APODO Resources Eye masks Tumble tower (Jenga) blocks Famous people, famous places, emoti-cards, competency and

and object cards. Leaf danglers and yes/no compass cards. Skipping Ropes Blow-up Globes + Stickers Relaxation CD Play-doh Jigsaws Rubber Gloves Pens, paperclips, scissors and sellotape Games CD Pump Oscars statues. APODO Activities: AIFL No Hands Up: Use Globes/Ball as a conch to indicate who can speak or answer the question. AIFL Questioning: Use Globe/ball to indicate who must answer the question, during class plenary. AIFL Using Peer Evaluation/ Self evaluation postcards to enhance use to Learning logs in class. Reflective tool to help their learning. Assertive Discipline Teacher hands out Oscar to student with best behaviour record first time. Then after a set period of time, student must pick someone else to have the Oscar@ and give reasons why in terms of behaviour and class participation. This way, the Oscar is still used around class, and everyone can have a chance of receiving it. It is also then, not seen as just the teachers favourites getting the praise. Curricular Activities: Tumble Tower Blocks. 60 second Discussion: using (orange) Jenga blocks as Discussion tools. Instant Ice-Breakers (Junior classes) Using the pink blocks in a circular game to break the ice of first time classes, or as randomly picked instructions to get children engaged.

Team building tools The light blue blocks can be used in a variety of ways from discussion to more actively playing with the blocks. Introducing Yourself The dark blue blocks can be used to instigate discussion in small groups, to introduce each person, and stimulus for personal writing or talk. Philosophy Discussion (more advanced classes) the green blocks can be used with good classes to initiate discussion of each point. Can enable deeper thinking about the questions. Plain Blocks with black handwriting are creative writing prompts for either short journaling writing or for ideas for longer pieces. (Usually personal.) Blindfolds Descriptive Writing: Places focus on senses other than sight, as this is more predominant in descriptive writing. Using blindfolds, ask pupils to describe an experience. Examples could be: sherbet sweetie challenge, or to create a word bank from a piece of music as inspiration. Communication Skills: In pairs, with one blindfolded student, the two work together to build a jigsaw. The person who is not blindfolded can speak but not touch; the blindfolded person is the hands of the operation. Skipping Ropes. Problem solving exercise with Leadership skills and communication: as students to untangle the ropes while holding onto one end. Task places emphasis on communication and team work whilst also engaging problem solving. This could be marked in terms of GD. Famous people, famous places, emoti-cards, competency and object cards. Creative Writing Prompts: Pick three cards from famous places, objects and emoti-cards pile. These three must feature in a piece of creative writing. These are picked at random to stop fixing. Can however; be chosen by the teacher and mindmapped on the board for lower ability classes Famous People Cards: Used as inspiration for an informative piece on Someone I admire.