SoundAffects Education: Innovative global citizenship audio resource available now

The first ten SoundAffects Education global citizenship audio Topics are now available to download or buy on DVD from the SoundAffects website.

SoundAffects Education uses professionally recorded audio of children in the global south talking about issues which affect their lives to connect children in classrooms world-wide. Each Topic fills between two and five lessons, and consists of a number of short audio clips, supported by still images, transcripts, background notes, curriculum links, and simple structured lesson plans prepared by experienced education writers.

Key Stage 1 Topics
Friends: Ghana
Pets: Ghana and Sri Lanka

Key Stage 2 Topics
My Family: Ghana
My School: Sri Lanka
Food: Ghana
Where I Live, Denu: Ghana

Key Stage 3 Topics
Fair Trade: South Africa
Flooding and Climate Change: Sri Lanka
Gender Relations: Ghana
Role Models and Ambitions: Sri Lanka

Refugee welcome

Warm greetings help make the world go round. But how do you say how-do in, say, Somali, Urdu or Tamil? Mark Refugee Week in linguistic style - click here.

Food in Africa

This lively, fast-moving, photo and video-based lesson will help challenge over-simplistic views about food in Africa - click here.

Cumbria Shootings

A stop-press section of the Red Cross News think! bulletin - click here.

World Cup resources from Self Help Africa and Send A Cow

Self Help Africa and Send A Cow are teaming up with schools to score a goal against hunger this summer. Both organisations have been working for many years supporting farming families in African countries to grow enough food, earn an income and gain better access to water, education and health care. They have put together some fun footie ideas for schools, including a lesson plan with teachers' notes, an interactive assembly, a short film, animal stickers and some easy activities. Find out more...

Football and Freedom - Exploring South Africa's History, Culture and Context

Football and Freedom is a resource pack bursting with fun and informative teaching resources and activities for teaching children about South Africa through football. It enables teachers to use the excitement around the World Cup 2010 as a motivation for learning about South Africa. Although this pack has been produced for the World Cup year, most of the materials can be used at any time for teaching about South Africa.

The pack can be accessed on the teachers website.

SoundAffects Education New Global Citizenship Teaching Resource Available June 2010

The SoundAffects charity uses professionally recorded audio to connect children in classrooms world-wide, to enhance their understanding of the diversity of today's world, and equip them to be better citizens of tomorrow's global community. This innovative educational resource will be available to download from the SoundAffects website from June 2010.

Audio recordings of children in the global south describing issues which affect their lives will help to enhance the global citizenship curriculum at Key Stages 1, 2 and 3, in a range of subjects including Geography, English and PHSE. Audio, with specified links to the new English national curriculum, is issued in Topics, each filling an average of four lessons. Recordings are supported by a few still images, transcripts, background notes, and simple structured lesson plans prepared by experienced education writers.

Primary Topics available in June 2010 include My School: Sri Lanka (KS2), My Family: Ghana (KS2), Pets in Ghana and Sri Lanka (KS1), Friends: Ghana (KS1), Food: Ghana (KS2), and Where I Live, Denu, Ghana (KS2).

Secondary Topics include Role Models and Ambitions, Sri Lanka (KS3), Gender Relations: Ghana (KS3), Flooding and Climate Change: Sri Lanka (KS3), Fair Trade: South Africa (KS3).

Climate change resources from actionaid

There are six new climate change resources avaliable from actionaid - click here to download.

Global Learning Through Global Weeks: A practical guide

Cheshire DEC have produced a publication Global Learning Through Global Weeks - A practical guide which will be a guide for teachers who wish to run a Global Focus week in their school.

This guide is available from Cheshire DEC for £6.50 plus p&p. To order a copy, please call them on 01244 347880 or email info@cheshiredec.org with your address details.

Campaign! Make an Impact - resources from the British Library

Campaign! Make an Impact is an innovative initiative that uses history to inspire young people into active citizenship. This is a national programme in partnership with the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives) Council that is being rolled out across England in 2009/11, funded through the DCMS/DCSF Strategic Commissioning Programme.

