The aim of this lesson is for the children to practise their thinking using the topic of grammar/literacy. It is also an explanation of the anxiety or inferiority that we all feel in a classroom situation when things are not going well for us. Most children can’t actually identify the area being made throughout the poem: the author uses wo...

  A boy saw a yeah-coz-fingee Standing at the bus stop. If you see a thing like a yeah-coz-fingee Suddenly you just stop. ‘You look strange!’ said the yeah-coz-fingee. ‘Me?’ said the boy.  ‘What about you? Why have you only got one eye?’ the boy asked. The creature said, ‘Why...

PHILOSOPHY A central question in philosophy of mind concerns what consciousness is. A wellknown though experiment asks if one could imagine a philosophical zombie that was just like a person, but without self-awareness. This experiment opens up a lot of philosophical questions about metaphysics (Would it make that someone could act as a norma...

The Philosophy This session is designed to inspire awe and wonder at the unusualness of the world around us and to inspire the idea that things are stranger than we might at first think and to get the children thinking along the same lines as many philosophers: that the world is not as it seems. Many of the pre-Socratics thought that the worl...

Bring in a rectangular object, and on the front it says ‘This is not a book’. The thing is called ‘This is not a book’. So what could it be? Could it be a book? Or must it be something else? How can we find out? Task Questions: Is it a book? If it’s got pages, is it a book? If it’s not got any...

You are going to need the book 'This moose belongs to me' by Oliver Jeffers for this session. Wilfred finds a moose and decides that it’s his. He puts a label on the moose with his chosen name, ‘Marcel (owned by Wilfred)’. But when he’s out with his moose and someone else thinks its their moose – with a...

Resources: Tiddler – Picture book by Julia Donaldson   Key controversy: Is lying wrong? What is lying?   Starter – sit children in a circle Read the first part of tiddley until it mentions that tiddler tells tells. Ask the children what they mean by telling tales. Ask for examples of telling tales to chec...

This session uses picture book: 'Tigerella' by Kit Wright Props: Philosophy Elephant Tiger Masks Chester A bed Starter: Introduce Philosophy Elephant Session: Today we are going to be thinking about things that change and things that stay the same.  Can we think of something that has changed or wi...

BACKGROUND More than a thousand years ago, Muslims from Africa conquered Spain and Portugal. They created their own country and forced the Christian kings out. Islam became the country’s religion. However, there were still many Jews and Christians living there. (2) They were not treated equally to Muslims, but they were tolerated by the...