Cats Protection Is the UK's Largest Cat Welfare Charity. We Find Loving
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Cats Protection is the UK’s largest cat welfare charity. We find loving homes for over 52,000 cats and kittens every year through our nationwide network of adoption centres and volunteer-led branches. Additionally, we offer financial Our core aims are: • To find good homes for cats in need support with neutering cats and • To support and encourage the neutering advise the public on the correct care of cats of cats and kittens. • To improve people’s understanding of cats and their care We produce a range of school education resources which cover Our vision is a world where every cat is treated with kindness and an understanding core elements of the curriculum, of its needs. while also helping pupils learn about responsible pet ownership. For further details about our education programme, visit www.cats.org.uk/learn © Cats Protection Contents 1. Aims of the pack 2. Curriculum links 3. Activities 4. Further information © Cats Protection Aims of the pack 3 This pack aims to provide exciting resources and All the pack’s resources are available digitally, so there Why neuter your cat?: A numeracy/Maths investigation activities that will help to deliver many skills and is the opportunity for interactive whiteboard users to into what happens if cats are allowed to breed curriculum aims, as well as promoting responsible pet adapt this material for use. By using the image capture unchecked. ownership by focussing on the rights and needs of tool or camera in the board’s software, there is the Who’s living with your cat?: An awareness raising animals in our care. opportunity to present a lot of the ideas interactively exercise on parasites, how they affect cats and how to The activities have been designed to help pupils to on the board as well as using the images provided for prevent them and treat your cats. develop, refine and progress their ideas, and use a maximum impact. Cats and genetics: Genetics exercises based on the range of teaching and learning strategies to deliver Where possible, the use of ICT is encouraged for inheritance of traits in cats. important elements of the curriculum (English, Maths presentations, research and to generally enhance Selective breeding: Exercise about selective breeding and Science), whilst also developing the knowledge learning. using examples of cats. and understanding that underpins responsible cat Parachuting cats: An exercise to look at human ownership (PSHEE and Citizenship). Summary of contents intervention in food chains and its effect. Caring for your cat: An exercise in writing to inform Inside you will find activities that explore text and and explain. word level themes in poetry, classic fiction, cartoons, Young people’s rights and the rights of pets: A Planning a campaign: Summary activity to produce plays, historical facts, factual information and comparison of young people’s rights with those of a promotional literature – an exercise in persuasive writing. advertising. pet, leading to exploring responsibilities of pet ownership. Further information: A list of useful websites and links. Pupils can practise their discussion skills as well as Dilemmas: What would you do if…? exercise to explore creating their own fiction, scripts, factual texts, responsibilities and discover the help available from persuasive writing and advertising campaign, using a animal organisations. range of media. Cats in history: A literacy exercise which outlines how cats There are also activities that can be used in Science have been perceived throughout the ages. and Maths, or to introduce numeracy and literacy into Cats in the media: Using examples from the media, an PSHEE and Citizenship activities. exploration into how cats are perceived and portrayed. Detailed teachers’ notes are included, as well as links into Cats in poetry: An exercise in looking at how poets use the curricula for England and Wales, Scotland and words and techniques to portray cats in verse. Northern Ireland, so you know exactly where each activity The cost of caring for a cat: A numeracy/Maths can fit into your scheme of work for 11 – 16 year olds. investigation into the costs involved in owning a cat. www.cats.org.uk Curriculum links – England and Wales 4 The links below highlight the main elements of where Dilemmas Cats in the media the activities in this pack can be linked into the National English: English: Curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4. They are not Speaking and listening Speaking and listening exhaustive and your own use of the materials will • Prepared, formal presentations and debates • Informal group or pair discussions dictate exactly how they cover specific curriculum • Informal group or pair discussions Writing elements. Links to the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence • Individual and group improvisation and performance • Stories, play scripts, screenplays, advertisements and the Northern Ireland curriculum follow on. • Explaining, justifying, persuading, hypothesising; and Using ICT: Pupils can use a computer to create a exploring, shaping and expressing ideas, feelings and ‘professional-looking’ script; compile excerpts from Using ICT opinions programmes using an AV editing program (please be Several opportunities arise for using ICT to enhance Citizenship aware of copyright restrictions when using recorded learning, and are noted below in each section of the • Human rights, and responsibilities of citizens material); an illustration program to create a cat strip notes for the National Curriculum. These ideas are also PSHEE cartoon; DVD equipment to create a mini cat directly applicable in Scotland. • Examples of diverse values encountered in society advertisement. and the clarification of personal values Young people’s rights and the rights of pets • Reflect critically on their own and others’ values Cats in poetry English: Using ICT: Pupils can use design and publishing English: Speaking and listening programs to present each dilemma in an evocative Creativity • Informal group or pair discussions form and to compile their responses as a wall display. • Making fresh connections between ideas, • Explaining, justifying, persuading, hypothesising; and experiences, texts and words, drawing on a rich exploring, shaping and expressing ideas, feelings and Cats in history experience of language and literature opinions English: Critical understanding Citizenship Reading • Analysing and evaluating spoken and written • Human rights, and responsibilities of citizens • Allowing pupils to explore their present situation or language to appreciate how meaning is shaped PSHEE move beyond it to experience different times, Using ICT: Pupils can use a publishing program to write • Examples of diverse values encountered in society cultures, viewpoints and situations their class poem and present it as a school display. and the clarification of personal values Writing Using ICT: Pupils can use the internet to research the • Analyse and evaluate subject matter, supporting UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and a word views and opinions with evidence processing program to create an ‘official’ charter of Using ICT: Pupils can use: a desktop publishing their own. program to produce a poster; a presentation program to create a slide show of how attitudes to cats have changed over time. www.cats.org.uk Curriculum links – England and Wales continued 5 The cost of caring for a cat Selective breeding Planning a campaign Mathematics: Science: English: Competence Organisms, behaviour and health Speaking and listening • Applying suitable mathematics accurately within the • All living things show variation, can be classified and • Informal group or pair discussions classroom and beyond are interdependent, interacting with each other and Reading • Communicating mathematics effectively their environment • Using language imaginatively to create new Critical understanding meanings and effects • Model, interpret or represent situations Parachuting cats Writing Science: • Analyse and evaluate subject matter, supporting Why neuter your cat? Organisms, behaviour and health views and opinions with evidence Mathematics: • All living things show variation, can be classified and • Present ideas and views logically and persuasively Competence are interdependent, interacting with each other and • Information leaflets, advertisements, editorials, • Applying suitable mathematics accurately within the their environment articles and letters conveying opinions, campaign classroom and beyond • Behaviour is influenced by internal and external literature • Communicating mathematics effectively factors and can be investigated and measured Citizenship Critical understanding English: • Freedom of speech and diversity of views, and the • Model, interpret or represent situations Reading role of the media in informing and influencing public • Extract and interpret information and ideas from opinion... Who’s living with your cat? texts • Actions that individuals, groups and organisations Science: Writing can take to influence decisions affecting communities Organisms, behaviour and health • Explain or describe information and ideas relevantly and the environment • All living things show variation, can be classified and and clearly • Justify their argument, giving reasons to try to are interdependent, interacting with each other and persuade others to think again, change or support their environment Caring for your cat them • Behaviour is influenced by internal and external English: Art and Design factors and can be investigated and measured Writing • Exploration of media,