Literacy Transition Project produced by CLPE (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education)
Supporting the children in your school community to re-connect with each other and re-engage with school life , the Literacy Team would like to highlight an excellent free resource that has been created by CLPE Literacy experts devised for a whole school to work together using a single text, Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins) to support the transition curriculum as pupils return to school. It has been designed to encourage a sense of community across the entire school, to reflect on the last few months, and also help your whole school look forward to the future in a positive way.
There are teaching notes to support you introduce the unit and at the end of the unit there is an celebration activity planned where pupils, staff and parents can share their own notes for living on Planet Earth, supporting everyone to move forward positively. It has been differentiated for specific sessions from Early- Second Level.
This is a literacy-based unit and aims to support reading and writing for pleasure across the school. The age-appropriate activities will provide opportunities for children to use writing for a range of purposes including personal response as well as shared reading and meaning-making. The notes help you to place the literacy learning at the heart of your recovery curriculum and the planned activities will also
- provide a framework for children to re-engage socially with each other and their wider community;
- suggest opportunities to engage positively with the outdoor environment;
- stimulate thinking and talk about world events and the impact of these events on individuals and the wider world;
- provide a safe forum to share thoughts, concerns, ideas and personal responses;
- use art and writing to help children respond personally to experiences they have had
We have uploaded the CFE guidance and a video of the book being read onto our Other Literacy Resources glow tile.
You can register to receive the unit here https://clpe.org.uk/aboutus/news/back-school-support-september-clpewordsfortheworld.
