Change Celebration Ceremony

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Famous for more than Five Minutes - NEW LOOK Activists

Objectives

English

  • Maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments.
  • Participate in discussions.

Global Citizenship

  • Respond to the needs of others.
  • Begin to make links between their lives and the lives of others.
  • Begin to value others.
  • Gain a willingness to co-operate and participate.

Lesson Planning

Host a celebration ceremony for invited students or parents; take on exciting roles such as photographers, waiters and waitresses, journalists and experts giving speeches informing theaudience of the story behind the campaign.

Teaching Outcomes
To be able to participate in a discussion and respond to what someone else is saying.
To gain a willingness to co-operate and participate.

Children will:

  • Gain a willingness to co-operate and participate.
  • Respond to the needs of others.

Provided Resources

  • Change celebration ceremony roles
  • Change celebration ceremony jobs list

You Will Need

  • A classroom or school hall with tables pushed back
  • Table for drinks and snacks
  • A willing audience
  • Squash and food to serve to guests
  • Posters on walls produced throughout the course
  • Photographs of the change playing on loop
  • Props for each of the different roles
  • Costumes for roles
  • Background music