Learning Zone

Objectives

Possible Activities

• Brainstorm what they could ask the Wills girls
• What do they want to know? Prioritise with the class three main questions to ask and decide on the length of the film
• Design an advert to put in the paper, local shops, ask relations, visit Old People’s Home – talk to residents*
• Inform the office and ask the secretary what is happening
• Make a timetable for the visitors into the school – inform all the staff
• Organisation: Each group given timetable to interview Wills Girls
• Film the interviews and edit

Paul Matson from www.electricdecember.org and Year 6 pupils from Luckwell Primary School interview the Wills Girls

Outcomes

• Year 6 visit a local residential home [It helps to establish a good relationship with the staff and residents. One way to break the ice is to visit at the home at Christmas and sing and have a chat before the children do the project].
• electricdecember project.
• Wills girls as drama, role play,
• A video of the interviews presented to the school, parents, Wills Girls, local residential home
• An intranet or web page link to other schools locally, globally