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  • Epic Storytime: My Cake, Not Yours!

    The Epic Storytime Podcast is back! Be the first to hear the full stories begun each week at epictales.co.uk – read by fabulous voice actors from across the Interweb.

    Since 13th September is Roald Dahl Day, we're celebrating the iconic children's author with a folk tale from his home town of Great Missenden! Dahl was almost certainly aware of the deliciously horrid "hero" of this tale; maybe she will inspire the creativity of your children as much as she inspired him?

    This story is adapted from a European folk tale by Chip Colquhoun, and read by David Ault (davidault.co.uk).

    Illustrated by Erica Terry-Rose.

    For easy and fun ways to link this story to a wide variety of learning outcomes including numeracy and PE, make sure you also listen to our Epic Learning podcast.

    This recording copyright © Epic Tales 2021. Story copyright © Chip Colquhoun 2021. Illustration copyright © Erica Terry-Rose 2021.

    Epic Learning has had one mahoosive facelift! Search your podcast player for "Happily Ever Teaching", where you can now hear subject-specific off-the-shelf lesson plans 4 days a week every week! Get there before the Epic Learning Podcast disappears... Search for "Happily Ever Teaching" or visit epictales.co.uk/teachhappily

    19 min
  • Epic Learning: Start of year assessments, fractions, and more!

    Join Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Tale with easy, fun, and engaging activities.

    This week, Epic storyteller Chip is joined by Helen, a teacher of ages 4–7 from Buckinghamshire; Bex, a Deputy Head from Cambridgeshire; and Rob, a teacher of ages 9–11, also from Buckinghamshire.

    To celebrate both the start of a new academic year and Roald Dahl Day on 13th Sep, they discuss the curriculum links within two adaptations of a European folk tale connected to the popular children's author: one from Dahl's family home of Norway, and another from his British home of Great Missenden!

    Discover how to help your children conquer weight, class charters, your local area... and much more!

    TIMECODES
    Intros | 0:00

    "My Cake, Not Yours!" Excerpt | 1:22

    All-age PSHCE | 6:13
    • You can't change other people (9:51)
    • Reaching out to others (10:58)
    • Making good choices (12:01, 16:45, 37:23)
    • Caring for others (12:42)
    • Class charters (15:11, 40:01)
    • Responding to unkindness (29:28)
    • Human nature (32:55)

    Learning outcomes for ages 4–7 | 17:36
    • Literacy – exploring character, role play, vocal expression (17:36); punctuation (17:36); modelling writing (17:36); describing settings (19:18); writing from experience (20:12); diary writing (21:08)
    • DT – designing & building (19:18); recipes (24:32)
    • Science – outdoor learning (22:12); baking (24:32)
    • Numeracy – weighing, measuring, maths investigation (24:32); fractions (27:26)

    Learning outcomes for ages 7–11 | 28:01
    • Literacy – exploring character, hot seating, role play, purposeful writing, question words (28:01); replying to letters (29:29, 43:38); comparing texts, Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl's "The Twits" (29:58); diary writing, time connectives, punctuation (30:33); twists (30:54); conscience alley, hot seating (31:44); modal verbs, Grammarsaurus, letter writing (42:53); diary writing, report writing, review writing (45:16); perception (46:36); persuasive writing (31:44, 47:50)
    • Science – materials (35:27)
    • DT – designing & building houses (35:27); projects, graphic design, recipes, teamwork (38:40)
    • Numeracy – measuring weight, comparing (36:04); fractions (36:45); budgeting (38:40); ratios, bar method (41:38)
    • History – significant people (37:23)
    • Art – perception (46:36)
    • Geography – survey maps (47:19); human & physical features (47:50)

    All-age learning outcomes | 49:44
    • RE – Christianity, helping people on the edge of society (33:25)
    • Art – painting as communication (44:22)
    • Literacy – different forms of communication (44:22); creating new folk tales (48:53, 51:32)
    • Science – animals & habitats (35:10, 51:01); healthy diets (50:22); inspiring scientific/investigative minds (51:52)
    • Geography – comparing places (47:19, 51:30)

    We'd love to hear how you get on with these ideas! Please leave us a review with your favourite podcast app, find us on social media @EpicTalesST, or email [email protected]

    Have a learning outcome you'd like us to cover in a future episode? Email [email protected]

    Stained glass illustration: Dave Hingley.

