To ask about your KS1 children please?

[laurzj82]

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Related to an assignment I'm working on for my Access course. I've got to do a hypothetical lesson plan and don't currently have any experience with KS1 age children (my DD is only 2).

Do your children of this age know their left and right?

TIA

Yes. He is nearly 5 and has known it for at least 18 months. In fact, my just three year old knows hers most of time.

As a person who works with Year 1 children I'm surprised at all the children on this thread who know their left and right because most children I've encountered in KS1 don't! Year 2 seems to be where they understand it better.

Showing a right hand is different from asking a child to turn left/right or find left/right on a map etc.

I agree with user. Differentiate the lesson objectives for different abilities. Those who will know, those who will need a little prompting and those who won't have the foggiest!

Exactly as user said, it could be a case of identifying particular needs with regards to some children not knowing left from right. But it could also mean an identified group in terms of PPG children, SEN, non-readers, high ability groups - in which case the task is more about differentiating for those groups. I rather think it would be that rather than whether or not they know left from right as that's totally normal at KS1 for them not to know it. Really depends on the wording of your assignment.

I printed out 2 hands & wrote left & right on them, then attached them to the whiteboard so the class could see them all the time. Of my Y1 class, some will & some won't but I know I have definitely taught it.

That's useful Ladygracie.

We stick north/west/east/south on the wall to help them.

Thank you so much everyone, really helpful information. Hats off to teachers! I obviously knew there was lots and lots of work to go into lesson planning but really underestimated quite how much!

Do you mind me asking what PPG stands for please? Thanks

Grey I was awful with left & right for the longest time still can be & was picked on because of it. For that reason left & right is something I've always put in to our everyday lives. For example I'm going to tickle you left foot & right hand when they're small. Or- on the school run today we'll go to the bottom of the road & turn left, then right, then right again, then left at the school gates (we take a few different routes so it varies). On the way home I'll get them to explain & follow the route. Also games like- if you go upstairs & turn right then right again which room will you be in? It seems to have worked as they do know them fairly reliably.

DD1 is in year 1 and knows her left from tight. DD2 will be 3 soon and also knows her left from right. I have always said go left/right so they have understood for a while.

Yes, 5 yo ( reception), 6yo y2, 8 and 10 yo all know. They use the trick a pp mentioned. Put your index finger and thumb in an L shape. The left hand side faces the right way.

I didn't know the difference until I started driving - and even then I was pretty rubbish. My dc are so much cleverer than me

PPG children are those who attract the pupil premium grant.

Y2 does, reception is inconsistent. I noticed in their Xmas play where they did a version of the Hokey Cokey, several of the class (Inc. Dd2) put their left arm instead of their right arm in!

Of course it is! Thanks Special