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Bring a Global Dimension to your curriculum with our resources - learning requirements and curriculum objectives are featured where appropriate. Many of these ideas also contribute to Eco-Schools status.
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Healthy harvest assembly
The positive power of fruit and veg!
An assembly about growing food in Rwanda. Great for Harvest and useful all year round, telling the story of a genocide orphan called Janvier. This assembly highlights the importance of healthy food in a visual and fun way. To get a copy of our Harvest materials and view other ideas, please use the link to the main Send a Cow website.
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Viewpoints - visual stories
Four Art lessons exploring storytelling
A series of lessons adapted from the QCA Art unit Viewpoints - bringing cross-curricular links from PSHE and English to an interesting Art project. The lessons include looking at a Send a Cow story creatively, along with storyboarding and photography activities.
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TV advert
Make a TV ad for Send a Cow.
Pupils script and narrate their own TV advert for Send a Cow in this lesson idea - they will learn about communicating to an audience and using different forms of media.
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Rosa’s recount
A recount with a twist.
A mystery storyteller narrates this recount, which will get heads scratching for a while. Clues are placed throughout the story, allowing pupils to deduce what it is all about. Plenty of ideas are suggested of how to work this into your curriculum in an engaging way.
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Different perspectives
Imagine life through a cow's eyes!
Allow pupils’ imaginations to come alive in this creative writing lesson. They put themselves in an animals’ skin, so to speak - seeing things from their perspective and imagining what life would be like for a cow in Africa!
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Helping Berna
Explores comparisons, basic needs and different ways to help people.
A collection of three lessons, an assembly and a fun classroom game, all written for the PSHE curriculum and Citizenship QCA Unit 5 - Living in a diverse world. These activities help pupils to understand what life is like for a Ugandan orphan, how it compares to their own lives and looks at different ways of helping people.
