Around the world

Dunedin, New Zealand
Baldwin St is the steepest street in the world with a gradient of 1:2:86 (19 degree slope). This is an annual charity race (in July) where jaffa candies are rolled down the street. Each sweet is sponsored by one person with a prize to the winner and proceeds to charity.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2015/jul/17/photo-highlights-of-the-day-fires-in-greece-to-floods-in-scotland

-What is happening in the picture?
-Where do you think it is?
- Why are people rolling sweets down the road?
- How are the contestants feeling?
- The road is 350m long; how long do you think the sweets take to roll to the bottom?
- What does this competition tell us about the people who live on and around Baldwin St?

Global awareness

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2015/jun/09/wembley-arch-photo-highlights

Children in Langgai village, West Sumatra, Indonesia travel to school every day by travelling through rice fields and crossing rivers on ropes.

- What is happening in this picture?
- Do you think the children are playing? Is this a safe place to play?
- Some of the children are carrying bags- what else could they be doing?

Explain the children are on their way to school and have to cross this river every day using this rope.

- How would it feel to do that every day? The weather in the photo is sunny but what would that crossing be like if it was raining?
- The children must really want to go to school! Why do you think they want to go to school so badly?
- Ask the children to consider how their lives are similar to the lives lead by the children in the photo, and how their lives are different.

Show children on a map where Indonesia is. Remind children that not all children in Indonesia have to cross rivers to get to school, but for these children it is something they have to do every day.