Investigating Families

Good morning everyone,

I hope you all have had a good start to your week! Today I returned to work after a long time.

​It was lovely to see lots of familiar faces and other teachers and TA's.

It made me so hopeful that things WILL get better and slowly but surely, we will all be together again one day having lots of fun and learning new exciting things.

I hope my previous post was helpful to some of you- remember we are always here to listen to your worries.

So today your activity it to:

Learn more about your own family and celebrate different types of families.

This activity is inspired by Stonewall and  I found this activity on https://dreambigathome.uk/


Upload your work to Purple Mash - I would love to see it! :)


Be safe, Be kind , Be YOU!

Love 
Emily :)

​Instructions


Draw your family.
Start with the people you live with, then add other members of your extended family if you have them.  Family doesn’t have to be people you are related to by birth – who feels like family to you?

• Do you have any cousins? If so how many?
• Do you have any step family?
• Who is the oldest person in your family?
• How many generations back in your family can you find out about?

Think about some other families.

• What are the other families on your street like?
• What are your friend’s families like?
• What about families you know from books or TV?
• How many different sorts of families can you think of? For example: families with a mum and dad; two dads; one-parent families; single child families; step families; foster families; families living with grandparents, etc.

Draw a family tree for someone whose family is quite different to yours.

Take it further
Create a short video using your pictures talking about what families have in common and what makes them different to each other. What different challenges and opportunities might different families face? You could interview some of your family or friends and find out about their experiences of family.