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Mr Stink in the classroom. A teacher’s and student’s resource and activity pack.

Suitable for KS2 and KS3

www.mrstinklive.comIllustrations © Quentin Blake 2009

Mr Stink Resource Pack 1

Mr Stink in the Classroom

Teacher’s introduction, Mr Stink in the classroom page 3 Mr Stink, a stinky story pages 4-5

A stinky storyboard page 6 Quentin Blake illustrations pages 7-9 Stinky characters page 10

Stinky character worksheets pages 11-13 A stinky adventure, lesson plan pages 14-16

Stinky adventure worksheets: pages 17-19

- Chloe and Mr Stink- Helping Chloe Crumb- Beat the bullies

Follow your nose, a smelly lesson plan pages 20-21

Smelly lesson worksheets: pages 22- 29

- Little book of stinks- A stinky recipe book

If you liked Mr Stink.............. Find out more page 30


Teacher’s introduction- A stinky adventure in your classroom

We are delighted to present for the first time live on stage, David Walliams’ hilarious novel for children Mr Stink illustrated by acclaimed artist Quentin Blake. The production is directed and adapted by Matthew White (Director of the recent West End production of Sweet Charity and Little Shop of Horrors and the forthcoming production of Top Hat ) with music composed by Matt Brind (Musical Director for Legally Blonde and Conductor and Orchestrator for John Barrowman’s latest album).

Chloe doesn’t like school very much. She isn’t as cool as the other kids. No iPhone, no DS and no friends. Then she meets MR STINK – the local tramp. Yes, he smells a bit but he’s the only person who’s ever been nice to her and that includes her mother –

an awful snob who wants to be the local MP and is trying to rid the streets of its homeless. About to lose her only friend, Chloe finds Mr Stink a secret hiding place…

but is there more to him than meets the nose?

Bring Mr Stink and Chloe’s fun filled adventure directly into your classroom using these interactive resources and worksheets.

Mr Stink sensitively explores many issues relevant to pupils today. These resources harness all the fun, energy and warmth of Mr Stink, enabling teachers and students to examine the themes of family relationships, bullying and homelessness. The production and its accompanying resources support students in developing their personal expression skills and finding their voice in the community just as Chloe did with the help of Mr Stink, in the story.

This imaginative production incorporates puppetry, original songs and comedy devices. Actors play multiple roles and scratch ‘n’ sniff booklets captivate audiences with a unique sensory experience. The resource and activity sheets will enable students to explore dramatic devices and develop their understanding of how such mechanisms work behind the scenes to create a musical comedy. Resources and activity sheets enable students to explore these devices and develop their understanding of the roles they play as storytelling and structural devices.

All of these activities can be delivered easily by teachers in a classroom setting and provide an interactive, fun and creative platform upon which pupils can respond imaginatively to this lively production.

Mr Stink Curriculum Links Worksheets and activities included in this pack cover various aspects of the KS2 and KS3 curriculum including citizenship, english and drama and literacy.


Mr Stink, the story

• Support pupils to recall and learn from Mr Stink and Chloe’s adventure story using storyboard resources and Quentin Blake Mr Stink illustrations.

• Encourage students to think about how the story is broken down into sections below.

• Whilst recapping the story ask pupils to consider the key moments in Chloe and Mr Stink’s journey.

Chloe Crumb is 12 years old she lives with her Mum, Dad and sister Annabelle in a small, semi-detached house in the suburbs of a large town. Chloe’s mother, the formidable Mrs Crumb is standing in the local elections and she will stop at nothing to win. Chloe’s sister Annabelle spends most of her time being perfect, whilst Chloe’s long suffering father has recently lost his job at the car factory and spends his days hiding in the cellar hoping that his wife won’t notice that he is now jobless.

Chloe is really unhappy, her mother often ignores her at home and she is lonely and friendless at her posh private school. Her only outlet is in her writing - she loves writing vampire stories. One day Chloe comes across a smelly old tramp that lives on a bench in the local park: he is known in the area as Mr Stink and he is guarding a closely kept personal secret. Chloe and Mr Stink become friends.

