Session 3 - Somerly Primary School Year 3 - Health and Technologies

Find your group (outside if possible - 5 minutes)

1. Your challenge is to line up in order of height

2. An extra challenge is that you have to pretend that your voice was stolen by a word thief on your way to school

3. The tallest person needs to be near the steps stretching down to the smallest closer to the brick classrooms

4. How are you going to communicate?

You will each be given a number. Remember your number (5 minutes)

1. Head count 1 - 5 so that there are 5 groups in total

2. I am going to set a timer to see how quickly you are able to do this

3. The voice thief still has your voice so you need to find another way to communicate to find your group

What do Creative Habits Look Like? (10 minutes)

1. Quick recall of Creative Habits (keep the poster nearby)

2. Because you don’t have your voice yet, you will be given a word. Your challenge is to work together to find an action to help us recognise the word. What would it look like?

(Teacher and EA to decide on best action for each word. Preferable one from each group so that we can use these repeatedly in our sessions

1. Imaginative, Persistent, Collaborative, Disciplined, Inquisitive (questioning)

2. The spell to unlock your voice and get it back from Voice Thief, the adults will choose which group did the best modelling of each Creative Habit. Remember your action because we will need you to show us again back in the classroom

Back in the classroom (10 minutes)

1. You will each be given a piece of paper

2. Fold the paper in half and half again to make 4 rectangles

3. Each group is going to come up to the front to model their action

4. Just like we did in our last session, we are going to be doing drawings of eachother. Your challenge is to, without lifting up your marker, how would you draw a single line drawing of one of the actors at the front to show the action they are making with their body.

Imaginative Creatures (15-20 minutes)

1. You will be given another piece of paper. Fold it in half and then fold each part backwards so it looks like a zigzag (Creative to demonstrate so everyone can do it together)

2. Put your name on the back and numbers 1 - 4 in the corner of each section (show example) and keep it folded

3. Put your hand up if you are able to picture things in your head. Put your hand up if you don’t see pictures in your head. (This is only for my reference)

4. Imagine a type of garden creature and what this might look like.

5. On the bottom rectangle draw your creature’s feet and legs. How many, do they have feet, what shape are they and are there any special features? You have 90 seconds.

6. Turn your paper over so that the feet you have drawn are on the bottom (section 4) and can’t be seen. Give it to someone who has the same colour eyes as you but don’t look at it.

7. On the top rectangle that is facing you (section 1), draw your creature’s head and neck. Is it long, short, how many eyes does it have, does it have antennae, spots etc? You have 90 seconds.

8. Open your paper and stretch any lines from the neck and the legs so that they just peek over onto the blank rectangles.

9. Fold your paper so that the two blank rectangles are on the outside and the drawing part can’t be seen. Find someone who has the same size hand as you and swap with them. It must be a different person from the first swap. Don’t look

10. On the blank rectangle (section 3), draw the bottom half of your creature’s body. You have 90 seconds.

11. Turn the page over so that only section 4 can be seen and give this to someone who has one of the same letters in their name as you.

12. Finally, draw the top half of your creature’s body. Does it have arms, stripes, spots, bumps, hair or anything else? You have 90 seconds.

13. Open your paper and turn it over to see the name on the back. Can you find its owner?

Group Discussion - (20 minutes)

Decide if we want new groups or the same Creative Habit groups. Maybe groups of 3?) 

1. What would this creature be called?

2. If you were to become this creature, what would your Creative Habit superpower be and why? (This is the habit you think you are the best at)

3. As your creature, what would your Creative Habit weak spot be and why? (Choose the one that you think you would find the hardest and need to get better at) 

If there is extra time, students can choose to colour their creature and add any additional features. 

Successes

• They wanted to do the drawing activity from last week again

• One of the students who was disengaged at the beginning of the session, joined in as we progressed through the activities

• Self regulation was positive particularly with a student who would usually become frustrated with the collaborative activity, creating creatures. 

• Demonstrated great persistence in dealing with the uncertainty of a process that was completely unfamiliar, allowing someone else to add to their drawing and then considering what they could do with it when it didn’t look how they thought it would. 

• Demonstrating discipline by considering how they could improve their creatures and what they would like to do with them next week. 

‘I’ve never seen them keep trying like that before’...Teacher

• Reading the book during crunch and sip and providing feedback about what they thought was happening and meanings behind the images. 

‘Just think happy again’... student

Challenges

• Everything took a lot longer than what we had anticipated, from getting into a line, measuring hands, changing tables and folding paper.

• Remembering the different poses to match the creative habits was initially difficult. Taking a photo of some of the students in their pose and getting them to draw them will hopefully make them more familiar for all of us. 

• Some of the poses they chose are very similar to each other. 

• Because the session was so long, we didn’t get the time we wanted for our reflection activity however we were able to incorporate ongoing reflection throughout the session with each activity

Participation by all students was positive today, even those who came in at different times were able to find their place in the session. They were always curious about what we were going to be doing next. The different academic levels mean that writing is limited and so we are reliant on discussions and drawing however there are also some stronger and more outspoken students. 

‘I like being outside in the fresh air’... Avleen

‘The hardest part was making the creatures because some of the people did it wrong’ … Haneet

‘My least favourite activity was the creatures because people weren’t following the steps’...Avleen

We will look at simplifying some of the activities with less instruction.