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Who am I? Identity

An Attitude of Gratitude

Research shows that gratitude is a powerful way of increasing happiness and positivity. Why not use this powerpoint to encourage your class to build up an attitude of gratitude?!

 

Resources to download

  • An Attitude of Gratitude ppt pdf

Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover

Four sessions that help learners to explore different features of their identity

KEY QUESTION: Who am I? Who are we? What makes us unique? What is important to us?

These sessions allow learners to explore aspects of their own identity.

Resources to download

  • Mini Identity Book Planning word pdf

Feelings Powerpoint

“What you feel is who you are…”
 
Explore a world of emotions using this stunningly illustrated picture book. The lyrical text make every feeling come to life to help children understand the range of emotions that may experience. It can also prompt further discussion about feelings- what they feel like (to themselves and others), how to recognise them and how to express them.

Resources to download

  • Feelings Powerpoint ppt

Identity Circles

An activity that helps learners to explore different features of their identity

KS2 | 60 Mins | Individual

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Names

This resource supports children to explore and value their name, their personality, their hopes and dreams and that of others.

KS2 | 60 Mins | Individual

Resources to download

  • Don’t judge a book by its cover mini book word pdf

Strand by Me

A fun and participatory activity that allows learners to discover the connections between themselves.

KS2 | 30 Mins | Teacher led

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The Linking Network Primary Identity Pack

A structured series of KS2 lesson plans , developed at TLN, for preparing to meet or for work within school.

The purpose of The TLN Identity Pack is to develop discussion on the concepts of identity, diversity, uniqueness and belonging by exploring TLN’s four key questions – Who am I?  Who are we? Where do we live? and How do we all live together?   These activities are not designed for linking days, however many are ideal for use in exchange of identity work.

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The Skin I’m In … Cannot Tell My Story

An activity using the book Skin Again to deal with the potentially controversial issue of skin colour and identity in a safe manner.

KS2 | 60 Mins | Group

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Under the Same Sky

By Britta Teekentrup ISBN 978-1848577411

We really like the line repeated in this book- we all live under the same sky- a message that is built on throughout the book.

 

 

 

Resources to go with this book:

 

  • Primary Linking-Autumn Term CPD1

Under the Same Sky‘ (PowerPoint). This is a really lovely new set of resources developed by the Stockport Schools Linking Programme. This is a great book for younger classes taking part in linking and this PowerPoint offers different lesson possibilities – all embedding the wonderful line ‘We all live under the same sky.’

  • Primary Linking-Spring/Summer Term CPD2

Under the Same Sky (PowerPoint)

Visible and Invisible Differences

An activity that helps learners to think about how they see others and how others see them. It makes connections between what we see and identity.

KS2 | 20 Mins | Group

Resources to download

  • Visible and invisible differences word pdf

Visible and Invisible Powerpoint

Powerpoint to be used with Lesson 1 Visible and Invisible from the Primary Identity Pack.

Resources to download

  • Lesson 1 – Visible & Invisible powerpoint ppt

What’s in my Backpack?

A critical thinking activity that gets learners to think about themselves and explore their own make-up through the metaphor of a backpack.

KS2 | 30 Mins | Individual

Resources to download

  • What’s in my backpack word pdf

When is an apple not an apple?

Using Philosophy for Children this activity engages students together in a self-critical (reflective) practice of asking questions, testing ideas and arriving at conclusions.

KS2 | 30 Mins | Group

Resources to download

  • When is an apple not an apple word pdf
  • Statements for children word pdf
  • When is an apple not an apple powerpoint ppt

Who’s Who? Identity Mysteries

A quiz-style activity that uses photographs and mysteries to explore how we tell who somebody is.

KS2 | 60 Mins | Teacher led

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Who are we? Diversity

A Boxful of Us

A show and tell activity, that supports a class to explore who they are.

KS2/3 | 15 Mins | Teacher led

 

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Change Places

A starter game which moves us on from seeing ourselves just as individuals, to seeing that we are also part of a group with things in common and things that are different.

KS2 | 15 Mins | Teacher led

 

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Flying the Flag

Using Philosophy for Children this activity engages students together in a self-critical (reflective) practice of asking questions, testing ideas and arriving at conclusions.

KS2 | 30 Mins | Group

 

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Mapping Who We Are

A simple mapping activity that encourages learners to think about the places that determine who we are.

KS2/3 | 60 Mins | Group

 

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Visible and Invisible Differences

An activity that helps learners to think about how they see others and how others see them. It makes connections between what we see and identity.

KS2 | 20 Mins | Group

Resources to download

  • Visible and invisible differences word pdf

Who Are We Now? Oral Histories

A creative activity that gets learners to think about the ways in which we visually represent ourselves and learn about other groups.

KS2/3 | 30 Mins | Group

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Where do we live? Community

A postcard from

A collaborative activity that gets learners to create a postcard from where they live for sharing with a link partner.

KS1 | 30 Mins | Group

 

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Britkid

Using the popular Britkid website, this activity focuses on the different views that we may each have of where we live, and the relationship between identity and place.

KS2 | 30 Mins | Individual

 

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Google my place

Starter activity using Google Images (or Google Earth) to see our place (the local) from a global perspective.

KS2/3 | 60 Mins | Group

 

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Message in a bottle

An activity that uses the ‘message in a bottle’ metaphor to engage learners in thinking about what their place means to them.

