Danny the Champion of the World — Roald Dahl • Ages 8+

Danny the Champion of the World — Teaching Resources

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Teaching resource for Danny the Champion of the World. Suitable for KS2 Years 5–6 and KS3 Year 7.

Classroom Activities

The Perfect Father

Ask pupils to identify all the things Danny’s father does that make him a wonderful parent. Compile a class list. Then ask: what makes someone a good parent? Is it about rules, or something else?

Newspaper Report — The Ruined Shoot

Pupils write a newspaper report about Mr Hazell's pheasant shoot going disastrously wrong. They can include quotes from Hazell (furious), the villagers (amused) and Danny (carefully vague about what happened).

The Raisin Plan — Engineering a Better Method (KS3)

Ask pupils to think like Danny: is there a flaw in his plan? What could go wrong? (In the book, the pheasants wake up too early.) Can they redesign the plan to fix the flaw? This encourages analytical and creative thinking simultaneously.

Write a Bedtime Story Like Danny's Father

Danny's father tells him extraordinary bedtime stories set in a car. Pupils write their own bedtime story set in an unusual place, told by a parent to a child — capturing the warmth and wonder of Danny's stories.

Assessment Questions

KS2 Retrieval

  1. Where do Danny and his father live?
  2. What does Danny discover his father doing secretly?
  3. What is Danny’s brilliant idea for catching pheasants?
  4. What happens to Mr Hazell’s shooting party?

KS3 Analysis

  1. How does Dahl present the relationship between Danny and his father as exceptional from the very first chapter?
  2. Explore how Dahl makes the reader sympathise with the poachers rather than the law in this novel.

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