Quicklooks
Quicklooks
Summaries of activities in poster form on a single page which we will add to regularly. We have recently added a lot more here to support our science and maths workshops. Rudimentary decriptions will improve! But do take a look at the full activity if you are puzzled!
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EARLY YEARS GAMES AND STORYPROPS
Have you see the Crocodile? Props and games.
MATHS
Buy A Ted: a penny an arm, two pence a body!
Estimating multiplication activity which helped children with place value.
An activity which help pupils with wordy maths questions.
Bank Four: a game to help rapid recall of addition and subtraction.
A game about the history of measurement.
SCIENCE
Who eats what and whom in the woodlands?
Animal Habitats (all found in a London playground!)
An activity on Friction
Work on Fair Testing
Germ warfare game
An activity on loud, soft, high, low sound.
An activity on PH, Neutralisation Rules
Work on elements in the Periodic Table.
Become a drop of water.
Which object is the most stable?
ENGLISH
Poetry activities:
Poetry sorting activity to encourage children to browse anthologies
Factory Girl's Last Day, a ballad by Michael Sadler
Literature Activities
Storyboarding with Chaucer's Pardoner This is short and complete activity
Translating Chaucer word for word
Accessing Swift's satire "A Modest Proposal"
Oliver Twist Character cards
Great Expectations - work on characters
Game to recall "An Inspector Calls"
Work on Holes by Louis Sachar
Connect Four games to revise Much Ado about Nothing
Blockbusters game for Much Ado about Nothing
Word detectives activity for Much Ado About Nothing.
Hotseating game to introduce Macbeth characters.
Two minute autobiography game for Macbeth.
Blockbusters revision activity for Midsummer Nights Dream
Character cards for Romeo and Juliet
Language Activities
Is it "Their" or "There". Here are some aliens to help you.
Bunches of this to gaggles of that. From cliche to creativity.
Simile Bingo - from cliche to metaphor this time.
Climb the ING and ED stalks!
Media Activities
Radio Clues: a pairs game with tricky definitions to help with technical terms.
Superpeople: what is a hero?
HISTORY:
You are an archaeologist digging up a Roman town. What will you find? Is it Roman?
All the things that a Roman soldier had to carry miles and miles.
Then and now: children's lives in the middle ages compared to nowadays.
The Spanish Armada role play activity
Industrial Revolution-Cotton Mill about 1820
Life in the Whitechapel Road: animating census material.
Black History
GEOGRAPHY
Clues activity around researching leisure.
Dinosaurs explain tectonic plates
CITIZENSHIP/PHSE
Funding a malaria vaccine - is push or pull funding best?
Another nail in your coffin - all about health choices
Norm or deviance - rules, laws and peer pressure.
Migration - Why and how refugees have come to the UK
TECHNOLOGY
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Last updated 3rd March 2008