DVDs
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Cabbages and Cowpats DVD (+Welsh)
A fun DVD about Africa and Send a Cow

Our ‘Cabbages and Cowpats’ DVD has been produced for primary schools and group use. It features short films about children’s lives in Lesotho, African gardens and Send a Cow’s work in Africa. The DVD is strong on promoting sustainability and healthy eating, it’s accompanied by toe-tapping music, engaging animations and an easy-to-follow storyline - much of it has a Welsh language option. Your kids will watch it until the cows come home! Watch some clips using the links. To buy a copy for just £5.99 (including p&p) call us on 01225 874 222.
www.cowforce.com/cabbages-and-cowpats
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DVDs - older pupils & staff
Show a DVD to staff or use for discussion with KS4+

As well as Cabbages and Cowpats, we also have some free DVDs that are suitable for older pupils or to help enthuse staff about Send a Cow’s work. There are three to choose from: Organic Farming in Eastern Uganda, how people, land and animals live in harmony; our Rwanda DVD, about life for genocide survivors and our Lesotho & Ethiopia DVD, highlighting different approaches, like keyhole gardens, used when working in upland areas. Call us for a copy of these DVDs on (01225) 874222.
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Cabbages and Cowpats question sheets
A way to focus learning from the DVD

These questions can be a good way to guide learning from the DVD, enabling you to show the clips several times to deepen learning (preview the Life in Lesotho and the Keyhole Gardens video clips). Quick, factual questions can test their listening skills and other questions are provided to promote classroom discussion and further learning. Order a copy of the DVD here.
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Karabo’s life information boxes (+Welsh)
Background info on Karabo from Lesotho

These information boxes give insights into nine year old Karabo’s life, they can be cut up and handed out to table groups to discuss the questions are posed on each one. The boxes can also be used to promote discussion on their own, alongside the Cabbages and Cowpats DVD (preview the Life in Lesotho video clip) or Karabo’s life in Lesotho Powerpoint.
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Karabo’s life in Lesotho Powerpoint
Questions and pictures exploring life in Lesotho

This Powerpoint invites pupils to look at similarities and differences between their lives and that of Karabo from Lesotho. Her day can be seen in full on the Cabbages and Cowpats DVD.Cabbages and Cowpats DVD. These slides show several pictures from her everyday life, including her home, school and doing jobs and a series of questions are posed to get children thinking. This resource can act as a good starting point for discussion and is linked to other resources about Karabo’s life.
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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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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.
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