This display came about as a discussion with pupils. Originally they decided we should have the egg and chicken as Papier-mâché. But past experience with this left me cynical – mainly because pupils have a tendency to loose patience before enough layers are added so the sculpture tends to implode when the balloon is popped.
After the failed Papier-mâché attempt I convinced them that paper could work as well so we created a paper egg and chick. The idea was partly Easter based but also it’s subject choice time again and philosophy is one of the available subject choices they have in S5/6.
Anyway books included Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder and the Philosophy files by Stephen Law and Daniel Postgate plus on the egg side Dino Egg by Charlie James, Eggs by Jerry Spinelli.
It went well and lots of pupils were asking what the answer was – hence leading to an an explanation of what Philosophy is. Some even took the books out!
