Egg by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet

EYFS/ Y1 No Outsiders lesson plan

Text: Egg by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet

Learning Intention: to accept difference

Success Criteria: I know some people look different, I know it’s ok to be different, I can be friends with different people

Starter: Look at the cover; what do you see? What do you notice about the shape of the book? Why do you think this book is a different shape to other books?

Main: Read “Egg”, What is different about the new egg in the story? Look at the picture where the eggs have the flip chart – what are they saying to the new egg? What is their solution? Why doesn’t it work? What does new egg do to teach the other eggs about being different? Look at the picture where they all hold hands, what have they learned? A new egg comes along at the end, what do you think will be the response from the eggs now? Why?

Role play: sit children in a circle and show the children two eggs. Place the eggs in egg cups in the middle of the circle, the same way up. Ask children what was different about the eggs in the story and then turn one of the eggs upside down. Draw eyes and a mouth on the eggs and say one of the eggs has just whispered something to you; “this egg says the other egg is the wrong way up!” hold a conversation with the first egg about the other looking wrong, not fitting in, not being a proper egg. Ask the children what to do; what can we say to ether egg to solve this situation (we want children to support the other egg in being different and tell the first this is ok). Then bring a third egg into the conversation who sits on their side; ask the children to welcome the third egg.

Activity: Ask children to draw/ decorate the three eggs showing they are different. Children could write a sentence saying it’s ok to be different.

Plenary: Go back to the picture at the end of the story where all the eggs are holding hands. When you first look at the eggs, they do look the same, but look closely; are there differences? Look at the way they are standing, feet, arms up and down, eyes level and eyes not level, mouths open, mouths closed; the eggs are all different, but they are all smiling and all together just like us in our class. No one is an outsider!