The beauty of working with MoE is that you can group children according to the type of session you are running. I’ll tell you what I do.

Mainly I work whole class group for the main sessions. Because this approach pulls in the children’s responses and works with them you need all the children to take part. It’s not just the verbal responses that count here and that means they can access what is going on at their own level. The important part is that they work as a team and because of the tension in the drama they need to work together.

There are many times when they will need to follow up doing research, drawing or writing up and here is an opportunity to group as you normally would, in pairs, ability groups or groups that need support. Mainly though, I tap into the co-operative nature of MoE and work the children in friendship groups.