Bradley’s Ltd – Repairers of Old Toys
Author: Luke Abbott l Suitable for: Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Planning
Team of Experts
A company, dedicated to the repair and preservation of toys commissioned by St Anthony’s hospital to repair toys for a new children’s ward
Situation
Bradley’s Ltd-Repairers of old Toys. We have a company which is dedicated to the repair and preservation of toys. They have had many people from all walks of life commission them-and have worked for the palace as an appointed company. They go back to 1886 where their founder Evelyn Bradley repaired the first broken toy…
Client(s)
St Anthony’s Hospital
Commision(s)
Steps In
I will use any artefacts already in class as donated toys as well as written signs for the class to work from. Using inductive language as far as possible- I will talk from the point of view of a doctor in charge of the new ward at the hospital with a problem-too many toys, lots of them lovingly looked after-but too old perhaps? Also the recent donation of a large toy bear brings in issues of health and how we should respond to the sender.
Points to watch out for:
- I will be using a mixture of sign systems-see if you can spot the moves that help the class begin to use language-or now time language.
- If we need a presence of a toy bear-keep an eye out on the language and how we get one!
- The company will have a workshop and I will try to get the image of this by using drawings and in the head imaginings -to utilise the dramatic imagination of the class. See above for the ingredients of dramatic imagination.
- There will also be a number of tensions I will either use or help structure from the responses of the class. Look in the booklet for the pages on tensions