    This recording copyright © Epic Tales 2021. Story copyright © Chip Colquhoun 2021. Illustration copyright © Dave Hingley 2021.

    Epic Learning has had one mahoosive facelift! Search your podcast player for "Happily Ever Teaching", where you can now hear subject-specific off-the-shelf lesson plans 4 days a week every week! Get there before the Epic Learning Podcast disappears... Search for "Happily Ever Teaching" or visit epictales.co.uk/teachhappily

    57 min
  • Epic Learning: Start of year assessments, fractions, and more!

    Join Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Tale with easy, fun, and engaging activities.

    This week, Epic storyteller Chip is joined by Helen, a teacher of ages 4–7 from Buckinghamshire; Bex, a Deputy Head from Cambridgeshire; and Rob, a teacher of ages 9–11, also from Buckinghamshire.

    To celebrate both the start of a new academic year and Roald Dahl Day on 13th Sep, they discuss the curriculum links within two adaptations of a European folk tale connected to the popular children's author: one from Dahl's family home of Norway, and another from his British home of Great Missenden!

    Discover how to help your children conquer weight, class charters, your local area... and much more!

    *EPIC NOTICE*
    We're proud to have produced these podcasts completely free for the benefit of schools and homelearning families since the start of the first UK lockdown. However, like many businesses, Epic is now struggling to survive this pandemic.

    Can you help by sending us just £20? We only need to raise £200 to continue these podcasts in the New Year. If you find them of value, please consider donating via
    pod.fan/epictales

    If you can't help financially, we'll still be enormously grateful if you could support us with a review on your favourite podcast app – or on your favourite social media site, tagging us in with @EpicTalesST

    Thank you!

    TIMECODES
    Intros | 0:00

    "My Cake, Not Yours!" Excerpt | 1:22

    All-age PSHCE | 6:13
    • You can't change other people (9:51)
    • Reaching out to others (10:58)
    • Making good choices (12:01, 16:45, 37:23)
    • Caring for others (12:42)
    • Class charters (15:11, 40:01)
    • Responding to unkindness (29:28)
    • Human nature (32:55)

    Learning outcomes for ages 4–7 | 17:36
    • Literacy – exploring character, role play, vocal expression (17:36); punctuation (17:36); modelling writing (17:36); describing settings (19:18); writing from experience (20:12); diary writing (21:08)
    • DT – designing & building (19:18); recipes (24:32)
    • Science – outdoor learning (22:12); baking (24:32)
    • Numeracy – weighing, measuring, maths investigation (24:32); fractions (27:26)

    Learning outcomes for ages 7–11 | 28:01
    • Literacy – exploring character, hot seating, role play, purposeful writing, question words (28:01); replying to letters (29:29, 43:38); comparing texts, Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl's "The Twits" (29:58); diary writing, time connectives, punctuation (30:33); twists (30:54); conscience alley, hot seating (31:44); modal verbs, Grammarsaurus, letter writing (42:53); diary writing, report writing, review writing (45:16); perception (46:36); persuasive writing (31:44, 47:50)
    • Science – materials (35:27)
    • DT – designing & building houses (35:27); projects, graphic design, recipes, teamwork (38:40)
    • Numeracy – measuring weight, comparing (36:04); fractions (36:45); budgeting (38:40); ratios, bar method (41:38)
    • History – significant people (37:23)
    • Art – perception (46:36)
    • Geography – survey maps (47:19); human & physical features (47:50)

    All-age learning outcomes | 49:44
    • RE – Christianity, helping people on the edge of society (33:25)
    • Art – painting as communication (44:22)
    • Literacy – different forms of communication (44:22); creating new folk tales (48:53, 51:32)
    • Science – animals & habitats (35:10, 51:01); healthy diets (50:22); inspiring scientific/investigative minds (51:52)
    • Geography – comparing places (47:19, 51:30)

    We'd love to hear how you get on with these ideas! Please leave us a review with your favourite podcast app, find us on social media @EpicTalesST, or email [email protected]

    Have a learning outcome you'd like us to cover in a future episode? E

    56 min
  • Epic Learning #Kingdom1000: multiple perspectives, budgeting, and more!

