Nikky Smedley tells the tale of A Thumping Great Rabbit in front of a Year 2 class from Brookhurst Primary School in Warwickshire.
Read Brenda Williams’ story and then watch Nikky’s retelling. How is the story different in the retelling?
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Alexia is the only normal kid in a school for gods. What hope does she have on sports day? What with Hermes whose feet barely
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A simple story structure sheet for Sports Day on Mount Olympus.
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Cut out the sentences and arrange the main events of Sports Day on Mount Olympus in the correct order.
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These words taken from the Sports Day on Mount Olympus by Paul Mason are often misspelled.
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Sports Day certificates everyone will be proud to pin on their wall.
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Read through the 'Good sport' closing thought and talk about the ideas in it during your class or school assembly.
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Explore six of the gods mentioned in Paul Mason's story with these Olympian god profile sheets.
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Introduce or revise the term simile (a figure of speech that compares one thing to another). Ask the children to identify the similes the author
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Help the Olympian gods spot the errors in their writing using this spelling and grammar exercise.
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A text only version of Sports Day on Mount Olympus the story of Alexia the only normal kid in a school for gods.
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Help the children explore the feelings athletes might feel at the start at the race using this senses grid.
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Reward your Early Years and KS1 storytellers with this Sports Day on Mount Olympus themed certificate.
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Reward your KS2 storytellers with this Sports Day on Mount Olympus themed certificate.
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Cut and laminate these cards for a literary treasure hunt game.
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Divide the class into groups to research one these organisations; The Paralympics; The Deaflympics; The Youth Olympics and The Special Olympics.
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Get children excited about exercising with our downloadable sport fact cards.
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Our downloadable sport fact card templates make great class displays and are perfect for children to use when presenting their findings to the class.
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Our downloadable sport fact cards are ready for children to add their own sporty illustrations.
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Our downloadable sports fact cards are ready for children to add their own researched facts.
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Recreate our Sports Day on Mount Olympus adventure with this editable playscript.
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Making waves juxtaposes the modern-day story of a paralympic athlete with the fictional 1948 commentary of the first Paralympic Games.
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There are many ways to use these resources in class – for storytelling, sequencing activities, making a story map, exploring plot, character and setting, displays,
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Our ‘Storytelling prompts’ for Sports Day on Mount Olympus are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons. These prompts come with keywords.
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Our ‘Storytelling prompts’ for Sports Day on Mount Olympus are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.
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A great resource for getting down to the nitty gritty of analysing numbers - in this case sports results.
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Use Alexia's quote for inspiration for writing or for sports day.
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Sports day at Mount Olympus Primary School is over for another year, but now it is time to sort out the results so that they
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Explore what life is like for street children around the world and look at how the beautiful game is giving new hope to children such
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Talk through the events in Sports Day on Mount Olympus using this story map.
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Information and activity ideas based on Bicycling by Randall Henrie.
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Some inspirational sporting quotes from some truly great athletes.
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