Rising Household Bills & New Laws April 2022 Assembly, Tutor Time, PSHE, Citizenship

This is a 10-15 minute assembly about the rise in household bills in the UK from 1st April 2022. This also covers the energy crisis, cost of living and the new laws that are now in place from this date.

It is suitable for KS3-KS5 (Ages 11-18, Years 7-13, Grades 6-12) and includes many discussion activities that could easily be lengthened as written activities if you wanted it to last for a 60-90 minute lesson instead. It was used as a Citizenship whole school tutor time session for the week before the price hike.
It includes:

• What is happening with the price rises?
• Why are the wholesale energy prices rising?
  -What sort of things are being increased? Prices such as council tax, cars, energy etc with figures.
• A downloaded and clipped video which will never disappear about the new laws that are taking effect in the UK from 1st April 2022.
• Class debate around personal responsibility for changing actions to help
• How this links to the British Value or Rule of Law
• How this connects to the UN Rights of a Child
• Discussion and reflection point
• Links so students can watch or read about the issue further (excellent for online platforms)
• Quotes, pictures, dual coding, reference to other news stories of the week
• Ends with an online news quiz
• Extension video if you are going to use this resource for a lesson - downloaded and clipped so it will never disappear.

This is a narrated powerpoint but it can easily be changed by deleting the icon on each slide if you would prefer it not narrated. This session fits into the Citizenship and PSHE curriculum but also covers SMSC, History, RSE and Health Curriculum and Fundamental British Values. Students reacted very well to this resource and many interesting discussions came from it.