Mantle of the Expert
– Extreme Rescue Team
What can the children do? How can we increase the challenge in each step?
What can we prepare as givens? What will the teacher do? What will the children do? What will we do together?
How will we publish what we know at each stage?
5 steps back
Step 1
Starting points
Activate/ assess
prior knowledge
Step 2
Introduce the
notion of “the
other”
Step 3
Invent the
language spoken
Step 4
Introduce a
presence –
something just
happened/ about
to happen
Tasks
 Draw red blob – what could it be in any imaginable context with no
boundaries.
 Have a look, what do you think, it might remind you of something?
 AIR – dressed or wearing something that may be linked to being a
mountaineer, AIR becomes someone in a story. Holds leg and winces in pain.
 What do we think has happened, who is she?
Large pieces of paper / outline of lady – record ideas about what has happened
to her.
Grid with what do we know / wonder / infer. INFERENCE AND DEDUCTION
TEACHING
 Put red blob under the knee. Does this change things?
Redo the what do we know / wonder / infer grid, how have any of our thoughts
changed?
Speech and thought bubbles – what is the lady saying or thinking?
 Narrate how the climber came to be where she is. Draw simple outlines to go
with key features of the story.
Create simple cartoon strips to show the main parts of the story. Arguing about
what they should do – carry on or turn back.
Freeze frame parts of the story.
Children replay the conversation / argument between the 2 mountaineers
Continue with 2a and as / as and list sentences exploring the weather and the
lady
Boxing clever – explore first 5 boxes, who / where / where next / why / things
that go wrong WRITING TEACHING
Write the beginning of the story...
Possibly some predicting as to what the lady could do / what they think is going
to happen.
Assessment/ notes
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What do you think the climbers options are?
Go into the story and let’s look at what she does.
Lady takes out an imaginary phone – what number is she likely to dial / who
might she be calling?
 Now when I answer the call I’m going to imagine that I’m in the story as a
person who answers the phone in cases of emergency.
 Answer phone ‘Extreme Rescue’ how can I help you? Brief conversation with
climber.
 ‘I see please hold I’m going to talk to my colleagues .....’
 What else do we need to ask her / what do we need to know?
 ‘I’ve got your number, we’ll make a plan and we’ll ring you back as soon as we
have worked out our plans’
Establish the team.
Responsible Team: Extreme Rescue
Client: Canadian Government
Episode Canadian
Drama Conventions 3
1
Government
 Receive a letter from the Canadian Government expressing their need to
find a new Rescue Team to work for them in the Rocky Mountains. It briefly
explains that the previous rescue team left quickly and they won’t be coming
back.
 Included in with the letter is a photograph of the Mountain range and the
nearest largest town and a job description of the essential qualifications.
GEOGRAPHY TEACHING – WHERE IS CANADA?
 Are we suitable for the job?
 Task – create job history from a range of photographs linking required
qualifications to them and use them as our application for the job. WRITING
FOCUS
Episode Canadian
Drama Conventions 1
2
Government
 Receive a video call/SKYPE from the Canadian Government confirming they
would like us to take on the job but in our portfolio we didn’t really mention
anything about our qualifications. Some were easy to work out from the work
we had done but not others so please could we supply certificates and dates
of previous training. Government to talk about the existing mountain rescue
Episodes
Step 5
Teach and
introduce the
idea of a team
There’s something I haven’t drawn on the map yet, draw on the centre with a
helipad.
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Episode Canadian
3
Government
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centre and the resources it has. ICT KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Freeze SKYPE conversation and Extreme Rescue Team to discuss - Are we
happy to take on the job? Is there any information we need to find out?
Prepare questions we want to ask when we restart the conversation. Do we
need someone to make notes so we don’t forget everything they tell us?
Establish that they will provide visas for put travel and will arrange
transport for us from Calgary Airport to the rescue centre in Fernie. We
need to make our own arrangements to fly to Calgary and ensure we all have
passports and company ID cards with fingerprints and bar codes that we
must wear at all times for security reasons.
Task – make passports / ID badges and pack personal belongings. Passports
and ID badges to be made individually. A team to explore flights from
London to Calgary and locate flight on a map. As a class split into 3 teams,
each draw round the body of 1 person. Ask teams to differentiate between
personal belonging and items they need for work.
Arrive at the Rescue Centre and explore the rooms identifying what already
exists.
Task – sign the room GEOGRAPHY SKILLS – CREATING PLANS
Thinking about past jobs and equipment, what is missing, what do we require
to be able to do our job properly?
Task – create list of requirements
Drama Convention 17, 18 and 31
Find a dusty old folder with a log book of previous jobs, with accident forms,
photographs, letters of complaint, death certificates etc in.
What does this tell us about the rescue centre and its history and why the
previous rescue team left and won’t be coming back?
