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Scenarios are based on real-life incidents. Pupils work as team of investigators analysing information to identify solutions to problematic and evolving situations.

 
 
Smash

Smash

Experience the most exciting literacy lessons ever!

Your pupils are accident investigators, collecting witness statements from the scene of a bicycle accident.

Can they use their skills of inference and deduction to piece together the true version of events?

Pupils work in small groups, communicating ideas and theories to reveal their conclusion and make their safety recommendations.

Age Range Target age range:
8 to 14
Curriculum:
Inference and deduction, literacy and reading skills, writing activities, PSHE, citizenship - road safety, science links, art and design activities.
Duration
Message stream: 20 mins. Pre activity: 15 mins. Post activity: 20-30 mins, plus extension activities.
The project includes:
  • a wide variety of literacy lessons and ideas,
  • a science forces and friction module,
  • road safety teaching material from RoSPA,
  • an art and design unit.
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Lost

Lost

PSHE has never been so important!

The police need all the help they can get when two children do not arrive at school.

Can your pupils find the missing children?

Pupils work in small groups using their inference, deduction and reading skills, communicating ideas and theories to reveal their conclusion.

Two age levels available:
Age Range 7-9 version

10-14 version
Curriculum:
Inference and deduction, literacy and reading skills, ICT, PSHE, citizenship - personal safety, writing activities.
Duration
Message stream: 40 mins. Pre activity: 15 mins. Post activity: 20-30 mins, plus extension materials.
The project includes:
  • A wide variety of literacy modules (instruction texts, letter writing, news reporting),
  • personal safety teaching material and worksheets.
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Imperial Coal
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Imperial Coal

Vital Victorian literacy experiences!

A Victorian mining accident is recreated courtesy of the Internet in an exciting and exhilarating project. Pupils work together to manage and resolve a mining emergency.

Can your pupils beat the clock and ensure the safe return of the trapped miners?

Age Range Target age range:
9 to 14
Curriculum:
Victorian history - mining in particular, literacy, science, numeracy links.
Literacy resources and lesson plans, science activities and links to numeracy material.
Duration
Message stream: full day of messages, with appropriate breaks. Total: 5 hours, plus extension materials.
The project includes:
  • literacy resources and lesson plans,
  • science activities,
  • numeracy opportunities,
  • extended writing.
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Accident

Accident

Accident is a citizenship-based project with strong curricular links to English, Literacy, Drama and PSHE.

Pupils work in role as Police Road Traffic Officers, dealing with public enquiries, complaints, accident and incident reports. Using the unique ‘Digicom’ system, they must download their webmail and interrogate vehicle and criminal databases to discover who is responsible for the dangerous traffic ‘Accident’ in Seyster.

Age Range Target age range:
9 to 14
Curriculum:
Inference and deduction, literacy and reading skills, writing activities, PSHE, citizenship - road safety, speaking and listening assessment.
Duration
Message stream - 1 hour. Over 5 hours of teaching material included.
The box includes:
  • a wide variety of literacy modules (journalistic writing, news reporting),
  • road safety teaching material and worksheets.
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