With the help of the slow reveal of the clues in carefully arranged order, pupils build their knowledge of Amy Johnson’s significance and write their own brief caption to accompany a new set of stamps commemorating her achievement.

Learning objectives

  • Pupils are able to make inferences from visual clues and can link back a generation to the work of the Wright brothers.
  • Pupils can predict why Amy Johnson might be famous.

Starter

Pupils are shown slide 2 from the PowerPoint presentation which offers only a hint as to the reason for Amy Johnson’s fame. Many children will guess wildly. This is fine. Use slide 3 which gives four possible options to see if that helps. What matters is that they build on their growing knowledge as more clues are revealed. Now move to slide 4 which reveals a more illuminating image of her in three stages. After each stage of

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