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Action cards- Instructions on what to do. |
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Action plan- Document what needs to be done. |
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Acrostic poem Using a word as the opening letter of a phrase or sentence. |
Literacy |
Advert/ Advertising |
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Agony aunt Writing to or responding as. |
Literacy |
Alien visits (Alienation) As an alien describing or explaining something. |
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Anecdotes |
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Animated activities Actually doing the activities. |
Equal Opportunities |
Articles/journals Using or writing. |
Literacy |
Artefacts |
Equal opportunities |
Art work |
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Assessments |
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Auction Identifying priorities and bidding for them. |
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Award Ceremony To identify nominations. |
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B |
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Balloon debate/boat debate Justifying your position. |
Literacy |
Balloon questioning Blowing air into a balloon when asked a certain style of question. |
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Banner |
ICT |
Before and after Visual or written. |
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Bible reading/ investigation/ games |
Literacy |
Bookmark |
ICT |
Brainstorm |
Equal Opportunities |
Brochure |
ICT |
Business sense Setting up a company to look at a particular issue. |
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Bullet points |
Equal opportunities |
Button discussion Allocation of buttons to identify amount of point able to put forward. |
Literacy |
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Caricature To draw out certain features. |
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Cartoons |
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Case Studies Applying knowledge to an actual case. |
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Categorising Grouping ideas. |
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Chalk and talk |
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Chat shows Prepared and presented. |
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Chinese whispers |
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Chronology Ordering. |
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Class discussion |
Literacy |
Close procedure Completing a passage. |
Literacy |
Coffee game Illustrating the idea of trading and fair-trade (Christian Aid). |
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Collaborate writing Producing a piece in collaboration with others. |
Literacy |
Collage |
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Colour coding Categorising using colour. |
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Commentary Bring out the important points. |
Literacy |
Competition |
Equal opportunities |
Concept maps Tracing related issues. |
Equal Opportunities |
Correcting the passage Finding mistakes in a given piece and correcting them. |
Literacy |
Council of all beings Allowing none human forms to gain the gift of speech and have their say. |
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Crossword |
Literacy |
Curriculum Vitae Designing for himself or herself or a given character. |
ICT |
Cutting and sticking Pupils create a 3D shape and incorporate ideas and information. |
Equal opportunities |
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D |
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Dance Movement to accentuate ideas. |
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Debating |
Literacy |
Demonstrations |
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Designing |
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Diamond Nine Ranking ideas in the order and shape of a diamond. |
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Digital Camera |
ICT, Equal opportunities |
Discussion |
Literacy |
Drama |
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Drawing |
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DVD designing additional scenes that might be found on a DVD. |
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E |
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E-Mail Contact experts on the net |
ICT, Equal opportunities |
Empathy exercises |
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Essays |
Literacy |
Evaluation questions |
Literacy |
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F |
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Fact file |
ICT |
Family tree |
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Festival food tasting |
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Fifteen to one In the style of the game show. |
Equal Opportunities |
Fifty questions |
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Fill in the gaps |
Literacy |
Flow diagram To identify progression. |
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Flyer |
ICT |
Footnotes Identifying points to comment on. |
Literacy |
For/against Identifying arguments on each side. |
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Formal debate |
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Freezing Freezing during an activity to emphasise and discuss points. |
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Fundraising |
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Games Board games, card games any kind of games! |
Equal opportunities |
Game of Life Game where pupils make the key life choices of a person. |
Equal Opportunities |
Gathering pupil ideas Feedback or plenary. |
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Glossaries |
Literacy |
Go for five Breaking work tasks and lessons into five parts. |
Equal opportunities |
Group work |
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Guess the person Give clues to an identity. |
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Guest speakers |
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Guided meditation |
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Guidelines for
- Giving instructions on how to do certain things. |
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Headlines from newspapers as stimulus, or designing them to fit a story. |
ICT |
Highlighting Identifying key ideas in a passage. |
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Holiday brochure Written work in this style to advertise a place. |
ICT |
Hot Potatoes Using the programme to design questions or answer ones already done. |
ICT, Equal opportunities |
Hot seat Directing questions to a character or person identified. |
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Ice breakers Getting to know you activities, various. |
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Iconography Exploring or designing. |
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Illustrations |
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Imaginary complaint from God About a given issue. |
Literacy |
