Where should you place these things on a line? Is it safe, or dangerous?   Cooking... safe or dangerous? Daddy cooking... safe or dangerous? You cooking... safe or dangerous?   Thinking... safe or dangerous?   Playing with a ball... safe or dangerous? Playing with a ball in the park... safe or ...

The Philosophy The question philosophers are interested in when it comes to time travel stories is whether or not time travel is possible. There are two sides to this question: the scientific and the logical. The scientific side is about whether the technology will one day allow for time travel, in the same way that technology has allowed for...

* Please refer to attached image Doing Ask the learners to get into pairs and take ten selfies on their phones or on school tablets. When they are finished ask them to pick one form the ten to share with the group. Doing Question: Which selfie did you chose and why? Next show them a selfie alongside Vincent Van Gou...

The virtues of storytelling Among the many media for telling stories such as film, literature, theatre and song, storytelling has its own – some unique – set of virtues. Direct communication Oral storytelling is one of the most direct forms of communication, especially between the teller and his audience. Even the written wo...

Learning stories When learning a story to tell, one question you must answer is whether you will learn the story word-for- word or not. Ruth Sawyer (1942) reports how the storyteller Marie Shedlock learnt her stories word-for- word but Sawyer suggests that, though her performances were excellent, this is more a dramatic perfor- mance than sto...

Movement, gestures and expression Less is more When I began telling stories I moved around rather a lot. It may have had something to do with the fact that I was often telling stories to very young children. And although silly and overstated movements can be very effective with younger children, it does tend towards slapstick and is not us...

The aim of this lesson is for the children to practise their thinking using the topic of friendship. Perhaps most importantly, friendship is an important concept for all young people. They think a lot about who their friends really are and what being a friend means. So this poem works well to get a discussion going that includes everyone, regard...

Equipment needed and preparation: a percentage die (a ten-sided die rolled twice, once for the units and again for the tens) Starting age: 8 years Key concepts / vocabulary: travel, exploration, risk, self-interest, dilemma, survival, Subject links: geography: ‘travel’, ‘exploration’, ‘survival’, RE (...

Props: Philosophy Elephant Duplo Introduce Philosophy Elephant.  Then introduce the story "...and today it is a story about Philosophy Elephant." Tell this story about Philosophy Elephant and a heap of Duplo. Philosophy Elephant loves to play but Philosophy Elephant loves to play even more with his friend...