     Join Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Storytime podcast with easy, fun, and engaging activities.

    This week, Epic storytellers Chip and Janina are joined by a truly Epic panel of teachers: Helen, teaching ages 4 to 7; Bex, teaching ages 6 to 8; and Rob and Laura, teaching ages 7 to 11. Together they discuss the curriculum links within the entire canon of stories from the Kingdom 1000 series, marking the 1,000th anniversary of England's first equality law. Discover how to help your children conquer book making, leadership, farming... and much more!

    All-age PSHCE | 3:29
    • different sides to the same people (7:41, 24:29)
    • everyone can make good/bad choices, "you are not your mistakes" (8:34)
    • inclusion, better together, appreciation for other cultures (9:28, 24:29)
    • leadership, greatness, positive attributes, power & responsibility, honesty, listening & understanding each other (10:11, 38:08, 41:04, 50:07)
    • multiple perspectives in a story (14:07, 33:58, 59:52)
    • careful what you say (15:13)
    • role models, explaining emotions (16:15, 18:19, 20:31, 51:08, 52:35)
    • coping with loss (16:52, 52:35)
    • connecting feelings-behaviours-emotions (19:48, 52:35)
    • wants v needs (38:08)
    • generosity (44:17)

    Learning outcomes from all the stories (inc."Eel Catcher's Daughter")
    • History – timelines (29:28, 39:49)
    • Science – survival needs, farming (38:08)
    • Core – working with EAL pupils (39:49)

    ...from "Bede" | 22:27
    • DT – book-making
    • History – early books
    • Core – monks
    • Literacy – diary writing

    ...from "The Defence of Chester" | 25:51
    • Core – problem-solving
    • History – historical cities
    • DT – design
    • Georgraphy – maps
    • Literacy – instruction writing; subordinate clauses

    ...from "Alfred and the Cakes" | 28:02
    • Core – spies, research
    • Literacy – writing job descriptions, persuasive writing, poetry, Shakespeare

    ...from "Queen Emma" | 31:54
    • Literacy – diary writing
    • PE – obstacle courses
    • DT – food planning
    • Numeracy – budgeting
    • Science – rates of cooling, pressure, surface area

    ..."The St Brice's Day Massacre" | 33:55
    • Literacy – different perspectives
    • History – different perspectives; WWI; WWII

    ...from "Knut & the Waves" | 41:04
    • Literacy – application forms, letter writing
    • Core – problem-solving

    ...from "The Golden Apple" | 44:17
    • Literacy – drama into writing
    • Art – clay
    • Music – "Love is like a magic penny"

    ...from "Blessed for Success" | 46:20
    • Geography - maps, comparing places
    • Numeracy – measuring distances, time, units of measurement
    • Literacy – diary writing, time connectives, writing instructions
    • Core – problem-solving

    ...from "Wipe Out" | 51:08
    • Literacy – persuasive writing, writing feelings, metaphorical writing
    • Drama – hot-seating

    ...from "Edwy & Elfgifu" | 52:35
    • Literacy – emotional adjectives, thought tracking, persuasive writing
    • Drama – hot-seating
    • History – young kings, Danegeld
    • Numeracy – currency, monetary value

    All-age creative ideas | 56:00
    • Music – Anglo-Saxon Eurovision, instrument making 
    • Science – botany
    • Art – bushcraft; stained glass windows; tapestry
    • Literacy – storytelling days; book-making

    We'd love to hear how you get on with these ideas! Please le

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    1 hr 7 min
  • Epic Storytime #Kingdom1000: The Golden Apple

    We continue to mark "Kingdom 1000" with an extra medieval folk tale special to Epic Tales. King Edmund returns from battle with the most precious of treasures: a gold apple that promises good luck—but only if you give it away to the person you love the most. So who should he give it to...?

