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Practice task 1Teachers staffroom

Skills sessions

Children should have completed the following skills sessions prior

to starting this activity:

1 School playground

Pupil activity

Ask the children if they can recall some of the techniques for giving

emphasis to particular words and phrases.

How can we make certain parts of our work stand out from the rest?

Why might we want to do that?

Tell the children that in this activity they will be making up a set of

rules for the staffroom. Ask the children to think about other rules

in school.

Should there be special rules for the staffroom?

For example, teachers will be allowed extra cakes on a Friday, and

they must never do marking at lunchtime!

Children will become most inventive in producing a range of

measures to make life harder, rather than easier!

Activity

In this activity children create a set of rules for the school

staffroom. They use font-formatting tools to suggest the relative

importance of their rules.

Resources

word processor with a

range of editing tools and

a spellchecker

PRB11: The Green Cross

code

Vocabulary highlight

select

font colour

font style

bold

italic

underline

uppercase

lowercase

Links to other subjects

National Literacy Strategy: Year 4

Sentence level

T1, 1 Re-read own writing to check for grammatical sense

(cohesion) and accuracy (agreement); to identify errors and

suggest alternative constructions

National Curriculum: Key Stage 2

PSHE and Citizenship Preparing to play an active role as citizens

2 Pupils should be taught:

b why and how rules and laws are made and enforced, why

different rules are needed in different situations and how to

take part in making and changing rules

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Make sure that the children understand that the most successful

posters will have clearly written rules that use a number of effects

to communicate to teachers clearly.

How will you attract our attention? Where will you place the most

important rules, at the beginning or end? Will you number your

rules, or use bullet points?

When they have finished, ask the children to read each others

work, prior to printing. It is sometimes helpful to view the poster

from a distance.Are you sure that it says what you want it to say? Is there one part of

the poster that is not as effective as the rest? If so, what needs to

change?

Encourage the children to review their work as readers, rather than

writers.

If appropriate, ask the children to save their work before they print

a copy.

(Note: Further practice can be gained using PRB11.)

Example

1. Teachersmust be allowed extra cakes on a Friday.

2.Marking mustneverbe done at

lunchtime!3.Teachers can hide from children if they are needed.

4.Teachers canplaywith any new resources for a month before the children.

5.All the best bookscan live on the teachers shelves.

New rules for the staffroom.