Year 3-4 No Outsiders lesson plan
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Text: Mixed by Arree Chung
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Learning intention: To consider responses to racist behaviour
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Success criteria: I understand what racism is / I can recognise
racist behaviour / I know what to do if I hear or see someone being racist.
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Starter: What is racism? Come up with a class definition. (racism is where
someone is treated differently because of the colour of their skin or because
of where they come from)
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Main: Read “Mixed” stop at points in the story to discuss following
questions and predict what comes next:
- The first time a
Red shouts, “Reds are the best!” how do the other colours react? (Look at
their faces)
- Look at the faces
of the different colours when they divide the town; why are they looking so
sad?
- “Life felt so vibrant!” what does this mean?
- Why were the
other colours unhappy about Blue and Yellow being friends?
- Why was Blue and
Yellow’s child the colour green?
- Why did the town
tear down the walls?
- What did the
colours learn at the end of the story?
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Role play/ Art activity: When Red first shouts “Reds
are best!”, compare the responses of the Blues and Yellows. Does either
response change the situation? Why not? Role play with two volunteers the Red
shout and the Yellow response; why doesn’t the yellow response change the
situation? (the Yellow response is no better than the Red behaviour). With
two different volunteers role play the Blue response; why doesn’t the Blue
response change the situation? (ignoring the situation has no effect) Why
does no one tell Red they disagree? When no one puts another point a view
across, what happens to the town? How can we stop the colours putting up
walls? What could Blues and Yellows do at this point in the story to stop the
walls going up? (they could work together and persuade the reds to change
their mind).
We need to show the Reds that we can work together. Put the class in
to groups of three and give each person a colour to work with (red, blue,
green). Each group to create a poster to show the three colours work together
successfully/ They can use words and images, but the aim is to show the three
colours united.
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Plenary: What is the word
that describes Red’s behaviour? Red is being racist because he is judging a
group of people by their skin colour. Red thinks he can only be with people
who are the same colour. What does Red learn at the end of the story?
If you hear someone behaving like Red, what can you do? If you don’t
feel able to speak up at the time, who can you tell? Remember, not everyone
understands about or agrees with No Outsiders, but anyone can change their mind.
If you hear someone saying something like, “Reds are best,” what can you say?
You need to tell them about No Outsiders. Tell them about our school / town and
how we’re all different – different skin, different religion, different
families, but we all get on and it works!
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Afl questions: What is racism? What is discrimination? Why is
this story about No Outsiders?
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No Outsiders in our school: Teaching the equality act in primary schools by Andrew Moffat
Reclaiming radical ideas in schools: Preparing young children for life in modern Britain by Andrew Moffat
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