    The story is read by Chip Colquhoun, who first adapted the tale from an East Anglian folk tale for his book Who Made England?

    Illustration by Heather Zeta Rose and Erica Terry-Rose.

    For easy and fun ways to link this story to a wide variety of learning outcomes including science and numeracy, make sure you also listen to our Epic Learning podcast. Further storytelling and learning resources—including storytelling videos and creative challenges for your children—can be found at epictales.co.uk

    After you've listened to this podcast, please leave us a review—we'd love to know what you think!

    This recording copyright © Epic Tales 2021. Story copyright © Chip Colquhoun 2021. Illustration copyright © Heather Zeta Rose and Erica Terry-Rose 2021.

    Epic Learning has had one mahoosive facelift! Search your podcast player for "Happily Ever Teaching", where you can now hear subject-specific off-the-shelf lesson plans 4 days a week every week! Get there before the Epic Learning Podcast disappears... Search for "Happily Ever Teaching" or visit epictales.co.uk/teachhappily

    10 min
  • Epic Learning #Kingdom1000: inclusion, Vikings, time, and more

     Join Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Storytime podcast with easy, fun, and engaging activities.

    This week, Epic storytellers Chip and Amy (also an Epic mum!) are joined by two teachers from Milton Keynes: Helen, who specialises in children aged 4 to 7; and Rob, who has taught children aged 7 to 11. Together they discuss the curriculum links within the story at the heart of Kingdom 1000: "The Eel Catcher's Daughter". Discover how to help your children conquer acceptance, kennings, positional language... and much more!

    Introductions
    1:03

    "The Eel Catcher's Daughter" excerpt
    2:13

    All-age PSHCE | 5:18
    • stories/storytelling bringing people together (5:18)
    • inclusion, how we treat others, slave trade, Black Lives Matter (7:50, 8:32, 11:50, 36:39)
    • who we want to be, perceptions of others (8:11, 9:14, 15:52, 20:54)
    • why people protect their identity (9:50)
    • honest, trust, friendships (10:17)
    • courage to be yourself (10:52)
    • acceptance v tolerance (11:10)
    • fairness (20:54)
    • prejudice, preconceptions, stereotypes (39:20, 43:21)

    Learning outcomes for ages 4 to 7 | 12:35
    • Geography – manmade/natural features on maps, changes in landscapes over time (4-7yrs, 12:35)
    • History – comparing then and now (5-7yrs, 12:35, 18:16, 23:09, 26:20); famous people (5-7yrs, 17:13, 24:41); conflict (4-7yrs, 20:06); Viking crafts (24:34); making Viking props (4-7yrs, 25:59); historical jobs (4-7yrs, 27:00)
    • Literacy – picturing a story (4-7yrs, 12:35); character adjectives (15:52); debating, speaking & listening (4-7yrs, 20:54); wax seals, letter writing, drawing inferences (4-7yrs, 21:53); adding "-er", kennings (5-7yrs, 31:18)
    • DT – disguises, camouflage (4-7yrs, 18:16); build a home, beading, weaving (4-7yrs, 23:09); making Viking props (4-7yrs, 26:20); mazes (4-7yrs, 27:57)
    • Science – materials (4-7yrs, 18:16); melting (4-7yrs, 21:53)
    • Core – houses & homes (4-5yrs, 23:09)
    • Numeracy – adding, subtracting, comparing (4-7yrs, 27:00); mazes, positional language (4-7yrs, 27:57)
    • Coding – mazes, positional language, algorithms (5-7yrs, 27:57)

