Local Community - Food Banks & Street Pastors Social Action

This is a 60-90 minute lesson about social action. It is in an RE & Citizenship scheme of work exploring different ways people help the community. It focuses on Christianity and the work of food banks and street pastors. This session can also help towards the AQA Religious Studies A GCSE in the Christian Practices paper but does not have any specific exam focus.
It includes:
Picture Analysis of a food bank
The Parable of the Sheep & Goats
Teachings of the Parable of the Sheep & Goats
An introduction to street pastors
2 video clips about street pastors (downloaded so they will never disappear)
An introduction to food banks
2 videos about food banks (downloaded so they will never disappear)
An activity to design their own organisation combining street pastors and food banks
True and false quiz for a plenary task
Extension tasks with a discussion and extra video links

This lesson is fully narrated although this can easily be changed by deleting the icon on each slide if you would prefer it not narrated. This session can easily be lengthened or shortened to last for a shorter or longer amount of time. Students reacted very well to this presentation.

There are also lessons on Sewa, Hillsborough and the Birmingham Six in this Social Action unit.