This cross-curricular programme uses historical campaigns to inspire and teach campaign skills, enabling children and young people to run their own campaigns about issues that affect them today. It's based around a three step model:

• schools and local museums to work together, using museum collections and classroom resources to help young people understand historical campaigns
• next, the students explore the creative techniques that were used by historical campaigners
• finally they run a campaign on a subject of their own choosing such as bullying, knife crime or the environment. Bringing history and citizenship together deepens the learning experience.

Young people leave the programme feeling that they know and are able to change aspects of their world, a valuable lesson that helps increase self esteem.

Find out more...

Resources to support teaching about the UK General Election

As part of its Votes at 16 campaign, the Co-op has produced a series of lesson plans and resources to engage students in the upcoming election. The lessons consider ways in which young people can ensure their voices are heard, and explore the power of the vote.

The resources are suitable for both specialist and non specialist teachers of Citizenship, but are also of use to teachers of Politics, History and Humanities. Click here to download.

There are also resources available from Google, who are have a set of UK School Election pages, providing:

• Detailed lesson plans focused on democracy and the election for ages 11-14, 14-16 and 16-18 with strong links to the home nations' curricula for Citizenship and General Studies, and full teachers' notes.
• Detailed delivery notes for teachers on all aspects of a general election.
• A step-by-step guide for running a mock election in your class or as a whole school activity.
• The chance to enter class or school's votes into Google's election map, and be part of the national survey of how young people would vote.
• Find out more...

Going Up, Growing Up - Peer Education for Global Citizenship: A tool for transition

This teacher pack has just been launched by Manchester DEP. It provides teachers with practical activities on how to ease primary to secondary school transition using peer education and global dimension methodologies.

Transition from primary to secondary school can be daunting, with many children finding it hard to adapt to the larger, more complex social environment in which they find themselves. This pack, which is the culmination of a three-year project working with school clusters, is designed to train older pupils as peer educators, who themselves train and inspire pupils in the late stages of primary school, helping to bridge the gap between the two. Peer educators learn and then teach about important topics in the modern world, whilst gaining a range of skills relating to communication, facilitation and the importance of respecting others as equals.

The pack is available from Manchester DEP or email info@dep.org.uk for £24.99 plus p&p, discounted for DECs.

Regional Global / International newsletter

Click here to download the Spring/Summer newsletter.

Football World Cup Resource

A CD packed with resources on the World Cup in June/July in South Africa. It is very cross curricular with particular focus on literacy,numeracy, geography, DT and Art and games and puzzles, plus a guide to running an “opening ceremony”. Each topic comes with detailed lesson plans and photocopiable worksheets.

The CD costs £20. For a list of the actvities included and an order form, please download here.

Going Up, Growing Up - Peer education for global citizenship; a tool for transition

Transition from primary to secondary school can be daunting, with many children finding it hard to adapt to the larger, more complex social environment in which they find themselves in secondary school. This NEW teacher handbook supports teachers in easing pupils' transition, using global dimension and peer education methodologies.

The handbook is designed to train older pupils to act as peer educators, thus empowering and inspiring pupils in the late stages of primary school, and helping to bridge the gap between the two. The peer educators learn then teach about important topics in the modern world whilst gaining a range of skills relating to communication, facilitation and the importance of respect for others as equals.

Buy online at the dep website or contact DEP for more information, 0161 921 8020

New resources from Islamic Relief UK

Islamic Relief UK have produced a range of new resources which offer Islamic perspectives on development issues.

• ‘Islam and the Environment'. A presentation which explores an Islamic perspective on the environment, drawing upon verses from the Qur'an and sayings of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Key Stage 2 / 3
• ‘Poverty and Conflict'. A presentation which discusses the links between endemic poverty and conflict, taking Gaza as a case study. Key Stage 3 and above.
• ‘Qurbani (Udhiya): An Introduction'. A presentation on the Islamic festival of Eid ul Adha, with special focus on the religious significance of the sacrificial rites. Key Stage 3 and above
  ‘Ayesha's Eid Sacrifice!'
• A lively audio book for children on the topic of Eid ul Adha with appealing visual images. The aim of this resource is to educate children on the meaning of sacrifice within a stimulating story format. Key Stage 1 / 2

These are available in PowerPoint format, free to download fromthe Islamic relief website

RISC's March e-news

Click here to download the March edition of RISC e-news, which explores the World Cup as a way of delivering Global Citizenship and looks at the issue of forced labour. It also includes information about an online photo project, CPD opportunities and new resources.

