- Story Telling ( 1.5 hours)
Can you think of a story you might use to explore the following themes:
Bullying
Loneliness
Conquering fears
Loss
The first document explores the theme of loss. I think that this short story explains loss it quite a nice way. I know there will be a lot of resources out there that might be more suitable to certain classes however I think because I am not yet in a school I do not have a lot of resources so I was trying to find books online. I think that once I have my own class I will be able to build up my resources and have more examples of stories that would be appropriate for this theme.
I just thought I would share this website as it is can be quite useful for both practitioners and pupils as it gives some advice, resources and training opportunities for children and families dealing with bereavement.
http://www.winstonswish.org.uk/supporting-you/
The second book could be explored through the themes of bullying and loneliness.
Loneliness is area that has recently been on the news with the John Lewis advert hoping to raise awareness of this issue we have in our society. Channel 4 are also raising awareness about the campaign End Loneliness. Using this advert or videos could also be a way of showing how this happens in real life and what we can do to support people in the community.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuz2ILq4UeA
Students can perhaps organise and set up ways of giving back to the elderly in the community by have coffee mornings, tea dances or trying to connect with them in some way so as they are building relationships and being effective contributors in the community.
I believe that this is a really relevant topic to be discussing with children. If we teach our children about the affects of lonliness and encourage them to help others in some form then this will hopefully benefit the community.
Why not get them to pupils to create story?
Conquering fears
Pupils can think of something that they are scared of or something that they do not like but they can use this to create an adventure story on how there character is going to face their fears.
Pupils can use their imagination and develop their literacy skills as well as thinking about how they are going to conquer there fears through their own story telling. Pupils may want to share their story with their peers and the class can discuss what the character was scared of and how they managed to face what they are scared of. How the character(s) felt before and after the event.
