Our Academy for Witches and Wizards

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Thematic Unit (PMLD)
Our Academy
for Witches and
Wizards
OVERVIEW
This unit suggests a range of activities centred on an
imaginary school for witchcraft, wizardry, magic potions
and spells.
The title of this unit and the teaching and learning
experiences suggested are delivered through the
concept of your own class, department or the whole
school becoming, for the duration of the theme, Our
Academy for Wizards and Witches.
The unit is focused mainly on Key Stage 3. It provides
teaching resources, ideas, lesson plans and activities
that you can adapt and modify to enhance the sensory
curriculum for learners with PMLD.
Please note: before beginning an activity, check that all the resources
are suitable for your individual learners. For example, some essential
oils may not be appropriate for young children and others may have
contraindications for learners with complex medical needs,
life-threatening conditions and/or epilepsy. It is advisable to consult
a trained therapist before using essential oils.
Contents
Learning Activity 1
Sorcerer Sense
Waking up and stimulating the senses.............................................. 2
Learning Activity 2
Welcome to Our Academy
An interactive Whiteboard story......................................................... 4
Learning Activity 3
A Witch’s Story
A patting story..................................................................................... 6
Learning Activity 4
Hat or Hand Tricks
An art lesson........................................................................................ 8
Learning Activity 5
Potions and Lotions
A mathematics lesson about pattern and sequences..................... 10
Learning Activity 6
A Witch’s Brew
An interactive drama story................................................................. 12
Learning Activity 7
Bubble Trouble
A science lesson about making bubbles.......................................... 14
Learning Activity 8
Levitation Balloons
Encouraging body movements by keeping balloons in the air....... 16
Learning Activity 9
Magician Graduation
Reflecting on past learning activities and awarding learners
with graduation certificates............................................................... 18
Resources....................................................................................... 20
Acknowledgements................................................................... 26
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Learning Activity 1
Sorcerer Sense
Setting the Scene
What to Do
Sorcerer Sense is a lesson that you could deliver each
morning to help stimulate the senses and encourage your
learners to be more alert and engaged throughout the
day’s planned activities.
Position your learners comfortably and dim the classroom
lights. Begin playing the themed music in the background
and display one slide at a time from the Resource 1:
Waking the Senses. Each slide has an image that
focuses on one sense: sight, sound, smell, touch or taste.
Encourage your learners to participate in the following
activities and photograph or record their reactions.
The lesson incorporates Resource 1: Waking the Senses.
This presentation takes each learner through a range of
stimuli to awaken the five senses. Use magical textures,
tastes, sounds, smells and visual aids as prompts and
cues. Play magic-themed music in the background
throughout the Whiteboard presentation.
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Areas of Learning
Post-Primary
Environment and Society
Mathematics
Further Suggestions
Change the stimuli
Sight
Darken the room and use a glitter mirror ball to stimulate
the eyes.
Sound
Use a recording of an owl hooting or an owl musical
whistle.
Touch
Add jelly sweets, such as worms, to the jelly to allow your
learners to progress to exploring and experiencing more
textures.
Taste
Make your own slimy lime jelly with the learners or
experiment with colours and flavours to smell, feel or taste.
Smell
What You Need
Resource 1:
Waking the Senses
(Whiteboard Slides)
• Plasma screen or interactive
whiteboard
• Magic-themed music
• Glow sticks
• Chimes
• Fresh aromatic herbs such
as mint or a scented cream
• Jelly
• Popping candy or powder
• Camera or device to take
photographs and/or videos
Invite your learners to smell witch-hazel gel or cream.
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Learning Activity 2
Welcome to Our
Academy
Setting the Scene
What to Do
This learning activity has been designed as a sensory story.
It aims to encourage learners to interact with and respond
to sounds and visual stimulation using Resource 2: Our
Academy for Witches and Wizards, which contains simple
tracking and cause and effect activities.
Display the slides from Resource 2: Our Academy for
Witches and Wizards. Learners can activate these slides
themselves. Photograph or film their reactions.