Haiti earthquake resource

A resource including photo, powerpoint and audio material - Click here

Right to food resource

An explanation of the right to food and issues relating to hunger and poverty, plus activity ideas - Click here

New Online CPD Units from the Geographical Association

Two new sets of free CPD courses have been launched on the GA website.

For primary - My Place, Your Place, Our Place explores the relationships between identity and place by drawing on some key geographical processes and understanding - click here.

For secondary -Exploring the Geography of Food looks at the relationships between food and the secondary geography curriculum - click here.

An Archaeology of 'Race' - Free online teaching pack

Research has shown that in areas with low numbers of BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) pupils, racial prejudice is often most deep-seated and widespread. In addition, the growth of far-right groups in the country has become a cause for concern. Part of race equality teaching is helping pupils to understand their multicultural origins, and dispelling the myth that Britishness is synonymous with a white, mono-ethnic, religious and cultural background.

This new teaching pack attempts to explore the reality of multi-cultural Britain, which reaches far back into history. It examines the Northern Frontier of Hadrian's Wall as being, in Roman times, a site of multicultural flows, and residency of the African Emperor of Rome, Septimius Severus who lived and died in York (211). It also explores the resultant benefits of this to British society, as we know it today. It links with the Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 in the History and Citizenship curriculum.

The teaching pack is already being used in schools in Durham and has been approved by Durham CC inspector for schools in Geography and History, Ron Rooney. It has been written by the Durham county council's Ethnic Minority and Traveler Achievement Service (EMTAS) based on an exhibition entitled 'An archaeology of race' curated by Divya Tolia-Kelly and Claire Nesbitt at Durham University. The research and exhibition was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Durham Geography.

For further information, and to download the pack, click here.

New Resources from Oxfam - and their resources sale is still on

The Big Picture: The new Spring Term issue of Oxfam's magazine for teachers is now available. As public pressure mounts on world leaders to keep their promises on the Millennium Development Goals, and to reach a real climate change deal post-Copenhagen, this term's magazine is brimming with features, activities, and ideas for getting involved.

Climate change and Copenhagen - where next? Oxfam has a range of resources for exploring the outcome of the Copenhagen climate change talks with your students, and further ideas for action and learning.

Change the World in 8 Steps - updated for 2010: 2010 marks a decade since world leaders agreed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and just five years until they need to be met. Download updated resources and activities exploring each of the MDGs.

Fair Miles: Recharting the food miles map - Do you ever stand there in the supermarket dithering about whether buying those green beans from Kenya is a 'good thing' (supporting Kenyan farmers) or 'bad thing' (think of the carbon emissions caused by all those food miles!)? Is it always better to 'buy locally'? And what do your students think? This new little book from Oxfam and IIED delves into the realities of the produce trade between Africa and the UK, examining both sides of the equation to help your search for an 'ethically balanced' diet - it talks in terms of 'fair miles' rather than 'food miles'. Whilst not targetted at schools, it is very clearly written and colourfully laid-out, with easy-to-understand charts and diagrams. An excellent resource for Geography or Citizenship, for example, at secondary or post-16 level:

The Oxfam education resources sale is still on: To order hundreds of fantastic Global Citizenship resources with 40% off visit Oxfam's website

The Globe - Global Dimensions January e-newsletter

Click here to read the e-newsletter.

Haiti Earthquake Resources

Oxfam Youth and Schools has produced resources on the Haiti Earthquake, which can be accessed online - click here

The resources consist of an assembly/presentation with notes and links to Oxfam's 'Dealing with Disasters' on-line pack and the fund-raising in schools booklet.

Oxfam is in the forefront of bringing emergency humanitarian assistance to the people of Haiti and is committed to working in the country long term. Please use the resources which give an overview of Haiti's History and background and why this had impacted on the current disaster.

New Primary Global Citizenship programmes on Teachers TV

Teachers TV have two new 15-minute programmes around the theme of Primary Global Citizenship.

