No Outsiders - additional lesson plans

  The original lesson plan for this text is in the "No Outsiders: Everyone different, everyone welcome" resource (2020). However, after listening to Liz Pemberton speaking at a conference I attended in 2022, I asked her advice on improving the plan. Liz helped me to re-frame the way I used this book, think about the language I used, and the way I talked about race within the context of the story. Together we re-wrote the lesson plan and I recommend people use this plan in place of the version in the original resource. Thank you to Liz for your work and inspiration. Liz does anti-racist training and consultancy in the early years sector and can be contacted at www.theblacknurserymanager.com/ Lesson plan Y1 Text: Hair, It's a family affair by Mylo Freeman Lesson plan by Andrew Moffat       www.no-outsiders.com Edited by Liz Pemberton                 www.the blacknurserymanager.com Learning Intention: Proud to be me Success criteria: I know we are all different / I know I be

  KS2 lesson plan. This is a super little story about transition and about still being the same person inside even when the outside looks different. The author uses the idea of a caterpillar transforming in to a butterfly to explore how their best friend feels during that transition; “Then I looked more closely and I knew. It was my friend! She had changed a little bit but it was my friend all the same.” Text : Out of nowhere by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros Enquiry question : If you change, can we still be friends? RSE links : Respectful Relationships: the importance of self-respect and how this links to their own happiness. Success Criteria : I know we all change all the time; I know some changes are bigger than others; I can manage change and hold on to friendships Starter : What is change? How do we change? Have we changed this year in our class? Is change always a good thing? Why do some people worry about chang

  Lesson plan to explore racist attitudes and prejudice Year 3/ Year 4/ Year 5 Text: The spots and the dots by Helen Baugh and Marion Deuchars Lesson plan by Andrew Moffat Enquiry Question: Y2: Why are some people scared of difference? Y3/ Y4: What is prejudice and where does it come from? Starter: You want to keep the surprise in the book so be careful not to reveal the back of the book when you hold up the front. Consider the title – how are spots and dots similar, how might spots and dots be different? Main: Read, “The spots and the dots” up to the middle page and then act confused as you continue and realise the text is upside down. Say you think the publishers must have made a mistake… then realise the pictures are the same… the aim is for the children to realise what has happened and that the book can be read from two viewpoints and comes to the same conclusion. Then discuss: -           Why are

  Text : I am the subway by Kim Hyo-eun Learning Intention : To consider lives lived other than my own Enquiry Question: How are our lives connected? Success Criteria : I know I live in a community / I know there are many different people in my community / I know there are things that we have in common and things that are different. Starter : Look at the cover of the book and consider the title; who do you think is narrating this story, how can the subway be talking to us? What does personification mean? If we are personifying the subway, what do you think the subway sees every day? What things stay the same for the subway and what changes? Main : Read the opening of, “I am the subway” and discuss -        Where is the story setting? Where is Seoul? -        How does the subway introduce themself? -        Why do they say ba-dum, ba-dum Read the rest of the story and when you have finished, talk