Rail Strikes Tutor Time, Citizenship, Assembly, PSHE, Whole School

This is a 10-15 minute narrated assembly or Citizenship tutor time session on the rail strikes happening in the UK. This was to inform the students about what was going on in the rail strikes, teach them the difference between public and private sector workers and give room for debate about industrial action. This could easily be lengthened to an hour’s lesson by holding a more formal debate.

It is suitable for KS3-KS5 (Ages 11-18, Years 7-13, Grades 6-12) and can be used as an assembly or part of the Citizenship, PSHE, FBV, SMSC or tutor time programmes.

This session contains:

• Explanation about the rail strikes
• What impact this had & how many staff were on strike
• The definitions and examples of public and private sector workers
• Explanation about why people go on strike
• Definition and explanation about ‘crossing a picket line’
• Why this a current issue
• A downloaded short clipped video that will never disappear about the rail strikes
• A debate about industrial action
• A slide about other news that is going on including links to other news sites
• Extra links for students to look at in their own time (great for online provision)
• Quotes, dual coding, discussion tasks and logos throughout

This session is narrated but this can easily be changed by deleting the icon on each slide if you would prefer it not narrated.

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