The Miniature Earth is an updated version of the earth as a village of 100 people…

Last week I took a 15 minute assembly for Year 7 in a Secondary School on the theme of Poverty. This session was only meant as a basic introduction to the theme, so is deliberately lightweight but is designed to get the children thinking about their own personal response to poverty this Christmas.

A challenging video with a good message from World Vision. New approach to thinking about others’ needs this Christmas.

In 2006 BBC Newsround produced a series of incredible films, The Wrong Trainers, about young people living in poverty in the UK. Using the voices of real young people, the films use animation and carton characters to tell their stories visually. The result is something the Aardman’s Creature Comforts. There are five main stories, all of them involving young people talking about their experience. The animations enable the films to deal with very strong and disturbing stories without making an audience of young people too emotionally upset.