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What is permaculture?
Home » Educational Resources » Literacy This session guides students through through the use of persuasive writing techniques and how to structure a formal letter. The students are introduced to S.A.L.V.E International and the permaculture work we do in Uganda with street connected children. The students then complete multiple activities to practice the techniques. 3...
Home school resources
Home » Educational Resources » Literacy Our free teaching resources are designed to help educators explore important issues including children’s rights, global inequality and life on the streets with the next generation of learners. Informative and engaging, they aim to empower young people to engage critically with an important global issue while inspiring them to...
International Day for Street Children lesson plan
Home » Educational Resources » Literacy The International Day for Street Children is celebrated every year on the 12th of April. The day provides a platform for raising awareness about children living in the streets and is a great opportunity to get your school involved with S.A.L.V.E.’s work. This lesson introduces students to issues faced by...
English pack x3 lessons
Home » Educational Resources » Literacy This lesson pack offers a series of 3 x 60-minute lessons designed to help develop pupils' English skills while exploring the issue of children living on the streets worldwide. The lesson plans include a wide range of sources (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, novel extracts, first hand accounts) that all explore...
Speech writing pack x2 lessons
Home » Educational Resources » Literacy This speech writing lesson pack contains two lessons. Lesson one introduces students to key persuasive writing techniques and also to S.A.L.V.E. International and some of the work that we do. The lesson uses examples of persuasive writing to demonstrate how the techniques can be used effectively. Lesson two...
Introducing Uganda and Jinja
Home » Educational Resources » Literacy This lesson introduces pupils to Uganda and the town of Jinja, where S.A.L.V.E works. This lesson helps students develop an increased sense of the wider world, recognise similarities and differences between countries as well as starting to engage with human and social features of other places. It encourages them...
Children’s rights and children on the street
Home » Educational Resources » Literacy This lesson introduces pupils to the idea of children’s rights. Using fun activity cards, it explores the difference between a ‘want’ and a ‘need’ and gets pupils to think about the rights that every child deserves – wherever they are in the world. The accompanying PowerPoint then introduces learners...
Mythbusting and looking to the future
Home » Educational Resources » Literacy This lesson is about mythbusting and looking to the future. Activities aim to challenge common myths and misconceptions about children living on the street. A great video by the children at the S.A.L.V.E home works to challenge the negative connotations of being labelled ‘a street child’. Pupils are encouraged...
Life on the streets in Jinja, Uganda
Home » Educational Resources » Literacy This lesson explores life on the streets in Jinja, Uganda. It explores the reasons why children go to the streets in the first place and deals with what living on the streets is really like through the experience of 7 year old Jacob. It also encourages pupils to think...