Soup kitchen: helping others less fortunate

This project idea will develop a knowledge and understanding of Glasgow health, society, poverty and helping to tackle these issues by applying this knowledge in a real life context. Young people will work in teams to create a soup which will be highly nutritious. They will seek sponsorship from supermarkets to make the soup and help hand it out in their local area with the aid of a charity e.g. ‘Shelter’ in order to provide the homeless with a good healthy meal.

Broad Outcomes of learning

• Subject knowledge gained and enhanced by transferring learning in the classroom into real life situations/tasks
• Enterprising skills improved by developing confidence, self awareness, positive attitude; increasing motivation to learning; taking responsibility and making decisions; consideration of others; raising achievement and fostering ambition
• Developed employability skills: communication, planning, organisation, time management, researching, co-operating, contributing, sourcing, analysing, marketing etc
• Pupils take responsibility for their learning through making decisions about the soup that will be provided and where it will be provided
• Learners have developed 4 capacities of CfE

Relevance to curriculum

• Relevance of how curriculum topic on nutrition and the dietary needs of individuals is relevant to work and life and how this subject knowledge is put into practice in a real situation