Further Suggestions
Make a magic wand
Learners could create magic wands in an art lesson by
wrapping dowelling rods, drumsticks or old paintbrushes
in coloured paper and sticky tape.
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Areas of Learning
Post-Primary
English
Science and Technology
What You Need
Resource 2:
Our Academy
for Witches and
Wizards
(Whiteboard Slides)
• Whiteboard or interactive
touch screen
• Magic wand (a stylus
decorated silver and black)
to touch the screen with
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Learning Activity 3
A Witch’s Story
Setting the Scene
What to Do
Reinforce the topic by decorating your room with images
of witches on your display boards or floating from the
ceiling, using electric fans to make them move. Create a
storytelling area decorated with witch-themed items such
as broomsticks, cauldrons and pumpkin fairy lights.
The storyteller should dress as a witch. To prepare for the
activity, position your learners in the storytelling area with
their shoes and socks off and their trousers and sleeves
rolled up. Over time, introduce them to a range of stories
and poems about witches. Use the activities outlined in
Resource 3: A Witch’s Story to enhance each learners
experience..
Search online for images of witches.
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Areas of Learning
Post-Primary
English
Further Suggestions
More witch stories
You could use these stories as alternatives to read to your
learners:
The Twitchy Witch
Visit www.shortstories.net and search under the witch
stories category.
What You Need
Resource 3:
A Witch’s Story
• Witch wig and hat
• Broomstick
• Black cloak
The Witch who was Frightened of Halloween
Visit www.storynory.com and search for The Witch who
was Frightened of Halloween.
Read an extract from The Witches by Roald Dahl.
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Learning Activity 4
Hat or Hand Tricks
Setting the Scene
In this activity, your learners will engage with and have time
to explore materials to make wizards’ and witches’ hats
and hands that will glow under ultraviolet light.
Once created, you could use the hats throughout the rest
of the unit. For example, each time the learners engage
in an activity using the whiteboard or touch screen, they
could wear the hats. This will help to connect learning and
maintain continuity throughout the theme.
What to Do
For Witches’ and Wizards’ hats
Using stiff paper or card, create a tall cone shaped wizard’s
or witch’s hat with a wide brim for each learner. Encourage
your learners to indicate the colour of card they prefer
and to choose which materials they would like to use for
decoration.
Create a magical feel by using an area or room with
ultraviolet light and mirrors for the learners to see
themselves.
Witches’ and Wizards’ hands
Prepare your learners for the activity by introducing them to
a plastic witch’s hand and encouraging them to explore it
and compare it with their own hands.
Offer your learners a choice of different paint colours.
Encourage the learner to choose which hand they would
prefer to have painted. Paint the learner’s hand in their
chosen colour using different textures such as thin brushes,
large decorating brushes, sponges or kitchen scourers.
Support the learners to make a handprint, where possible
encouraging them to make their print independently.
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Create the fingernails using various materials such as
silver card, brightly coloured paper, pieces of sandpaper
or strips of coloured plastic bags. Don’t forget to curl the
nails around a pencil for a 3D effect. Use glue to attach the
fingernails onto the hands.
Search online to find alternative wizard or witch themed art
and craft activities.
Further Suggestions
Pictures
Take photos and videos of your learners to project onto a
screen so that they can see themselves as wizards and
witches. You could use image manipulation software to
distort these images to create a more magical feel.
Areas of Learning
Post-Primary
The Arts (Art and Design)
Mathematics
What You Need
• Glue
• Scissors
For witches’ and wizards’ hats:
• Large sheets of coloured
cardboard
• Wizard hat template or
instructions available from
www.firstpalette.com
(search for wizard hat)
• Materials that glow in
ultraviolet light, for example
flourescent card, paint or
material, white material
• Sticky tape or stapler
• Mirrors
• Ultraviolet light
For witches’ and wizards’
hands:
• Plastic witch’s hand
• Poster paint
• A4 paper to make
handprints on
• Aromatherapy oils to match
each of the paint colours for
example lemon for yellow or
mint for green
• Shiny paper, brightly
coloured card, sandpaper,
plastic bags cut into pointy
nail shapes
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Learning Activity 5
Potions and Lotions
Setting the Scene
Movement sequence:
This learning activity uses a multi-sensory hand massage
involving textures and smells to enhance the experience.