    Learning outcomes for ages 7 to 11 | 29:26
    • Literacy – newspaper writing, retelling in different styles (7-11yrs, 29:26, 32:30, 41:32); freezeframes, inference, characters (7-11yrs, 30:20); saga poetry, songs, Beowulf (7-11yrs, 30:55); kennings, riddles (7-11yrs, 31:18); time connectives (7-11yrs, 34:06)
    • History – how we measured time (7-11yrs, 35:12); Vikings (9-11yrs, 40:44); research (7-11yrs, 41:12); local history, place names (7-11yrs, 42:23)
    • Science – sundials (7-11yrs, 35:12)
    • PE – dance (7-11yrs, 36:39)

    All-age learning outcomes | 48:08
    • Numeracy – time (34:27, 48:08)
    • History – Viking armour (49:00)
    • Core – project work, skill sharing (49:00)
    • Music – singing (49:52); soundscapes, film scores (50:26)

    We'd love to hear how you get on with these ideas! Please leave us a review with your favourite podcast app, find us on social media @EpicTalesST, or email [email protected]

    Have a learning outcome you'd like us to cover in a future episode? Email [email protected]

    Stained glass illustration: Dave Hingley.

    This recording copyright © Epic Tales 2021. Story copyright © Chip Colquhoun 2021. Illustration copyright © Dave Hingley 2021.

    Epic Learning has had one mahoosive facelift! Search your podcast player for "Happily Ever Teaching", where you can now hear subject-specific off-the-shelf lesson plans 4 days a week every week! Get there before the Epic Learning Podcast disappears... Search for "Happily Ever Teaching" or visit epictales.co.uk/teachhappily

    56 min
  • Epic Storytime #Kingdom1000: The Eel Catcher's Daughter

    It's an extra special Epic Tale this week. 2020 is the year of "Kingdom 1000"—celebrating 1,000 years of inclusion and human rights in the UK. And in this Epic Storytime podcast, Erika Sanderson (erikasanderson.com) reads the story that started it all.

    This story was first adapted from an East Anglian folk tale by Chip Colquhoun for his book Who Made England?

    Illustrated by Dave Hingley.

    For easy and fun ways to link this story to a wide variety of learning outcomes including science and numeracy, make sure you also listen to our Epic Learning podcast. Further storytelling and learning resources—including storytelling videos and creative challenges for your children—can be found at epictales.co.uk

    After you've listened to this podcast, please leave us a review—we'd love to know what you think!

    This recording copyright © Epic Tales 2021. Story copyright © Chip Colquhoun 2021. Illustration copyright © Dave Hingley 2021.

    Epic Learning has had one mahoosive facelift! Search your podcast player for "Happily Ever Teaching", where you can now hear subject-specific off-the-shelf lesson plans 4 days a week every week! Get there before the Epic Learning Podcast disappears... Search for "Happily Ever Teaching" or visit epictales.co.uk/teachhappily

    15 min
  • Epic Learning: prejudice, designing to purpose, positional language, and more!

     Join Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Storytime podcast with easy, fun, and engaging activities.

    This week, Epic storyteller Chip is joined by Helen, a teacher from Milton Keynes specialising in children aged 4 to 7; Bex, a Deputy Head and English Lead from Cambridgeshire with experience teaching children aged 4 to 8; and Rob, another teacher from Milton Keynes specialising in children aged 9 to 11. Together they discuss the curriculum links within two adaptations of a popular European folk tale: English & Romanian. Discover how to help your children conquer statistics, onomatopaeia, famous scientists... and much more!

