poetry / sign language film: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/51747432
growing up interview: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/53047796
Letter sent to MPs: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jun/15/protect-the-vulnerable-marcus-rashfords-emotional-letter-to-mps
Marcus Rashford has become very famous this week in the UK
because he wrote to the Prime Minister and all MPs in Parliament, asking them to
reconsider providing free school meals for children over the summer holidays.
The Prime Minister listened to Marcus and changed his mind; children who need
them will be provided with free school meals during summer.
Today Marcus is a professional footballer, playing for
Manchester United and in the England Team. As a child Marcus lived in a single
parent family and he says Mum worked every day to feed five children in the
house and she often struggled to put food on the table. Marcus had free school
meals as a child. He describes his family shopping at pound world when he was a
child and counting out food to make it last for the whole week.
In his letter, Marcus says, “Can we not all agree that no
child should be going to bed hungry?”
The photo shows Marcus judging a poetry competition on World
Book Day in March 2020. Realising that some of the entrants were deaf, Marcus
learned sign language to reveal the winners. Marcus says he wants children to
express themselves and develop creative minds. He says people don’t know that
he enjoys reading and he posted a photo on twitter of him reading a book.
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Why did Marcus want to learn sign language?
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Why didn’t he ask someone who knew sign language
to stand next to him and sign so that he could just talk when he announced the
winners (the children who were deaf would be able to understand by watching the
other person)
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Why do you think Marcus posted a photo of him
reading a book?
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Why do you think people think Marcus doesn’t
like reading?
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Why does Marcus like reading?
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In the video Marcus gets the signing wrong. What
is his response? Why doesn’t he give up?
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Why do you think Marcus wrote to the Prime
Minister?
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Why do you think the Prime Minister changed his
mind?
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What does this demonstrate about the importance
of speaking up?
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Do you think when Marcus was a child, he ever
thought he would be writing to the Prime Minister and getting him to change his
mind about government policy?
- This month we have been talking about Black Lives Matter. Marcus’s actions will change the lives of 1.3 million children registered for free school meals in the UK. Are all those children white? Are they all black? What can we learn from this story?
If you could send a message to Marcus, what would you say?
Why is this story about No Outsiders?
No Outsiders in our school: Everyone different, everyone welcome by Andrew Moffat
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