Manor Primary School
PHSCE Year 4: Inspiring a Generation
Overview of the Learning:In this unit children will learn about their responsibility to respect other They will think about people who have inspired others, people who provide positive role models to others through their thoughts and actions. The children will learn about Mo Farah and his journey from Somalia to the Olympics in 2012 and Nelson Mandela and his journey from Prison to president.
The children will be asked to reflect on the life journeys of their famous people and how they have inspired others, the children will be asked to consider – who inspires them
Core Aims
Provide children with:
- accurate and relevant knowledge
- opportunities to turn that knowledge into personal understanding
- opportunities to explore, clarify and if necessary challenge, their own and others’ values, attitudes, beliefs, rights and responsibilities
- the skills and strategies they need in order to live healthy, safe, fulfilling, responsible and balanced lives.
Health and Wellbeing
- How to maintain physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing
- How to manage risks to physical and emotional health and wellbeing
- Ways of keeping physically and emotionally safe
- How to make informed choices about health and wellbeing and to recognise sources of help with this
- How to respond in an emergency
- To identify different influences on health and wellbeing
- How to develop and maintain a variety of healthy relationships, within a range of social/cultural contexts
- How to recognise and manage emotions within a range of relationships
- How to recognise risky or negative relationships including all forms of bullying and abuse
- How to respond to risky or negative relationships and ask for help
- How to respect equality and diversity in relationships.
- About respect for self and others and the importance of responsible behaviours and actions
- About rights and responsibilities as members of families, other groups and ultimately as citizens
- About different groups and communities
- To respect equality and to be a productive member of a diverse community
Expectations
Children can:
- Give their opinions, and explain their views, on issues that affect themselves and society
- talk and write about their opinions, and explain their views, on issues that affect themselves and society
- recognise their worth as individuals by identifying positive things about themselves and their achievements, seeing their mistakes, making amends and setting personal goals
- reflect on spiritual, moral, social, and cultural issues, using imagination to understand other people's experiences
- recognise the global contributionsof individual world citizens
- Know actions affect themselves and others, to care about other people's feelings and to try to see things from their points of view
- Realise the nature and consequences of racism, bullying and aggressive behaviours, and how to respond to them and ask for help
- Recognise and challenge stereotypes
Learning Objectives / Suggested Learning Opportunities
- to recognise and show respect for similarities and differences
- to be aware of the wider world and has a sense of Mo Farah as a world citizen
- to show respect and value diversity
- to understand how the world works economically, politically, socially, culturally, technologically and environmentally
Introduce the children to Mo Farah through a variety of images from Mo’s life – pictures of his racing, family life, life in Somalia. Ask the children what do they know about Mo? Why is he so famous? Brainstorm ideas about - What has made him so successful?
Tell the children One of the important reasons for Mo Farah’s success was the early recognition of his special talent for running. Ask the children what their special talents are?
Share with the children one of Mo Farah’s quotes "It's all hard work and grafting …..but anything is possible"what do the children think about this?
Ask the children to think about something they wish to improve, and/or something they would like to achieve that seems beyond their reach. Ask them what they are going to do, and how hard they are going to work to achieve their new goals.
Display their new challenges on a class display board. After a few weeks add updates to show how far they have travelled towards their goals.
Teaching resources to be found at
- to understand that actions can have consequences and can affect others
- to identify ways in which children can be victims of circumstances
•to know about human rights issues in the news, in other places and at other times in history
- to understand the difference between refugees and those who are internally displaced
Introduce the children to Mo’s early life from Somalia to London. Share pictures and text from Go-givers resources. Discuss with the children why Mo left Somalia, what happened when he came to England and how he came to be an international sporting personality. How do the children think Mo feel about leaving his twin brother in Somalia? How does his brother feel about Mo’s success?
Ask the children to reflect about what it was like for Mo fleeing his home. Ask the children, working in pairs, to imagine that rebel troops have just attacked their town and are approaching the street where they live. They have to leave their homes immediately, so they must gather together a few things to take with them.
Remind the children they can only take what they can carry and they don’t know where they are going. Tell the children they are only allowed 6 items.
Discuss with the rest of the class - What were the most common items the children chose to take with them on their journey?
Do different people have different needs (e.g. elderly, babies, sick people)? Would all of their needs have been met?
Teaching resources to be found in teaching folder and
- to understand the variety of different needs a refugee has in moving to a new country
- to understand ways in which being a refugee now is different from in the past and ways in which it is similar.
- to identify different forms of help available to refugees in the UK
Ask the children to think about the reasons why people leave their homes and ‘seek refuge’. Tell the children that there are approximately 10.6 million refugees in the world today. Most of these are in Asia and Africa. Only a very small number reach the UK. Often families are separated when people flee. What do the children think are the potential problems they could foresee when families ‘seek refuge’?
