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TEACHERS’ NOTES INTERACTIVE STORY - PRIMARY
NGOSA’S STORY Interactive story – Teachers’ notes This year, Comic Relief has created an interactive story to help your pupils learn about Ngosa, a nine-year-old girl who lives in Zambia. The resource combines film, sound and simple games to encourage pupils to get a real sense of where and how Ngosa lives and how money raised for Red Nose Day can help.
About the resource The interactive story can be found at: rednoseday.com/schools/ interactive-story-ngosa The story is in six chapters: 1 My name is Ngosa 2 Where I live 3 My family 4 Home life 5 At school 6 My future Each chapter includes information about nine-year-old Ngosa that has been designed to capture the interest and imagination of pupils. Film of Ngosa at home and at school, along with audio clips of her speaking, give the pupils a real insight into her life in Zambia. There are also a number of interactive tasks to ensure pupils stay engaged. The complete interactive story should take 10 to 15 minutes for pupils to work through.
Using the story This interactive resource has been designed for pupils to use independently. As a result, it is an extremely flexible classroom or homework resource. For example, you could: use it to reinforce learning from your Red Nose Day assembly rednoseday.com/schools/ learning-fundraising/ngosa, which includes a film about Ngosa look at chapter 1 of the story on the whiteboard as a class, then ask the pupils to work through the rest of the resource individually or in pairs look at a chapter a day in the build-up to Red Nose Day ask the pupils to work through the story at home. When using the resource in the classroom, use the suggested question prompts below to encourage the pupils to think more deeply and creatively about what they are learning.
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NGOSA’S STORY Technical requirements You should be able to use the interactive story in school without any difficulty. However, if you encounter problems, please make sure your computer has Internet Explorer 9 (or above) or the latest version of Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome installed. If you are using an iPad, make sure it is running iOS7 (or above) and is turned to landscape. If you ask pupils to use the interactive story at home with their parents, please note that these technical requirements are also explained at the start of the story.
QUESTION PROMPTS 1. My name is Ngosa If Ngosa came to our school, which class would she be in? What is Ngosa’s favourite animal? What’s your favourite animal? Why do you think there is a difference? What is Ngosa scared of? Why do you think this might be? 2. Where I live Where does Ngosa live? Is your home made of any of the same materials as Ngosa’s house? What materials is your home built of? Did you see things in Ngosa’s house that you have in your own home? What are the main differences between Ngosa’s house and where you live? Ngosa’s house doesn’t have electricity. What do you use electricity for in your home? How much of a difference would it make to your life not to have electricity? 3. My family Who is in Ngosa’s family? What do you think it would be like to live just with a brother and sister. Do you think it would be hard? Why?
4. Home life Why does Rabecca have to work? How does she earn money? What type of chores does Ngosa have to do? Do you help out at home? How do you think you would feel if you only had enough food to eat once a day, or every other day? Why did Ngosa have to miss school sometimes? 5. At school How is Ngosa’s classroom the same as ours? How is it different? Does Ngosa like going to school? Why? 6. My future How do you think going to school will make a difference to Ngosa’s future? What does Ngosa want to be when she grows up? Would she be able to be this if she didn’t go to school? What do you want to be when you grow up? If you couldn’t go to school, would it make a difference? And if it would, how? Overarching questions What do you think are the main differences between your life and Ngosa’s? How is Ngosa like you? Do you think you might be friends if you met? Do you think it’s important that we raise money this Red Nose Day to help children like Ngosa go to school? Why?
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NGOSA’S STORY ACTIVITY IDEAS Choose from the following activity ideas to develop and deepen the pupils’ learning from the interactive story.
How well do you know Ngosa?
If you are going to ask the pupils to use the interactive story at home with their parents, filling in this sheet would make a great homework task.
Ask the pupils to imagine they are going to visit Ngosa in Zambia and can take three gifts with them. What would they take and why? They could draw and write about the gifts they have chosen.
Me and Ngosa To reinforce the pupils’ understanding of the difference between their lives and Ngosa’s, you could ask them to write about their own lives using the same headings as those in Ngosa’s story (‘My name is…’, ‘Where I live’, ‘My family’, ‘Home life’, ‘At school’, ‘My future’).
Comic Relief, registered charity 326568 (England and Wales); SC039730 (Scotland). RND15_152. Photo credit: Lucille Flood, Tara Carey.
Download the ‘How well do you know Ngosa?’ sheet from rednoseday.com/ schools/interactive-story-ngosa and ask the pupils to complete it after they have worked through the interactive story. How much can they remember about Ngosa’s life?
Just three gifts
You could extend this further by working with the pupils to make a short film about the life of a typical schoolchild in the UK. You could show this alongside Ngosa’s film on Red Nose Day, to reinforce why you are raising money.
Finding out about Zambia Help the pupils locate Zambia on maps, atlases, globes and using digital/computer mapping. Ask them to look at where it is in relation to the UK. How would they travel there? Then encourage the pupils to carry out independent research into the physical and human geography of Zambia using books and the internet. For example, they could find out about the country’s climate, landscape, cities, wildlife, food, water and land use.