From King's Lynn to India features St Martha's primary school in King's Lynn, who have been working with the West Norfolk branch of NEAD on a half term project to make pupils think about the world beyond their local area. Next showing on Teachers TV at 10:30 on 9 December 2009. Can also be viewed online here.

The Rights of the Child features West Hill Primary School in London, a Rights Respecting School. Next showing on Teachers TV at 10:45 on 9 December 2009. Can also be viewed online here.

Multicultural, RE and Curriculum Resource Centre

On 18 November, the Multicultural, RE and Curriculum Resource Centre based at Quorn Hall (Meynell Road, Leicestershire LE12 8BG) held an Open Day. Please click here for information about the Centre.

The Centre is part of Library Services for Education (LSE) and holds a wealth of books, teaching resources and artefact boxes.

These resources are available to borrow as follows:

Schools or individuals subscribed to Library Services for Education - resources are available on loan free of charge. Subscriptions are available to both Leicestershire LA schools and to Non-Leicestershire LA schools (see Leicestershire County Council website for details of charges). Individual subscriptions cost £94 per year.

Schools who are not subcribed to Library Services for Education - the artefact boxes are available on loan at a cost of £20 for Leicestershire LA schools and £22 for non-Leicestershire LA schools.

Visitors are welcome at the Centre on Wednesday afternoons from 3pm to 5pm by appointment. Please contact Clive Brett at LSE on 0116 305 3818 or clive.brett@leics.gov.uk. The resources are fantastic and I would really urge you to visit if you've never been.

Global Education Derby - New resources catalogue

Click here to download the catalogue for Early Years and Primary

New Education Pack - 'Out of Site': Challenging Racism Towards Gypsy, Roma and Travellers

Show Racism the Red Card has launched an Education Pack to combat racism towards Gypsy, Roma and Travellers. Though primarily aimed at schools and colleges, it is valuable as a more general resource. It is easy to read, contains a mass of information and aims to address common misconceptions and myths as well as increase awareness and understanding.

Click here to download the pack.

Self Help Africa Website

Bridges has been commissioned by Self Help Africa, a NGO working with farmers in Africa, to produce a range of school resources for KS1 - 4, including activities to support Citizenship, Healthy Schools and Sustainable schools. These activities, written by Sylvia Ruxton from Bridges, have been reviewed and trialled by teachers and will be available as free downloads from the Self Help Africa website in September.

Out of Site - new pack to combat racism towards Gypsy Roma Travellers

Show Racism the Red Card has launched Out of Site, a new Education Pack to combat racism towards Gypsy Roma Travellers (GRT). The pack is produced in partnership with Durham Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Service and in collaboration with highly respected academics and experts in the field of GRT, as well as with Gypsy, Roma, and Travellers themselves.

Feedback for the new resource has been extremely positive, Sylvester Huczko of the Roma Support Group says "I think the 'Out of Site' pack is one of the best GRT packs I have seen in years. It has good exercises, true facts and good figures [and] is extremely informative and sharp: it is a pack to be proud of."

The pack is downloadable free of charge from www.srtrc.org/news/news-and-events?news=480

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: 20th anniversary resource pack from CRAE

The Children's Rights Alliance for England has produced an electronic resource pack for schools, to support them in celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the UNCRC on 20 November 2009. The pack includes lots of activities and information for children and adults, and links to other resources. Find out more at www.crae.org.uk/news -and-events/news/uncrc-anniversary-packs-for-schools.html.

Respect! Exploring Children's Rights in the UK and Around the World

Save the Children's Respect! Exploring children's rights in the UK and around the world is a resource-pack that offers Key Stage 2 pupils the chance to learn about children's rights. The pack incorporates a variety of themes, and it aims to challenge pupils, allowing for group participation and discussion about different rights issues. Packed full of thought-provoking activities which range from discussions, stories and poems, the pack gives pupils the opportunity to develop their research skills, and to gain an awareness of how children's rights affect them and other children around the world. The material is provided in a ten-lesson format, with teachers' notes also supplied, making this an indispensable learning pack for both teachers and pupils alike.
ISBN 9781841871219, Price: £25.00
Available from Save the Children's online library (www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/54_5973.htm) and from Amazon. For further information or for bulk purchases please email: publications@savethechildren.org.uk.

