Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify key differences between school life in the past and present.
2. Question grandparents about their favourite childhood memories.
3. Predict what school life could be like in the future.

Introduction

Introduction

• Study photographic evidence of school life in the past and present
• Sort the photographs into their correct time periods in a venn diagram
• Compare and contrast differences and similarities between the two
• Co-construct interview questions with a partner for Grandparent’s Day

Development

Development

• With the use of digital resources (“Talking photos” app on iPads) – the children will interview a grandparent using their prepared questions
• The children will take photos during the interviews and layer the voice recording over it – all demonstrated on the app

Plenary

Conclusion

• Class watch the clips and find similarities and differences between their lives and the lives of their grandparents

Learning Outcomes

The child shall be enabled to:

• become aware of and appreciate diversity in the school, e.g. culture, religion, different families, lifestyles etc
• begin to explore how people are interconnected and depend upon each other-the concept of interdependence, e.g. the postal worker, the school nurse, the doctor, the dentist, the garda, the fire officer, the traffic warden etc.

Introduction

Stimulus: photographs of older people from around the world and samples of family trees.  

Whole class discussion: Who are grandparents?

Opportunity for children to name their grandparents (with sensitivity around children who may not know their grandparents/whose grandparents may be dead).

 What is the role of grandparents in your family?

What jobs do/did your grandparents do (paid or unpaid)?

What do your grandparents like to do? 

Development

Family tree: show the samples of family trees, emphasising the grandparents position in the families.

Children draw/create their own family tree.

Children narrate their family tree using iPads.

Grandparents’ Visit:

Before the visit: think, pair, share questions for visiting grandparents.

Invite grandparents in to talk to the class about themselves, their interests, their jobs and stories from their lives.

Ask grandparents to bring in a photograph/object to show the children, as a stimulus for a story.

Small groups record a grandparent telling a story or their group interviewing the grandparent using the iPads.

Plenary

Whole class discussion:

What did you learn from our visitors?

Compare and contrast the lives of grandparents and children, identifying similarities and differences.  

Recreate stories told by grandparents using the Puppet Pals app.