Flash-based primary school Sudan Village show and tell

Introduction to CAFOD: ===================== CAFOD is the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development. It is the official overseas development and relief agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, and has been fighting poverty in developing countries since 1962. Underpinning CAFOD's work is a deeply held set of values that are central to the organisation's ethos and identity, based on principles of compassion, solidarity, stewardship and hope. CAFOD stands alongside excluded communities, sharing resources, uniting in prayer, defending rights and challenging the systems that keep people poor. CAFOD draws its inspiration from Scripture, the Church's social teaching, and the experiences and hopes of the poor. Its mission is to promote human development and social justice in witness to Christian faith and Gospel values. CAFOD’s work in Sudan ===================== CAFOD spent £685,000 on non-emergency work in Sudan in 2004-05 CAFOD and its partner organisations are working to meet the basic needs of Sudan's most vulnerable people in the north and south of the country. Although a ceasefire has been holding since 2001 in southern Sudan, many men have either been killed or are still in the rebel forces, so life is tough for the women living there. More than half a million people were forced away from their homes during the civil war, which continued for many years with little international media attention. Now a peace agreement is expected to be signed within the next few months. In anticipation of this, around 15,000 of these displaced people have started to return to their home villages in the areas where SSWC works. People who fled their homes during the years of war are starting to return to their home villages in the hope of rebuilding their lives there. Working Title: ============= Sudan Village show and tell Purpose: ======= 1. To produce an interactive resource to enable children to learn about daily life in another location. 2. To be able to make comparisons about similar daily activities. 3. To recognise 
 Audience: ======== · Primarily KS2, at home and school, girls and boys. · Teachers in Catholic Primary schools using the resource on a whiteboard or in a computer suite with a class during geography, citizenship or RE lessons. · Teachers using Fairground 9 – Focus on Sudan Required Transformation: ======================= Pupils should move from “I don’t know what happens on a day to day basis in a village in Sudan” to “I understand that some of the activities that happen are like to the activities that I experience daily ” Success Criteria: ================ More hits on schools web pages to visit this resource. More hits on schools web pages. Stories of change from teachers and pupils sent to CAFOD’s Schools Team. Tone, style, sensitivities: Clear and informative, easy to use Fun to use! Visual – bright and colourful Quick to download Will reflect CAFOD’s Vision, Mission and Values Will not endanger CAFOD’s partners Will be in line with child protection policy and use simple and appropriate language Reference sites; =============== [login to view URL] Description of Contents: ======================= In this interactive ‘show and tell’ game, the children will learn more about village life in Southern Sudan. Specifications; ============== Page 1: Show ‘Sudan Village poster’ from Fairground 9. (image available at: [login to view URL] age_life_ks1 - click on "enter village" - but links on this page currently broken) Down one or both sides display a bar of words: Cooking – working – school – playing – houses – farming – water Along the bottom – instruction back and information bar. [TEXT in INSTRUCTION BAR] Use your mouse to drag the correct word to the correct picture to learn more about how people in this village spend their day. Have fun! Page 2: Children drag the word to fit into space bars/empty labels on the picture. If an incorrect choice, the word springs back to the word bar. If a correct choice is made that particular picture becomes animated. For example: Child chooses word ‘PLAYING’, places it correctly by the children playing ball/skipping to trigger the girl to skip [TEXT in INSTRUCTION BAR] WORD MATCH Text in Instruction Bar HOUSES Houses are round and are called ‘tukuls’. They are made from mud, thatch, dung and bamboo. SCHOOL Children can go to primary school but only the lucky ones go on to secondary school. When there’s a civil war there is often no school at all. WORK Children help their parents before and after school. Boys collect firewood for cooking. FARMING Everybody helps to plant, weed and harvest the crops in the field. COLLECTING WATER Girls help their mums to collect water from the pump for cooking, drinking and washing. COOKING The villagers eat sorghum every day. Sorghum are small round seeds that are ground with a stone to make flour. Then water is added to make Kissra bread. Kissra is a thin pancake. PLAYING Children have fun making toy cars from wood and wire. Boys play football made from old torn rags and bandages. Girls like skipping games. ANIMALS Boys look after the village animals. Page 3: When all the words are positioned correctly the whole poster will be fully animated. [TEXT in INSTRUCTION BAR] Well done! We hope you enjoyed your visit to a Sudanese Village. BUTTONS Links: ===== SUDAN VILLAGE – already online [login to view URL] ge_life_ks1 [login to view URL] ge_life_ks2 Homes and families; [login to view URL] ks1_2 [login to view URL] _ks_12 Who is my neighbour? [login to view URL] our_ks1_ks2 Delivery Date: ============= the activity is to form part of our new CAFOD KidzZone primary schools microsite, which will be launching in March 2006. Please quote estimated time for production and when you believe you can realistically deliver the project given your current commitments. Location: ======== CAFOD’s new primary microsite.