    Introductions
    1:04

    "The Three Sillies" excerpt
    2:14

    All-age PSHCE | 4:18
    • what it means to be "silly" (4:18, 8:37, 44:37)
    • European common heritage (7:03)
    • personal attributes, transitioning, evaluating (9:31, 10:36, 39:56)
    • prejudice (10:10)
    • approaching problems in different ways, giving it a go, endurance, resilience (10:47, 21:18, 32:57, 39:56)
    • challenging stereotypes (15:24)
    • what makes a hero (17:27)
    • nobody's perfect (20:49)
    • individuality, handling criticism (34:56, 44:14)
    • teamwork (39:56, 45:57)
    • danger  (44:37)

    Learning outcomes for ages 4 to 7 | 14:12
    • Literacy – adjectives (4-6yrs, 14:12); conventions, alternative fairy tales (4-6yrs, 15:24); mixing up stories for early story creation (4-5yrs, 18:25); instruction writing (5-7yrs, 24:57); making predictions using a text (6-7yrs, 27:39); writing to a format (6-7yrs, 28:46); questions, direct speech (6-7yrs, 31:37)
    • Science – pulleys, animal needs (4-7yrs, 22:18); materials (4-7yrs, 22:55, 26:36); reflections (4-7yrs, 25:54)
    • DT – designing fit for purpose (4-7yrs, 22:55)
    • History – significant figures, Rosa Parks, changing perceptions, inventions (6-7yrs, 32:57)
    • Numeracy – positional language (4-7yrs, 36:54)

    Learning outcomes for ages 7 to 11 | 27:39 
    • Numeracy – statistics, when not to extrapolate (9-11yrs, 13:06)
    • Literacy – making predictions using a text, comparing stories, inference (7-9yrs, 27:39, 42:30); writing to a format (7-9yrs, 28:46); persuasive writing, onomatopoeia (yrs7-11, 29:14); newspaper articles, scripting (7-11yrs, 29:54); questions, direct speech (7-9yrs, 31:37); fronted adverbials, adapting settings (7-11yrs, 43:37); modal verbs (9-11yrs, 43:59); comics (7-11yrs, 44:14)
    • History – people who changed the world, Rosa Parks, changing perceptions, inventions (7-11yrs, 32:57)
    • RE - challenging perceptions, Noah (7-11yrs, 32:57)
    • Numeracy – positional language (7-9yrs, 36:54); angles (9-11yrs, 38:47); data handling, probability, using closed questions (9-11yrs, 39:20, 41:54)
    • ICT – algorithms (7-9yrs, 36:54)
    • Geography – maps, your local area, comparing places (7-11yrs, 38:12)
    • Core – project design, detecting (10-11yrs, 39:56)
    • DT – designing fit for purpose, evaluating (7-11yrs, 39:56)
    • Science – famous scientists, gravity (7-11yrs, 43:05); electricity (7-11yrs, 44:37)
    • Art – comics (7-11yrs, 44:14)

    All-age learning outcomes | 45:57
    • Literacy – vocabulary (8:15)
    • Numeracy – logic puzzles (10:47)
    • Science – fair tests, repeat testing (12:17)
    • Art – comparing artists, individuality (34:56)
    • Core – problem-solving, mantle of the expert (4-7yrs, 21:18, 45:57)
    • PE – movement (48:47)

    Did we miss anything? Here's how

    Epic Learning has had one mahoosive facelift! Search your podcast player for "Happily Ever Teaching", where you can now hear subject-specific off-the-shelf lesson plans 4 days a week every week! Get there before the Epic Learning Podcast disappears... Search for "Happily Ever Teaching" or visit epictales.co.uk/teachhappily

    54 min
  • Epic Storytime: The Three Sillies

    In this classic European folk tale, a handsome young man gets engaged to a beautiful young woman. But that's only the start—and it all goes horribly wrong when the handsome man discovers that his fiancée and her parents aren't very sensible...

    Adapted from the traditional folk tale by Chip Colquhoun; read by Matt Heald.

    Illustration by Heather Rose.

    For easy and fun ways to link this story to a wide variety of learning outcomes including science and numeracy, make sure you also listen to our Epic Learning podcast. Further storytelling and learning resources—including storytelling videos and creative challenges for your children—can be found at epictales.co.uk

    After you've listened to this podcast, please leave us a review—we'd love to know what you think!

    This audio is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 Licence.

    17 min
  • Epic Learning: prejudice, designing to purpose, positional language, and more!

