Posted on 25th January 2016
This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.
With the FIFA presidential elections coming up in February, FSF volunteer and teacher Jenni Hutchinson has produced a lesson plan to teach children all about global football.
The course, made up of four hour long citizenship lessons, is aimed at Key Stage 3 students (years 7-9) and leads on the following:
Throughout the course students will come up with solutions to some of the problems facing world football, produce a manifesto and participate in a mock FIFA election.
Jenni said: “Last year I ran a mock FIFA presidential election with some year seven classes.
“Students thoroughly enjoyed the project, many giving up their lunch hour to attend the school final of the competition.
“The lessons clearly raised awareness – it was interesting to see how different groups arrived at different positions on standing, pyro and so on.
“Best of all were students’ attempts to distribute World Cups fairly – whilst these 11 and 12 year olds obviously found this challenging, some of their ideas were refreshingly straightforward. One idea was to just pull a country out of a hat!”
Included in the resource pack is a PowerPoint with all the lesson instructions, a student pack, teacher’s guide and manifesto template. The latter has two versions; one is for schools where work is completed electronically, the other for schools where resources must be photocopied and distributed manually.
The next meeting of the National Game Network will take place on Sunday 28th April at the Mechanics Institute in Manchester, from 12:30 to approximately 15:00. It is open to representatives from any affiliated or associated supporters groups in the Welsh leagues and the English non-league pyramid, as well as individual fans of clubs throughout these leagues.
We have a vacancy on the FSA National Council for a representative from our EFL League 1 and 2 Network, and voting is now open.
While the coronavirus lockdown has stopped professional sport in its tracks, football has joined the likes of F1 and cycling in using e-sports to fill the void.
Supporter organisations around the globe have come together to sign a statement condemning FIFA’s plans for a two-year world cup cycle.
