Here is an outstanding Christmas themed lesson plan with stimulus and resources encouraging children to develop their reasoning skills. The resources can be used as a stimulus for P4C (Philosophy for Children) lessons or to structure a class discussion. The children are responsible to decide which people / fictional characters / fairytale characters (depending on age / experience) should be included on Santa's Naughty / Nice list. The stimulus is intended to guide the children to a discussion on rights and wrongs, consequences, behaviour, responsibility and choices. The activity will support the children to improve their critical thinking and discussion skills in a fun way. The themes are easy to access for students of all ages as their moral topics make them relevant for children (or adults) with a range of life experiences.

Here is an outstanding Christmas themed lesson plan with stimulus and resources covering the theme of morals. The resources can be used as a stimulus for P4C (Philosophy for Children) lessons or to structure a class discussion. The lesson encourages the children to look at different scenarios and to place them on a line between Naughty and Nice. The children will use their reasoning skills to explain to their peers why they believe the certain point e.g. Lying to Santa Claus should go at a certain point on the concept line. The stimulus is intended to guide the children to a discussion on rights and wrongs, consequences, behaviour, responsibility and choices. The activity will support the children to improve their critical thinking and discussion skills in a fun way. The themes are easy to access for students of all ages as their moral topics make them relevant for children (or adults) with a range of life experiences.

A collection of multiplication and division word problems, using known times tables for children to begin to solve using the bar model. The bar model, which is part of the Singapore Maths model, is presented to help children develop their confidence and understanding of the vocabulary of sharing equally and twice / three times etc in relation to solving word problems. This worksheet is suitable for Year 3 / 4. The resource is differentiated 3 ways, with an opportunity for more confident learners to apply their knowledge to multistep word problems in a structured, scaffolded way. I have included the worksheets as a pdf and as an editable Microsoft Word document.

Here is an outstanding Christmas themed lesson plan with links to video stimulus. The resources can be used as a stimulus for P4C (Philosophy for Children) lessons or to structure a class discussion. The stimulus is intended to guide the children to a discussion on giving and receiving, selflessness, thinking of others, responsibility and choices. The activity will support the children to improve their critical thinking and discussion skills in a fun way. The themes are easy to access for students of all ages as their moral topics make them relevant for children (or adults) with a range of life experiences.