PSHE/Citizenship
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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.
- Helping_Berna_intro.pdf
- Helping_Berna_part_one.pdf
- Helping_Berna_part_two.pdf
- Helping_Berna_assembly.pdf
- Helping_Berna_Introduction.ppt
- Helping_Berna_part_one.ppt
- Helping_Berna_part_two.ppt
- Helping_Berna_assembly.ppt
- Helping_Berna_animals_game.ppt
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Categories: Assemblies, Children's stories, Comparing lives, Lessons, Pink poster and PSHE/Citizenship
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Spot the difference - poverty comparison
Use the Povertron to compare lifestyles

The Povertron is a machine used by Gold the cow on Cowforce.com to compare everyday items in a kitchen in the UK with their Ugandan equivalents. So, when she points to the electric light bulb, the Povertron converts it to a paraffin lamp in Uganda. This can lead to some interesting discussion about ways of life, consumption and what it means to be poor. The Spot the difference sheet is a simple activity to record learning from this activity.
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Categories: Comparing lives, Lesson ideas and worksheets and PSHE/Citizenship
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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 (preview the Life in Lesotho video clip). 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.
- Karabo_life_in_Lesotho.ppt
- Karabo_life_information_boxes.pdf
- Cabbages_and_Cowpats_LIL_questions_Y3_4.pdf
- Cabbages_and_Cowpats_LIL_questions_Y5_6.pdf
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Categories: Comparing lives, DVDs, Other useful stuff and PSHE/Citizenship
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Berna’s goats and chickens assembly
Visual resource about how to help a group of orphans

This assembly is about the best way of helping a child-headed household. It explains how goats and chickens can make a difference to a group of orphans. It can be used on its own or with Berna’s Story. If you would like to help people like Berna you can donate using our gifts website, featuring goats and chickens, using the link below.
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Categories: Assemblies, Tools for the job and PSHE/Citizenship
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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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Categories: Children's stories, DVDs, Other useful stuff, PSHE/Citizenship and Science
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Cane rats in conservation
Fun ratty lesson and fundraising ideas

You can have lots of fun with this ratty lesson! Cane Rats help to put an end to the hunting of bushmeat in the rainforests of Cameroon by giving families a source of protein and income - removing the need to hunt endangered species such as gorillas and monkeys. The link to the great little animation below can be used to explain the issues involved. The pdf file also includes some interesting fundraising activities if your class want to raise the amount it costs to provide a Cane Rat and training - £32.50 - see our gifts site link below to purchase this ‘gift’.
www.cowforce.com
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Categories: Fun ideas, Lessons, Geography and PSHE/Citizenship
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Matia’s tough choice
Problem solving activity from real life

This lesson takes Matia’s story one-step further and shows the realities for a group of orphans. Pupils are asked to empathise with the orphans’ dilemma and discuss what choice they should make using the scenarios and facts given to them about real life in Uganda. There are opportunities for discussion, problem solving and numeracy in this thought provoking lesson.
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Categories: Children's stories, Blue poster, Maths and PSHE/Citizenship
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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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Categories: Assemblies, Children's stories, Green poster, Other useful stuff and PSHE/Citizenship
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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.
- Viewpoints_1_visual_stories.pdf
- Viewpoints_2_visual_stories.pdf
- Viewpoints_3_visual_stories.pdf
- Viewpoints_4_visual_stories.pdf
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Categories: Art, English/literacy and PSHE/Citizenship
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Famous cow drama
Fun animal drama that includes the whole class.

A lively, fun and engaging way to present the story of a family of orphans in Uganda to an assembly or as a whole class activity to another class. The story can be easily followed and is told by a group of farm animals from the UK and can be used to as part of your English curriculum.
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Categories: Assemblies, English/literacy and PSHE/Citizenship
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