What is the Big Help Out?
The Big Help Out will be taking place on Monday 8 May. It is a national movement to encourage volunteering in your local community to mark His Majesty the King’s Coronation.
To celebrate the Big Help Out and the hundreds of National Literacy Trust volunteers across the country, we have commissioned a poem from Joseph Coelho, the Children’s Laureate.
Using our resource
Be inspired by Joseph Coelho and explore our school resource, designed to help students reflect on the importance of helping others through poetry.
This free 60-minute learning sequence has been designed to help students reflect on the importance of helping others, through poetry. A series of freewriting exercises and reflective writing activities will guide students on a learning journey, which culminates in the composition of a poem.
The learning sequence is aimed at Key Stage 2 students and can be delivered as part of the English or PSHE curricula (Core Theme 3: Living in the Wider World, Shared Responsibilities, Communities, Economic Wellbeing).
Learning objectives:
- I can reflect on the importance of having compassion towards others and understand the shared responsibilities we all have for caring for others and living things.
- I can think of ways to show care and concern for others.
- I can write a poem about helping and caring for others.
Download file
You might also be interested in
-
Free
Use these videos and lessons plans to bring a professional poet into your classroom for a whole week.View details about Simon Mole: digital poet in residence -
Free
Explore recommended reads covering fiction, non-fiction, poetry and graphic novels ideal for children facing the challenge and excitement of moving up to secondary school.View details about Books for big change: transition to secondary school -
Premium
An engaging transition project based on Shaun Tan’s CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal-winning book, Tales from the Inner City.View details about Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan – literacy transition project