Global Citizenship and the Outdoor Classroom

Click here to read the lastest enews from Reading International Solidarity Centre focusing on Global Citizenship and the Outdoor Classroom. With increased emphasis on school gardens from DCSF, this issue explores how a school garden/outside environment can be used to deliver the key concepts of Global Citizenship. It also includes information about two exciting new projects at RISC.

ActionAid launches new edition of the KS2 Chembakolli Photopack

ActionAid has launched the third edition of its Chembakolli: Life and change in an Indian village photopack, packed full of new images and stories, as well as updates from favourite characters in previous packs. For the first time, images, worksheets, audio and much more are available on CD-Rom, ideal for personalising for classes and using with interactive white boards.

Written with the new Primary curriculum in mind and supporting QCA Unit 10, this updated resource compares and contrasts life here in the UK with everyday life in an Indian village. Transporting pupils to Chembakolli, the pack provides a rich insight into the ways in which modern-day village life is changing. It covers issues ranging from health and education to the environment, trade and land rights. The activities also seed key geographical concepts such as diversity, sustainability and interdependence.

‘Chembakolli: Life and change in an Indian village’ includes:
• 30 brand new A4 photocards to encourage discussion
• Booklet with useful information for teachers
• Five electronic lesson plans and classroom activities
• Audio clips from the Chembakolli Story and interviews with key people from Chembakolli
• Digital photographs and illustrations
• A colourful timeline poster

To order the pack, or for more information visit www.actionaid.org.uk/schools or call 01460 23 8000.

The Prince’s Rainforests Project for Schools Initiative

The Prince’s Rainforests Project (PRP) for Schools offers free lesson plans and activity ideas that will help you teach children aged 3 to 18 about the importance of the world’s rainforests, biodiversity and sustainability.

• Rainforests are home to over half the world’s plants and animals
• They provide the earth with essential ecological services
• An area of rainforest the size of a football field is destroyed every four seconds
• 137 species are wiped out each day because of deforestation
• Deforestation creates more carbon to be released than the entire global transport system
• The effects of rainforest deforestation effect our weather, our environment and our futures
• If we lose the fight against rainforests, we will lose the battle against climate change.

PRP is asking schools to sign up through the PRP schools website and give their voice to stop rainforest destruction. There site also provides free resources, lesson plans, CDs, videos, assembly ideas, and a World Photographic Competition for Schools. Sign up at www.princesrainforestsproject.org/schools.

Indigenous People - education and performance opportunities

Indigenous People represents groups of African and Peruvian musicians. Find out more here or visit www.indigenouspeople.org.uk

CAFOD

Subscribe to primary teaching resources from CAFOD at www.cafod.org.uk/primarybulletin

British Red Cross

British Red Cross Education web page offers lesson plans and assembly kits on various topics, ideal for citizenship education.

New publications from the Geographical Association

To find out more about the GA’s publications and order to online visit www.geography.org.uk/shop or phone 0114 296 0088.

Caring for our world by Fran Martin and Paula Owens
Caring for our world is a practical illustrated guide to Education for Sustainable Development for all teachers of 4 to 8 years. Taking geography as its starting point, it brings together many current initiatives, such as Sustainable Schools, Personalised Learning, Every Child Matters and SEAL, through a range of inspiring yet easily replicable, real-school examples.

KS3 Geography Teachers’ Toolkit - Into Africa: How are our lives connected with Africa? by Emma Cook
Focusing on a few key areas – the social, economic and political connections between the UK and Africa – Into Africa will provide a deeper insight into twenty-first century Africa. The title explores the issues through approximately 10 hours’ worth of lessons plans and is accompanied by a CD containing all the relevant resources, plus a wealth of images to support the topic.

Tide~ global learning - New resources

Further information, sample pages and ordering information can be found online at www.tidegloballearning.net.

