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EYFS/KS1 ‘The Forgettery’ Literacy Activities Pack

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Explore what we remember and why we forget with this engaging activities pack based on a beautiful children’s book from Rachel Ip and Laura Hughes.

Children will:

  • Enjoy a shared reading-for-pleasure experience
  • Use the ideas in the book as a prompt for further explorations
  • Look at text and pictures to extend their understanding
  • Explore the nature of memories and remembering
  • Explore the nature of forgetting
  • Consider the emotional impact of forgetting and of recalling memories
  • Derive ways to prompt remembering and not forgetting things
  • Start to understand the idea of memory loss caused by dementia in old age

This resources pack for EYFS/KS1 includes:

  • Activity sheet 1 – Different types of remembering
  • Activity sheet 2 – Coming up with ways to remember
  • Activity sheet 3 – Making memories
  • Activity sheet 4 – Drawing happy memories
  • Teacher’s notes


  • Teacher notes
  • Activity sheet 1 - Different types of remembering
  • Activity sheet 2 - Coming up with ways to remember
  • Activity sheet 3 - Making memories
  • Activity sheet 4 - Drawing happy memories
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