Fulwell Junior School

Faculty of Aspiration Year 3 & 4- Day 3

Welcome back!

• How have you shown curiosity since last session?

• Have you found any answers to your curious questions?

2 mins

Think about…talk about…

What can you see in this

picture?

What might it mean?

2 mins

Brain Task

RESILIENCE “The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.”

Objectives

To teach others to be

resilient

To demonstrate resilience

in day-to-day life

To explain the link between

resilience and aspirations

To describe what resilience

is

Starter Who are these people? What do they do? 2

mins

Starter What have these different people overcome?

We have worked

together since 1989.

People think we just have fun but

we ???????? really hard to

make sure everyone has a

good time on our show!

When we weren’t successful in

???????????? It would have been easy to give

up… but we didn’t!

AMERICA

PRACTICE

Ant and Dec

Starter What have these different people overcome?

When I couldn’t ???????? Or ????????, I used a

special computer to write a best-selling book.

When people found my books too ??????, I kept working on more books

that were easier to understand.

After studying black holes for nearly 40

years, I was still coming up with new

ideas.

SPEAK WRITE

HARD

Stephen Hawking

Starter What have these different people overcome?

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was ???????????? by publishers several times

but I kept redrafting it to make it better.

I wrote every day in the shed at the

bottom of my garden.

Even though I found ???????? tricky at

school, I persevered and then I went onto

become a writer!

REJECTED

ENGLISH

Roald Dahl

Starter What have these different people overcome?

I went to Cambridge University and

graduated with a degree in

?????????????

I had a ??????????? but I really wanted to

be an actor so I worked hard to make

sure it didn’t stop me.

I got involved in lots of different clubs and

societies at the same time as studying for my

degree… including The Oxford Revue! ENGINEERING

STAMMER

Rowan Atkinson

Starter What have these different people overcome?

I postponed my ???????? to focus on

my training for the Olympics.

I have had the same coach since I was 13

years old.

I started to train again less than ??????? months after I had my son… 2 years before

the next Olympics.

I trained in my school

holidays and went to camps

to improve.

THREE

WEDDING

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Challenge

How many small objects beans can you pick up in 30 seconds (

e.g dried beans, pasta, stones etc)?

Be a Keen Bean 30

secs

TOO EASY?

How could you make it more difficult e.g. using chopsticks, blindfolded , one handed etc.

Be a Keen Bean 1

min Challenge

Now try it if you can!

How was that?

Task

Watch a clip of Disney’s ‘The Hare & The Tortoise’

How does the tortoise show

resilience?

• What is the tortoise like?

• What is the hare like?

2 mins Think about…talk about

Slow and steady

Resilient

Confident Naturally talented

Boastful

Task

Are you more like the hare or tortoise? Why?

5 mins

Plenary

It’s great to be a bit of both!

What do you need to do this week to be more like the other?