In this activity, your class will read through the extract from the book and identify the nouns, verbs and adjectives. Each lesson has a ‘Steps to Success’ section which allows the children an overview of what they can do in this lesson to complete the learning successfully. These use simple imagery to support each step and hopefully help the children remember each step.

A Robot with a broken heart is sent to the scrapheap. An exhausted, migrating Bluebird shelters where the Robot’s heart used to be; he builds her a nest of wires. This book is kind of gloomy but happy and deep. The robot doesn't have a heart but gives a shelter to a bluebird. The robot at the beginning just sat there heartless but once bluebird came into his heart, robot felt much better and loved. When the bluebird has to leave, the robot offers to take t... Art -Paint a self portrait for our class display. Puffins—see if you can remember the names of the 3 Primary colours and what paints you need to mix together to make secondary colours.See if you can find out what Epiphany is and put into a poster or presentation to share with the class. Very sweet, and I think, sad story. Broken-hearted Robot finds a new sense of purpose when he finds Bluebird in need. This one should be discussed, not just read: Why did Robot do what he did? Did he "die" happy? (Did he die at all?) Why do people need a sense of purpose? Is it more important to... ...more Write down at least 3 questions that you would like to ask ‘The Dark’– don’t forget to use a question mark at the end of your question, begin with a capital letter and make them as interesting as you can!

Your class will read the extract taken from The Robot and the Bluebird story and locate the sounds within the words.

Puffins Home and School Work 1st June 2020

We have included five different resources for this activity so you can choose which best suits your KS1 class.

High atop a pile of rubbish sits a lonely Robot with a broken heart. Then one winter's day, a Bluebird appears, fighting against the freezing wind. When the Robot offers her a home in the empty space where his heart used to be, neither of them can predict what astonishing things will happen. Together the newfound friends set off on a memorable journey that will change them both. Lots of drama can come out of this book, thinking about how the robot feels and creating freeze frames of certain points in the story and saying how a character might feel.

Puffins Homework W/C 11th May 2020

Set in the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green, East London, this magical book takes you through all of David Lucas' favourite toys in the collection. R.E - shofar is blown on Rosh Hashanah to start calling people to think about the wrong things they have done and put them right. It is then blown every day for ten days until the very special day of Yom Kippur. Have a go at making a Shofar and bring it into school to blow!

A Glimpse of Excellence! Highlights prepared by Jena M. Rainey. Building the Robot. In the beginning…. Robotics Team Sponsors : Ms. Jena M. Rainey and Ms. Jacqueline C. Rhodes.

It took a second or third reading of this to truly get to me, but once I fell in love with this title I fell hard. A very simple, very lovely tale. Lucas is one of those guys with pictures too subtlely beautiful to ever garner the attention he deserves. Layout and Compositional Meaning Salience: refers to the most significant element within an image – where your eye is immediately drawn to