Global learning in primary schools
Explores practical ideas about the educational needs of children within a changing global context, drawing on the creative work of a wide range of Key Stage 1 and 2 teachers. The introductory section supports professional development and will stimulate discussion about global learning approaches. The rest of the resource and material on the website, offers support to classroom planning and teaching.

At the heart of it ~ using local collections to inspire global learning
This publication has been developed by a group of museums, libraries and archives professionals. They have used their own experiences to provide a practical, user-friendly toolkit to demonstrate how collections can be used effectively to support secondary education.

Learning journeys ~ creating a global learning experience at KS2
Taking a ‘learning journey’ outside of the classroom can serve as a powerful stimulus to engage children with complex issues. This publication shares work from Birmingham Primary schools, which participated in the Botanical Journey project at the city’s Botanical Gardens. The project took children on a learning journey where they played the part of plant hunters – both through role play and in ‘real time’.

Comparative Education and quality global learning: Engaging with controversial issues in South Africa and the UK
This book is one of the outcomes of Seeking Ubuntu, a Tide~ project that involved a group of UK teacher educators in a study visit to South Africa. Comparative study supported them in reflecting on their own, as well as South African, educational practice. It offers some insights into that experience featuring the authors’ analyses of education in both South Africa and the UK about how they used the experience to evaluate their everyday practice as teacher educators.

New Educational Resources from RGS: India Pictures of the Past

For Key Stage 2 & 3 Geography, History & Citizenship

New learning resources to accompany the Royal Geographical Society’s exhibition on the Punjab entitled ‘The Punjab – Moving Journeys’ are now available on the popular ‘Unlocking the Archives’ website for schools. The free resources target the Key Stage 2 and 3 Geography, History & Citizenship curricula and explore themes of independence, partition and migration with a particular focus on the Punjab region spanning both India and Pakistan. New resources can be accessed by visiting www.unlockingthearchives.rgs.org.

For further information about educational resources and free exhibition hire for schools please contact the RGS education officer on 020 7591 3057 or email uta@rgs.org.

The Credit Crunch and Education - resources from Jubilee Debt Campaign

As we face the current financial crisis we see people losing jobs, homes, and their faith in the system. The world is experiencing skyrocketing fuel and food prices, ensuring the poorest cannot meet basic needs but are instead descending in to a crippling spiral of poverty.

Sign up on the Jubilee Debt Campaign website for free resources to help you communicate credit and debt on a global scale to a young audience and get them discussing how to create a better world: www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/schoolsignup.

As we look for a fair, accountable reform of finance in this country, we must remember that many developing countries have been facing their own financial crisis for more than three decades based on a system that serves the rich. Go to www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk for more information on global debt.

Dogodogo: Tanzanian street children tell their stories

Dogodogo tells the stories of eight Tanzanian street children who now live in the Dogodogo Centre, Dar es Salaam. The book has been compiled with the help of the boys’ English teacher, Kasia Parham, who worked as a volunteer teacher at the centre. Kasia Parham is the wife of the British High Commissioner to Tanzania and has worked as a special needs teacher in the UK and Tanzania.

Dogodogo is suitable for a wide range of audiences and can be read by students at both primary and secondary level. The stories are told in the children’s own words and the colourful illustrations by the boys themselves add an extra personal touch. The stories themselves tackle a range of serious, global issues and provide many opportunities for discussion with more advanced readers.

The title can be used to address a number of themes in the classroom including: the developing world; comparative cultures; homelessness; children’s rights; community and family breakdown; poverty; infectious diseases; autobiographical writing and children’s writing.

Price: £6.99; ISBN: 978 0 230 72212 5; published by Macmillan. For large orders, contact Ellie Wilson, email: e.wilson@macmillan.com. For information about the Dogodogo Centre, contact dogodogo@bol.co.tz or visit www.dogodogocentre.org.

RISC E-NEWS November enews

Here's the link to the latest issues of RISC's e-news. This time focusing on new Global Citizenship resources for primary and secondary schools, including RISC's latest publications on measuring attitudinal change, on fair trade and on sustainability.
http://www.risc.org.uk/education/e-news_archive.html

SHARED Futures: Free workshops for schools and youth groups

SHARED Futures is a new DVD and training resource pack, which aims to assist schools and youth groups in:
• welcoming refugee children and young people and other new arrivals
• promoting their well-being
• helping them and their families become part of their local communities.

