Materials & DVDs
Find resources linked to our posters, packs and the Cabbages and Cowpats DVD. The materials are listed on the left where lessons, ideas and files written to use with them can be found.
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Marie-Roses’ story
Marie-Rose is a 14 year old Rwandan girl
Marie-Rose has worked hard to get out of poverty through looking after her goats. Her sisters and her get money from breeding them and selling goat kids and vegetables at the market. Her daily routine is included in her story and forms a Maths lesson, you can also play the dodgeball game that she plays in her spare time. Marie-Rose’s picture is on the front of the blue poster.
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‘Goats and chickens’ Powerpoint
A simple summing up of help from goats and chickens
A simple Powerpoint giving some background pictures and information about Uganda, which then explains how goats and chickens can benefit an African family. The slides loosely link with Berna’s story and include some background notes. If you would like to donate to Send a Cow using our gifts website, featuring goats and chickens, please use the link below.
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Marie-Rose’s busy day
A day in the life of Marie-Rose from Rwanda
This worksheet is based around the daily routine of Marie-Rose from Rwanda. In this activity, pupils compare their daily lives with Marie-Rose’s and use fractions and decimals to help them. The sheet can be used to comapre lives and as a start of discussion about living in a diverse world.
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Drop Scotch
Fun hopping game from Lesotho
A variation of Hop-Scotch played in Lesotho by Julia. The game involves shunting a shoe polish tin around a grid as you hop. Not as easy as it sounds, but really good fun! You could have a competition to see who can get to the end.
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Dodgeball
Lively African ball game
This is a popular game in East Africa, game played in many school playgrounds. It involves at least three players and lots of running and dodging. It can be a good way of getting pupils active at breaktime.
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Cow herder game
Make a moo game for two!
Make your own colourful version of this traditional Sudanese cow herder’s game. It can bring the Global Dimension into Art and is easy to make and fun to play! This game is also played in Lesotho.
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Cow tourist
Traveling cow meets Barnaby Bear!
A marvelously fun thing to do! Inspire pupils’ imaginations by sending your own furry cow or goat traveller(s) across the world in a jiffy bag. The animal gets to visit lots of places in the world en-route and helps your pupils learn about different locations. This idea is a pro-active version of QCA Unit 5 - Where in the world is Barnaby Bear?
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Milk and veg assembly
How a cow changed a family forever
Using Theresa and Kobwemi’s story, this assembly highlights the huge difference a cow can make to a family - from the amount of milk produced and the increase in vegetables. The theme of the assembly incorporates the importance of healthy eating and drinking milk for children in the UK and links in well with QCA Unit 3A - Teeth and eating.
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Beansprout feast
Growing beansprouts in your classroom
A speedy way to introduce plants and growing things to your class - get them growing healthy bean sprouts! These lessons take you right through the process from measuring to germination to eating! The activities include the scientific recording of results and are a good link to Bag Gardens, healthy eating and harvest topics.
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5 a day with Mpho (+Welsh)
Healthy eating lessons from Africa
These two lessons fulfill the curriculum requirement to teach about food groups through reference to the story of a four year old boy from Lesotho called Mpho. They are part global Citizenship and part Science and encourage children to think about healthy eating and specifically the goal of eating five portions of fruit and vegetables a day - fitting into QCA - Teeth and eating and other areas in Science. For more information for Welsh schools wanting to partner with a Lesothan school, visit the Dolen Cymru website.
