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English
PE1: Confusing Conversations
Characters with various confusing ways of speaking try to communicate which introduces the idea of conventions in language.
PE2: Dinosaur Reporting
Students perform dinosaur characters involved in a news story about T Rex biting off the top of a tree.
PE3: Recording On A Class Visit
Students discuss what preparations are required when organising and reporting back to the class on a visit to a museum.
PE4: Newspaper Layout
Paper sellers shout and sell newspapers while interacting with customers on why they buy their particular newspaper.
PE5: Time Capsule
Students create a time capsule to record and preserve an hour of their lives using voices, written notes and images.
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Health
PH1: Helping Others
Student One is unable to reach a ball and is very upset. Friends arrive, assess the situation and decide to help.
Students have to work together to save their class friend from being eaten by a huge monster.
PH2: Keeping Ourselves Clean
A bathroom scene in which students play characters such as soap, bath etc followed by the Bath Time Rap.
PH6: Friendship
Student One feels lonely. Other students suggest options to include student One in their activities and help them feel less lonely.
PH4: Safe Choices
Students perform characters who discuss options and an assertive role play strategy for saying no to taking a boat out onto a flooding river.PH7: Sports Injury Student One has an injury and does activities with one group of friends. A second group of friends asks why One never interacts with them.
PH8: Eating Healthy Food
Students discuss reasons for feeling hungry and suggest options that could minimise their hunger pangs.A variety of foods appear as guests on a show giving clues about their place in the food pyramid.
PH9: Dinosaur War
Students play dinosaur characters who work together to solve a problem and explore how to express feelings when resolving conflict.
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Social
PST1: Court In The Act
Students perform characters involved in a court room scene where issues of justice and responsibility for actions are raised.
PST2: Days And Months Of Our Lives
The seven days of the week and twelve months of the year are introduced and discussed.
PST3: Different Groups
Student One realises that there are many different groups within their school and questions why people belong to groups.
PST4: Working Together
Students perform characters who are friends and work together to help another friend overcome their problem.
PST5: Buy, Sell, Exchange, Trade
Students organise a buy, sell, exchange, trade hour in their classroom for goods and services.
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Science
PS1: Animal Families
A quiz show in which animals use differences and similarities in external characteristics to distinguish broad groups of living things.
PS2: Birdwatch Professors
Tweety and Quacky host Birdwatch, a show in which birds give information about their features and their uses of those features.
PS3: Interviewing An Astronaut
An astronaut who has just returned from the Moon is interviewed in a studio.
PS4: Operating On A Torch
Students assume roles of a nurse, orderly and doctor in a hospital emergency department who have to operate on a torch.
PS5: Planetary Party
Students are space objects such as planets and comets and gather together and talk about themselves at a party at Earth's place.
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Mathematics
PM1: The Case Of The Missing Number 5
Detective Detective is called when the number 5 is stolen and no-one can add, subtract, divide or multiply using any multiple of 5.
PM2: Measuring Feelings
Students perform characters who use mathematical measurements as a way of measuring feelings using a simple scale.
PM3: Escape Using Combinations Of The Number 10
Students perform characters who use combinations of the number ten to escape from a locked room.
PM4: Days And Months Of Our Lives
The seven days of the week and twelve months of the year are introduced and discussed.
PM5: Crumbs! Who Ate The Missing Fruit Cake
Students have made a fruit cake but a slice is missing. Using mathematical analysis they find the thief.
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Technology
PT1: Letterbox Shapes And Styles
Students perform characters who are postal delivery people delivering mail while discussing the design, style and usefulness of letterboxes.
PT2: Toys and Games
Students perform characters who discuss the usefulness or otherwise of hand held games.
PT3: Welcome Home Dinner Party
Students perform characters in a classroom who discuss what is required to host a Welcome Home party for a classmate.
PT4: Animal Environments At The Wildlife Park
Students act out animals in a wildlife park who discuss their environments and how these help them to survive.
PT5 :Supermarket Machines
Students become shopping trolleys, cereal packets, cash registers and other equipment in this classroom supermarket.
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