Year 1 - Position and direction

These fun and active Year 1 outdoor maths lessons build confidence with positional language and turns through games, challenges, and creative activities. Using chalk, natural resources, and movement, children secure key vocabulary, practise directional skills, and enjoy linking maths with art and P.E.

Lesson Plans

Understanding positional language

During this outdoor lesson, your children will use chalk and natural items from your outdoor space to describe position in a fun and engaging way. This will give them the confidence of using mathematical vocabulary correctly.

Learning objective:

To understand positional language

Understanding whole, half, quarter and three quarter turns

The main activity of this outdoor lesson will give your children the opportunity to secure their knowledge of whole, half, quarter and three-quarter turns with a unique bean bag challenge.

Learning objective:

To understand whole, half, quarter and three quarter turns

Using the correct vocabulary when describing turns

Deepen your children’s understanding of whole, half, quarter and three-quarter turns using natural resources and chalk. Your children will use their creativity to demonstrate their understanding and work together to challenge each other.

Learning objective:

To use the vocabulary of whole, half, quarter and three quarter turns

Using positional language within directions

Combine P.E and maths in this active outdoor lesson that will build children’s confidence in use of positional language, whilst also giving them the opportunity to share the knowledge they have learnt over this unit to create a class piece of artwork.

Learning objective:

To use positional language within directions

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