26 Nov 2014 - 10 Jan 2015
Teachers’ Education Information Pack
Contents
Introduction............................................................................. 1
Story Synopsis......................................................................2-3
Activities................................................................................4-9
Costume Designs.........................................................10-15
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Chickenshed Peter Pan Education Pack
Introduction
This Education Pack has a range of information in it which helps to give a context to both
Chickenshed's version of the Peter Pan story and the general story itself.
There are different ideas for lessons inspired by the story and the trip to Chickenshed to see the
Peter Pan show. The ideas encourage cross curriculum activity. However, activities can be easily
enjoyed by those who, for any reason, cannot come on the visit to watch the show. So the
activities in the pack can be easily disseminated.
Differentiation
The optimum age for many of the ideas in the pack is 7 - 12/13 years, largely determined by
the amount of support a child or young person receives and how much the ideas can be
simplified or extended by staff delivering the lessons. However, there are activity ideas that
younger children can enjoy with support and when simplified, and older children could enjoy if
extended.
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Synopsis - Peter Pan
The Darling household is a place of joy, consisting of the three children, Wendy, John, and
Michael; the practical and sometimes stern father, Mr. Darling; the loving mother, Mrs.
Darling; and the children’s nurse, a dog named Nana.
But sneaking into the children’s bedroom at night to listen to Mrs. Darling’s bedtime stories is
Peter Pan. One night, Nana and Mrs. Darling see him and try to stop him, but are only able to
catch his shadow as he flies out the window. So they roll it up and put it in a drawer. Peter, of
course, wants his shadow, and returns later after Mr. and Mrs. Darling have left for a dinner
party. He brings with him his not-very-polite fairy, Tinkerbell. However, when he finds his
shadow, he can’t make it stick to him and wakes Wendy as he begins to cry.
Peter is entranced by Wendy and tells her that he had run away the day he was born because
he heard his parents talking about all the things he would do when he was a man, and he went
to live with the fairies so that he would never have to grow up. Now he lives in the Neverland
with the Lost Boys, children who fell out of their perambulators and were never found again
Wendy sews Peter’s shadow back to him, and then Peter convinces Wendy and her brothers, by
teaching them how to fly, to return to the Neverland with him and Tinkerbell. So off they fly,
over the rooftops of London to the Neverland, where the lost boys share the island with the
mean Pirates, led by Captain Hook, and the never natives led by their chief and princess, Tiger
Lily. It was Hook’s greatest desire to capture Peter Pan and his friends because it was Peter who
had cut off Hook’s hand and fed it to a crocodile. The crocodile had so liked the taste of the
hand that he followed Hook everywhere, waiting for the rest of him. The crocodile had,
unhappily, also swallowed a clock, and its ticking warned Hook of any approach.
To this magical land Wendy and her brothers fly with Peter Pan. The Lost Boys, seeing Wendy
and spurred on by a jealous Tinkerbell, think her a giant bird and shoot her with a bow and
arrow. Peter arrives immediately and sees that Wendy is only stunned, and, after banishing
Tinkerbell for a week, he tells the others that he has brought Wendy to them. They quickly build
her a house and ask her to be their mother. However, Hook and the Pirates have their own
plans and plant a green poison cake near the new house.
The next day, Peter takes Wendy to Marooner’s Rock to see the mermaids. While there, the
Pirates bring in Tiger Lily, who they have bound and are leaving on the rock to drown at high
tide. Peter saves her, and she becomes their friend and guardian.
Eventually, the children begin to worry about their parents and to feel the pangs of
homesickness; and they decide it is time to return to their warm beds in London. The Lost Boys
decide to go with them, but Peter will not hear of going if he will have to grow up. Hook and
the Pirates, however, foil their plans and capture all the children and take them to their ship.
Only Peter, with Tinkerbell’s help, avoids capture.
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Synopsis - Peter Pan (cont'd)
The Pirates are about to have their captives walk the plank, when Peter and the Never Natives
arrive and save them. In the final fight with Hook, Peter forces the pirate captain to the edge of
the ship where he hears the ticking of the crocodile and, unnerved, falls into its waiting jaws.
The three children then return home, along with the Lost Boys, who the Darlings adopt. Peter
stays in the Neverland, coming to visit Wendy on occasion, but she soon turns into an adult and
mostly forgets Peter. However, she has a daughter, Jane, who dreams of pirates, Indians, and
magical places far away . . .
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How can you change the story?
Use Your Imagination
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Try these different ways of changing the
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Either just create or write the opening two or three paragraphs for each idea
or have a go at the whole story.
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Remember - You can either;
 Write the Story
 Draw the Story
 Make the Story into a Comic with Pictures and Speech Bubbles
 Write the Story as a play
 Record the Story with just voice or voice and moving pictures.
 Record the Story as a Photo- Story with captions.
 Just tell the story to someone
 Create a Group Story where someone is the "Scribe" or note-taker.
For each idea we have "started off" the story to give you an idea of
what it might look like. You can either use this "head start" and carry
on the story or start your own version of the idea. It's up to you!!
Ideas for Changing the Peter Pan Story
1. Mix the Peter Pan Story with another story
"Peter Pan lived in a big house with Seven
Dwarves who were all bullied and picked on and
ordered about by two nasty Ugly Sisters and an
evil Aunty who wanted to be Queen".
One morning Peter Pan, the Lost Boys and the Seven
Dwarves were making giant bucketloads
of cornflakes and fried eggs for a Neverland
Party when...
