This year, Sport Relief runs from the 21st to the 23rd of March and is an excellent chance to get your students thinking about Global Citizenship and how they can help to solve other people’s problems. Specifically, it aims to raise money for people living in poverty in the UK and all over the world. In the past years, money has been raised in a number of exhausting and entertaining ways to inspire people to get involved. Now, you and your class don’t need to swim the themes like David Walliams or cycle to the South Pole like Helen Skelton, because every small contribution also makes a valuable difference. TrueTube has provided an assembly script and film to help teachers create a buzz amongst the pupils. With school fundraising ideas, a PowerPoint presentation, script and creative activities, this resource is the perfect way to start off Sports Relief in your school.
Whilst the assembly script will get the students fired up, the film that follows is bound to pull on your heartstrings as it explores the life of one inspiring boy from Ghana, called Raymond. In many parts of the world, conditions for children are unimaginable and far beyond the privileges many of us have been blessed with growing up. The film explores how Raymond, at the tender age of 14, has to work long hours in a dangerous gold mine to help support his family. He has no choice but to do the dangerous work, emphasizing the desperation of families living in poverty. The innocence and personality of this brave teenager shines through as the camera guides us through a normal working day. The film explores however, how Sport Relief has provided Raymond with an education which will help him escape the world of poverty and achieve his goals.
The film certainly put things into perspective for me. We take so many basic necessities in life for granted on a daily basis, not realising how precious they are. It is easy to forget the number of people that go without decent food, water, shelter or an education. I am proud to work for a company that supports such a worthwhile charity, and gladly do my bit in putting the word out about how we can all help within school life. Just by using this assembly script and film on a Monday morning, you are helping make a difference to people who live very different lives to the ones we’re so used to. In the film, Raymond tells the camera man how he wants to be the president of Ghana when he grows up! With a bit of help from your school, let’s hope one day, this could become a reality for this ambitious young boy.
Whilst the assembly script will get the students fired up, the film that follows is bound to pull on your heartstrings as it explores the life of one inspiring boy from Ghana, called Raymond. In many parts of the world, conditions for children are unimaginable and far beyond the privileges many of us have been blessed with growing up. The film explores how Raymond, at the tender age of 14, has to work long hours in a dangerous gold mine to help support his family. He has no choice but to do the dangerous work, emphasizing the desperation of families living in poverty. The innocence and personality of this brave teenager shines through as the camera guides us through a normal working day. The film explores however, how Sport Relief has provided Raymond with an education which will help him escape the world of poverty and achieve his goals.
The film certainly put things into perspective for me. We take so many basic necessities in life for granted on a daily basis, not realising how precious they are. It is easy to forget the number of people that go without decent food, water, shelter or an education. I am proud to work for a company that supports such a worthwhile charity, and gladly do my bit in putting the word out about how we can all help within school life. Just by using this assembly script and film on a Monday morning, you are helping make a difference to people who live very different lives to the ones we’re so used to. In the film, Raymond tells the camera man how he wants to be the president of Ghana when he grows up! With a bit of help from your school, let’s hope one day, this could become a reality for this ambitious young boy.