Flamingo Boy by Michael Morpurgo - PowerPoint Presentation (KS2)

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Flamingo Boy Teaching Resources – PowerPoint Presentation

Flamingo Boy All my life I'll think of you, I promise I will. I won’t ever forget you.

A young autistic boy lives on his parents’ farm among the salt flats of the Camargue in the South of France.

There are lots of things he doesn’t understand: but he does know how to heal animals. Every week he goes to market with his mother, to ride his special horse on the town carousel.

But then the Germans come, a soldier shoots a flamingo from the sky. The carousel is damaged, the horses broken. For this vulnerable boy, everything is falling apart.

Only there’s a kind sergeant among the Germans – a man with a young boy of his own at home, a man who trained as a carpenter. Between them, perhaps boy and man can mend what has been broken – and maybe even the whole town…

Elegant Creatures I marveled at the elegance of these creatures, at the oddness of their balletic gait, and their absurd, outsize curved bills, at the incongruity of their startling pinkness. Their stick-like legs seemed to be wading backwards through the water, and yet, impossibly, they were moving forward. There was no logic to their knee joints. Their bills were fishing backwards too. How did they do that? They could stand onelegged in this wild wind and not fall over. They ran on water to take off and land. How did they do that?

Exploring Vocabulary I marveled at the elegance of these creatures, at the oddness of their balletic gait, and their absurd, outsize curved bills, at the incongruity of their startling pinkness. Their stick-like legs seemed to be wading backwards through the water, and yet, impossibly, they were moving forward. There was no logic to their knee joints. Their bills were fishing backwards too. How did they do that? They could stand one-legged in this wild wind and not fall over. They ran on water to take off and land. How did they do that?

Exploring Vocabulary elegance – being graceful in appearance or manner balletic – relating to ballet dancing gait – the way something walks incongruity – the state when something doesn’t fit or seem quite right

Flamingo Boy All my life I'll think of you, I promise I will. I won’t ever forget you.

A young autistic boy lives on his parents’ farm among the salt flats of the Camargue in the South of France.

There are lots of things he doesn’t understand: but he does know how to heal animals. Every week he goes to market with his mother, to ride his special horse on the town carousel.

But then the Germans come, a soldier shoots a flamingo from the sky. The carousel is damaged, the horses broken. For this vulnerable boy, everything is falling apart.

Only there’s a kind sergeant among the Germans – a man with a young boy of his own at home, a man who trained as a carpenter. Between them, perhaps boy and man can mend what has been broken – and maybe even the whole town…