Improvisation Making up a response. |
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In other/ your own words Translating into a more appropriate manner of speaking. |
Literacy |
In the line Taking up a position in a line to illustrate where you stand. |
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In the style of
- Doing an activity in a particular style. |
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Independent activities |
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Insert for guidebook To explain the importance of something. |
Literacy |
Internet search Using prepared pages on our website. |
ICT, Equal opportunities |
Interviews Interviewing a character for a particular point. |
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Investigation Looking deeper into something. |
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Is your line important? Splitting a passage into sentences and getting pupils to make a value judgement on their line. To get to the heart of the passage. |
Literacy |
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Jeopardy Guessing the question |
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Jigsaw learning Expert groups search for information and return to home group where all information is collated. |
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Job description Identifying the roles or expectations of a person or character. |
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Journalist report |
Literacy |
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K |
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Key words |
Literacy |
Kite making Making and flying with a message. |
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L |
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Labelling Providing an appropriate label for an item. |
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Led reflection |
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Letter - (Complaint/ praise) |
Literacy |
Life as a journey Illustrated life maps identifying key stages in life. |
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Line by line story telling Each person provides a sentence to the story to build on what has been previously said. |
Literacy |
Literacy games Games around definitions. |
Literacy |
Liturgy |
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Liturgy preparation |
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M |
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Magazine articles Writing or using. |
Literacy, ICT |
Maps Using or drawing. |
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Market trading game To identify the effects of trading (Christian Aid). |
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Marking Marking their own work or each others. |
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Masks Designing, making or using. |
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Mass booklet |
ICT |
Matching up Pictures with words, ideas with meanings or definitions. |
Literacy |
Meditation |
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Men are from mars, women from Venus. In the style of the board game. |
Equal Opportunities |
MFI Instructions A set of instructions to explain how something is done. |
ICT, Equal opportunities |
Mime |
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Mind journey Guiding the mind to imagine something and reflect upon it. |
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Mind Maps Introducing a concept and tracing through the ideas that go with it. |
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Moving outside Looking for evidence in nature. |
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Multiple choice |
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Music |
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Newsletter |
Literacy, ICT |
Newspaper articles |
Literacy, ICT |
Nine lives Having nine chances to do something. |
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Nominations - Putting people/characters forward for something. |
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Notes |
Literacy |
Notice board |
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OHP |
Equal Opportunities |
Old documents Using the effect of in the presentation of work. |
Literacy |
Open/ close questioning |
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Open surgery Allowing pupils to identify what they want to look at. |
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Oral testing |
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Order of service Writing or using. |
ICT |
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P |
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Paired work |
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Pancake race As a reminder of shrove Tuesday. |
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Paper around the room Asking pupils to add information to different prompts as they move around the room. |
Equal Opportunities |
Paper bag game To identify employment issues (Christian Aid). |
Equal Opportunities |
Paper plates To make into a seder plate. |
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Parachute games Using a parachute in playing games. |
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Parish council To act in the role of to discuss issues. |
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Pass and shoot To hand over response to another person. |
Literacy |
Personal experience |
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Philosophical teasers Posing philosophical or ethical dilemmas. |
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Photographic evidence To illustrate in the style of photographs. |
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Picture stimulus |
Equal Opportunities |
Plans (lesson/service) Designing an outline on a particular theme. |
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Pledge A promise to do something. |
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Poems |
Literacy |
Postage stamp Designing on a particular theme. |
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Post card Designing and writing home. |
Literacy |
Posters |
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Power point |
ICT, equal opportunities. |
Prayer |
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Pre-empting exercises Identifying ideas before they happen. |
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Presentations Students delivering information. |
Equal opportunities |
Prioritising Putting things in priority order. |
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Probability games |
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Project |
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Project committee game Submitting proposals to a committee and discussing where priority should be given. |
Equal Opportunities |
Promises Said or written. |
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Prompt cards Cards with key ideas. |
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Proximal learning Spending equal time in single sex, mixed sex and friendship groups. |
Equal opportunities |
Pub style quiz |
Equal Opportunities |
