Two notebooks to support work over two weeks on 'Where the Wild Things Are&'. Includes fantasy settings, character description and other immersion tasks.
A downloadable investigation lesson pack including notebook, student worksheet, cookie cut-outs, assessment foci sheet for adults and an extension prompt sheet.<br />
The lesson uses P4C principles to encourage learners to create and agree upon a question for investigation though the story's focus is on sharing.
Philosophy for learning activity in which children discuss whether it would be better to live in the witch's gingerbread house or the king&'s castle, before using an image of Rumplestiltskin as a stimulus for discussion.
Investigation using Michael Rosen's &'Snore as a starting point with children creating ear defenders from different recycled materials. Includes planning sheet for recording results and writing conclusion.
A downloadable lesson pack including notebook, student worksheet, adult questioning prompt sheet and assessment foci sheet.<br />
The investigation is a open-ended, aiming to use some P4C techniques to encourage children to set their own question for investigation though is linked to the unit on measuring.
Art lesson on still life sketching techniques. Children look at famous sketched bear (Winnie the Pooh, Rupert) and test out different sketching techniques before they try their own still-life bear sketch.
Notebook lesson activity looking at toys from the past before children then work in groups to design a new toy and present it to the class using a writing frame.
IWB flipchart looking at how different camera angles are used in the Pixar Short Film 'Lifted' and encouraging children to think about the effect they have on the audience.
Notebook asking children to think about whether or not any of the characters in Rumplstiltskin need to learn from their actions and explain why.
Is it right to make promises you can't keep?
Workbook for pupils to investigate features of children's bike wear before designing and making an item of bike wear (such as a sash or jersey).
We upcycled old clothes and linked this to a project on sustainability.
A powerpoint looking at sculptures created for the Olympics in different host cities to inspire children to create their own Olympic sculpture. It also links to Anish Kapoor's website where you can watch a video of his changing designs for &'The Orbit&';.
A lesson for lower KS2 on 'me llamo' followed by a exercise in which children have to listen out for key new vocabulary to help work out which celebrity is 'speaking'.
This lesson was focusing on scripted questions used in television interviews. The children watched an interview with the author of 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' and then write questions for JLS before using drama to hot seat the interview in class.