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KS2 PSHE: 4. Helping others through actions, donations and spending

Video summary

This animated video explores the impacts on ourselves and the people we help of sharing, donating money or making certain purchasing choices.

Mira feels the emotional benefits of sharing her lunch with her friend Izzy, and donating to a charity.

She then chooses the more ethical products when shoppping, but as they are more expensive she then realises she can't afford to buy ice cream.

This video is from the series Financial education.

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Teacher Notes

Central or big idea

Helping others (by sharing, donating money or making certain purchasing choices) impacts ourselves and the person / people we help.

Questions to explore

  • How does it feel when you help someone in need?
  • What different choices can you make when choosing what to buy in the supermarket?
  • What is the impact of donating to, or volunteering to support a charity?
  • What might influence you to donate to or raise money for a charity?

Key learning outcomes (Young Enterprise Financial Education Planning Framework)

7-9 - Lower KS2

  • I know why it is important to help others e.g. by donating to charity.
  • I can explain how my spending decisions can help support others, e.g. buying fair trade products, using charity shops.
  • I understand why I might, or might not, want to give money to help others.

Key vocabulary and definitions

  • Charity: organisation set up to raise money and help people in need
  • Fairtrade: buying and selling products in a way that makes sure that the people growing or making the products are paid a fair price
  • Free range: where animals are kept in a place with space to move around outside

Suggested activities

How helping others makes us feel:

  • How does Mira feel when she helps Izzy?
  • How does Izzy feel?
  • Think about a choice you could make today that might impact someone in the same way.

How our spending choices influence others:

  • Re-watch the film pausing at key points. What choices does Mira make in the film about how to spend her money?For each choice:
    • Who does this impact and how?
    • What other choice could she have made?
    • What would the impact have been?

Fairtrade:Investigate what fairtrade products are. Who do they support and how?

Ideas for going further

  • Plan an imaginary charity event.
    • Who would you want to support and why?
    • How might you enable people to offer support if they cannot offer money?

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