2. Peter Pan as a TV News Programme
"Well here we are live from the Palace where Wendy is beginning to make
the breakfast for Captain Hook and my goodness, isn't she loud? Wendy is
starting with the Scrambled eggs and the bacon but Hook won't rest. "Feed Me"
he says and then I will grow so big I can fight the crocodile.
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3. Rhyming Peter Pan Story
Write the Peter Pan story in simple verse.
Verse 1
"Peter Pan woke up one day
In this Neverland so they say.
He flew so hard his arms felt bad
Didn't want his mum and dad
Fight the Pirates yo ho ho!
Tell the Pirates where to go?"
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4.Sequels
Create a sequel to the Peter Pan Story by trying to imagine what happened with Wendy and
the family after the story finishes. Does she actually see Peter Pan again?
"Well darling," said Wendy's mum. "It's six weeks since you went to Neverland and did that
flying story".
"Well," said Wendy. "Let's look out of the window and see if Peter Pan is flying here."
(Peter Pan flies in)
5.Prequels
Create a story about Wendy's life before the story starts.
"Now Nana, you need to take Wendy, John and Michael to the park. Is that alright?"
said Mrs Darling.
"Woof woof!" said Nana
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6.Interviews
Describe the story of Peter Pan in an interview.
Choose a celebrity to interview Peter Pan to
find out the facts.
Interviewer: "Peter Pan what did it feel like to be the
leader of the Lost Boys in Neverland?"
Peter Pan: "We were great."
Interviewer: "And what about Captain Hook?"
Peter Pan: And...
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Display Ideas Section
1. Things Peter Pan Characters say and things
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Ask each member of a class to choose a different phrase or
sentence which would be said in the Peter Pan story and write
this in a large speech bubble
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e.g "I have to get back to my home." (Wendy)
Then ask each member of the class to think of a phrase or sentence a character in the story
would think and write it in a large thought bubble.
e.g "I wish Captain Hook would stop ordering us about." (Pirates)
Encourage the class, if time, to decorate the words in the bubbles and clouds in different
ways.
Display the Speech Bubbles and Thought Bubbles on the wall. Try not to put the names of
the characters who say or think the words so that the children can guess.
2. Peter Pan Characters transformation - back in time
reate a display where the children show how Peter Pan's clothes are transformed from an
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old Neverland to different times in six 80s and 70s separate pictures gradually adding a
few costume touches to each picture.
Divide one large sheet of paper into 6 sections to enable children to show the
transformation on one large piece of paper.
3. Peter Pan and Tinkerbell's Time Machine - A junk challenge
Let children in groups of about 5 or 6 come to a collection of random junk and with their
eyes closed pick two pieces of junk each.
They must then take the junk challenge of making a Time Machine for Peter Pan after a
magic spell from Tinkerbell.
The Time Machine must be decorated.
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9-13 Years (Later Key Stage 2 to Early Key Stage 3)
Changing Character Over Counts of 10
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1.Class walk round the space in a neutral way
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Teacher counts 1-10 slowly so children can change slowly into bad tempered Pirates. The
nearer the count gets to 10 the closer the children get to being stroppy teenagers. The
nearer the Count gets to 1 the closer children get to neutral.
Number 5 is halfway only towards being a difficult stroppy Pirate.
Teachers should go up and down the Number Scale at different speeds and in different
random ways so that children can experience the change into difficult teenages in a variety
of ways.
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This changing over a count of 10 activity can be done for different characters from story
eg Crocodile, Peter Pan, Nana.
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s a next step from Activity 1 the children can move round the space
already as a character eg Captain Hook.
The Teacher then again shouts numbers between 1 and 10 at different speeds and
randomly moving between the numbers.
The nearer the numbers are to 1 the happier and friendlier Captain Hook moves and
sounds. The nearer the numbers are to 10 the angrier and more selfish Captain Hook is.
3.In groups of about 5 or 6 ask the class to tell the story of Peter Pan in 3
Frozen Pictures (Sometimes called a Freeze or a Tableau)
Ask the groups to find interesting ways of changing from Frozen Picture 1 to Frozen Picture
2 and then on to Frozen Picture 3 to make a sequence.
Play slow music to underscore changes and sequence.
Do the same for Tinkerbell and the Nana.
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4. Advertise the Peter Pan story
In groups of 5 or 6, children could plan and present an
advertising trailer for their own version of the Peter Pan story.
The trailer should only last one minute.
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Groups could include
 A deep-voiced commentator as for Superhero trailers.
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Different film stars and celebrities taking on the character roles.
 Tiny 5 second acted extracts from the story moving quickly from one to the other.
 An ending to the trailer which encourages suspense.
 A starting frozen position that could be the poster for the film
Look at trailers from other films as examples of the style.
5. Interview Panels
In groups of 5 or 6 one child should be a character from the story and the other children
form an interview panel.
The interview questions could be about why each character thinks they are the most
important character in the story with Interviewers giving each character one minute to
answer questions.
Each child in group can be a different character to be interviewed by the "Panel".
Once they practise groups can present the highlights of their interviews.
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Costume Designs
For Chickenshed’s production of Peter Pan, a Costume Designer was asked to create drawings
for all the characters’ costumes. This is done many months before the production, in the early
stages of the creative process so that the Wardrobe Department have plenty of time to make the
costumes.
What do you think of the costumes?
Can you design a costume for your favourite character?
Peter Pan
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Costume Designs
Tinkerbell
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Costume Designs
Tiger Lily
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Costume Designs
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Costume Designs
Pirates
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Well done!
Enjoy your visit to Chickenshed!
Write or draw something about it here!
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