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• Introduction for teachers (32kB)

  How to use these resources, curriculum links and background information.

• Images to accompany Blanket Knitting Campaign Script (6MB)

  These images accompany the script above

• Beliefs and Changing the World (80kB)

  Helps pupils understand what a campaign is, introduces them to goals for international development and investigates participating in a campaign. Includes Millennium Development Goals Cards, Opinion and Facts Sheet and What I want to Change and Why Sheet.

• Better Healthcare for mothers and Babies: Understanding the Problem (60kB)

  Helps pupils understand the importance of healthcare for mothers and children. Includes work sheets on cause and effects.

• Blanket Knitting Campaign Script (43kB)

  Class or assembly script

• Links and Information for Knitters (42kB)

  Information useful for teaching a class to knit

• Making Coloured Squares: Following and Giving Instructions (49kB)

  Helps pupils to begin making coloured squares while practicing following instructions, practicing measuring and drawing and thinking about tessellation. Includes Making Coloured Squares Sheet.

• Oxfam's Blanket Knitting Campaign (47kB)

  A letter to parents explaining this campaign and offering further information.

• Recycling, 'Frogging' and the Role of Charity Shops (49kB)

  Helps pupils understand what charity shops do, investigates recycling and frogging – reusing wool from old jumpers.

• Tiling and Tessellation (38kB)

  Helps pupils understand triangles, squares, hexagons and irregular shapes by experimenting with creating coloured shapes and patterns.