Seaside Holidays in the Past - The Complete Series (6 lessons)

This Seaside Holidays in the Past KS1 planning pack contains everything you need to bring the history of seasides to life in your classroom, including six detailed lesson plans, a set of engaging slideshows for each lesson, and a range of printable resources.

This scheme of work is also part of our Sun, Sea and Sand Topic Bundle - perfect if you are teaching 'seasides' as a cross-curricular topic!

In this first lesson, your class will explore the features of seaside holidays using photographs as a prompt. They will identify key vocabulary associated with the seaside, and discuss activities that people might do during a seaside holiday today.

Children will reinforce their understanding of the features of seaside holidays in their independent activities, which include sorting pictures, writing postcards and re-enacting seaside scenes!

Everything you need for a fun and successful lesson is included in this pack - an easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, and a range of printable resources.

This lesson begins with children finding out what a source is, what different types of sources there are, and how they can help us find out about the past.

After placing the Victorian era on a timeline, children will then look at photographs from this time period, and discuss what they can see, and what this tells us about Victorian seaside holidays. Children continue this careful observation of sources in their independent activities.

A detailed plan, an engaging set of PDF slides, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources are all included in this ready-to-teach history lesson pack.

In this lesson, children will learn more about the different activities that Victorians took part in during their seaside visits.

After finding out about how Victorians relaxed on the beach, took walks along the promenade, visited the pier, rode donkeys, bathed in the sea and watched Punch and Judy shows (amongst other activities), your class will imagine that they are living in the Victorian era, and plan a day trip to the seaside, listing and explaining all of the activities they want to do.

This Victorian seaside holidays lesson pack includes an easy-to-follow plan and an informative set of PDF slides, as well as differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

In this lesson, children will learn that seaside holidays have not always been popular, and explore the reasons for this.

They will discover that it was the invention of the steam train in the Victorian era that meant people could travel to the coast both quickly and cheaply. Children will demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of this through a range of activities, including sorting true and false statements, completing cloze paragraphs and answering questions.

A detailed plan, an engaging set of PDF slides, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources are all included in this ready-to-teach Seaside Holidays in the Past lesson pack.

In this lesson, children will explore the difference between beyond living memory and within living memory, and then explore seaside holidays in the 1950s.

Children will watch films of seaside holidays from that era, and discuss what they have learnt from these sources. In the alternative activity provided, children conduct a survey amongst their parents and grandparents to find out about their childhood experiences of seaside holidays.

Everything you need for a successful lesson is included in this pack - an easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, and a range of printable resources.

In this final lesson, children will use their knowledge and understanding to explore some of the ways in which seaside holidays in the Victorian era were both similar to and different from seaside holidays today.

They will consider aspects such as travel, clothes, food and entertainment. In their independent activities, children will compare and contrast photographs from then and now, identifying similarities and differences. In the alternative activity, children use a Venn diagram to organise statements that refer to Victorian seaside holidays, seaside holidays today, or both.

This Year 1/2 History Knowledge Organiser has been created to complement our History Beyond Living Memory strand. It is designed to support your children’s understanding of key vocabulary linked to this scheme of work. Enquiry questions have been included to encourage your children to think deeply about this topic.