Resources for Schools

Keeping Bees or Chickens at your school can provide a valuble educational resource for your staff and pupils. To help you make the most of this, Omlet provide a range of lesson plans, risk assessments and much more.

Key Stage 1

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Children take part in a simple debate and think about the simple choices they can make about what they eat. Children start to recognize what they like/dislike, what is fair/unfair and what is right and wrong.

Download: Schools_Why_I_Would_Rather_Eat_An_Egg_Citizenship.pdf (91.68KB)

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Vocabulary extension: new words from reading and shared experiences, and to make collections of personal interest or significant words and words linked to particular topics.

Download: Schools_Chicken_Words_English.pdf (119.79KB)

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Get the children to consider the journey an egg takes from the chicken to end up in a cake.

Download: Schools_An_Egg_Journey_Geography.pdf (142.25KB)

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Children work in groups to discuss caring for the chickens.

Download: Schools_Caring_For_Chickens_Science.pdf (138.81KB)

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Children investigate which everyday products contain eggs.

Download: Schools_Eggs_Are_Everywhere_Poster_Art.pdf (90.75KB)

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Children consider how chickens were kept in the past and how they are kept now. They identify difference between ways of life at different times and illustrate how they think that the hens were kept for egg production.

Download: Schools_Keeping_Chickens_Now_And_Then_History.pdf (131.20KB)

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Children record the number of eggs laid by each chicken over a week and record their results on a pictogram. They learn to work together to meet a challenge (key skills)

Download: Schools_Pictogram_Maths.pdf (150.13KB)

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To hear, identify, segment and blend phonemes in words. They learn to recognise words that rhyme. The class develops a Chicken Rhyming book.

Download: Schools_Rhyming_Chickens_English.pdf (122.79KB)

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Children consider the life cycle of chicken and eggs and sort the series of events.

Download: Schools_Where_Do_Eggs_Come_From_Science.pdf (191.23KB)

Key Stage 2

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Children compare and contrast the three different types of egg. They consider external influences such as transport and pollution as well as nutrition.

Download: Schools_3_eggs_science.pdf (144.79KB)

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Children can imagine the thoughts of a farmyard animal and present these thoughts in a particular format. They learn to inform and explain their ideas, empathy with a fictional character and express a personal point of view on environmental matters.

Download: Schools_A_day_in_the _life_of_Henrietta_english.pdf (132.52KB)

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Put forward information in a clear and attractive format using creative skills.

Download: Schools_Designing_a_leaflet_english.pdf (88.54KB)

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Children look at how the keeping of chickens has evolved over time. Learning how chickens originated in Asia. They can discuss and evaluate keeping chickens been so popular in the past? And why is chicken keeping so popular today? The children record their ideas and present them to the class.

Download: Schools_History_of_chickens_history.pdf (144.00KB)

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Children look carefully at the nutritional value of eggs. They test the eggs for freshness and look at the composition of an egg.

Download: Schools_nutrition_science.pdf (247.84KB)

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Children learn to organize information. They record the number of eggs laid by each chicken over a period of time and review their results on a pictogram. Children consider mean and modal amounts of egg production.

Download: Schools_pictogram_mean_mode_maths.pdf (146.89KB)

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Children plan and design a poster to advertise the school eggs.

Download: Schools_poster_dt.pdf (88.16KB)

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Children look at how chickens were kept in Roman times and draw their impression of a Roman chicken coop.

Download: Schools_Roman_chickens_history.pdf (136.02KB)

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Children study the changes that were made in food production and rationing during the Second World War. They investigate the ways that eggs were preserved and consider the keeping of chickens as a source of food and its importance at this time.

Download: Schools_Wartime_eggs_history.pdf (90.41KB)

Key Stage 3

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"This house believes there is still a need for battery hens". Discussing current moral issues surrounding battery hens. The children should present arguments in a structured forum of a debate using language to persuade

Download: school_battery_hen_debate_english.pdf (90.78KB)

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A study of some of the significant individuals, events and developments from across the 20th century, including the 2 world wars and the impact on Britain and the wider world

Download: Schools_a_world_study_history.pdf (90.50KB)

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Children learn to work together as a group to solve a problem using logical thinking, organizational skills. The pupils revise addition, subtraction, multiplication and percentage.

Download: Schools_answer_the_question_maths.pdf (192.14KB)

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Children solve problems in whichever way they choose. These include comparing the weight of eggs in pounds and grams.

Download: schools_egg_puzzles_maths.pdf (142.33KB)

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Children compare and contrast the area of Enriched cages proposed by the government for battery hens from 2007 to the area in the Omlet run. Children measure and draw plans to scale. Prepare some statistics for discussion.

Download: schools_enriched_cages_maths.pdf (102.56KB)

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Pupils learn about the forces and density of objects and why objects sink and float. Children look at the composition of eggs and how the air sack enlarges as the egg is exposed to the outside world. They design objects to help the buoyancy of the eggs.

Download: schools_floating_eggs_science.pdf (184.72KB)

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Understanding the elements of speaking to persuade- rhetorical questions, repetition, rule of three, shock tactics etc. The children construct and organise a speech. They can express a personal point of view on environmental matters and take responsibility for environmental decisions.

Download: schools_persuasive_speech_english.pdf (92.13KB)

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Children use copper sulphate solution and sodium hydroxide to test for protein in egg white. They learn how enzymes break down protein into amino acid and aids digestion.

Download: schools_protein_digestion_and_enzymes_science.pdf (139.55KB)

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Pupils consider the Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, quaternary industries involved in the production of a quiche sold in a supermarket. Children consider the proportion of the workforce involved in each sector.

Download: schools_quiche_geography.pdf (93.03KB)

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Children consider the reasons for concern about salmonella in eggs in the 1988 and Edwina Curry's role. They consider the effects of the media at the time and the consequences of the health minister's statement to industry and the public. Children investigate the lion mark on eggs.

Download: schools_salmonella_citizenship.pdf (104.46KB)

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