Hello and any ideas for primary drama?

[Susi Q]

Hello Everyone.

Just joined up as I was desperate for resources. Reading threads and decided to say hello first before replying.
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Have worked for 5 years doing secondary supply and recently done a fair bit of Yr5 & 6 primary. So used to secondary schools leaviing work I am a bit nonplussed by primary teachers leaving nothing for a whole day....!
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Talked to a real primary teacher and she suggested non-messy art things and drama for the afternoons. Any
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s for drama lessons with few(if any) reources?Also any
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s for 5 min fillers or what to do when a few children finish the set task?

Susi Q

[danfur]

Hi Susi, you must live quite close to me, welcome to the forum. There are loads of
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s on here for activities and fillers just have a look around. My favourite fillers for the older age ranges are bingo, categories (it's on here somewhere) and heads down thumbs up. Not great at drama
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s and prob not my favourite thing to do on supply unless behaviour was really good but art
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s - portraits of each other, escher (sp) patterns (do a web search, think they are on teaching
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s.com), get children to draw a picture using shapes then they have to describe them to each other and see if they are the same, zig zag pictures (think they are on primaryresources.com) they work out really well. Hope that helps for
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s.

[Gnomoospan]

The thing about drama is that a) generally you need space, and b) it is better if it is linked to the topic. There are lots of little games on primary resources that you can do, like
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murder, but you have to have really good control of the class so don't do drama with a difficult class. I would make sure you have lots of stand alone activities like design your perfect pencil class and explain why it has special compartments etc. Drawing treasure maps etc. Good book to get is Thinking outside the box by Molly somebody, lots of good
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s that could take an afternoon to do.

[Susi Q]

Many thanks for the
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s so far Danfur and Gnomoospan. Lots of stuff to think about and put in my
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s book.
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I was feeling a bit stressed after an indoor P.E. lesson with some children whose sportmanship was non-existent.
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It seems to take forever to set things like art activities up with paints and
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lessons with equipment. I asked another primary teacher what she found was good and she suggeted drama, but as you say you need a fair bit of space and a good class.
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I am also finding lots of things on the site and
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e a wordsearch yesterday. Is there anything to make sudoku puzzles in a similar way? Can anyone recommend good books to read aloud to Yrs 5 & 6?
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In some tough schools the kids seem to think it is weird that I would do this, but other schools seem to like Horrid Henry. They are a good length to read aloud at the end of the day. I need more stuff though and it is dodgy trying to get something quickly that you don't know yourself. Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday break despite the bad weather.


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[NuttySupplier]

Hi Susi Q, and welcome to the forum!

I tend not to read out to the older children, though that's because I personally don't like reading... I find an invaluable resource is a book of quiz questions, play boys v. girls and be strict, give 10 points to start, and then you can take them off for shouting out/being rude etc...

[neetperrin]

Hi,
I bought two books from amazon one was 101 drama
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s and activities ( David Farmer) and the other was 100+
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s for drama by Anna Scher both very good books. Hope that helps.

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[Susi Q]

Dear neetperrin,

Many thanks. I will check out those books and add them to my primary bag! I did some drama in a secondary school for a
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of terms but they were older kids and long term projects so I just needed
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s for primary age kids. Sometimes I find there are great kids and at the end of the afternoon it is nice to do something that is fun but not too messy. I am a secondary music teacher and find I can take a lot of noise but forget that messy activities need to be tidied up. When you don't know the kids it is hard to judge how long they will need to tidy up so I tend to err on the side of caution and sometimes have as much as ten minutes left to fill. I have had some great
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s from people so far and feel much better now about doing primary supply.