The primary mathematical focus in this lesson is sequence
and pattern, although you could easily adapt this. For
example if shapes are the focus, you could conduct the
massage using circular motions and circular shaped
resources.
• While maintaining contact with the learner’s hand,
repeat the above movements using a feather.
Points to Note
For most learners, lavender and tea tree essential oils
are considered safe and suitable for use. However, for
learners with complex medical conditions, including
epilepsy, respiratory complications, high blood pressure
or other conditions, there may be contraindications.
Therefore, always seek advice from parents and a qualified
aromatherapist or use scented creams.
What to Do
Create a calming environment in the classroom with
dimmed lights. Encourage your learners to wear their hats
from the previous learning activity. Use a slowly rotating
coloured light or mirror ball to create a magical ambience.
Play mystical themed classical music in the background.
The sequence of your movements should be in time with
the rhythm of the music.
Begin massaging one hand at a time. Members of staff
should carry this out with each learner on a one-to-one
basis. Massage each hand using the same hand actions,
sensory experiences and techniques. Wrap heated towels
around the learner’s hands after the massage or if a
learner has to wait, wrap their hands before the massage
to ensure they are included in the lesson.
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• Use a wet wipe and gently rub up and down from the
palm of the hand to just above the wrist. Repeat this for
the top of the hand.
• Again, keep contact with the learner’s hand and drop
half a teaspoonful of the oil mix or a basic scented hand
cream onto the palm. Repeat the movements above.
Then, with the palm facing up, start to massage the
palm using your thumbs simultaneously. Gently start
to massage each individual finger and thumb. Turn the
hand with palm facing down and repeat the above
sequence.
• Retain contact with the learner’s hand and sprinkle on
some talcum powder. Gently rub up and down on the
top of the palm to just above the wrist and repeat for
the back of the hand.
• Finish by wrapping the learner’s hand in a heated towel.
• Repeat the process for the other hand.
• Take photographs or film your learners as they
experience the massage.
Areas of Learning
Post-Primary
Mathematics
What You Need
• Rotating coloured light or
mirror ball
• Wizard or witch hats (from
previous learning activity)
• Wet wipes
• Feather
• Essential oil such as tea tree
or lavender (this must be
mixed with a base oil by a
trained therapist)
• Scented hand cream
• Talcum powder
• Heated towels or heat packs
• Shallow tray or table to rest
your learners hands on
• Suitable background music,
for example the theme from
a Harry Potter film
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Learning Activity 6
A Witch’s Brew
Setting the Scene
Create a witch’s cauldron from black card, a flowerpot or
a large saucepan. Depending on the size of the cauldron,
fill it with green jelly, orange or green shredded paper or
alternative creative resources.
What to Do
Darken the classroom. Add the jelly or shredded paper to
the cauldron and stir, using a long wooden spoon. Create a
spooky atmosphere by reciting some witch poems or spells
such as:
‘Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble’
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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You can find alternative suitable poems online. For
example, visit www.fizzyfunnyfuzzy.com and search for
Witches Stew in the Halloween Howlers section of poetry
themes.
Encourage your learners to wear aprons. Position them
around the cauldron and support them to touch, squeeze
and explore the resources in the cauldron. If you have used
cold jelly, if appropriate, encourage your learners to taste it.
Begin to create a potion by adding appropriate ingredients
one by one, for example chocolate mice or jelly sweets
shaped like spiders, snakes or frogs. Describe each
ingredient as you drop it into the cauldron, to involve your
learners in the process.
Areas of Learning
Post-Primary
English
Mathematics
The Arts (Drama)
Resource 4:
A Witch’s Song
You can find ideas for rhymes to support making the potion
at www.kidsonthenet.org.uk by searching for Spellbook in
the Creative Writing section.
