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| Foundation |
Who Sank the Boat? provides learning opportunities for listening, responding to and joining in with rhymes, poems, chants and songs.
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| Year 1 | Poetry | A short and humorous poem is the focal point in learning about rhyming patterns and rhythm. |
| Year 1 | Sing a Rainbow in sign language | Students are introduced to different forms of communication through sign language and song. |
| Year 2 | Cosmo the Boat Cat | A beautifully illustrated captioned video is used for basic comprehension, empathy and story composition ideas. |
| Year 2 |
Engage students in the art of short stories through fun ways to display text and graphics.
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| Year 4 | Traditional folk tales, lesson one | This two-part lesson begins with studying an an African folk tale and class creation of a book version of it. |
| Year 4 | Traditional folk tales, lesson two | Part two on folk tales looks at a Dreamtime story and students compare themes and similarities. |
| Year 6 | Language through limericks | Through a number of limerick examples students will learn of their patterns and rhyming before creating and illustrating their own limerick. |
| Year 6 | Persuasive writing | Using an example students can relate to, a schoolgirl users persuasive writing in the video for this lesson to convince the school to change the canteen menu. |
| Year 7 |
A topic sure to ignite some lively classroom discussion, this social media lesson plan around Facebook explores human relationships through technology.
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| Year 8 | Looking at humour in video texts | Monty Python is the basis for this lesson that looks on the range of techniques that are used to create humour. |
| Year 8 |
Students investigate rules in grammar and apply their knowledge to create a punctuation guide and dialogue example.
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| Year 9 | Representation of different perspectives | There's no greater example of different perspectives than the opposite sides of politics. |
| Year 10 | Increase your vocabulary | Who knew there were so many words to replace "good" and "bad"? No more boring essays! |
| Year 10 |
Students can LOL as they explore FAQs about language from ye olde worlde to modern times.
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| Year 10 | Close look at speeches | Comparing the famous 'I have a dream' speech with a speech of a completely different style, students gain skills to utilise in their own speech. |
