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The little flower lives in the corner of the garden. Can she survive the dangers that she meets there?
‘…they’ve engaged with the pictures, and it’s the detail, like the roots, and you can say, well we’ve talked about growing, and roots going down and shoots going up. And it was all there for us to build on what we were teaching at the same time. We loved it as a book, it was REALLY LOVELY!’ Mrs A Jones, Reception/KS1 teacher, Picknall’s First School, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire
Feedback from Teachers
PSHE
Listen to feedback from teacher Angie and her class of children at Crich Carr C of E Primary School, Derbyshire.
‘As part of our PSHE and Emotional Education we’ve talked about the story and what it means, and the children have started to make links to ‘that could be my life and actually my teachers are helping me and people are helping me and I’m OK as I am and not a bad person.’ which has been really nice.’ Wendy Leiter, Holway Primary School, Taunton, Devon
‘It’s a lovely book, the pictures – are beautiful – but the actual text, and the message, there’s quite a lot of different themes that come out of it really. And I think it is a very powerful book because of that. We’d definitely use it again, I think it’s very useful; for the younger children it’s a simple story and you can talk about it on a basic level, but with the older ones you can explain those concepts the book is putting across in more detail, using it like an idea, something to take discussion further about how we relate to each other and how we live our lives, really.’ Jo Lovatt, Sheffield, KS2 Teacher
Flower Power Book Workshops
Mental Health Awareness Week, February 2020
Picknall's First School, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, 6th February 2020 as part of their Mental Health Awareness Week:
'A powerful workshop that engaged the children and allowed them to think about their emotions and feelings.'
'The book was delightful with beautiful illustrations that drew the children into the story.'
'The children were empowered and nurtured throughout the experience.'
'Caroline has a natural warmth and empathy that the children responded to positively.'
Feedback from A Jones, Leader EYFS, PSHE, Forest School & Family Learning; S Harris, SENCO, EYFS , Mental Health & Wellbeing First Aider
St Paul's CE (C) Primary School, Stafford, Staffordshire, 17th June 2022.
Caroline read Flower Power! to children from class 3, shared the story behind the story with them and answered lots and lots of questions! The children were particularly interested in talking about how the book was illustrated, and went on to create their own 'Decorative Calligraphy' and 'Feelings Flowers' exploring the links between emotions, feelings and colour association; an open, in depth, discussion followed as the children shared their work at the end of the session - everybody vowed to believe in themselves come what may!
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St Paul's CE (C) Primary School, Stafford, Staffordshire, 15th July 2022.
On a return visit, children shared their creative work with Caroline and each other. The children had independently written and illustrated their own picture storybooks exploring the themes of caring and resilience - the results were stunning as you can see!
 Reading my book! |  Sharing our books! |  Reading my book! |
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Flower Power Book Whole School Community Project
Flower Power Book is very grateful to the staff and pupils from All Saints C of E Primary School, Rangemore, Staffordshire and Needwood C of E Primary School, Newborough, Staffordshire, for sharing their experience using Flower Power Book resources for their two week whole school community project which took place at the beginning of the new school year, September 2021. The project culminated in an online performance to parents which included the story, songs, dances and displays of the childrens' creative work.
Flower Power Book Creative Fun!
Flower Power Book fun with soil and science!
Flower Power Book 'Stretch, smile and grow'!
Creative Collage fun with the Red Watering Can Song!
Fun with the Flower! Song!
Music, Mime and movement with the song Just Because
EYFS
'The children loved doing all sorts of craft activities, they loved the songs as well as the music and movement aspects with our colourful scarves. In early years it is easy to take different aspects of Flower Power! and just run with it for a short or a long time. I would like to use Flower Power! again in the spring and summer terms when we will be setting up our environmental area; in the spring it will also be possible to look at making Easter gardens.' Mrs A Evans, Reception class teacher.
Flower Power Book fun with art!
