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Session Focus

Children will work together to create and travel through ‘web’ structures.

PIONEER SCHEME SECTION OBJECTIVES

LEVEL 4

WELLBEING & EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

• Shows development of character by growing a positive mindset in outdoor sessions.

SELF MANAGEMENT OF RISK

• Takes a controlled risk whilst ensuring rules are followed.

• Listens to & follows rules for practical outdoor tasks.

CREATIVITY & IMAGINATION

• Initiate their own creations, choosing their natural materials according to their properties.

RESILIENCE & PROBLEM SOLVING

• Perseveres when something doesn’t work first time.

• Bounces back after failure.

PHYSICAL & PRACTICAL OUTDOOR SKILLS

• Can climb, balance, swing and hold their own weight. with increasing confidence.

• Can attempt to hang upside down.• Can attempt to climb a low ladder.• Adapt their techniques for different terrains.

• Dresses appropriately.

KNOT SKILLS • Overhand knot• Cow’s tail knot• Quick release tension knot• Half hitch

• Can start to talk about their strengths.

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ResourcesHairy Scary Spider Ebook; String or cordKey Vocabularyteamwork, communicate, problem solve.PreparationCreate web-structures with rope/ string in your outdoor area for children to travel through.Risk Assessments: Generic Site; String & Rope RA.

SESSION REFLECTIONS

Curriculum Links

Science: Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other.PE: Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance; Take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team; Compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.PSHEE: Be aware of safety issues; Develop self-confidence and self-esteem; Recognise the different risks in different situations and then decide how to behave responsibly; Know that their actions affect themselves and others, to care about other people's feelings and to try to see things from their points of view; Resolve differences by looking at alternatives, making decisions and explaining choices; Face new challenges positively.

Text Focus•Discuss the front cover & title of Hairy Scary Spider- what do they think is going to happen?

• Read the story together.• Recognise the rhyming words, repetition and any

alliteration (creature names) together.• Discuss how Hairy Scary must have felt throughout

different parts of the story and how he used his body features to help the other creatures despite them not wanting to play with him.

• Why do they think the other creatures didn’t want to play with Hairy Scary? (Sometimes things can look scary at first, but they’re actually not at all once you try.)

• What do they think are the morals of the story?• Can they think of another name for Hairy Scary?• Recap on how Hairy Scary weaved his web to try to

encourage Slithery Snail to play. Why do they think Slithery Snail slithered off? Discuss why spiders weave webs? (To catch their prey.)

Outdoor Session Tasks• Children to work in teams to manoeuvre through the

pre-built webs. (See web challenges, over the page.)• Children then to build their own web in a team, for

their own and other teams to manoeuvre through.Differentiation: Mixed ability teams.HA/ LA- Choose more/ less challenging segments to travel throughExtension: How many different ways can they travel/ manoeuvre in their outdoor area, e.g. climbing, swinging, crawling, rolling, balancing, etc

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HAIRY SCARY SPIDER - Web Challenges

Aims

• Show the children your ‘Spider’s webs’ which you have pre-constructed in your outdoor area and explain that the children should work together and help each other to travel through them without touching the web (rope). Depending on your group size, you could make a few webs so they can work in smaller groups and alternate, or just one for the whole group.

Different Challenges

• Travel through the web in any way possible (climbing/ swinging etc)• Travel through the web without touching the rope.• Travel through one segment and back through a different segment.• Each member of the group has got to travel through a different section of the web.

(Holes smaller or higher up may require teamwork to fit through.)

Extension Challenges

• Explain that the children have now got to create their own web using string/ cord between two trees. (Again, depending on your group size, they could split into smaller groups to make a few webs, or just make as a whole group.) They will have to communicate and work together to weave and tie knots to create a web with shapes and spaces to travel through, which both challenges their group, but is also achievable. (Adult support with teaching Level 4 knots such as overhand knot, cow’s tail, half hitch & quick release tension knot advised.)

• Each group could then try to travel through another group’s web without getting stuck!

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