KS2 | 60 Mins | Individual

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My place through a lens

Using images taken by learners to explore how we see where we live.

KS2 | 60 Mins | Individual

Resources to download

  • My place through a lens word pdf

Place names

Starter activity to explore where place names come from, and what meaning might be contained within a place name.

KS2 | 15 Mins | Group

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Stories about place

Using stories to help learners explore the way people think and feel about where they live.

KS2/3 | 30 Mins | Teacher led

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The places in us

Short individual activity that gets learners to think about the places that are important to them. Contributes to their understanding of multiple identities.

KS2 | 60 Mins | Individual

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Thinking with your feet

A participatory activity exploring the local, national and global scales of where we live, based on the Geoscapes activity.

KS2 | 15 Mins | Teacher led

Resources to download

  • Thinking with your feet word pdf

Top 10 of my places

A fun and participatory activity that allows learners to discover the connections between themselves.

KS2 | 60 Mins | Group

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Where is our place?

A simple mapping activity that encourages learners to think about the places that determine who we are.

KS2 | 60 Mins | Group

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How do we all live together? Equality

Being New

An activity which explores how a student, who is new to a school, perhaps having moved from a different part of the country, or even within the same city, feels about their experience.  It is also helpful for students to consider the feelings of those new to an environment, and ways they can welcome them. The following downloads from the Something Else Resource complement this work: Something Else Worksheet 1 – What did it feel like to be new – ask students to read the statements on this handout and write down their own experiences. Something Else Worksheet 2 – What did people do that was helpful – ask students to consider their own and other’s actions and reactions.

All Key Stages | 30 / 60 Mins | Teacher led / Group / Individual

 

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Connected Communities

A simple mapping activity that looks at how two communities are connected, and the different routeways and pathways they share.

KS2 | 60 Mins | Teacher led

 

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Freedom Park

Taken from the fantastic book ‘We Are All Born Free‘ by Amnesty, Freedom Park shows Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “We all have the right to life”. In class, children can explore the different messages they can see within the image and during class visit days, children can work collaboratively to create their very own version of Freedom Park!

Resources to download

  • Freedom Park powerpoint ppt

Global Connections

How are we connected to people/places/cultures in other parts of the world.

KS2/3 | 60 Mins | Teacher led

 

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Helping Hands

An activity that explores the ways that people support and help us in different parts of our lives.

KS2 | 30 Mins | Teacher led

 

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It goes without saying

An activity that explores the hidden or unwritten rules that help us all to live together.

KS2/3 | 60 Mins | Teacher led

 

Resources to download

  • It goes without saying word pdf

Silence Seeker – Exploring the words we choose

By Ben Morley 2009 Tamarind ISBN: 978-1848530034

Ben Morley’s picture book The Silence Seeker tells the story of a child who seeks to help his new neighbour who his mum tells him is an asylum seeker. He misunderstands and tries to help the older child from the new asylum-seeking family to find silence. This steady, kind story helps key stage 2 children move forward in their empathy and understanding of asylum seekers and is a perfect way to gently open discussion around the refugee crisis. We often use the beginning and end of this book to start a conversation in the classroom and we have known teachers use it with Key Stage 3 pupils.

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Starfish Story

The starfish story can be a helpful way to help learners understand active citizenship and encourage them that it is worth taking action to make a difference.

KS2 | 15 Mins | Teacher led

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The Lost Thing

A picture book that raises questions about ‘fitting in’, and the way we support or ignore people who join us.

KS2 | 60 Mins | Teacher led

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Under the Same Sky

By Britta Teekentrup ISBN 978-1848577411

We really like the line repeated in this book- we all live under the same sky- a message that is built on throughout the book.

 

 

 

Resources to go with this book:

 

  • Primary Linking-Autumn Term CPD1

Under the Same Sky‘ (PowerPoint). This is a really lovely new set of resources developed by the Stockport Schools Linking Programme. This is a great book for younger classes taking part in linking and this PowerPoint offers different lesson possibilities – all embedding the wonderful line ‘We all live under the same sky.’

  • Primary Linking-Spring/Summer Term CPD2

Under the Same Sky (PowerPoint)

We Are All Born Free

This picture book illustrating the 30 rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a great way to think about how we all live together, and should respect each others’ rights.

KS2/3 | 60 Mins | Group

Resources to download

What Friends Do Best

By Jonathan Emmett & Nathan Reed 2004 Harper Collins ISBN: 978-0007141210

What Friends do Best is a story about perseverance, sharing and friendship. The school system increasingly recognises and rewards individual achievements. Sometimes however, there are things that are much harder to achieve working alone than they are if working together with others.
What Friends do Best looks at this through a gentle story about three friends, Winston, Ralph and Alice, who work together to construct something very big indeed. The book is especially suited to younger learners and allows an opportunity to talk about the benefits of working together towards a shared goal. What Friends do Best could also form the basis for an assembly as well as a classroom activity. Follow this link to find Working Together, an activity that uses this picture book to explore how working together is sometimes is the best way to get things done.

 

Using the picture book ‘What Friends Do Best’ by Jonathan Emmett and Nathan Reed to explore how working together is sometimes the only way to get things done.

KS1 | 30 Mins | Teacher led

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What’s in it for me?

A KS1 activity that uses two stories to explore the ideas of sharing, helping each other, and understanding that we are all linked.

KS1 | 30 Mins | Teacher led

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