KS3 LLW

Lesson Two Teacher Notes

Learning objectives

This lesson will help students to:

  • Take action by organising fundraising activities
  • Develop planning, communication, empathy and teamwork skills

Lesson materials

  • Lesson Two PowerPoint
  • Video 3: Where will your fundraising go?
  • Video 4: Fundraising ideas from our friends
  • Resource sheet: Fundraising ideas (one copy per group)
  • Resource sheet: Planning our fundraising activity (six copies)

Starter activity

Why are we fundraising?

(10 minutes)

Slides 1 to 2

Recap on what students found out about BBC Children in Need in the last lesson. Show them slide 1 and remind them of the key facts:

  • BBC Children in Need’s vision is that every child in the UK has a safe, happy and secure childhood and the chance to reach their potential
  • Since 1980, BBC Children in Need has raised over £770 million to help disadvantaged children across the UK
  • Last year, BBC Children in Need funded 2,600 projects that support children and young people, including some in our area

If students researched projects in your area as a homework task, allow five minutes for feedback here.

Tell students that this year BBC Children in Need is calling on children and young people across the UK to become Champions of Change by raising money to change lives.

Explain that even the smallest amount of money can make a real difference to a child or young person in need. Show them the video ‘Where will your fundraising go?’ and the facts on slide 2.

  • If everyone in school donated just £1, how much money would be raised?
  • What difference could this make to children and young people?

Tell students that in this lesson they’re going to take their first step as Champions of Change by planning their very own fundraising activity. How much would they like to raise as a class? Encourage them to be ambitious but realistic!

Main activity

Planning fundraising

(40 minutes)

Slides 3 to 6

Fundraising ideas

To kick-start students’ fundraising, show the video ‘Fundraising ideas from our friends’ (slide 3).

Do the students think they’re bakers, like Alex Jones? Or more like Marvin Humes, up for a challenge?

Divide the class into mixed-ability groups, give each a copy of the ‘Fundraising ideas’ sheet and ask them to come up with as many different ideas for fundraising activities as they can.

Show them slide 4 as a prompt. Encourage them to be as imaginative as possible – they can always rule things out later. The important thing is to think of activities that will be fun for the whole class and will raise loads of money! Remind them that the school will already be organising a fancy dress day so they shouldn’t use this as an activity idea.

After five minutes, ask each group to decide on its best fundraising idea. This is the point at which students should think about how do-able their idea is, as well as how exciting!

Putting it to the vote

Ask the groups to nominate someone to persuade the other groups that their top fundraising activity is better than the others.

Display slide 5 and encourage students to use the questions as prompts for challenging each idea. Will it be practical? How much is it likely to raise? Will it be popular with young people? Will everyone be able to take part?

List all the possible ideas on the whiteboard – if you feel something isn’t realistic, rule it out at this stage.

Take a vote to see which idea is the class favourite. Remind students that they can’t vote for their own group’s idea. Are they happy to vote by show of hands or would they rather use a secret ballot?

Ask for volunteers from the team whose fundraising activity idea is chosen to take on the project manager’s role. Explain that they’ll be responsible for taking plans forward and making sure the event actually happens!

Get planning!

Divide the class into five groups and give each a copy of the ‘Planning our fundraising activity’ sheet. Ask each group to focus on one area of the sheet:

  • Finance
  • Resources
  • Timings
  • Promotion
  • Health and safety

Display slide 6 as a further prompt.

Give students five minutes or so to answer the questions and then bring them back together to share their thoughts. Give the project managers a blank copy of the ‘Planning our fundraising activity’ sheet and ask them to record each group’s answers so there’s a complete planning grid by the end of the lesson.

Plenary

Moving forward

(10 minutes)

Slide 7

Review the students’ overall fundraising plan with them and flag up any potential problems.

Talk with them about how they’re actually going to make their fundraising activity happen. Help them make arrangements for their next planning meeting.

Ask students to reflect on what they have learnt; why is it important young people understand what charities do? Has the lesson empowered them and encouraged them to make a difference? Have they changed their views on charities? How can they encourage others to become champions of change?

Congratulate them on becoming Champions of Change!

Homework suggestion

Ask students to produce something to help promote their class fundraising event. Could they design a poster for display on school notice boards? Write a news story for the school website or newsletter? Produce promotional information for distribution via social media?

Lesson two

Further challenges and learning

Choose from the following suggestions if you’d like to build on the students’ work in this lesson.

Activity one

Reviewing and evaluating action

Devote ten minutes or so at the start of each lesson in the run-up to BBC Children in Need Appeal Day to reviewing students’ progress towards their fundraising activity. Provide encouragement and support as needed.

After the fundraising activity has taken place, spend time evaluating it with students. What went well? What could have gone better? What would they change if they were to run the event again? How could they have raised more money?

Activity two

Spreading the word

Ask some of the more-able and confident students to lead an assembly about BBC Children in Need for their year group. They could show films from the BBC Children in Need website, talk about the projects BBC Children in Need supports in your area and promote their fundraising event.

Activity three

Set up a fundraising group

Students will hopefully come away from the Champions of Change experience fired up about making a difference through fundraising. Why not encourage your most enthusiastic fundraisers to set up a group to promote and help co-ordinate future fundraising efforts in school?

KS3 PSHE and Citizenship

Lesson two resource sheet:

Fundraising ideas

How could the class raise money for BBC Children in Need? Could you have a bake sale? A tombola? Organise a sponsored event? Put on a performance? Come up with as many ideas as you can below, then choose your favourite. Think about how practical your chosen idea is as well as its fun factor!

Our favourite fundraising idea is:

KS3 PSHE and Citizenship

Lesson two resource sheet:

Planning our fundraising activity

Finance

Do we need to buy anything for our fundraising activity?
How much will we need to spend? Where will we get this money?
How will we raise money from the activity? (e.g. donations, sponsorship, selling things)
How much should we charge?

Tip: you may wish to create a resource price list or get a resource book from the school office so students are working with realistic prices.

Resources

Where will our fundraising activity take place?
(do we need to adapt the space?)
What resources do we need? (e.g. help from people, technical equipment, furniture)

Timings

When will our fundraising activity take place? (date and time)
How many planning meetings will we need? When will we hold these?

Promotion

Who is our target audience?
How can we promote the event to them? (e.g. posters, social media, in assembly)

Health and safety

What are the risks involved in this activity?
Are there health and safety considerations?
Do we need a wet weather plan?