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Identity
Personal qualities and attributes
Singing Out: No One Quite Like Me and Glad To Be Me
End of Key Stage 1 objectives: Begin to share their views
and
opinions. Identify and respect differences
and similarities between people.
Essential skills promoted in the session: Self-reflection
Decision making Active listening Communication
Begin by singing No One Quite Like Me or Glad To Be Me Settling
in: Play a short ice breaking game that promotes sharing a
favourite thing: toy/food/song/game by passing round an item to
denote the speaker.Stimulus: Place a range of animal group images
in the centre of the circle and encourage the children to identify
what is the same about the animals in any of the groups pictured: a
picture of a group of leopards, a picture of a school of dolphins,
a picture of a group of zebras and picture of a set of
twins/triplets. What looks the same about all of the leopards? How
are the dolphins the same as each other? What do all of the zebras
have in common with each other? What is identical about the
twins?Although there are many similarities within the groups of
animals, they have things about them that make them totally
unique.Key Question: What makes each leopard different from another
leopard? Repeat for each group of animals.Answers: leopards spots,
dolphins whistles, zebras stripes, twins fingerprints.Time for
reflection: Encourage the children to look closely at their own
fingerprint and wonder at how, out of all the millions of people
who have ever lived, nobody else has the same print as them.Key
Question: How else do we differ? Positive conclusion: End by
showing the children images of different people from all over the
world, celebrating diversity.
Continue the learning:Leave an outline of your school/club logo
and leave it in an accessible place near a small inkpad. Encourage
children to make their finger print within the logo to emphasise
that we are all unique parts of a whole.
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KS1 Circle Time Session
