KENSINGTON GARDENS - Peter Pan

Exercise 2: Key stage 3 + 4Ask the group to suggest some types of change that can be considered positive or negative and put them onthe board. e.g. political change, climate change, a change in financial circumstances, in family relationships,marriage, death...Divide that class into two equal groups. The class are going to create a political rally presenting arguments forand against CHANGE, one half being FOR and the other AGAINST. Working in small groups of 4 within their halfof the class, ask the students to come up with 1 slogan to encapsulate their side of the argument using theideas on the board as an inspiration. They then need to come up with 4 ideas to back it up.The rallyAsk for one spokesperson from each of the mini-groups. Ask those who are speaking FOR change to standon one side of the room and those against on the other. In turn they should read out their slogan and thefollowing ideas they have written down. The rest of the group should act as a crowd at a political rally, cheeringin support of their speaker.Exercise 3: Key Stage 4Develop the previous exercise into a full-blown debate. Open the floor to questions from the opposing groups.The speaker’s will have to think on their feet to justify their statements.LOSS AND ABANDONMENTWe are continually confronted in the newspapers and on the television with heart-breaking stories about theabduction or disappearance of children.How must those left behind feel? Do they feel responsible? In this story we are confronted with the terrible painthat the Darlings feel at the loss of their children and the contrasting ways in which they deal with that grief.Although we must remember that, although Peter influenced them, the children went of their own accord. TheDarling children actually abandon their parents. In contrast we also witness the anxiety of loss from a child’sperspective through the eyes of Peter and the Lost Boys.Tootles: Back off Curly, I just think she may be like my mother.Slightly: How do you know, you don’t remember anything about your mother?Tootles: I can imagine, can’t I?Nibs: I remember my mother’s voice.Curly: What was it like?Nibs: “Cheque book”.Slightly: What’s that?Nibs: “Oh Nibsy, I wish I had a cheque book all of my own!”Tootles: Cheque book?Nibs: I don’t know what it is but I’d love to bring her one, one day.Slightly: The only thing my mother wanted was me.29