Introduce the children to the Mo Farah foundation. Ask the children to investigate the work of the foundation in both Africa and the UK, over several lessons ask the children to look at specific projects
- What is the project? Where? Who? When? How is the project helping/changing the lives of others?
Teaching resources to be found at
- to recognise and show respect for similarities and differences
- to be aware of the wider world and has a sense of Nelson Mandela as a world citizen
- to show respect and value diversity
- to understand how the world works economically, politically, socially, culturally, technologically and environmentally
Share with the children a range of picture sources showing Nelson Mandela throughout his life. Ask the children what do they know about this man? Why do they think he has been included in our learning about – Inspiring a generation?
Tell the children the Nelson went from Prisoner to President. What do the children know about his journey? Why was he put into jail? What qualities do they think Mandela possessed to enable him to make do this? Make a list to reflect upon as they learn more about Mandela.
Introduce the children to Nelson Mandela’s early life. Using a range of resources share information about Mandela’s childhood – Video – The Life and Times of Nelson Mandela (Part 1), Information sheet - A Long Walk to freedom. Discuss – What was Nelson’s life like?
Ask the children to create an information sheet about Nelson Mandela’s early life. What do we know about him? What inspired him?
Resources to be found at
Video in teaching resources folder
- to know what Apartheid in South Africa was
- to understand the role Nelson Mandela played in ending it and becoming President!
Ask the children – What is Apartheid? Have they ever heard the word before? Share the video clip - The Life and Times of Nelson Mandela (Part 2) and discuss What were black people not allowed to do in S. Africa?What organisation did Mandela create with 7 colleagues?What was Umkhoto We Sizwe?Why was Nelson Mandela arrested? What did the world try to do about what was happening in South Africa?
Ask the children to reflect on Nelson’s life during these years. Why was he so passionate about what he did?
Ask the children to write a day in the life of Nelson Mandela. Ask the children to think about the time when Nelson began to fight for what he believed in, they can write about when he was at school, when he was being tired in court, when he was in hiding etc. The children are to include Nelson’s thoughts and feelings and the challenges he faced and the successes he hoped to achieve.
Share with the children the speech made from the Dock by Nelson Mandela on 20 April 1964
“I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
What do the children think about the speech he made? What does this tell us about Nelson Mandela? Can we see any of the qualities we thought hepossessed?
Share with the children the rest of Nelson Mandela’s story using the video resources. Share photographs from the day he was inaugurated South Africa’s first democratically elected President. How do the children think he felt?
Ask the children to imagine they were Nelson Mandela on this day. What would they have said in his speech? Ask the children to write a two minute speech to reflect on Mandela’s fight and his achievements and what this would mean for the people of South Africa
Ask the children to investigate Nelson Mandela’s time as president. What sort of president was he? What were his major achievements during this time?
Ask the children to present their learning as an information text about Nelson Mandela’s President.
Resources to be found at
Video in teaching resource folder
- To develop and express responses to issues and problems.
- To participate in active group work and class discussions.
- To demonstrate the ability to think critically.
- To develop, express and defend a position on an issue.
Share with the children one of Nelson Mandela’s quotes “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is whatdifference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.” — Nelson Mandela.
Discuss with the children -How can we keep Nelson Mandela’s legacy alive?What were the personal qualities and achievements that made this individual significant?How can we keep the legacies of this individual alive?
Introduce the children to Nelson Mandela Day. Tell the children that Nelson Mandela International Day was launched in recognition of Nelson Mandela’sbirthday on 18 July, 2009 via unanimous decision of the UN General Assembly.It was inspired by a call Nelson Mandela made a year earlier, for the next generation to take on the burden of leadership in addressing the world’s social injustices when he said that “it is in your hands now”.It is more than a celebration of Madiba’s life and legacy. It is a global movement to honour his life’s work and act to change the world for the better.
Ask the children to investigate how people remember Nelson Mandela and present their learning using ICT
Teaching Resources to be found at
- to recognise and show respect for similarities and differences
- to be aware of the wider world and have a sense of who inspires as a world citizen
- to show respect and value diversity
- to understand how we can take inspiration from citizens of the world
Ask the children to reflect on Mo Farah and Nelson Mandela and how they have ‘Inspired a Generation’
Who else do the children think have inspired their generation or their parent’s generation? Who else in history has a legacy that we should keep alive?Princess Diana? Mother Teresa? David Beckham?
Ask the children to research who they believe have inspired their generation. The children are to create a fact file about this person, clearly outlining how and why they have been chosen and how they have ‘Inspired a Generation’
Manor Primary School – Inspiring a Generation