Ideas for Teachers

This page has ideas for teachers on how to use Sausage Bausage in the classroom.

Sausage Bausage is a great springboard into Key Stage 1 learning. The story is educational and mapped to the KS1 National Curriculum, covering topics such as continents and oceans, animals and their habitats, and the lives of significant individuals. It also aims to bring to life the topic of modern architecture for young readers.

Geography

The journey takes Sausage Bausage across all seven of the world’s continents and there are maps at both the beginning and end of the book.

Use maps to identify continents and oceans.

Name and locate the world's seven continents and five oceans.

Identify the location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles.

Recognise landmarks, such as buildings. Use the reference information in the book to learn about modern landmark buildings. See here for examples.

Use compass directions (N, S, E, W) to describe the locations of features and routes on a map, for example Sausage Bausage’s journey.

Science

Animals:

Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

Classify animals as carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.

Describe and compare animals’ anatomical structure.

Habitats:

Identify and name living things and their habitats.

Compare familiar with unfamiliar habitats, such as seashore, woodland, ocean and rainforest.

History

The KS1 curriculum requires learners to:

Learn about significant historical events, people and places

Locally, regionally, nationally and internationally

Identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods

Recognise difference and significance, make connections and draw contrasts

From the earliest times to the present day

Examples:

When learning about The Great Fire of London, children often learn about St Paul’s Cathedral and its architect Sir Christopher Wren. Sausage Bausage provides a great opportunity to compare and contrast this with the present day Gherkin and its architect Sir Norman Foster.

Another KS1 topic is the first aeroplane flight and the Wright brothers, as well as Louis Bleriot who was the first to fly across the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft, and Charles Lindbergh who was the first to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. A great introduction to this would be to consider how Sausage Bausage crosses the English Channel as a balloon and how he crosses the Atlantic Ocean to get home.

Sausage Bausage visits Florida on his adventure around the world. This would be an excellent opportunity to stop off and learn about Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. Lots of schools teach the topic of Space in KS1, including the moon landing and the Apollo 11 mission. The launch site was in Florida.