Task – explore contents of the dusty folder to report back to the rest of
the group. READING FOCUS
Are there any situations where things went wrong where we think we could
have the same problems because we don’t have the relevant qualifications or
experience?
Task – add additional information to list of requirements
Episode Ourselves
4
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Episode Lady injured in
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Rocky Mountains
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Episode Canadian Rocky
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Gazette
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Episode Rocky Mountain
7
Marathon Run
Charity
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What if the public think we are like the previous rescue team?
I wonder how we could promote ourselves so that the local people and
visitors to the Rocky Mountains so they believe and trust in our ability to
rescue people.
Gather ideas about how we could promote ourselves, work as a team to
create a stand at a local ski show.
Task – create posters/ flyers / reconstruction videos / first aid instructions
/ banners / emergency contact cards / medals linked to previous work /
vehicle and equipment information / promotion video ..... WRITING /
HANDWRITING FOCUS
Write letters to local press and invitations to winter sport mountaineers etc
to invite them to the grand launch of the company. WRITING FOCUS
Return to the lady introduced in the steps in to the story (her story has
been paused until we are a responsible term)
Ring her on the number we had taken during the original phone call.
Ask her to confirm her condition and identify any key features she can see
so that we can help to locate her. GEOGRAPHY FOCUS – WHAT IS AN
AREA LIKE?
Formulate a plan and identify a route using a map of the mountain area. Pack
equipment needed and rescue lady. MATHS TEACHING linked to
directions.
Return to Boxing Clever Story from Step 4 and complete the final boxes
having rescued the lady. WRITING FOCUS
Receive memo / letter.... from editor reminding us of the deadline for the
news report about the new Rescue Ream based at the Fernie Rescue Centre.
Write newspaper report to publish in the Canadian Rocky Gazette.
WRITING FOCUS
Receive a visit from the organiser of the Rocky Mountain Marathon Run
Charity event explaining how the annual charity event runs and the support
they are likely to need to make sure everybody remains safe.
Read through plans they have left – can we foresee any problems? Lighting
with candles.
Freeze the Story – SCIENCE TEACHING about sources of light and circuits
to enable the team to set up an electrical circuit of lights.
Make a model of the mountain and set up circuits that light checkpoints for
Episode Canadian
8
Government /
Vehicle
Manufactures
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Episode New Team
9
member /
Canadian
Government
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Episode Canadian Rocky
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Gazette
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each runner to visit.
Conditions on the mountain are changing due to global warming and our
vehicles are not necessarily equipped to run safely on the different surfaces
being revealed by the melting snow.
Approach the government for additional funding to update fleet of vehicles.
Government respond with information, the manufacturers of the vehicles we
have already would like us to do some testing for them so they can update
the skis / sledge runners they produce for their vehicles.
Freeze Story – if we are going to do some testing and are responsible for
the data we are providing how do we need to go about the testing. Teach
aspects of AT1. SCEINCE TEACHING
Identify the different types of surface we are frequently having to travel
across e.g. ice, snow, gravel and permafrost. How are they different?
Test sledge runners / skis on different surfaces identify how we can speed
up and slow down the vehicles so we can travel safely. MATHS TEACHING –
WEIGHT / MESASURE / DATA HANDLING
Present data and a report to the manufactures and the government to show
our findings.
A number of our team members have had to leave to set a new rescue
centre, we need to maintain our current level of staffing – write persuasive
text to accompany a job advert for new staff. WRITING FOCUS
We have some new team members who have joined us who have no
experience winching stretchers into helicopters.
Freeze Story - explore a range of materials to understand more about
pullies etc out of role to be able to apply it in the story so that we can teach
our new team members. DT / SCIENCE TEACHING
Task – complete in house winch training using labelled diagrams, instructions,
working models WRITING FOCUS
Possible piece of writing for AT1 books?
Whilst on a rescue find a plaque with the name and dates of a famous
mountaineer. HISTORY FOCUS
Who were they? Why has the plaque become so hidden and uncared for?
Why is there a plaque there? READING FOCUS
Find out answers to any questions we come up with?
What shall we do with all this information? Who might find it interesting?
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Episode Canadian
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Government
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Episode Red Cross
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Become newspaper reports again and write a piece for the local paper.
WRITING FOCUS
Receive a rescue call from someone identified as being stuck in a place only
reachable by foot due to being in a forested area.
The person is going to need to be stretchered down the mountain.
How can we use a stretcher that can only be taken by us rather than the
helicopter or the snow mobile?
Design labelled diagrams of stretchers showing how they are going to be
propelled up and down the mountain. SCIENCE FOCUS
How are we going to get to this person? Create routes by joining dots.
MATHS TEACHING – SHAPES
Be nominated by the Canadian Government as the best rescue team to
support the Red Cross in emergencies around the world.
Explore the different locations around the world and the condition and
landscapes. Disband team around the world to work in climates and
landscapes they enjoy most. GEOGRAPHY FOCUS