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NGOSA’S STORY Interactive story – Teachers’ notes This year, Comic Relief has created an interactive story to help your pupils learn about Ngosa, a nine-year-old girl who lives in Zambia. The resource combines film, sound and simple games to encourage pupils to get a real sense of where and how Ngosa lives and how money raised for Red Nose Day can help.
About the resource The interactive story can be found at: rednoseday.com/schools/ interactive-story-ngosa The story is in six chapters: 1 My name is Ngosa 2 Where I live 3 My family 4 Home life 5 At school 6 My future Each chapter includes information about nine-year-old Ngosa that has been designed to capture the interest and imagination of pupils. Film of Ngosa at home and at school, along with audio clips of her speaking, give the pupils a real insight into her life in Zambia. There are also a number of interactive tasks to ensure pupils stay engaged. The complete interactive story should take 10 to 15 minutes for pupils to work through.
Using the story This interactive resource has been designed for pupils to use independently. As a result, it is an extremely flexible classroom or homework resource. For example, you could: use it to reinforce learning from your Red Nose Day assembly rednoseday.com/schools/ learning-fundraising/ngosa, which includes a film about Ngosa look at chapter 1 of the story on the whiteboard as a class, then ask the pupils to work through the rest of the resource individually or in pairs look at a chapter a day in the build-up to Red Nose Day ask the pupils to work through the story at home. When using the resource in the classroom, use the suggested question prompts below to encourage the pupils to think more deeply and creatively about what they are learning.
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NGOSA’S STORY Technical requirements You should be able to use the interactive story in school without any difficulty. However, if you encounter problems, please make sure your computer has Internet Explorer 9 (or above) or the latest version of Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome installed. If you are using an iPad, make sure it is running iOS7 (or above) and is turned to landscape. If you ask pupils to use the interactive story at home with their parents, please note that these technical requirements are also explained at the start of the story.
QUESTION PROMPTS 1. My name is Ngosa If Ngosa came to our school, which class would she be in? What is Ngosa’s favourite animal? What’s your favourite animal? Why do you think there is a difference? What is Ngosa scared of? Why do you think this might be? 2. Where I live Where does Ngosa live? Is your home made of any of the same materials as Ngosa’s house? What materials is your home built of? Did you see things in Ngosa’s house that you have in your own home? What are the main differences between Ngosa’s house and where you live? Ngosa’s house doesn’t have electricity. What do you use electricity for in your home? How much of a difference would it make to your life not to have electricity? 3. My family Who is in Ngosa’s family? What do you think it would be like to live just with a brother and sister. Do you think it would be hard? Why?
4. Home life Why does Rabecca have to work? How does she earn money? What type of chores does Ngosa have to do? Do you help out at home? How do you think you would feel if you only had enough food to eat once a day, or every other day? Why did Ngosa have to miss school sometimes? 5. At school How is Ngosa’s classroom the same as ours? How is it different? Does Ngosa like going to school? Why? 6. My future How do you think going to school will make a difference to Ngosa’s future? What does Ngosa want to be when she grows up? Would she be able to be this if she didn’t go to school? What do you want to be when you grow up? If you couldn’t go to school, would it make a difference? And if it would, how? Overarching questions What do you think are the main differences between your life and Ngosa’s? How is Ngosa like you? Do you think you might be friends if you met? Do you think it’s important that we raise money this Red Nose Day to help children like Ngosa go to school? Why?
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NGOSA’S STORY ACTIVITY IDEAS Choose from the following activity ideas to develop and deepen the pupils’ learning from the interactive story.
How well do you know Ngosa?
If you are going to ask the pupils to use the interactive story at home with their parents, filling in this sheet would make a great homework task.
Ask the pupils to imagine they are going to visit Ngosa in Zambia and can take three gifts with them. What would they take and why? They could draw and write about the gifts they have chosen.
Me and Ngosa To reinforce the pupils’ understanding of the difference between their lives and Ngosa’s, you could ask them to write about their own lives using the same headings as those in Ngosa’s story (‘My name is…’, ‘Where I live’, ‘My family’, ‘Home life’, ‘At school’, ‘My future’).
Comic Relief, registered charity 326568 (England and Wales); SC039730 (Scotland). RND15_152. Photo credit: Lucille Flood, Tara Carey.
Download the ‘How well do you know Ngosa?’ sheet from rednoseday.com/ schools/interactive-story-ngosa and ask the pupils to complete it after they have worked through the interactive story. How much can they remember about Ngosa’s life?
Just three gifts
You could extend this further by working with the pupils to make a short film about the life of a typical schoolchild in the UK. You could show this alongside Ngosa’s film on Red Nose Day, to reinforce why you are raising money.
Finding out about Zambia Help the pupils locate Zambia on maps, atlases, globes and using digital/computer mapping. Ask them to look at where it is in relation to the UK. How would they travel there? Then encourage the pupils to carry out independent research into the physical and human geography of Zambia using books and the internet. For example, they could find out about the country’s climate, landscape, cities, wildlife, food, water and land use.
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