Planning and Activities

This block encourages reflection on the challenges children are facing. Listen to, read and write creatively about things to remember, letters to our future selves, inspirational stories and our hopes for the post-lockdown world.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Essential Texts
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Websites
Michael Rosen reads his poem ‘These are the Hands’, from YouTube.com
Laura Smyth’s 'Message to myself in six months' time', from YouTube.com
Essential Texts
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All from YouTube.com:
School choirs sing Emeli Sandé's 'We are not alone'
DIY for kids with Martin Roberts
Deanna Rodger’s ‘Message to myself in six months’ time’
Essential Texts
All in resources
Websites
Maria Ferguson and Matt Abbott perform ‘Certainty’ and Tom Roberts performs his poem ‘The Great Realisation’ both from YouTube.com
Interview with Tom Roberts from thewashingtonpost.com
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