Lesson Ideas

1. Art and Design Competition

See poster in Art and Design Competition section. Competition normally runs from November to end of January, but posters can be submitted any time of year and we will just keep them until the following years competition if necessary. (Please note if you send posters in between February and July the students contact details will need to be for the following academic year. We need to make sure we can notify the winners!)

2. Inappropriate Behaviour

What? Why? Who? How?

Aim
To get the students thinking about what is inappropriate behaviour on the home to school journey and what the consequences could be by using four short words as headings.

• What do you consider inappropriate behaviour?
• Why is it inappropriate?
• Who will be affected?
• How will they be affected?

Resources
Classroom, Pens, Paper, Desks. White board.

Explanation
Ask what the students consider to be inappropriate behaviour on the home to school journey. Then either as individuals or in small groups ask them to list what they think is inappropriate.

Next ask them to chose two from their list and explain why they are inappropriate. Then who will be affected and how?

Assembly Topics

1. Anti Boredom

Explain students attend school 190 days a year. Most will complete the same journey every day, twice a day. It can be boring. Show clip.

Although funny explain how the actions of the woman in the car have caused an accident involving innocent parties.

2. Peer Pressure

Make specific to the home to school journey.

4. Stuart Cunningham-Jones

Stuart Cunningham-Jones died on 03 Dec 2002 as a result of injuries sustained when the school bus he was travelling on crashed. The bus crashed because two boys were fighting on the lower deck, one boy fell and reached out to grab something to stop him falling, he grabbed the steering wheel causing the bus to drive off the road. Stuart was on the top deck when the bus crashed, he had nothing to do with the incident and probably didn’t even know the two boys. Using the information above speak to the students about a) the effect on the school community and b) the effect on the individuals who caused the accident.