Playground Challenge Secondary Assembly Teachers’ notes You can customise slide 4 with your school’s chosen date for the Playground Challenge. You can customise slides 5 and 12 of this presentation with your school name or year group.

Teachers’ notes Ask: Do you recognise any of these faces? Top left to top right the celebrities are: Mo Farah, Usain Bolt (both athletes), Robbie Williams (singer), Gordon Ramsay (chef) Bottom left to right: Will Ferrell (actor), Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson (both singers) What do you think they might have in common? Every one of them has either played in a Soccer Aid match already or will be competing in Soccer Aid 2018 at Old Trafford on 10th June 2018!

Teachers’ notes In this video, Robbie Williams and Usain Bolt tell students more about what to expect from Soccer Aid 2018.

When is it? Why is it happening? What is it? How can we get involved? The biggest match played between 2 teams of celebrities and footballing legends! When is it? The Soccer Aid for Unicef match takes place live at Old Trafford and on ITV on Sunday 10 June. Why is it happening? To raise money for Unicef’s life-saving work for children around the world. How can we get involved? We will be putting on our very own Playground Challenge on [YOUR DATE HERE] Who can play? All of us! Teachers’ notes Explain: Celebrities like Usain Bolt and Robbie Williams will be battling it out in the big match on Sunday the 10th of June. But the most exciting part is that WE can get involved to! We will be joining schools all over the UK and tackling our own Soccer Aid Playground Challenge on Friday the 8th June. (Note: Edit [YOUR DATE HERE] depending on when your school wishes to take part) And all of us can play!

[NAME OF SCHOOL]? Teachers’ notes Before showing this slide, you may wish to customise [NAME OF SCHOOL] to show your own school name.

Teachers’ notes Explain: Students are going to be tackling their own Soccer Aid challenge right here in school. Their task is to design a football-themed obstacle course in the playground/hall/field and make it as creative and as difficult as they can. The rule is that the obstacle course must be completed with a football – whether that ball is bounced, dribbled, kicked, carried or thrown through the course. By publicising the event and getting people to sponsor them, students can raise money for Soccer Aid 2018. Ask: How can we make the course accessible to everyone at the school? How should we organise the school into groups to complete the course – e.g. forms/year groups/houses – in a relay format racing against the clock?

Teachers' notes Ask: Who has heard of Unicef? What work do they do? Explain: Unicef is a children’s charity which was first created in 1946 after World War 2. They work for ‘every child in danger’, protecting the rights of children in over 190 countries all over the world and here in the UK. Play the video before explaining: Unicef works in some of the most dangerous places in the world. They offer emergency relief to children in places where there is violent conflict, for example at the moment they work in Syria and Yemen. They also help children who have faced natural disasters such as flooding, earthquakes or typhoons. For example, they currently support children in Nepal and across the Caribbean.

Teachers' notes Explain: Every child has certain rights which were agreed on by almost every country and have been written up in a document called the UN Conventions on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). There are 54 articles in the UNCRC which list the rights of every child. A child is defined as anyone under the age of 18. Every child has these rights - no matter who they are, where they live, what their parents do, what language they speak, what their religion is, whether they are a boy or girl, what their culture is, whether they have a disability, or whether they are rich or poor.

Teachers’ notes Explain: Unicef works to protect all the different rights of the child, but we are going to look at how they support two rights in particular – health and play. Article 24 of the UNCRC states that every child has the right to the best possible health. Governments must provide good quality health care, clean water, nutritious food, and a clean environment and education on health and well-being so that children can stay healthy. Richer countries must help poorer countries achieve this. Explain to students that looking after children’s health is particularly important in places where there has been a disaster – such as a natural disaster or in times of conflict. Examples of natural disaster include earthquakes, tsunamis and flooding. For example, there was an earthquake in Papa New Guinea in February 2018 – Unicef delivered 23 metric tons of relief supplies including water purification tablets, hygiene kits and blankets.

Teachers’ notes Explain: Sebenele is 14 and lives with him mum and extended family in a village near Siteki, Swaziland. Like many others his age, he loves to play football with his school friends. He enjoys going to school where his favourite subjects are maths, English and science. Yet Sebenele has faced many challenges throughout his life as a result of his HIV-positive status. Unicef first met Sebenele just over a year ago, when there was a severe lack of food in Swaziland as a result of the nationwide drought. This was having a devastating impact on Sebenele’s health. Sebenele was struggling to continue to take his antiretroviral medicine, which is vital to ensure he stays healthy, because he can’t keep the pills down without any food, and had to go to the local hospital to be treated for severe acute malnutrition.

Teachers’ notes Explain: Thanks to Unicef, Sebenele received health and nutritional support and today he looks visibly bigger and stronger than this time last year. There is more detail about Sebenele’s story in the Secondary Classroom Lesson PowerPoint

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Teachers' notes Explain: Every £1 students raise will be matched by the UK Government. UK aid has a profound effect on the lives of millions of children like Sebenele and helped to halve the number of people living in extreme poverty. The funds students raise will change lives. Ask: What could your own individual fundraising achieve? What could we achieve if we work together as a year group? As a whole school? And in the wider community? Note: The Secondary Classroom Lesson PowerPoint includes fundraising ideas and more information on the obstacle course for teachers to use back in the classroom.