Support your learners to explore the potion. Help them to
find the hidden creatures and lift them out of the cauldron
one by one to feel, smell or taste, if appropriate.
Use Resource 4: A Witch’s Song to engage your learners
in a sensory activity.
Further Suggestions
More songs and rhymes
You can find alternative literacy or drama activities at
www.petewells.co.uk
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Aprons
Green jelly
Shredded paper
Jelly sweets
White chocolate mice
Wig
Mushy peas
Modelling clay
Water spray
Deodorant
Sound of a scissor
snip recorded onto a
communication device
• Brush
• Damp sock
• Fizzy drink or juice
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Learning Activity 7
Bubble Trouble
Setting the Scene
What to Do
This is a science-based lesson that aims to introduce
learners to new textures and smells. By combining the
ingredients listed opposite, learners will create a chemical
reaction to make their own kind of magic.
Continuing the theme, learners could wear their wizard
or witch hats in this lesson and use their wands to stir the
mixtures.
Points to Note
As with all chemical reactions, ensure your learners are
safe. Learners should wear plastic goggles. If tolerated, this
will be a new sensory experience in itself.
Lay all the above ingredients on the teaching table. Give
your learners an opportunity to explore each ingredient
either independently or with support.
Take all opportunities to involve your learners in making
choices such as which food colouring they prefer.
When all your learners have explored the ingredients,
begin the experiment:
• Place an empty bottle in the middle of a saucepan.
• Pour or spoon baking soda into the bottle until it covers
the bottom.
• In a cup or mug, combine ¼ cup of vinegar, two big
drops of washing up liquid and a few drops of food
colouring.
• Using the funnel, pour this mixture into the bottle.
• Stand back and watch as your bubbles erupt!
• Take photographs or film your learners’ reactions.
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Areas of Learning
Post-Primary
Mathematics
Further Suggestions
What You Need
Fun experiments
• Clear bottle with a slim neck
(like a large juice bottle)
• Vinegar
• Baking soda
• Washing up liquid
• Food colouring (selection of
colours)
• Saucepan
• Glass or mug
• Cup measure
• Funnel
• Spoon
Try another experiment. There are plenty of simple
experiments to do in the classroom using everyday
substances. Visit www.sciencebuddies.org and search
for Chemistry in the Physical Science section of the Project
Ideas tab.
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Learning Activity 8
Levitation Balloons
Setting the Scene
What to Do
You should take this lesson in the school hall or a large
room where there is plenty of space. The lesson aims to
encourage learners’ independent movement and allows
them to try key physical education skills such as multidirectional movement, speed and playing as a team.
This physical activity ties into the Academy for Wizards
and Witches theme by keeping balloons afloat in the air
‘magically’.
The buoyancy and weight of balloons make them a great
resource to use with PMLD learners, as little movement is
required to make the balloons move. This also makes them
safer to use with those with limited physical ability.
Present each learner with a balloon to explore. They
may try to push the balloons off their laps. Support each
learner hand-over-hand to try to hit the balloon into the
air. Staff could gently hit the balloon towards the learner to
encourage the learner to reach out or try to hit it back.
PVC pipes are the best way to make electricity. Plumbers
usually have spare pieces of this or you can buy it from a
DIY store. Charge the PVC pipe by rubbing it back and forth
through your hair or the learner’s hair for 10 seconds. Hold
the balloon above the charged pipe and let it drop and
touch the pipe. The pipe should repel the balloon, making
it float. You will usually have to ‘recharge’ the pipe before
each levitation.
Once they have mastered levitating balloons, try moving
your learners as they try to keep the balloons afloat.
Use a camera, tablet or video recorder to capture the
learners’ participation.
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Areas of Learning
Post-Primary
Physical Education
Further Suggestions
What You Need
More magic
• Inflated balloons
• Wands or pieces of PVC pipe
preferably 1 inch wide and
24 inches long
Try levitating an orb made from Mylar tinsel, which is
available from fishing tackle shops or online. You can find
instructions for this experiment at www.sciencebob.com by
searching for The Amazing Levitating Orb in the Experiments
section.