The project is managed by Salusbury WORLD, and builds on the successful body of good practice developed by the organisation and its best-selling publication ‘Home from Home’. The project is funded by Comic Relief.

"A timely new educational resource. Anyone who wants to know why attitudes towards refugee children are changing should consult SHARED Futures.”
Liz Fekete, Institute of Race Relations

During 2007, SHARED Futures undertook research to capture existing effective practice within the UK, which has developed in recent years in schools, youth groups, local education authorities and the voluntary sector. This guided the selection of examples of effective practice that promote inclusion and integration, which have been filmed and are available as a DVD and supporting resource pack. For further details visit: www.sharedfutures.org.uk.

The project and its resources are for teachers and other practitioners working in primary and secondary schools, including teaching assistants, learning mentors, educational psychologists, Connexions advisers, and educational social workers. It will also be of relevance to practitioners working in other settings for children and young people in the wider community, such as youth and community services, supplementary and community schools, children’s centres and faith groups.

SHARED Futures offers support to schools and youth groups through free training workshops and consultancy. This is available to practitioners throughout the UK. Already SHARED Futures has supported, in collaboration with local and regional partners, a series of successful conferences and training workshops across the UK.

“I found the resources comprehensive and the session inspiring.”
Newcastle participant

For more information please contact Duncan Little, email: duncanlittle1234@hotmail.com or visit www.sharedfutures.org.uk.

Promoting Race Equality – a practical guide

“I cannot be fully me until you are fully you”
Archbishop Tutu

Since the Race Relations (Amendment) Act came into force in 2000 all public bodies, including schools, have a duty to promote good race relations between people of different racial, ethnic and religious groups. This duty is about preparing the pupils in our schools to live in a multi-cultural society whether they remain in their local area or move away to live in other parts of the country. It is not about political correctness but about ensuring fairness and justice for all individuals and groups.

In this booklet Cheshire DEC have highlighted some examples of the good practice that is going on in Cheshire schools which they hope will help school staff and governors to ensure that in their school their duty to promote race equality is laid down in the school race equality policy but, more importantly, is a thread that runs through all aspects of life in the school.

Price £4.95 including postage and packing from Cheshire DEC, tel: 01244 347880, email: info@cheshiredec.org.

Top Tips to develop the global dimension in schools

This useful little booklet has been published by DCSF to support their Sustainable Schools Strategy, and is the latest in a series of 'Top Tips' for sustainable schools.

You can download it as a PDF from Teachernet click here or order hard copies from DCSF Publications at Prolog (email: dcsf@prolog.uk.com, tel: 0845 60 222 60) quoting the reference number DCSF-00683-2008LEF-EN.

Community Cohesion Resources

All schools have a statutory duty to promote Community Cohesion. The websites below highlight resources for bringing Community Cohesion issues into the curriculum and those to stimulate discussion about Community Cohesion as a concept.

Resources about teaching controversial issues:

• T.E.A.C.H. – Teaching Emotive and Controversial History (Historical Association)
  
• Teaching Controversial Issues (Oxfam)
  
• Building new Citizenship: Learning from Change in Derry/Londonderry (Tide~)
  
• Faces of Racism (Amnesty)
  
• ‘Agree to Disagree: Citizenship and Controversial Issues’, also available from the Learning and Skills Network

Resources about ‘community cohesion’ issues:

• Shared Futures
  
• Who Am I? (DECSY)
  
• Peacemakers DVD
  
• School Linking in Diversity Education (Lancashire Global Education Centre)
  (LGEC would be a good contact, lots of community cohesion work going on in Lancashire, Hetan & I visited a couple of relevant LA people)
• Another Spanner In the Works (Trentham)
  
• Diversity and Dialogue website
  
• Dolls Defying Discrimination (WEDG)
  
• GARP – Global and Anti-Racist Perspectives
  
• This is where I live (Runnymede Trust)
  
• Here There and Everywhere (Trentham)
  
• Citizenship and Muslim Perspectives (Islamic Relief and Tide~)
  
• Communities and Change (Tide~)
  
