The Big Lunch Schools Resources – Key Stage 2, Activity 1 Learning objectives – develop a sense of community and identify different types of community gatherings and understand why they are important Resources and preparation Powerpoint of groups of animals and cut-up sets of collective nouns (1 set per group) Large sheets of paper and coloured pens Introduction Teacher splits pupils into groups and gives each group a set of Animal Collectives (Task Sheet 1) – pupils are challenged to come up with the collective noun for each group –do one as an example Each group is given a set of collective nouns (Task Sheet 2) and asked to match the correct picture with the correct term What is the collective noun for a group of humans? Do a mind map on the board and elicit: community, group, crowd, household, etc. What are the key differences/similarities between all the words? Eg the difference between a crowd and a community? A community work together, don’t just mix together. Main Teacher writes a list of all the communities he/she is involved in - eg. yoga class, the school, the place I live in, my family … Pupils think of, write/share with a partner, at least 3 communities they are involved in In their groups, pupils should write the names of their colleagues across a large sheet of paper and begin to join the names up with colours linking to different communities; for example, John belongs to Scouts – who else belongs to Scouts? Join them all together with one colour. Make a key for each community. Pupils should move around asking/answering questions to complete the Community Map (potential prize for first finishers) – See Task Sheet 3 for example Each group shows and talks through their connections Pupils write up their findings about the class in a series of sentences Could be used as material for a potential assembly on why communities are important Plenary Why are community gatherings a good idea? What is the best one you have been to? Encourage pupils to share their experience of a community gathering with a partner. Collect pupil stories from around the class e.g. auntie’s wedding, carnival, village fete etc. Ask pupils: Are there any gatherings that we are looking forward to this year? What are they? Extension – research other collective nouns to describe other groups of animals (10) Homework – describe or write an account of a gathering or group event you have been to recently