Instead of using the PVC pipes, play parachute games
with balloons. For example, try to keep the balloons on the
parachute or see how high they can float.
Have a game of Academy for Wizards and Witches
balloon-ball, by using pipes or wands to try to pass the
balloon from learner to learner without letting it fall.
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Learning Activity 9
Magician Graduation
Lesson Overview
Further Suggestions
This activity should take place after the learners have
completed all the activities in the unit. It aims to revisit the
learning experiences covered and uses prompts and visual
cues to remind them what they have participated in and
achieved.
Scrapbook souvenir
What to Do
Ensure your learners are wearing their wizard or witch hats.
Together, view the photographs and videos taken from the
past week of activities on a large screen.
Slowly present each picture, describing the events as they
unfold. Pause the pictures, as and when appropriate,
to allow your learners to connect with the resource that
you have chosen to correspond with certain activities. For
example, pause on a picture taken during the massage
and let each learner smell the oil or cream that you used in
the massage.
Play the theme music from a Harry Potter film and
present your learners with the certificates from
Resource 5: Graduation Certificates.
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Create a scrapbook of photos and textures used in the
activities. You could give these to your learners to bring
home, communicating to parents the achievements of the
wizards and witches in our academy.
Areas of Learning
Post-Primary
English
What You Need
Resource 5:
Graduation
Certificates
• Whiteboard or plasma
screen
• Photos or videos from the
activities downloaded and
ready to be viewed on a
large screen
• Prompts and cues that
represent the activities
covered, for example oil or
cream used in massage, a
paintbrush used in art or a
balloon used in PE
• Celebratory background
music
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Resource 1: Waking the Senses (Whiteboard Slides)
Available from the SEN and Inclusion PMLD Sensory curriculum at www.nicurriculum.org.uk
Slide 1: Introduction
Introductory slide with (school name) Academy for Witches and Wizards
Slide 2: Sight
Use glow sticks for the learners to track. You may need to adapt this lesson for
visually impaired learners.
Slide 3: Sound
Stop the background music and play chimes to make a magical sound.
Slide 4: Smell
Restart the background music. Encourage your learners to smell the fresh herbs or a
scented cream.
Slide 5: Touch
Guide your learners to explore the jelly. Gelibaf is an alternative that you can find in
most resource catalogues.
Slide 6: Taste
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Where appropriate, let your learners taste the popping candy or powder.
Resource 2: Our Academy for Witches and Wizards (Whiteboard Slides) (1 of 2)
Available from the SEN and Inclusion PMLD Sensory curriculum at www.nicurriculum.org.uk
Text, as listed below, to be spoken by the teacher.
Slide 1: Title page
Text:
Welcome to Our Academy for Witches and Wizards
Slide 2 : Images of witches and wizards
Text:
Deep in a forest, where no one can see
Lies a magical place called our academy!
Look very closely for a pair of eyes,
Follow the trail and there the academy lies
Slide 3: Blinking eyes appear
Action: Support the learners to touch the screen to find the blinking eyes.
Slide 4: Wizard and witch appear and disappear
Text: Can you see the magic trail?
I promise you it is real
Use your wand, one, two, three,
The magic trail you will see
Slide 5: Pictures of feet forming a magic trail
Action: Support your learners to touch the screen where feet will appear to form a magic trail.
Slide 6: Wizard and witch follow trail
Text: Well done! you found it, now follow me
We’re nearly there, in time for tea
Wave your wand and tap once more
The Academy for Witches and Wizards will appear,
Then enter through the door
Slide 7: Image of a school with a sign saying ‘Our Academy’
Slide 8: Moving door and sound
Action: Learner touches the screen to hear a magical door sound.
Text: Now I’ll show you a magical art
Spinning hats is where we’ll start
A tap of the wand and one, two, three,
The hat will spin, you will see!
