This time last year we took part in the Mary’s Meals Backpack Challenge. I have received an email from the Mary's Meals charity again, which I have copied below. Please feel free to download the resources and use them or not, it’s just another idea for the children to get involved in.
Dear Mrs. R McCarry,
I am contacting you on behalf of the charity Mary’s Meals. We set up community-run school feeding programmes in some of the world’s poorest communities, where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education. Our aim is to provide chronically hungry children with a daily meal in their place of education, which encourages them back into the classroom.
We recognise that this is a difficult time for many pupils across Northern Ireland who are engaging in home learning. For children stuck indoors, books are a great escape — so we’re delighted to share an activity pack for pupils based on excerpts from the bestselling book ‘The Shed That Fed A Million Children’, written by our founder Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow.
Download this activity pack here.
Through these stories, your pupils can travel with Magnus from the Highlands of Scotland to the heart of Africa, where they will meet some of the people who inspired our work to feed hungry children in schools. We have included questions alongside each passage, encouraging pupils to think about the lives of children around the world.
Mary’s Meals has also created a Fill Mugs to Fight Hunger activity pack, which might help your pupils to flex their creative muscles while helping a child in need. This pack can be downloaded here.
We hope you enjoy sharing these resources with the children you teach. Why not tag us on social media, using @marysmeals, to let us know how they get on? We can also send you films of Magnus reading these excerpts to share with your class — please get in touch to request these. Finally, any feedback on these resources would be very welcome.
Kind Regards,
Caoimhe McCann
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