Meanwhile Mrs Crumb is out campaigning, telling anyone who will listen that her hard-line policies include clearing the streets of all homeless people. Chloe is worried that she’ll lose her new friend and, unbeknown to her parents, she invites him to come and live in their garden shed.

Meanwhile Mrs Crumb, an avid self-publicist, has arranged an interview with a leading journalist from the Times. To Mrs Crumb’s horror Mr Stink suddenly appears in the breakfast room during the all-important interview. She faints. Misinterpreting the situation the journalist writes a glowing review of Mrs Crumb, praising her benevolent policies and applauding her for taking homeless people in off the streets.

This leads to an appearance, with Mr Stink, on live television. Mr Stink is fast becoming a celebrity, and everyone wants to meet him, including the Prime Minister of England. Chloe and Mr Stink are invited to tea at Number 10, but Mr Stink embarrasses himself and Chloe loyally sticks up for him. On the way back Mr Stink tells her his tragic story and Chloe tells Mr Stink that she wants to leave home. When they reach home Mr Stink tells Mrs Crumb that she’s on the verge of losing her eldest daughter and that she must work much harder at being a good mother. Mortified Mrs Crumb begs Chloe to stay.

The family is reunited and they look forward to spending Christmas with Mr Stink as a guest in their home. He tells them that he cannot stay - that he’s a wanderer and that


he has to go. Chloe is sad to see him leave, but realises that in helping to bring the family back together he has given them the best Christmas present ever.

• As a class think back to the production and recall its key moments, make a note of these on the whiteboard.

• Distribute storyboard worksheets and the inspiring illustrations by Quentin Blake.

• Ask pupils to create a Mr Stink storyboard using the storyboard worksheet; pupils will need to create short sentences and accompanying illustrations that tell Mr Stink and Chloe’s story.

• Pupils should draw their scenes in a Quentin Blake style, an example has been included.

• Give pupils background information on Quentin Blake, see links at the back of the pack and discuss the importance of illustrations as a storytelling device.


Mr Stink Storyboard

1) Chloe is 12 years old, she lives at home with her mum Mrs Crumb, her dad and her sister Annabelle who is perfect in every way.

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3) 4)

5) 6)


Quentin Blake illustrations Use Quentin Blake's illustrations and the way the characters looked in Mr Stink as inspiration when creating your storyboard image. Can you copy his style of drawing, capturing the character’s expressions and personality?

Mr Raj and Chloe


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Mrs Crumb

Mr Stink and The Duchess


Stinky characters

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Think back to the production, what characters did you meet in Mr Stink and how much have you learnt about them?

Choose a character profile using the character worksheets. Fill in the bubbles like the example above and share everything you know about your character. Think about what you learn about a character from Quentin Blake's illustrations and what you learnt about the character when watching Mr Stink.


Mrs Crumb has two

daughters, Annabelle and Chloe. She adores Annabelle

and ignores Chloe.

Mrs Crumb is a huge snob.

Mrs Crumb

wants to be a politician.

She always dresses smartly and has

big hair. She uses lots of hairspray to

keep it in place.

She likes to smell

nice at all times and sprays air

freshener in the garden.

Mrs Crumb likes singing the national

anthem.

Mrs Crumb

Worksheet

Chloe Crumb Mr Stink Resource Pack 11

Worksheet

Mr StinkMr Stink Resource Pack 12

Worksheet

Mrs Crumb

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A stinky adventure Delivery Time: 1 hr.Equipment: Pens, paper, chairs and an open space. Group Size: 15-30 pupils.Curriculum Links: Drama and citizenship. Ages: KS2 and KS3. Aims: Introduce drama techniques through Mr Stink. Deliver an interactive Mr Stink drama session. Develop personal expression. Objectives: Raise awareness of bullying. Explore the importance of Mr Stink and Chloe’s relationship.

