Lesson observation - please read

[TS45]

Hello. I have an interview lesson on Monday with year 5. It is 45 minutes long and needs to be based around a ‘mystery object’ of my choice. Any subject. I’ve contacted the school to ask about topics. The class are currently doing Vikings and Anglo-Saxons, and are reading ‘how to train your dragon’. What I’m thinking so far:

• An item related to Vikings and doing an enquiry-based, history lesson
• Making a dragon’s egg and doing predictions about what type of dragon the egg has come from

non-topic linked:

• A suitcase or box filled with items which are revealed one at a time. Children make inferences about who the suitcase might belong to based on the items
• An item hidden in a box. Have 3 stations the children spend 10 minutes at in mixed-ability groups. Each station provides a different clue about the item in the box. Plenary: share ideas and big reveal.
• have a boring item (e.g., a sheet of blank paper). Children to use persuasive language to make it sound like the best item in the world. Advertisement posters for what it can do - mystery lies in the imagination.

I really really want this job so I would really appreciate if anyone could look over my ideas and let me know which they think is best.

thank you!

I like your suitcase idea best as an English lesson starter. It could lead to group/ partner work as a discussion, then a quick ‘short burst’ independent writing task, writing a character description.
I would make sure to incorporate a bit of sentence writing using Year 5 level sentence structure/ grammar stuff. I would include some scaffolding for SEN pupils, like some sentence starters or a wordbank.
Good luck!

I also like the suitcase idea best and think it would work well for an interview lesson. I don't think the blank sheet of paper idea would work so well with a class you don't know.