Presentation: Finding Our Conwy Castle Photos in the Camera Roll

Slide 1 of 7 · Settling starter · History · Year 1

6 minutes

Robin Class went to Conwy Castle

This is a pretend tablet. It belongs to Robin Class at Hillside Primary School. They took 16 photos on their trip to Conwy.

Conwy Castle is real. It was built about 740 years ago for King Edward the First. It has 8 big round towers.

While the register is called: look at the camera roll on the board. Find something you know.

Starter question: Can you find photo 9? What is it?

DCF: Interacting and collaborating → Storing and sharing No computers needed · a pretend tablet on paper

Supply teacher script (no subject knowledge needed)

Hand out: show Screen 1 of the stimulus sheet (the pretend camera roll) on the board, or 1 copy between two. Keep the activity pages (Part 2 of the worksheet, one per pupil) until Step 2. Pencils and coloured pencils. Keep a sheet of paper to cover the tablet later.

Say aloud: “This is a pretend tablet. It belongs to Robin Class at Hillside Primary School. Robin Class is a made-up class. They went on a trip to Conwy in North Wales, and they took 16 photos. Conwy Castle is a real castle. It was built a very, very long time ago, about 740 years ago, for a king called King Edward the First. It took the builders about 4 years. It has 8 big round towers.” Ask: “What can you see in the photos?” Take 4 or 5 answers (a bus, the castle, towers, a big gate, walls, a gull, a picnic, a little red house, boats, a bridge).

Starter answer: photo 9 is the smallest house. Then say: “Old stone walls go all the way round the town of Conwy. They are called the town walls. Down by the water, on the quay, there is a tiny red house. People say it is the smallest house in Great Britain. There are boats in the harbour and a bridge next to the castle.”

Slide 2 of 7 · Step 2: the camera roll and key words · History · Year 1

10 minutes

Where does a tablet keep my photos?

When you take a photo, the tablet saves it. All your photos are kept together in the camera roll. Say it with me: camera roll.

camera roll

The place where the tablet keeps all the photos you take.

icon

A little picture you tap. Camera, photos, heart, album, bin.

save

Keep it safe, so you can find it again.

Task 1: draw a line from each icon to what it does. Ring the icon you tap to find your saved photos.

LNF: Numeracy → Number → The number system Be careful with the bin!

Supply teacher script (no subject knowledge needed)

Say aloud: point to the 5 icons along the bottom of the tablet, or the big icons under Screen 2. “An icon is a little picture you tap. The camera takes a photo. The photos icon opens the camera roll, so you can see the photos you have saved. The heart saves a photo as a favourite, so it is quick to find. The album puts photos together in a group, like a Conwy trip album. The bin throws a photo away. Be careful with the bin!”

Hand out: the activity pages now. “In Task 1, draw a line from each icon to the picture of what it does. Then, in the row of 4 icons underneath, draw a ring round the icon you tap to find your saved photos.”

Quick check: camera → take a photo; photos → see my photos; heart → keep it as a favourite; bin → throw it away. In the row, ring the photos icon (the hill and the sun, 3rd in the row). If a pupil rings the camera, ask: “Does the camera find old photos, or take a new one?”

Slide 3 of 7 · Step 3: find the photo · History · Year 1

10 minutes

Task 2: every photo has a number

The numbers show the order the photos were taken. Photo 1 was first, when Robin Class got on the bus. Then photo 2, then photo 3.

Let’s find photo 12. Point along the rows: 1, 2, 3, 4, then 5, 6, 7, 8, then 9, 10, 11, 12.

Photo 12 is the bridge! Tap it and it opens big.

Now you: look at the number in Task 2. Find that photo on the tablet. Ring the matching picture.

Step 3 · 10 minutes Read the number, then count along the rows

Supply teacher script (no subject knowledge needed)

Say aloud: show Screen 1. “On this pretend tablet, every photo has a number. The numbers show the order the photos were taken. Photo 1 was taken first, when Robin Class got on the bus. Then photo 2, then photo 3. Real tablets keep photos in order too, but they do not show the numbers.” “Let’s find photo 12. Count with me and point along the rows: 1, 2, 3, 4, then the next row, 5, 6, 7, 8, then 9, 10, 11, 12. Photo 12 is the bridge!” Show Screen 2: “When we tap photo 12, it opens big, like this.” Then: “In Task 2, look at the number. Find that photo on the tablet. Then draw a ring round the matching picture.”

Quick check: photo 12 is the bridge (2nd picture); photo 6 is the town walls (3rd picture); photo 15 is the castle (1st picture). If a pupil looks for photo 12 near the start, ask: “Is it 12 or 21? Which digit comes first?” There is no photo 21: the roll stops at 16.