Flower Power Book community artwork!
Flower Power Book art and wellbeing 🙂
Flower Power Book PSHE artwork 🙂
'We could easily have done another week on it, there's a lot in the resources that we only touched the surface of.' Mrs Jodie Jones, Headteacher
'Our Year 1/Year 2 class really enjoyed it, we did lots of different activities and we linked it to RE; the children got a lot from it - they loved the illustrations, especially the last page with the lovely flower.' Eleanor McColl Year 1/Year 2 class teacher.
Flower Power Book fun with Science!
Flower Power Book fun with Science #2
PSHE
'I used the lyrics of Just Because for PSHE; we listened to the lyrics, talked about what they meant to us, what love meant to us and the affect that the lyrics had on us.' Jodie Jones, Headteacher with Class 3
Year 5 & 6: 'We talked about bullying and looked at the red watering can character. The children were immediately making links with other books so I know that Flower Power! is something that we will come back to. The children could really see and classify this evil, hard done to, nasty red watering can compared to the children in the story who were kind and caring. We talked a lot about words and the power of people's words and actions, so this for us was really, really good and in terms of being able to dig that bit deeper, we did some writing and looked at personifying the characters - the children really got in to it, they thought it was great. The children were able to make the leap from 'actually, it's a red watering can' to 'actually, it's someone who is bullied, someone who is suffering and it is someone who is pouring out their hurt onto somebody else.' It's been a great project.' Mrs Julia Wells, Year 5 & 6 class teacher.
Flower Power Book Personification creative writing
Flower Power Book personification creative writing
Flower Power Book EYFS and KS1 Literacy fun!
Flower Power Book fun with Mathematics!
'I used the questions from the end of the book to create a whole class guided reading lesson. I found the questions very useful as a jumping off point.'
Creativity
‘I absolutely love the pictures, they’re all so bright and colourful, and also they’re the sort of thing that children can look at and think possibly they could ‘have a go themselves’. Mrs Linda Hack, Headteacher, now retired, FitzHerbert C of E Primary School, Fenny Bentley, Derbyshire.
Flower Power Book Sensory Garden
 Welcome to our volunteers Jayne Taylor & Susan Maiden-Dalton |  Jayne Taylor's Flower Power! knitted garden |
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Creativity is for children and grown ups!
Our lovely volunteer Jayne was inspired to create her own knitted version of Flower Power! after seeing the book, complete with red, green and yellow watering cans. Jayne and fellow lovely volunteer Susan Maiden-Dalton are taking Jayne's knitted garden into early years classes and nursery schools to give children a sensory garden experience where they can touch, sing and dance the story.
Please get in touch here if you would like to organise a sensory garden visit.
Science
Listen to feedback from Deputy Headteacher Michelle Price at Chaucer Infant School, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.
‘They enjoyed the story and linked it to what they had been learning in Science about plants. They were intrigued by the illustrations especially the cross section showing the plant’s roots and the illustrations prompted lots of discussion. They noted how a new bird was added to each page and loved the final illustration of the flower in full bloom.’ Katy Grocott, Early Years/KS1/KS2 teacher, St Peter’s School, Marchington, Staffordshire
‘…they’ve engaged with the pictures, and it’s the detail, like the roots, and you can say, well we’ve talked about growing, and roots going down and shoots going up. And it was all there for us to build on what we were teaching at the same time. We loved it as a book, it was REALLY LOVELY!’ Mrs Angela Jones, Reception/KS1 teacher, Picknall’s First School, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire
Mathematics
'The children loved going out and using the materials they found outside. I saw lesson five too late as we had just done measuring, but I can see it fitting in really well; we do a lot of measuring things on a sheet, but to measure from real life would be really good. We have collected a lot of wild flowers, like dandelions, which the children could have measured; I can see this lesson working really well.' Mrs Anna Jones, Deputy Headteacher, Mickleover Primary School, Derby.
