Football fans

https://www.itv.com/news/2018-08-20/dutch-football-fans-throw-cuddly-toys-to-sick-children-at-feyenoord-match/

Feyenoord, a football team from The Netherlands invited patients from a children's hospital to watch a home game on a Sunday afternoon. The visiting team, Excelsior, heard about the children coming to the match and organised a surprise.

After finding out the children were sitting on a tier below them, the Excelsior supporters brought hundreds of cuddly toys with them and on a signal before the match, threw the toys down to the children. For a few minutes the sky was raining cuddly toys; the pitch and stands were covered in bears and zebras.

What do you see in the picture?
Where is the picture taken?
What do you think football fans might throw?
Can you see what is being thrown in this picture?

Explain the story

- Why did Feyenoord invite children from the local hospital to their match?
- Why did the football fans decide to give toys to children from the hospital?
- The football fans were form a different city; why didn't the football fans keep the toys and give them to children from their own city?
- What does this show us about football fans today?
- Who could have felt like outsiders at this match?
- How do you think the toys made everyone feel at the match?
- what can we learn from the football fans in this story?
- Why is this story about No Outsiders?

No Outsiders in our school: Teaching the Equality Act in Primary Schools by Andrew Moffat

Reclaiming radical ideas in schools: Preparing young children for life in modern Britain by Andrew Moffat

friendship

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/boy-buys-new-wheelchair-best-friend/?fbclid=IwAR39tB1271LflXXGfRMscqIaVYWc4WcLNaRVXujNywE55r9i1RidjQcCjgw

Kamden and Paul are best friends; they both love superheroes and meet up to watch videos. Kamden uses a wheelchair and one day Paul was horrified when he saw his friend's chair tip up and Kamden fall out.

The problem was Kamden had grown too big for his chair, but his family could not afford to buy a new one. Paul said, "His wheelchair has fallen forward so many times and that sucks. Also he has a really hard time pushing it because it's so heavy."

Paul decided he needed to help his friend so he investigated ways to raise money. Paul asked his Mun to set up a Go Fund Me page to raise $3900 for a new chair. In 26 days the page had raised $5935!

Kamden's mum said, "What really contributes to their friendship is that Paul does not see Kamden as someone who has a disability. He sees him as Kamden. Because of that, Kamden truly is himself around him." Paul never acted as though his friend was different.

What do you see in the picture?
How are the children different?
How are the children similar?
How can you tell they are friends?

Explain the story

- Why did Kamden fall out of his wheelchair?
- What do you think Paul did when his friend fell out of his wheelchair? What do you think Paul said to Kamden?
- Why do you think the fundraiser raised so much money so quickly?
- Where did that money come from?
- What does that tell us about people around the world today and attitudes toward disability?
- Kamden's Mum says, "Paul does not see Kamden as someone who has a disability", what does she mean?
- Who could have been an outsider in this story?
- What happened to make sure that person was not an outsider?
- What can we learn from Kamden and Paul?
- Why is this story about No Outsiders?

No Outsiders in our school: Teaching the Equality Act in Primary Schools by Andrew Moffat

Reclaiming radical ideas in schools@ Preapring young children for life in modern Britain by Andrew Moffat

food bank

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46388211

People across the UK have responded to a social media campaign to support food banks over Christmas, started by a member of a traveller community in Durham. Watson Harrop is a proud Gyspy living in Durham and he asked his friends to film themselves filling up their trolleys with food bank donations. Many people took up the challenge, which has now gone worldwide.

Watson says, "The concept is quite simple. People film themselves with their food bank donations and challenge friends to do the same on social media." Its irrelevant how much people spend,
"If someone buys ten tins of beans for £2 that is good enough."

Food banks around the UK are reporting a huge intake. A food bank in Darlington said the amount of donations were a miracle of Christmas; "I've never seen anything like it! I was speechless!"
Food banks in Coventry and Stratford were also stunned. Watson's local food bank has enough food to last till July.

What do you see in the picture?
What do you think is happening?

Explain the story

- What is a food bank?
- How do food banks get food?
- Why do you think so many people are giving food?
- When people give food do they know who is going to eat it? Is there a "Christian" section, a "Muslim" section? A section for people of different race, or language? Why not?
- Are the people who donate to food banks bothered about who gets to eat their donation?
- This challenge has gone viral, what does this show about people in the UK today and their attitudes towards different people and people who need help?
- Watson is from the traveller community; why didn't he set up a challenge just to help other people in the traveller community? What does this show about Watson?
- What can we learn from Watson?
- Why is this story about No Outsiders?

No Outsiders in our school: Teaching the Equality Act in Primary Schools by Andrew Moffat

Reclaiming radical ideas in schools: Preparing young children for life in modern Britain by Andrew Moffat

racist graffiti

https://inews.co.uk/news/walthamstow-racist-sign-graffiti-transformed-diversity-local-artist/

Racist graffiti found in London this week was transformed in to a celebration of diversity by an artist. The sign originally said "Speak English" but when local artist Chris Walker saw it he added, "we" and then listed a huge range of other languages spoken in the area- Lithuanian, Panjabi (spelled incorrectly), Bulgarian, French, Turkish, Urdu, Tamil, Polish, Romanian, Cockney, French.

Chris posted the sign on twitter saying, "I can only assume our local 'artist' was spooked before he could finish his masterpiece, Allow me to finish it for you."

Chris said he wanted his altered sign to point out "The area's diversity is what makes it so great."

"I saw they'd left me quite a bit of space around their 'artwork' so I thought I'd fill in the blanks."

What do you see in the picture?
What is the sign about?
Why do you think the handwriting is different for English and the other words?

explain the story

- why do you think someone chose to write "Speak English" on a fence? (some people don't understand about No Outsiders yet; some people are scared of difference including hearing language they don't understand. Some people think their city is better with one kind of language, one kind of skin colour, one kind of faith; it's the opposite to what we know and what the artist Chris knows - our city is brilliant because of the different language, different race and different religion!)
- why do people say "Speak English" is racist?
- Why did Chris add "we"?
- Why did Chris add lots of different languages?
-Chris says "They left me quite a bit of space" and he, "filled in the blanks", "Allow me to finish it for you," what does he mean?
- Why didn't Chris just rub out the graffiti or paint over it?
- The new graffiti got lots of press attention and went viral on twitter - what does this show about people in the UK today and what they think about different language?
- What do you think the person who wrote the original words feels about the changes? How do we change attitudes towards difference when someone doesn't understand about No Outsiders?
- Why is this story about No Outsiders?

No Outsiders in our school: Teaching the Equality Act in primary schools by Andrew Moffat

Reclaiming radical ideas in schools: Preparing young children for life in modern Britain by Andrew Moffat