Schedule for day at Rookhow

Attending:       16 Year 1 pupils with 4 adults

                        25 Year 2 pupils with 4 adults - from different Barrow schools

Schedule:      

• § Arrivals, welcome, refreshments, health & safety briefing, community builder
• § Walk through woodland to yurt (stop, look, listen, smell, etc)
• § A few questions to consider in the yurt (who might live here, why do you think that, how would you keep warm and dry in here in winter/cool in summer, what else would you need to live if you lived here, would you like to live here, why?)
• § Walk back from yurt, collecting objects in egg boxes (some natural objects, some human-made objects, some objects to match colours, some shiny and dull objects, some rough and smooth objects, some objects that a creature might eat, some objects that a creature might use for shelter)
• § Artwork based on experiences & collections
• § Display & discussion of artwork, lunch
• § Earthtale: "Tiddalik the Frog" (Alida Gersie) with actions
• § P4C sessions
• § Community review, home

Philosophy for Children Sessions

Stimuli:           Walk in woodland, visit to yurt, Earth Tale (Tiddalik)

Questions:     

Year One:       Based on Earth Tale (Tiddalik)

                        "Why did the animals want to make him laugh?"

                        "Why did Tiddalik drink all the water?"

                        "How can the animals stop him drinking all the water again?"

Comments:    "Confine him to one pond."

"He would just drink that up and look for some more."

"We could build a wall around him."

"Tickle him so he spits all the water out."

"Give him pop to drink so he explodes."

"I disagree because I don't want creatures to die."

"I disagree because we should not hurt creatures."

"I disagree because I don't want him to get ill."

"I disagree because we can just build a wall around the lakes and rivers"

"This would not work as he would just hop over them."

Year Two:       Based on what they "wondered about" from the day's events:

"Why do people live in yurts sometimes?"

                        "Why are cats running about?" (cats on site)

                        "Why are there so many trees?"

                        "Why are there bugs in the forest?"

"Why is the butterfly in the window?" and "Why does the butterfly not fly?" (butterfly indoors)

                        "Why is there a yurt in the forest?"

                        "Why is there a hutch outside?"

                        "Who built the yurt?"

                        "Why is there an old fire in here?" (stove in the corner of room)

Based on Earth Tale (Tiddalik):

                        "Why is the frog so big?"

                        "Why are the other animals scared of the frog?"

                        "Why does the frog drink all the water?"

                        "Why was the frog so thirsty/greedy?"

                        "Why did the animals make a plan?"

                        "Why was a frog in the story?"

Some comments (year 2):

Is the yurt a house?

                        "No, because it looks like a tent"

                        "No, because it's not the right shape"

                        "A real house has a triangular roof"

What does a real house look like?

                        "Shapes stuck together"

                        "Look at the attic to see if it's roof is triangular"

                        "If your house has bricks then it is a house"

                        "It could be a house and a yurt"

                        "It has no telly, no chairs and no bed"

                        "It's still a house because you live in it"

"It can be any shape because my uncle lives in Canada in an upside down house"

                        "Your house could be a tent because you can sleep in there"

Discussion based on butterfly in window:

                        "If you live somewhere, it is a house"