Educational Resources

Mary’s Meals resources for your classrooms

Tony Begley - Mary's Meals Education Coordinator

Hello and welcome. I am Tony Begley Education Coordinator for Mary’s Meals. I have been involved in Education at a variety of levels for 27 years, as a teacher through to Depute Head of Holyrood Secondary, Glasgow, before leaving to take up my present post in Sept 2010.

We live in a fast changing and ever increasing interdependent world. The world is “shrinking”, we are all connected and affected by: trade, the movement of people, the advances in media, information technology, the environment, travel… Our lives and the lives of our children are increasingly shaped by what happens in other parts of the world.
We are now part of the “Global Village” and more than ever we must provide opportunities for our young people to look beyond their world, and to learn about the wider world they will one day inherit and share with others.

We at Mary’s Meals want to help you equip young people with the knowledge, understanding, skills and values needed to enable them to meet the challenges they will face in this 21st century and to enable them to participate fully in ensuring their own and others’ well-being, while making a positive contribution both locally and globally.

Study of the lives of the children supported by Mary’s Meals provides a rich inter-departmental context for delivering many aspects of the modern curriculum, particularly in areas such as Global Citizenship, Religious & Moral Education ( RME) and Enterprise. A Mary’s Meal campaign can also be great focus for a school community and a way of bringing the schools shared values to life.

We have put together some resources for teachers and others involved with education which we hope will be useful. We have also included some exemplars simply to highlight the variety of ways in which schools have used Mary’s Meals as a context for delivering aspects of learning.

Please explore and follow links to relevant materials.

If you would like a Mary’s Meals Speaker to visit your school or club please email speakers@marysmeals.org For any other enquiry please phone or contact me at schools@marysmeals.org.

Tony Begley
Phone No – 0800 698 1212
Email – tony.begley@marysmeals.org

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