Drama and SEAL – Changes
Key Learning Objectives
Session 1
Drama Objectives
To explore familiar themes and
characters through
improvisation and role play
SEAL Objectives
I can tell you how I have
changed
I can tell you about things that
I can do now that I couldn’t do
then
I can think of ideas to help
someone feeling sad
Role play opportunities
Max’s bedroom and over the
week would make a forest grow
and add a boat/box to be boat
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Activities
Look at the book and discuss what they think it might be about
Read the story
Warm up
‘That very night a forest grew in Max’s room’ – children to be the
forest, starting at the floor and weaving/swaying and
intertwining to be to forest
Add voices – creaking, groaning etc as the forest grows get
louder and louder
Drama faces – naughty like Max, cross like his mum etc
Drama bodies showing cross, knowing your in trouble – tap on
shoulder and ask for words
Activity
Look at character of Max (have made assumption that he roughly
the same age as Year1/2 children)
What did he do when he changed into his wolf suit? How does his
personality change?
What has he done to get sent to his room? Do they ever do
naughty things, how have these things changed
E.g. perhaps when they were a baby they put food on the floor,
or drawing on the walls
In small groups act out one of the ‘pranks’ , someone be Max, a
parent and another child, perhaps brother/sister
Freeze frame – tap characters on shoulders to see what they say
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Drama Faces – how does Max feel when he gets sent to his room?
“sad”
How do they feel when they get told off?
What can they do to make themselves/Max feel happier?
Brainstorm ideas
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Session 2
Drama objectives
To explore familiar themes and
characters through
improvisation and role play
To act out own and well known
stories, using different
voices/faces/body language for
characters
To adopt appropriate roles in
small /large groups and consider
alternative courses of action
SEAL Objectives
I can describe how change
makes me feel
I can think of strategies to help
me and others stop worrying
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Warm up
Everyone move around the room, teacher/child to callout
different ways to move around eg on tiptoes, nervously, boggy
ground, as if you have seen a wild thing, as if you are a wild thing
How would they describe a ‘wild thing’- quick fire list of words to
describe looks and characteristics
Warm up voices by saying “Go to your room Max” in a variety of
ways – cross, grumpy, happy, sad, any way they like
Activity
Think of things they would like to take to the island- objects
that they night need to take, children to mime what they are or
others to guess before they put them in the suitcase
Talk about how if you are going somewhere new (house, school,
class) and how it can make you worry.
Tell the children that they are going to be ‘superhelpers’ and help
Max’s brother who is going to follow him to the island but is a
little worried about what he will find and what he should do
TIR as max’s brother explaining the problem. Children together
to come up with suggestions as to how to stop worrying/deal with
worries, put the solutions in the suitcase for Max’s brother to
take with him
PIR
As super helpers (Max’s friends from school) coming up with
solutions to help him stop worrying to put in the suitcase. Might
also have qu about where Max’s brother is going.
Put Max’s brother in the hot seat before and after he visits the
island to see what he thinks it might be like and then what it is
actually like.
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Session 3
Drama Objectives
To explore familiar themes and
characters through
improvisation and role play
To act out own and well known
stories, using different
voices/faces/body language for
characters
SEAL Objectives
I can make changes for myself
I can begin to anticipate change,
prepare for it and feel happy
about it
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Warm up
One child pretends to be a ‘wild thing’, stands facing the front
and listens for others to creep up, anyone spotted moving is out
Pretend to be a wild thing and think about what they would do in
a day – act out a day in the life of a ‘wild thing’
‘Greetings King Max’
Activity
Recap on the ‘solutions’ to dealing with worries that they put in
the suitcase last time. This time take them out of the suitcase
and give them to Max while he is ‘king of the wild things’ sitting
on his throne.
What changes are going to be taking place in their lives? How can
they anticipate dealing with worries? what are they worried
about? Ask other children for solutions
Max is worried about what will happen when we he goes home –
what will his mum/dad say when they realize he has been away
In pairs be Max’s mum and dad at home worrying and wondering
where he is as they have been to his room and found he is not
there
Max and the ‘wild things’ celebrate with a wild rumpus, ask
children to create their own ‘wild thing’ – what will it look/sound
like, what will it do?
use instruments to create a brief rumpus with the children in
role as their own ‘wild thing’
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