Traditional Tales and Festive Fun
What will we be learning?
It’s performance time in the Robins and the children will be getting ready to entertain their friends and family in the school nativity ‘Children of the World’ We will be travelling from as far afield as China, Malawi, Poland and Australia! A theatre has been erected to stimulate the children’s interest in role play and prepare them for their stage performance towards the end of term. They will start by learning and performing a variety of gender swapped fairy tales. When the genders of all the protagonists are swapped they reveal a completely new way of looking at traditional stories! The children will engage in lots of storytelling vocabulary and have the opportunity to write their own fairy tales with a few ‘swaps’ here and there.
A few weeks in to our story telling… disaster strikes! We will receive news that Mrs Claus is in a terrible state; Father Christmas has eaten far too many mince pies over the years and his coat no longer fits. Robins to the rescue! The children will need to design Father Christmas a new coat that will be suitable for him to wear on Christmas Eve to deliver all the presents. What material should we use and what weather will Father Christmas face?
Key Texts
The children will learn a variety of traditional tales with a twist... meet 'Gender Swapped Fairy Tales' by Karrie Fransman and Jonathin Plackett.
We will also explore a variety of different Christmas stories and look in detail at the Christmas story taken from the Lion First Bible.
This year the children will also take part in the nativity 'Children of the World' by Mary Green and Julie Stanley.
Mr Rapunzel
