what he delivers. They will also be
able to explain what happens in a post office.

They will be working and engaging at different

stations: they will be developing different skills,
such as measuring, counting and fine/gross
motor skills.
 Pupil Tasks
Resources
Activities / Methodology / Key Concepts (Including differentiation strategies,
Time (Including Health
(Teacher’s Role – including management of learning) formative assessment and
and Safety
homework)
requirements)
(Pupils’ Role)

Gather all the children on the carpet and ask them to sit Children sit quietly on the carpet.
quietly.
Opening Children recap the “people who help us”
Phase Ask children to recap all the people who help us learnt they learned about so far.
so far.
Formative Assessment: Assess children’s
Give children the description and ask if they can guess prior knowledge
5 mins the person that we are learning about.
Children guess today’s person who helps
us.

Teaching Play the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch? Children watch and listen to the video.  IWB
and Core v=bS8FULtQnGA
Learning Children participate in the discussion by  Postcard
 What kind of mail does the postman deliver? Letters, responding to questioning.
postcards (show children an example), cards, parcels  Cut/Fold Puppet

 What were the two people doing in the video?  Popsicle Sticks

30 mins  What does the postman check on the letter? Why?  Colours

Ask children if they have ever sent a letter or a parcel to  Sorting Flashcards
someone or they have seen someone doing it. – Letters + Doors

Have you ever been into a post office? What have you  Lego
seen there?
 Blank Paper
Play the video from 3.10 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYs7HcY2I4c&t=43s Children watch and listen to the video.  Envelopes

 What is the first thing that the lady does? They contribute to the class discussion by  Play money
answering the questions.
 What does she pay money for? / What does she stick  Boxes
on the parcel? A stamp
 Scale
 Have you noticed anything else?’

Introduce the stations to the children. Once they finish

at one station, they can move to any other station as
long as there are only a few people there.

Teaching Table: Provide a cut and fold puppet to the

children. Ask children what colour does the postman
wear? Children colour the puppet, cut and fold it by Children colour the postman and fold it to
placing a lollipop stick in the middle to create the lollipop make a puppet.
stick puppet.
Differentiation: Prior to the lesson, cut
the puppet for the LA group so they only
have to colour it.
Sorting activity: Read the letter from the postman and
ask children to help him post the letters around the
classroom.
Children help the postman to post the
Lego: Place Lego on the floor and ask children if they letters to the right houses.
can try and make a mailbox.
Children create a mailbox with Lego.
Writing Table: Provide some paper on the table and
ask children to create a stamp.
Children create their own stamp.
Money: Place envelopes on the table with a different
amount written on each. Ask children to put the correct
amount of money in each envelope, using play money.
Children place the right amount of money

Weighing Station: Place some boxes weighted
differently. Ask children to use the scale to weigh them
and sort them in order from the lightest to the heaviest.
Remind them that heavier the parcel, the more the
postal charge.
Introduce to the children their mail poster. Ask children
Closing to use it for sending letters/posters/cards to each other.
phase They can check for any mail every morning they come
into the class.
Ask children to list the skills that they have used at the
10 mins
different stations today.
on each envelope.
Differentiation: Red envelopes have an
amount of money up to 20p; whereas the
other colours have an amount up to 10p.
Children use the scale and weigh the
boxes; then, they sort them in order from
the lightest to the heaviest.
Children use the mail poster to send  Mail poster
letters/postcards/cards to each other.
Children name all the skills that they used
at the different stations.
 Evaluation of the Learning Experience

(Include references to SPR)

Evaluation of Pupil Learning

Evidence of
Learning

Areas for
Development

Reflective Analysis of Teaching and Strategies for Development

Evidence of
Effective
Practice
Areas for
Development