Assembly Plan For key stage 2

Hopes & Dreams

Pick out a few children and ask them what they want to be when they grow up, what are their hopes and dreams?

Use the GO2H video (available from the office) to show how young people in the Third World have hopes and dreams just like they do. Ask the children to tell you why it's so hard for these young people to make their hopes and dreams a reality.

GO2H is something practical they can do - what are their favourite sports? Get the children thinking about what they could do to raise money.

Divide the room into two halves - one half of the room is the UK, the other half is Africa.

Read out this list of descriptions, and get the children to run to the side of the room that they apply to.

• If you get ill here, you can go straight to a doctor, or even a hospital.

• If you get ill here, a hospital could be many miles away, and there may be no-one who can make you better.

• You might use a plastic bag for a football here.

• You get a choice of sports to do at school here, or you can go to your local leisure centre.

• Lots of people here get ill and die of things which, with education and healthcare, they wouldn't catch.

• There are lots of people and medicines to help you keep strong and healthy here.

Use the exercise to explain that the things we take for granted are not available to everyone, and that children in poor countries suffer the effects of that poverty in many different ways, including not having good healthcare and basic facilities that we barely give a thought to.