Mr Stink smells anyone who? 10 minutes

Get your class warmed up and ready to begin their Mr Stink adventure.

Ask pupils to form a circle of chairs in the middle of the classroom, pupils should select a chair to sit on in the circle.

Select one pupil to stand in the middle of the circle, they will not have a chair. The pupil will begin the game.

The pupil in the middle will say the phrase

“ Mr Stink smells anyone who ............................. “

The pupil will then add a phrase that is true to themselves e.g:

“Had cornflakes for breakfast”

The full phrase will then read:

“Mr Stink smells anyone who had cornflakes for breakfast”

Pupils who are sitting in the chairs who had cornflakes for breakfast must then get up and swap seats with the other classmates who also had cornflakes for breakfast.

The pupil in the middle who said the phrase should then take the opportunity whilst people are swapping seats to claim a chair in the circle.

The person left without a seat in the middle of the circle will then continue the game repeating the phrase:

“Mr Stink smells anyone who ................ supports Manchester United”


Or another phrase that is true themselves.

Continue the game for ten minutes, each time a new phrase is said a new person should appear in the middle of the circle.

Being Mr Stink! 15 minutes

Once your pupils are warmed up after playing Mr Stink smells anyone who? Ask them to clear the circle of chairs and lie in their own space on the floor, not touching anyone else, then ask pupils to close their eyes.

Ask pupils to think back to the production and recall the different characters they saw onstage. Ask pupils to choose one character from Mr Stink and begin to visualise the character in their minds, then ask pupils to think very hard about the following questions whilst visualising their chosen character:

Who is the character? What did the character look like?How did they walk?Are they a fast or slow moving character?How does the character speak?

Ask pupils to visualize the character walking across the stage, observing their mannerisms and how they walk, do they have any physical traits that make them stand out?

Then ask pupils to begin to imagine that they are their Mr Stink character, in a moment they will open their eyes, stand up and walk around the space as a Mr Stink character, using everything that they learned about their character when closing their eyes and lying on the floor.

Encourage pupils to slowly open their eyes and stand up as their Mr Stink character, they should then walk around the space as their characters adopting their style and walk. As the class is moving around the room as their Mr Stink characters ask them to think about:

Where the character is going?Where have they just come from?What are they thinking about?

As the characters walk around the space they should make eye contact with the other characters, after they are comfortable with eye contact introduce the following dramatic devices between the pupils acting as the characters:


A hello A sentence A conversation

Once each pair has done this, they should then move on and introduce themselves to the other characters.

Which Mr Stink characters did your pupils create? Can everyone is the class guess whoeach other's characters are?

Ask the pupils to stay in character and find all of the other class members who have picked the same character, they should then collectively walk through the space in groups of the same character!

Mr Stink, puppets, friendship and stinky smells 10 minutes

Get your class responding to Mr Stink and its puppetry, songs and smells!

Organise your class into groups of 4/5 and give each group a large sheet of A3 paper and some pens, each group should then chose an area of Mr Stink to explore from the following list:

• Chloe and Mr Stink’s friendship • Scratch ‘n’ sniff, the smells of Mr Stink • The songs in Mr Stink, ‘Homeless in My Heart’ and ‘Unimaginable Kindness’ or the

‘Scratch and Sniff Song’• The puppets in Mr Stink, the Duchess, Mr Stink’s faithful Dog, Annabelle, Chloe’s

perfect Sister and Elizabeth, the Crumb family Cat

Give each group ten minutes to think back to the time they saw Mr Stink and then brainstorm reflections and comments around their chosen area of Mr Stink.

Once the ten minutes are up, each group must pass the paper onto the next group, repeat this process until the whole group has commented on all the areas of Mr Stink. Put the sheets up on the wall and use them as stimulus when continuing your Mr Stink adventure.

Chloe and Mr Stink, a magical friendship 25 minutes

Distribute worksheets to pupils for them to explore friendship, bullying and finding a voice.


