The Giraffe and The Pelly and Me Teamwork: Learning Objective

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The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me Lesson

plan
Teamwork
Overview

Learning objective
ork and co-operation in
• To explore the themes of teamw
Me.
The Giraffe and the Pelly and

Learning outcome
s for all the team members.
•A design for a business with role

Book reference
Me.
• The Giraffe and the Pelly and

Cross-curricular link
Health Education.
• Personal, Social, Citizenship and

Resources
the book, pictures of
• Paper, sellotape, pictures from
card.
animals on different pieces of

Starter
• The children play a team game. For example, play hangman or noughts-and-crosses on the board in teams.

Main teaching activity


• In groups, the children discuss these questions:
- How did it feel to work in a team?
- How did your team make a good team?
- Think of successful teams (for example: football, Eurovision, examples from films or books).
- What qualities do they have?
- How does each member of the team have a different strength to contribute? (E.g. goal keeper, striker, etc.)

The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre


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Registered charity number 1085853 | Company limited by guarantee number 4178505 Illustrations © Quentin Blake
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me - Teamwork cont.

• The groups feedback their ideas to the whole class.


• Look at images from The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me – for example, the Monkey pouring water from the
tap into the Pelican’s beak; the Monkey cleaning a window standing on the Giraffe’s head.
• Discuss how they are working as a good team.

Group or independent activity

• Look at how Giraffe, Pelly and Me praise each other – for example, this quote:


I said, ‘Who is your friend in the next window?’
‘She is the Giraffe!’ the Pelican answered. ‘Is she not wonderful? Her legs
are on the ground floor and her head is looking out of the top window!’

• Brainstorm synonyms for ‘wonderful’ using thesauri. • Form groups. Every individual from the group
says one thing they are good at – football,
• The children play a ‘praise game’ to highlight the
drawing, singing, maths and so on. Each
importance of praising each other in order to work
group must form a business using every talent
as a good and happy team. Everyone tapes a piece
from each member of the group (e.g. the artist can
of paper to their back. They walk around the room
create a bookshop; the singer can sing the adverts
and write compliments on every one else’s papers
for the books; the maths lover can be the treasurer).
about the person. At the end of the game they can
take their pieces of paper from their backs and • The children work in groups. The teacher has
read all the nice things other people have written pictures of animals in a hat. Each group takes 3
about them. pictures at random. Groups then work together to
form an imaginary business using the strengths from
each of the animals.

The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre


www.roalddahl.com/museum
Registered charity number 1085853 | Company limited by guarantee number 4178505 Illustrations © Quentin Blake
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me - Teamwork cont.

Plenary
• Groups present their company or business to the rest of the class.

Other activities
• Make a staff noticeboard poster, with pictures of each member of the team with an image representing
their role.
• Make a poster for the animal business.
• Create an TV advertisement for your business.

The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre


www.roalddahl.com/museum
Registered charity number 1085853 | Company limited by guarantee number 4178505 Illustrations © Quentin Blake

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