Hedgehog

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icx7hBWeULM

Watch the short video in the link above, it's the Erste Christmas ad from 2018 and shows a hedgehog struggling to make friends because of his prickles. At the end of the film the other animals give him a present of foam pieces to stick all over his prickles so that they can hug him.

In KS1/ lower KS2 this provides an opportunity to talk about inclusion, empathy, problem solving, friend ship and difference. I have added some some questions for upper KS2 which question the message of the video which one could argue is that the other animals ask hedgehog to change to fit their needs... this will make a great debate.

- What do you see in the picture, what’s happened, who is hedgehog looking at, what is the story here?

-          - Why does Hedgehog feel like an outsider?

-          - What is going wrong?   

-          - In the film you can see sometimes the other animals wave at Hedgehog and sometimes they don’t. How do you think the other animals feel about Hedgehog?

-          - How does Hedgehog think the other animals feel about him? Why? 

-          - Why doesn’t Hedgehog get a push on the swing? How do you think the animal feels when they don’t push hedgehog?

-          - On the bus we see Hedgehog suddenly get really cold – what is happening here? Has the heating on the bus suddenly gone off?

-          - Who is making Hedgehog an outsider at the start of the film? (This is debatable – you could argue that hedgehog is making himself an outsider; while he can’t change his prickles, he knows they present a challenge for others. We don’t see Hedgehog attempting to do anything about this... but you could also argue, should he have to change?)

-         - When hedgehog sees the animals whispering, what is he thinking?

-         - The present from the animals – what’s it about?

-          - What is the first thing everyone does when Hedgehog puts the foam on – why, how does that make Hedgehog feel?

-          - What can we learn from Hedgehog?

-          - What can we learn from the other animals?

-          - Why is this about No Outsiders?

KS2 extra question: what is the message in this film? Does the film suggest that Hedgehog has to change to be accepted? Is it Hedgehog’s responsibility to adapt or is it the responsibility of those around Hedgehog to adapt? What’s the message in this film – does Hedgehog have to change?

No Outsiders: Everyone different, everyone welcome by Andrew Moffat

www.no-outsiders.com