Iqra School - Year 8
Thursday 19th May
LEADERSHIP
Bus Stop Activity
 Complete the bus stop activity
 Read what your peers have written under each of
the questions.
 Write answers to some of the questions to finish
off.
 Discuss as a class.
Kids on Leadership video:
WALT – identify and discuss characteristics of good leaders
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Write today’s date and heading “Kids on Leadership video”. Underline your heading.
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Watch the short video ‘Kids on Leadership’ – it’s just over 3 minutes long.
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After you’ve watched the video, turn to your partner or group. Share all the words you remember
the children using to describe what a good leader is.
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Write these words in your books.
5.
Rewatch the video. This time, watch and listen for the words they use and add them to your list.
For discussion:
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How do their descriptions of good leaders compare or differ to ours?
Do you agree or disagree with the views of children on the video?
Writing about Leadership
WALT – use information to write an explanation about leadership.
Task 1
Write a new heading and underline it:
What is Leadership and why do we need good leaders?
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Use the information gathered around the room, from the video and from your own
thinking to help you with your writing.
Work together as a group to brainstorm and plan your writing
Use the template Matua Micheal has given you to help structure your written piece.
Each part of the template is a new paragraph
You need to write 5 or 6 paragraphs with around about 250 words in total
It doesn’t all have to be finished today. We will come back to our writing piece next
week.