Worksheet

Chloe and Mr StinkChloe and Mr Stink form a great friendship in Mr Stink, although they appear to be very different on the outside they have lots in common. Read the comments in the bubbles below, if the bubbles say something that Chloe and Mr Stink share then draw a line to the shared bubble, an example has been done f o r you.


Shared

Keeping secrets

Feeling like an outsider

Living in a family home

Having no-one to confide in

Being bullied

Being confident Having a big

family

Feeling scared

Having close friends

Owning a pet dog

Worksheet

Helping Chloe Crumb Chloe Crumb is lonely until she meets Mr Stink, Mr Stink helps Chloe in many different ways.

Underneath the picture write 5 ways in which Mr Stink helps Chloe, an example has been done for you.

Example:$Mr stink helps Chloe beat the bullies.

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Beat the Bullies

Mr Stink uses his pong to help Chloe beat the bullies, what could you do to help a friend beat the bullies like Mr Stink helped Chloe?

Fill in the speech bubble offering advice on how to beat the bullies.


My advice to beat the bullies would be:

Follow your nose Delivery Time: 1 hr.Equipment: Pens, paper, chairs and an open space. Group Size: 15-30 pupils.Curriculum Links: Drama and English. Ages: KS2 and KS3. Aims: Deliver an interactive Mr Stink drama warm up. Explore and respond to the smells in Mr Stink. Objectives: Understand sensory responses in relation to Mr Stink. Create original scenes exploring smells.

Get the Duchess! 10 minutes

Use this energetic drama game to get pupils warmed up and thinking about the characters in Mr Stink.

Clear the space and ask pupils to stand in pairs scattered around the space, they must then link arms in their pairs and face any direction, the pupils in pairs all play the role of dog kennels in the game.

Select 2 pupils to begin the game, one pupil will play the character Mr Stink and the other will be the Duchess.

The Duchess will spend the game being chased by Mr Stink and Mr Stink will spend the game chasing the Duchess.

For Mr Stink to catch the Duchess he must tag the Duchess on the back, if Mr Stink successfully tags the Duchess they will swap roles and the Duchess will become Mr Stink and lead the chase.

Whilst being chased the Duchess can seek safety in a dog kennel at any time, to do this they must link arms with one of the pupils creating the kennels.

The partner in the kennel who the Duchess does not link arms with will then become the Duchess and continue to run away from Mr Stink, they can attach themselves to a kennel at anytime to stop Mr Stink catching them.


Whilst the characters are chasing each other ask them to create character sounds as they chase round the room, what noise would the Duchess make when running away from Mr Stink? What noise would Mr Stink shout when chasing the Duchess?

Encourage the Duchess to continue to link onto new kennels frequently, this will ensure that all pupils get a turn.

Remember:

- Mr Stink chases the Duchess. - If the Duchess is tagged the pupils swap roles.- The Duchess can find safety in a dog kennel at any time.- Once the Duchess has entered the kennel buy linking an arm, the pupil at the

other end of the chain will become the Duchess and be chased.- Pupils in kennels should keep arms linked always.

Scratch ‘n’ Sniff, smelly stimulus. 20 Minutes

The Little Book of Stinks bring the smells of Mr Stink right into the auditorium, some good and some really bad, pupils will be transported into Mr Stinks world using the sense of smell.

Use this stinky drama activity and get your pupils thinking about the smells in Mr Stink and the feelings, thoughts and memories that smell evokes.

Ask pupils to bring in their Little Book of Stinks, then all have a good scratch and sniff recalling all the smells used in Mr Stink. Spilt the class into 6 smelly groups, name each group after the Mr Stink smells:

The smelly feet The sweetie shop The big burpsDirty pond water The smelly farts Christmas time

Ask each group to lie on the floor at opposite ends of the room, then ask the class to scratch and sniff their Little Book of Stinks whilst closing their eyes as they inhale the smells ask them to think about the following:

How does the smell make you feel?What does the smell make you think about? What would the smell look like?Where in the world would you smell this smell?

