Inspirational Quotes: Discuss the values of perseverance and determination featured within the book and video, then have children design posters with uplifting quotes and their own artwork to motivate others.

Can you think of a time in your life when you had to persevere and keep trying to achieve something? Children learn about the features of play scripts to support teaching on ‘The Firework-Maker’s Daughter’ by Philip Pullman It is designed for Year 3 to meet the objectives of the 2014 National Curriculum. As time went on she learned more and more of her father’s art, until one day she said, ‘Am I a proper Firework-Maker now? Northern, Ireland - KS1/KS2 Language and Literacy: Extend the range of their reading and develop their own preferences. Wales - Progression Step 2/3 Languages, Literacy and Communication: Literature fires imagination and inspires creativity.

The planning is based on Lila's journey in The Firework-Maker's Daughter but most of the resources are easily adaptable to use for other diary writing units. Lila knows what she wants: she doesn’t just want to be a Firework-Maker’s Daughter; she dreams of being a Firework-Maker herself! A terrific resource to use with upper KS2 children to help them to improve their descriptive writing. Honestly, before I started reading this story, I'd never thought about who actually makes a firework.

That those explosions in the sky are actually the dreams and ideas of people like Lila, bursting into life. It was difficult to breathe, because she seemed to be taking fire into her lungs as well as the air. Our lovely teacher and design teams have solved the issue and the new version is now available to download. But luckily for Lila, she's got an expert teacher, her dad, and he shows her how to make some eye-popping fireworks, like Leaping Monkeys and Golden Sneezes.We'll be sure to upload them onto the site as soon as we can :) You can find all our current Firework Maker's Daughter resources here: https://www. I've just double checked and we are currently working on making reading plans available in the future.

But I'm not going to tell you how Lila's encounter with Razvani ends, or how she tries to save somebody's life with the most spectacular firework display. It lay down a little winding alley full of crackling smells and pungent noises, between the fried-prawn stall and the batik-painter’s.Firework Creations: Provide materials for children to create their own firework designs using art supplies like coloured paper and chalks, allowing them to showcase their creativity. It was the custom that whenever the King wanted to punish one of his courtiers, he would send him the White Elephant as a present, and the expense of looking after the animal would ruin the poor man; because the White Elephant had to sleep between silk sheets (enormous ones), and eat mango-flavoured Turkish Delight (tons of it), and have his tusks covered in gold leaf every morning.