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Create Your Own Story

A variety of activities are available, which can be adapted to meet your requirements.  An example of the variety of sessions on offer is provided below.

Mini Adventures

Children are given a length of string, small flags and a magnifying glass and are each taken to their own small work area.  They must imagine they are as small as an ant, using the magnifying glass and must create a story based on what they can see.  The string is used to trace the story over the ground and the flags are used to pick up key events in the story.  Children tell their story to each other in turn.

KS1 (EN1 6a &b; 8a & d; EN3 1a, b & c; 9a & b; 12) &KS2 (EN1 1b & d; 8b &c) EN3 1a, b, c; 9a, b & d; 12)

Activity length: 30-60 minutes

Poem Quadrant

In this activity, a grid is laid out over an area of heathland.  Plants and animals are then looked for within the grid and a sentence is written about each one, combining the sentences to create a poem.

KS2 (EN3 1a, b & e; 9a; 12)

Activity length: 30-60 minutes

Map Sticks

Children are taken on a trail through the common and given the task of creating a map using only wool, sticks, and items found en-route. Different colours of wool may be used to represent different aspects of the route, and sticks/leaves/feathers might be used as symbols to remember specific areas visited along the trail. To finish off, a discussion will encourage children to recognise different ways of communicating, and they will get to keep their map-sticks as memories of the trail.

KS1 & 2 (EN1)

Activity length: 60-90 minutes