After 2 minutes ask each group to open their eyes, then distribute the stinky worksheets to each according to their group name. Groups should discuss how smelling their Mr Stink stinky smell made them feel and record it on the worksheet that has been given to them, they could also draw the smells like Quentin Blake.


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Little Book of Stinks, smelly feet

What does this Mr Stink smell make you think of? How does the smell make you feel? What type of person would this smell belong to?

Record your thoughts below, an example has been done for you.


Smelly feet

This smell makes me think of a my dad.

Worksheet

Little Book of Stinks, a sweet shop




A sweet shop$

The sweet shop makes me think of a place I used to visit on holiday with my family.

Worksheet

Little Book of Stinks, a huge burp




A huge burp

This smells makes me think of sitting in my favorite cafe and eating bacon

sandwiches.

Worksheet

Little Book of Stinks, dirty pond water




Dirty pond water

This smell makes me think about feeding the ducks in the park.

Worksheet

Little Book of Stinks, a smelly fart



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A smelly fart

This smell makes me think about baked beans.

Worksheet

Little Book of Stinks, Christmas time




Christmas time

This smell makes me think about making snowmen.

Ask all groups to use the worksheets as a guide to pick a location in which they would find their stinky smell for example:

A libraryA playground A kitchen

Then ask the groups to create a 5 minute smelly improvisation based in their chosen smelly location. Groups should think carefully about who you would see at the smelly location, what would you hear and what would happen there?

Groups should make the smell part of what is happening in the scene.

Play the improvisations out to the rest of the class one by one, whilst each groups performs their scene to the class, the pupils in the audience should then scratch and sniff their little book of stinks, seeing if they can correctly guess the location of the scene using the smells and the improvisation as clues.

Stinky bench building 30 Minutes

Chloe found Mr Stink sitting on a bench in her local park, use this activity to get pupils designing and creating their own Mr Stink bench

Place 3 classroom chairs in a row in the middle of the classroom. Split the class into groups of 8, once they are in groups set them the following task:

Design and create a Mr Stink park bench.

Allow groups 30 minutes to design and create a Mr Stink bench using the 3 chairs in the classroom as a starting point. Ask students to draw up their designs and then source materials from around the school, they can be as imaginative as they like. When creating the benches they may want to use:

Newspapers Rubbish Leaves Branches Clothing

Once each group has created their bench hold a vote to pick the most successfull Mr Stink bench in your class.


Pupils should then be given the stinky recipe worksheets, for homework pupils must complete the sheet creating a stinky recipe, designing the perfect stinky smell to accompany their stinky bench.



A truly stinky Mr Stink bench recipe

List all the stinkiest ingredients needed to brew the most stinkiest Mr Stink smell, a perfect accompaniment to any park bench in any town in the UK.

Stinkiest ingredients ever!

Stinky pictures of stinky ingredients.

A smelly old shoe

Once you have collected all the stinky ingredients follow the instructions below and brew up the stinkiest smell ever.

Step 1 __________________________________________________________________________

Step 2 __________________________________________________________________________

Step 3 __________________________________________________________________________

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!"#$%&'(%)*+$%#,$*-ed your stinky smell add it to any park bench to create a stinky Mr Stink aroma.

If you liked Mr Stink find out more,

Please let us know what you think about the Educational Resource Pack and the show by emailing Nat Habety at [email protected].

Other work by Mr Stink author David Walliams:

The Boy in a Dress The Billionaire Boy

Quentin Blake, find out more about Mr Stink’s illustrator Quentin Blake, discover more of his work as an illustrator and an author.

By Quentin Blake:

Clown Mrs Armitage on WheelsThe Green Ship Mr Magnolia Daddy Lost His Head

www.quentinblake.com

Roald Dahl books illustrated by Quentin Blake include:

Revolting Rhymes The BFG The Twits Fantastic Mr Fox

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Bring your pupils to the theatre to watch more heartwarming children’s adventures brought to life onstage, visit www.mrstinklive.com to find out more.

This pack was created by Rachel Tyson for KW & NB Limited, March 2011


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