WE Scare Hunger Primary Lesson Package

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) outlines under Article 24, that every child has the right to the best possible health. Governments must work to provide good quality health care, clean water, nutritious food, and a clean environment so that children can stay healthy. Article 27 notes that every child has the right to a standard of living that is good enough to meet their physical, social and mental needs. In order to ensure that young people across the UK understand the importance of these rights and the responsibilities associated with
them, food poverty and hunger are issues that cannot go undiscussed.

Hunger hides on city streets, in our local communities, and in school corridors, often invisible to most around it. It is thought of as a world problem, plaguing far away countries and faceless individuals, overlooked and under-acknowledged where we live. Young people around the world take action to fight local hunger and poverty by participating in WE's WE Scare Hunger campaign.

In the UK today, almost one in six children lives below the poverty line—that’s more than two million children. This shocking figure reveals that families go hungry every day, and for many, the local foodbank is their only support. Foodbanks offer emergency, short-term food supplies
to people (the majority of whom are working) who find themselves struggling to feed their families. This could be because of sudden illness, a reduction in working hours, or simply an unexpected bill. Food is often donated to foodbanks by local people and businesses. The Trussell
Trust, which runs foodbanks across the UK, provided 1,109,309 three-day emergency food packages in 2015-16, of which over 400,000 went to children. The demand for donations to these foodbanks is higher than ever.

Each lesson in the package is organised into starters, main activities and plenaries, with suggestions for differentiation. Clear learning objectives and success criteria following Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning ensure progression within each lesson and the package as a whole.
These lessons develop many aspects of character education and SMSC, with a holistic and tangible approach, encompassing local and global social awareness and action, and empower young people to make positive changes in the world around them.