The Big Picnic: Send a Cow
Teacher’s overview
Whole school assembly: video 4.30
minutes
This explains the work of Send a Cow and provides you with an
opportunity to talk to the children about fundraising and introduce the
idea of having a picnic to raise £205 for a cow. You could discuss the
difference this cow would make to a family.
There are 3 sets of resources you could use from this point in your classes:
1. Maths and literacy work that talks about the work of Send a Cow
2. Feeding the 5000 - RE and literacy
3. General Send a Cow resources which are country focused
The Big Picnic Multiplier Effect
This PowerPoint explains the difference a cow makes to a family - it
precedes the next Send a Cow literacy activity.
Send a Cow Literacy: Explanation
text
Retell the story of Send a Cow using a diagram
Send a Cow: Multiplier Effect
Multiplication maths
Send a Cow: Exchange rate
Rounding up & estimation
RE: Class resource: Feeding 5000
PPT
RE: Feeding 5000 literacy
This tells the miracle of the Feeding of the 5000
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drama
report writing - story told from the boy’s point of view
speech marks
adverbial clauses
story board
The links below are to case studies and resources based on the work Send a Cow does throughout Africa
Uganda
http://www.sendacow.org.uk/lessonsfromafrica/tough-choice
http://www.sendacow.org.uk/lessonsfromafrica/ugandan-slum-rural
Kenya
http://www.sendacow.org.uk/lessonsfromafrica/richard-and-the-lionlight
http://www.sendacow.org.uk/lessonsfromafrica/helping-prisca
Lesotho
http://www.sendacow.org.uk/lessonsfromafrica/five-a-day
http://www.sendacow.org.uk/lessonsfromafrica/food-miles
Burundi
http://www.sendacow.org.uk/lessonsfromafrica/live-below-the-lineschools
http://www.sendacow.org.uk/lessonsfromafrica/rose-game
Rwanda
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