Slide 4 of 7 · Step 4: missing numbers · History · Year 1

10 minutes

Task 3: some photos have lost their numbers!

Count forwards along the camera roll: 1, 2, 3 ... all the way to 16. Now scroll back: count backwards from 16 to 1.

Row	Start like this
Count on →	10, 11, 12, then ... 13!
Count back ←	9, 8, then ... ?

Write the missing numbers in the empty boxes.

Step 4 · 10 minutes The tablet is covered. Count in your head.

Supply teacher script (no subject knowledge needed)

Say aloud: “Let’s count along the camera roll together. Point to each photo as we count forwards: 1, 2, 3 ... all the way to 16.” Then: “Now let’s scroll back. Count backwards from 16 to 1.” Count together, pointing, slowly. Then: “Now I am going to cover the tablet. Some photos in Task 3 have lost their numbers! In the first row we count on, forwards. In the second row we count back, backwards. Write the missing numbers in the empty boxes.” Cover Screen 1. Model the first gap: “10, 11, 12, then ... 13!”

Quick check: count on 13, 14, 16; count back 7, 5, 4. When most pupils have finished, uncover the tablet and check together. Watch for numbers written back to front, such as 31 for 13: say “thir-teen, 1 ten and 3 ones, so we write the 1 first”. A pupil who writes 10 after 9 in the count back row has counted forwards by habit: ask them to say the numbers backwards from 9 out loud first.

Slide 5 of 7 · Step 5: which photo was taken first? · History · Year 1

10 minutes

Task 4: the smaller number was taken first

The smaller number was taken first. The bigger number was taken later.

Photo 9 and photo 14. Which do we say first when we count? 9! So photo 9 was taken first. 9 is smaller than 14.

Ring the photo that was taken first. Look carefully: both photos in the second pair are towers! The number tells us.

Then put 3 photos in order: first, next, last.

Step 5 · 10 minutes Use the number line on the board to check

Supply teacher script (no subject knowledge needed)

Before you start: write the numbers 1 to 16 in a line on the board.

Say aloud: “The smaller number was taken first. The bigger number was taken later. Look: photo 9 and photo 14. Which do we say first when we count?” (9.) “So photo 9 was taken first. 9 is smaller than 14.” Then: “In Task 4, ring the photo that was taken first. Look carefully at the second pair: both photos are towers! The number tells us which was first. Then put 3 photos in order. Write the number of the photo taken first, then next, then last.”

Quick check: ring photo 9 (the smallest house), not 14; ring photo 3, not 13; order 2, 8, 11 (castle, picnic, gull). A pupil who writes 11, 2, 8 has copied the cards in the order they are printed: ask “Which number do we say first when we count?”

Slide 6 of 7 · Step 6: save my own photo and check · History · Year 1

9 minutes

Task 5: save my own photo, then check

Your photo goes at the end of the camera roll. The last photo is 16. What number comes next? Draw your photo, write its number and a short name, like tower.

Name words: castle · tower · gate · wall · boat · bridge · gull · house · bus

Now check with your partner:

I can tap the photos icon to find my saved photos.
I can find a photo in the camera roll by its number.
I can say which photo was taken first by looking at the numbers.
I can save my photo with a number and a name.

Step 6 · 9 minutes A name makes your photo easy to find again

Supply teacher script (no subject knowledge needed)

Say aloud: “If you went to Conwy, what would you take a photo of?” Take 3 or 4 ideas. “Your photo goes at the end of the camera roll. The last photo is 16. What number comes next?” (17.) “In Task 5, draw your photo. Write its number, 17, in the box. Then write a short name for it, like tower or boat, so you can find it again. When you are older, you will save your work with a name that is easy to search for.” Write the word bank on the board: castle, tower, gate, wall, boat, bridge, gull, house, bus. Accept sounded-out spellings such as towr.

Quick check: the number is 17. A pupil who writes 1 has started again from the beginning: point to the end of the camera roll and count on together, 15, 16, 17. The name should match the drawing.

Then: read the 4 “I can” lines on the board aloud; pupils tick the matching line on their page if they agree.

Slide 7 of 7 · Plenary: share · History · Year 1

5 minutes

Show your photo: say its number and its name

Let’s answer together.

Question	Correct answer
Which icon do we tap to find our saved photos?	The photos icon. The camera only takes new photos.
Was photo 4 taken before or after photo 10?	Before, because 4 is smaller than 10.
What number is my new photo?	17. The last photo was 16, so we count on 1.

Hand in your activity page Is your name at the top?