People Who Help Us Level: Key Stage 1 - Cross-curricular activities

Lesson
Music
Kindergarten - 1st Grade
Music Playtime
Music Playtime

Music Lesson Description

Generation Kind, an RSPCA initiative

The RSPCA has an ongoing education programme about helping animals, with information and fantastic resources for Key Stage 1 children. Find out more here!

1057847 Cat Bandaged Paw

Who Can Help Us?

The children could produce a Who Can Help Us? podcast using Garage Band. The children are all allocated a line to say:

  • I need help to cross the road!
  • Who can help?
  • I can help - I'm a lollipop man!
  • I need help!
  • I'm lost!
  • I can help - I'm a policewoman!

Here are some instructions for creating a podcast using Garage Band. Be aware that, as updates are rolled out, the format may change:

If life feels too short to tackle Garage Band, instead the children could make a big chart on which they write the statements and stick on pictures of the people who can help us.

What If? (PSED and Literacy links)

A poem for thinking about some of the people who help us to get through difficult times.

  • What if all the shops were closed
  • And had no drinks for us?
  • We’d all be hungry and thirsty
  • And we'd make a lot of fuss!
  • __
  • What if there was no internet
  • And parcels never came?
  • We’d have to ask the online stores
  • To open once again.
  • __
  • What if we had no rescue service
  • Then we had a flood?
  • We’d all wade through the water
  • And go squelching in the mud.
  • __
  • What if we never thanked our friends
  • For help when things get bad?
  • They wouldn't want to play again
  • And then we would be sad.
  • _
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