No Pens Day Wednesday - The Communication Trust
No Pens Day Wednesday - The Communication Trust
No Pens Day Wednesday - The Communication Trust
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Teachers’ Activity Pack<br />
How to run your <strong>No</strong> <strong>Pens</strong> <strong>Day</strong> <strong>Wednesday</strong><br />
<strong>No</strong> <strong>Pens</strong> <strong>Day</strong><br />
<strong>Wednesday</strong><br />
28 September<br />
2011<br />
Three weeks before your <strong>No</strong> <strong>Pens</strong> <strong>Day</strong> <strong>Wednesday</strong>:<br />
Confirm who’ll lead on plans<br />
for the day<br />
Book in a staff meeting to<br />
inform other teachers about<br />
the <strong>No</strong> <strong>Pens</strong> <strong>Day</strong> <strong>Wednesday</strong><br />
Download the activity<br />
pack and other supporting<br />
documents at www.hello.org.<br />
uk/no-pens-day-wednesday<br />
(Primary Lesson Plans and<br />
Templates if you work in a<br />
Primary School, Secondary<br />
Lesson Plans and Templates<br />
if you work in a Secondary<br />
School)<br />
Familiarise yourself with the<br />
documents and consider<br />
whether you want to use<br />
or adapt the lesson plans<br />
provided or plan your own<br />
lessons using the ideas on the<br />
templates<br />
Decide on who’ll run the<br />
assembly for pupils<br />
Consider entering our<br />
competition for:<br />
• <strong>The</strong> best lesson<br />
• <strong>The</strong> best activity<br />
• <strong>The</strong> best way of recording<br />
learning, for example best<br />
posters, podcasts, slideshows<br />
etc.<br />
Consider whether you’ll have<br />
competitions / presentations in<br />
school for best activities, ways<br />
of recording etc<br />
Plan in your local media<br />
activity to promote what<br />
you’re doing – <strong>No</strong> <strong>Pens</strong> <strong>Day</strong><br />
<strong>Wednesday</strong> press templates<br />
are available and you can find<br />
media advice in the Hello Bring<br />
the <strong>No</strong>ise toolkit available from<br />
www.hello.org.uk/resources<br />
Decide if you want to invite<br />
press along on the day, and if<br />
so which part of the day will be<br />
best for you to accommodate<br />
press and photographers<br />
Check if you have permissions<br />
from parents for children<br />
and young people to be<br />
photographed. If not, plan<br />
this in<br />
Identify your ‘spokesperson’<br />
for <strong>No</strong> <strong>Pens</strong> <strong>Day</strong> <strong>Wednesday</strong>.<br />
This is the person who’ll be<br />
quoted in the press releases<br />
and who’d speak on the day<br />
to any media<br />
Plan in reflection after the day<br />
/ lessons learned / next steps<br />
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