     Join Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Storytime podcast with easy, fun, and engaging activities.

    This week, Epic storyteller Chip is joined by Helen, a teacher from Milton Keynes specialising in children aged 4 to 7; Bex, a Deputy Head and English Lead from Cambridgeshire with experience teaching children aged 4 to 8; and Rob, another teacher from Milton Keynes specialising in children aged 9 to 11. Together they discuss the curriculum links within two adaptations of a popular European folk tale: English & Romanian. Discover how to help your children conquer statistics, onomatopaeia, famous scientists... and much more!

    Introductions
    1:04

    "The Three Sillies" excerpt
    2:14

    All-age PSHCE | 4:18
    • what it means to be "silly" (4:18, 8:37, 44:37)
    • European common heritage (7:03)
    • personal attributes, transitioning, evaluating (9:31, 10:36, 39:56)
    • prejudice (10:10)
    • approaching problems in different ways, giving it a go, endurance, resilience (10:47, 21:18, 32:57, 39:56)
    • challenging stereotypes (15:24)
    • what makes a hero (17:27)
    • nobody's perfect (20:49)
    • individuality, handling criticism (34:56, 44:14)
    • teamwork (39:56, 45:57)
    • danger  (44:37)

    Learning outcomes for ages 4 to 7 | 14:12
    • Literacy – adjectives (4-6yrs, 14:12); conventions, alternative fairy tales (4-6yrs, 15:24); mixing up stories for early story creation (4-5yrs, 18:25); instruction writing (5-7yrs, 24:57); making predictions using a text (6-7yrs, 27:39); writing to a format (6-7yrs, 28:46); questions, direct speech (6-7yrs, 31:37)
    • Science – pulleys, animal needs (4-7yrs, 22:18); materials (4-7yrs, 22:55, 26:36); reflections (4-7yrs, 25:54)
    • DT – designing fit for purpose (4-7yrs, 22:55)
    • History – significant figures, Rosa Parks, changing perceptions, inventions (6-7yrs, 32:57)
    • Numeracy – positional language (4-7yrs, 36:54)

    Learning outcomes for ages 7 to 11 | 27:39
    • Numeracy – statistics, when not to extrapolate (9-11yrs, 13:06)
    • Literacy – making predictions using a text, comparing stories, inference (7-9yrs, 27:39, 42:30); writing to a format (7-9yrs, 28:46); persuasive writing, onomatopoeia (yrs7-11, 29:14); newspaper articles, scripting (7-11yrs, 29:54); questions, direct speech (7-9yrs, 31:37); fronted adverbials, adapting settings (7-11yrs, 43:37); modal verbs (9-11yrs, 43:59); comics (7-11yrs, 44:14)
    • History – people who changed the world, Rosa Parks, changing perceptions, inventions (7-11yrs, 32:57)
    • RE - challenging perceptions, Noah (7-11yrs, 32:57)
    • Numeracy – positional language (7-9yrs, 36:54); angles (9-11yrs, 38:47); data handling, probability, using closed questions (9-11yrs, 39:20, 41:54)
    • ICT – algorithms (7-9yrs, 36:54)
    • Geography – maps, your local area, comparing places (7-11yrs, 38:12)
    • Core – project design, detecting (10-11yrs, 39:56)
    • DT – designing fit for purpose, evaluating (7-11yrs, 39:56)
    • Science – famous scientists, gravity (7-11yrs, 43:05); electricity (7-11yrs, 44:37)
    • Art – comics (7-11yrs, 44:14)

    All-age learning outcomes | 45:57
    • Literacy – vocabulary (8:15)
    • Numeracy – logic puzzles (10:47)
    • Science – fair tests, repeat testing (12:17)
    • Art – comparing artists, individuality (34:56)
    • Core – problem-solving, mantle of the expert (4-7yrs, 21:18, 45:57)
    • PE – movement (48:47)

    Did we miss anything? Here's how to get in touch | 50:27
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