6-9 themes 10-11 time to go 12 poetry workshop KS2 worksheets

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session 6: “you’re different” part 1

Objectives:

• to allow time for personal and collaborative reflection on how we treat people who are different from us
• to enable the children to empathise
• to reflect upon the differences between all of us and the things about us that make us special
• to understand that we are all seen by different people in different ways

Resources:

• Flip chart
• Project books
• Exercise 6 - this can be found in the KS2 worksheets later on in this section.
• Film: The Wrong Flowers: You will need to be able to view the film again in school with a group of students. The film can be seen:
  • on video
  • high quality print at a pre-arranged screening at a local cinema
  • online on this site - for this option click here. A broadband connection is recommended.

Input: Remind the children of the activity that they did before seeing the film, looking at how they thought the different people in their lives think about them.

Tell them that they are going to repeat the exercise as though they are Brenda.

Show the film to generate discussion.

Activity: Children work in pairs to complete the activity.

Ideas for plenary:

• Ask the children what makes Brenda ‘different’
• Discuss with the class what it means to have learning difficulties.
• Hot-seat Brenda - either children or teacher can take the role of Brenda.

Read the poem with the children / listen to it online or in the final credits of the film. Discuss and come to an understanding of the final verse:

There were flowers on the window sill at school
And my school days felt
Like I’d always been picking the wrong flowers.

To hear the poem online click here.

session 7 “you’re different” part 2

Objectives:

• to allow time for personal and collaborative reflection on how we treat people who are different from us
• to enable the children to empathise
• to allow children to think about how to seek positive solutions to conflict
• to reflect upon the differences between all of us and the things about us that make us special

Resources:

• Flip chart
• Project books
• Picasso’s ‘Weeping Woman’ 1937. Click here to view image and find out more about it.
• Digital photo of each child in the class
• A4 paper
• Movie clips and stills from film. In particular:
  • From bullying to fantasy world (movie clip).
  • Brenda in the caretaker’s shed (still image).

Input:

Look at the close up of Brenda. Ask the children to describe how she is feeling. Can they remember the part of the film where this incident takes place? Compare this image with the Picasso image. How is sadness represented in each?

Talk about the different approaches of the artist, Picasso, and the filmmaker Nicola Williams.

Look again at the part of the film where Brenda is bullied in the playground.

From bullying to fantasy world.

Choose small movie clip. or large movie clip.

Stop at the point at which she runs away. Discuss what has happened. Explain to the children that you are going to hot seat all the different characters involved.

Activity: In “hot seating”, children representing each character are asked to explain what their thoughts are during this part of the film. The children should work in small groups and take on rôles as

• Brenda
• Maureen
• the bullies.

Discuss how each one of these characters feels and how each one behaves.

Ask the children to think about how the situation might have worked out differently. Ask them to describe how they might behave differently in order for the situation to have a different ending, resolving differences through looking at the alternatives.

Rôle play: Re-enact the scene so that there is a different and more positive ending for all the characters

Ideas for plenary:

Return to class motto and reinforce the idea that we are all special and unique.

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