by Jayne Ellmes,
Teacher of History and PSHE
I really wanted to build on what we had started through the Food Bank Drive a couple of weeks back and found a really engaging documentary on Child Poverty: Poor Kids. Having watched it, it seemed like the perfect resource for my Year 8 PSHE. After speaking to Mrs Foley, I put the plan into action!
Students first made a leaf to go on a "gratitude tree" (coming soon to Classroom i5!) of things for which they were grateful. Then we discussed which of the things they only had because they, or their family, had the money to afford them. We had a great class discussion and I moved the class onto talk about the recent food bank drive before playing the documentary. The kids were really engaged with the documentary, which I think opened their eyes to the terrible world of child poverty that is in Britain.
At the end of the documentary, the students filled in a summary form about what the documentary was on, what they already knew, what they had found out through the documentary and what they would like to know more about.
After this reflection time the class worked on creating a piece of work with the success criteria of it being A4 in size and covering the topics of 'Gratitude', 'Gratefulness', 'Being Thankful' and 'Appreciation'.
It was a great experience and I think it made the students really think about how fortunate they were and what steps they could be taking to help others.
Teacher of History and PSHE
I really wanted to build on what we had started through the Food Bank Drive a couple of weeks back and found a really engaging documentary on Child Poverty: Poor Kids. Having watched it, it seemed like the perfect resource for my Year 8 PSHE. After speaking to Mrs Foley, I put the plan into action!
Students first made a leaf to go on a "gratitude tree" (coming soon to Classroom i5!) of things for which they were grateful. Then we discussed which of the things they only had because they, or their family, had the money to afford them. We had a great class discussion and I moved the class onto talk about the recent food bank drive before playing the documentary. The kids were really engaged with the documentary, which I think opened their eyes to the terrible world of child poverty that is in Britain.
At the end of the documentary, the students filled in a summary form about what the documentary was on, what they already knew, what they had found out through the documentary and what they would like to know more about.
After this reflection time the class worked on creating a piece of work with the success criteria of it being A4 in size and covering the topics of 'Gratitude', 'Gratefulness', 'Being Thankful' and 'Appreciation'.
It was a great experience and I think it made the students really think about how fortunate they were and what steps they could be taking to help others.
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