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Resource 2: Our Academy for Witches and Wizards (Whiteboard Slides) (2 of 2)
Slide 10: Wizard’s or witch’s hat
Action: Learner touches the screen and a hat appears, spins and disappears.
Text: At our academy, it is important to be,
A math’s magician as good as me!
Colours, sizes, patterns and more,
Potions, lotions and magic galore!
Slide 12: Five different coloured shapes with numbers appear, fly around the
screen and then disappear.
Action: Learners touch the screen to activate it.
Text: Maths magicians! You’re surely on your way,
To becoming the best magicians our academy has today!
Sorcery Science is what we’ll do next,
To conjure up a magical bubble mix.
Slide 14: Bubbles ascend from a cauldron
Action: Learners touch the screen to see the bubbles appear from the cauldron.
Text: Now you know the bubble trick,
Another taste of our academy’s magic.
But can you make things float in the air
And, better still, to disappear?
Slide 16: Balloons that can be inflated and burst
Action: Learners touch the screen to inflate the balloons and then burst them.
Text: 22
You are true magicians and learned so well,
To float balloons and cast some spells.
Now you are masters in wizardry
Graduates from our academy!
Resource 3: A Witch’s Story
A Witch Story
Sensory Activities
I am a mean old witch wearing a wig
Using your fingertips, tap the words all over
the learner’s head.
I ride on broom, which isn’t very big
Pat up and down both legs, in time to the
words.
I wear pointy shoes but have no toes
Strum your fingers up and down each bare
foot.
I have large pink nostrils upon my nose
Gently tap your fingers across the learner’s
nose.
I have long curly claws just like a cat
Strum your fingers down the learner’s arms
and across the hands and fingers.
And my spit is blue what do you think of that? Gently strum your fingers across the learner’s
face towards the mouth area.
My eyes can change from ice to fire
Gently strum your fingers across the learner’s
forehead, left to right and then right to left.
And I HATE children with all my desire
Pat the learner from head to toe.
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Resource 4: A Witch’s Song
Song
Sensory Activities
Wicked Webster Witch has had the notion,
Of making a brand new ugly potion!
She needs bits of slime and grease and snot,
To put into her ugly pot!
First she took some hair from (learner’s
name)’s head,
‘Hmmm, not too greasy!’ the old hag said.
Give learners a wig to feel
‘Next a bogey picked from (learner’s name)’s
nose,
Into my bubbling pot it goes!’
Give learners some mushy peas to taste
‘Next some sticky wax from (learner’s name)’s Give learners some modelling clay to feel
ear,
That’ll do nicely, thank you dear!’
‘From (learner’s name)’s mouth I need some
spit,
To spice my mixture up a bit!’
Spray the learners’ hands, arms or feet with
water
A soggy drip from under (learner’s name)’s
arm,
Will make my potion work a charm!
Give learners some deodorant to smell
Next clippings from (learner’s name)’s
fingernails,
‘My potion’s looking great!’ Webster wails!
Play the sound of a scissor snip
A botty burp from (learner’s name)’s bot,
Will help this potion smell a lot!
Blow up a balloon and let it go
A bit of (learner’s name)’s hairy knee,
Makes this potion as powerful as can be.
Give learners a brush to feel
A drop of sweat from (learner’s name)’s feet,
And my potion will be complete!
Give learners a damp sock to feel
But Webster Witch has got it wrong,
She made her potion much too strong!
Instead of making a spell that’s horribly
nauseous,
The potion makes you completely gorgeous!
Give learners a potion – a fizzy drink or juice
– to taste and then support them to look in a
mirror
Copyright: Pete Wells 2006
Contact: [email protected]
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Master of Wizardry, Sorcerer of Senses, Mathemagician
Date:
Signed:
Has graduated from
This is to certify that
Resource 5: Graduation Certificates
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Acknowledgements:
Illustrations sourced from Thinkstockphotos.co.uk
Cover: iStock Collection © alexandrayurkina and Song Speckels
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A CCEA Publication © 2014

Our Academy for Witches and Wizards

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