Pupil experience |
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Q |
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Questions |
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Question a character |
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Quizzes All kinds! |
Equal Opportunities |
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Races Competition element or time limit given. |
Equal Opportunities |
Radio Using ideas from. |
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Radio interview |
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Read and shoot To pass over reading to another person. |
Literacy |
Recipe To write instructions in the style of ingredients and method. |
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Re-ordering exercise Putting items in a more appropriate form. |
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Remembering games |
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Research (books/internet) |
Literacy, ICT |
Research grids Using a template for research. |
Literacy |
Role play |
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Scaffolding ideas Building up ideas in the form of a structure. |
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Scripts Writing or using. |
Literacy |
Seder meal Acting out and tasting. |
Equal Opportunities |
Self-evaluation |
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Seminar style Discussing an article or issue having prepared for it. |
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Setting exam questions Writing their own exam questions. |
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Sequencing Putting things in an appropriate order. |
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Sketching/ sketches |
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Skimming/ scanning text |
Literacy |
Slide shows |
Equal Opportunities |
Slips of paper Pupils complete a sentence on paper, and then they are collected in and read out. |
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Snakes and ladders Designing a game in the style of to illustrate a point. |
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Soap operas Using as a stimulus or creating an episode. |
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Song lyrics Either using them or writing them |
Literacy |
Speech |
Literacy |
Speech bubbles Identifying reactions or responses. |
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Spellings |
Literacy |
Spider-gram |
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Stained glass Designing or exploring. |
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Stamp test Summarising in the space of a stamp. |
Literacy |
Standing in a line Identifying a place to stand that best suits your view. |
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Stand up if
- identifying categories of people. |
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Station activity Different activities placed around the room. |
Equal Opportunities |
Stereotyping games |
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Stilling activities Breathing, focusing and stilling. |
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Stimulus Using picture, film, music, story or any other means as an introduction. |
Equal Opportunities |
Storyboards |
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Students as scribes Using students in plenary sessions to document key ideas. |
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Summaries |
Literacy |
Summary and add Add to what has been said. |
Literacy |
Summary cards Cards to identify key points. |
Literacy |
Surfing the net |
ICT, Equal Opportunities |
Survey Using as stimulus or designing and carrying one out. |
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Teacher explanation/ demonstration |
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Teaching younger children What would you say? |
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Templates In all sorts of shapes and sizes! |
Equal Opportunities, Literacy |
Testimony How you got to your point of view. |
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Text books |
Literacy |
This is your life What to include in the red book. |
Literacy |
Thought for the day A lasting or final thought. |
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Top ten
- Putting things in this order. |
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Translation Putting in another way. |
Literacy |
Trading trainers game Outlining the issue of fair trade (Christian Aid). |
Equal Opportunities |
Treasure hunt Following clues to the answer. |
Equal Opportunities |
True/false statements Categorising statements as true or false. |
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TV Programme Preparing for or what to include. |
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Two minute speech |
Literacy |
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U |
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Under cover report/ agents Investigating issues. |
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V |
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Value continuum Standing on an imaginary line, or marking an appropriate position on the board. |
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Video |
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Video covers Designing an appropriate cover. |
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Virtual Tours Website virtual tours of churches. |
ICT, Equal Opportunities |
Visits |
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Vote with your feet Stand where you think |
Equal Opportunities |
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Weakest link In the style of the quiz show. |
Equal Opportunities |
Web pages Designing and building. |
ICT, Equal Opportunities |
Who wants to be a millionaire In the style of the show. |
Equal Opportunities |
Why game Pursuing answers to questions with why until a full answer is formed. |
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Word art Putting written work into shapes or pictures. |
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Word pictures Replacing key words in a passage with pictures. |
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Word search |
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Word stories Creating a story by adding a word at a time. |
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Worksheet |
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Writing frames Identifying a pattern/template. |
Literacy |
Writing model answers Correcting draft material of upgrading exam answers. |
Literacy |
Written conversation Each participant writes what he or she would have said. The paper is passed between the two then read out. |
Literacy |
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Y |
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Yes/ no questions Quick fire questions, but avoiding the yes or no answers. |
Equal Opportunities |
Ying/yang guessing game Guessing whether something has a ying or yang force. |
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Z |
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