This collection of resources from the Catholic aid charity CAFOD will help secondary students to engage with issues of justice through the medium of sport.
CAFOD Sport Teaching Resources
CAFOD Primary resources website
This website, from the international charity CAFOD, includes lots of freebies for teachers. The site includes assembly ideas, downloadable resource packs, quizzes, online activities and stories suitable for using with different age groups.
A Sporting Chance?
This set of resources from Oxfam uses the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games to explore inequality within and between countries.
Britain’s Black Olympians
This colourful book celebrates the achievements of Britain’s Black Olympic Heroes. Children from 15 schools in Manchester have written biographies, created artwork and composed poetry, and fan letters about sportsmen and women from minority groups who have represented Great Britain on the Olympic stage.
Teaching about the Paralympic Games
Hold a Recycled Sports Day
Plastic bag footballs, bare foot races and water weight lifting might not be the usual events you will find at a Sports Day but they are if you join Send a Cow’s games – all with an African twist! We’ve got lots of ideas about how you can hold your own ‘Recycled Sports Day’; some […]
Olympic national anthems
The Olympics and Sweatshops
This free resource from the campaigning charity War on Want aims to engage school students on global issues surrounding the London Olympic Games in 2012. Activities have been designed with KS4 in mind but they are also adaptable to KS3.
CAFOD Sport Activities (Primary)
The Catholic aid charity CAFOD has developed a range of primary teaching resources available free online, which highlight the importance of sport in development. They draw on CAFOD’s work in a number of different countries.
Fair’s Fair
This cross-curricular teaching pack for ages 9-14 brings alive the concepts of human rights, equality and fairness by telling stories of people who make sports goods in poorer countries, often working with few rights, and for poverty wages.
