Teach pupils in Year 3 and 4 about the influential young footballer, Marcus Rashford, during Black History Month, or at any time of the year.
He has had a variety of successes on the pitch but has also used his platform to work with charities and campaign for a range of issues affecting young people today, including food poverty, access to free school meals, a permanent increase in the universal benefit payments and increasing access to books for disadvantaged children through his book club.
This resource pack teaches pupils all about this inspirational young man and how he used his influence to campaign for political change. They will explore and debate topical issues and learn the importance of compassion by learning about Marcus Rashford's campaigns, covering areas of the PSHE curriculum.
Learning objectives
- Learn about an inspirational young person
- Practise reading and comprehension skills
- Discuss why people are inspirational
- Discuss topical issues
- Talk about compassion and how this can be shown towards others
Resource pack contents
- Inspirational People: Marcus Rashford text and comprehension questions, with answers
- PowerPoint teaching slides
- Discussion cards
- Writing task sheet
National Curriculum Programme of study links
English
- Retrieve and record information from non-fiction
- Organise paragraphs around a theme
PSHE (from PSHE Association programme of study)
- Discuss and debate topical issues, respect other people’s point of view and constructively challenge those they disagree with
- Learn the importance of having compassion towards others; shared responsibilities we all have for caring for other people and living things; how to show care and concern for others
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