• Toolkit for Tackling Racism in Schools (Trentham)
  
• Inclusive Schools, Inclusive Society (Trentham)
  
• We all came here from somewhere (LSN)
  
• Escape to Safety exhibition (Global Link)
  

New kit from UNESCO and UNEP encouraging sustainable consumption

UNESCO and UNEP have created an online kit giving guidance on sustainable consumption. Using accessible information, concrete examples and everyday language, the kit provides many facts and figures on sustainable consumption issues. It highlights the links between cultural, geographical and inter-generational factors and underlines how sustainable consumption directly relates to quality of life, efficient use of resources (both human and natural), reduction of waste, ethical issues such as child labour, animal cruelty, fair trade and general equality.

You can download the kit from: www.youthxchange.net.

Our World of Water - a new resource from Oxfam Education

Oxfam Education is pleased to announce the publication of Our World of Water - a new resource for teaching primary geography and citizenship.

Featuring stunning Oxfam photography, and the real-life stories of six children from Peru, Mauritania, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Tajikistan and California, this book is ideal for helping pupils aged 7–11 learn more about this most precious of our planet's natural resources.

Our World of Water explores many popular themes and curriculum links, including: the importance of clean water, how it is supplied, and how it is used in different contexts, and addresses global issues of climate change, pollution and sanitation - encouraging children to think critically about the world around them, and act to make a positive difference.

Our World of Water is priced at £6.99, and available to order on standard discount terms (stock code 290475). For more information please visit www.oxfam.org.uk/publications.

New Resources and Events from the Royal Geographical Society with IBG

• Free workshops for Key Stage 2/3 students - Pictures of the Punjab
Creative writing and drama workshops exploring the history, geography and culture of the Punjab will be held at the Society on 3, 5, 7, 17, 19, 24, 26, 28 November and 1st & 3rd December 2008. The workshops accompany a new exhibition and will introduce students to India/Pakistan and the Punjab through activities based on the Society’s archive collections of maps, artefacts and photographs. Further information and details of availability can be obtained by contacting the education officer on 0207 591 3057 or by clicking here.

• Free INSET Evening and exhibition viewing
The Society is pleased to offer a free INSET evening for Key Stage 3 History practitioners on Thursday 13th November from 5 to 7pm in Kensington, London. The evening will provide an opportunity to preview new educational resources, have a private tour of a new exhibition and obtain free resources for use in your teaching. Places are limited and teachers are advised to book their place early by calling the education officer on 0207 591 3057 or by emailing h.sanghera@rgs.org.

• New Educational Resources: China – Snapshots in Time
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) has recently launched new learning resources to accompany its exhibition on China entitled ‘China – Snapshots in Time’. Resources target the Key Stage 2 and 3 Geography, History & Citizenship curricula and can be accessed by visiting the ‘Unlocking the Archives’ website for schools at www.unlockingthearchives.rgs.org

Fast Day: Walk the World with Us

CAFOD believes that by working – and walking – together we can bring an end to poverty and injustice

Walking is the way that most of the poorest people in the world get around. Children walk for miles to go to school because they are determined to have an education.

Women will walk for hours to take a sick child to the health centre or to make a few pence selling vegetables in a city market.

By participating in the Walk the world with us fundraising challenge, pupils and their families can express solidarity with families around the world for whom walking is often the only way.

Download the resource pack here.

RISC e-news

RISC's first e-news of the school year, focusing on water issues, is now on their website.

The next issue will be about new Global Citizenship resources and will be on line at half term.

How Do We Know It's Working?

A toolkit for measuring attitudinal change in Global Citizenship from early years to Key Stage 5.

This unique new resource from Reading Internaitonal Solidarity Centre (RISC) has been created to help teachers target their efforts in delivering Global Citizenship (GC) effectively. It provides hands-on tools for educators to measure the impact of their work on pupils attitudes and values across a range of GC issues: sustainability, diversity, social justice, poverty and human rights. "It responds to the challenge of measuring what is valuable, rather than valuing what is measurable."

Price £19.95 plus postage from RISC, further details at www.risc.org.uk

Global Citizenship: The Handbook for Primary Teaching

Global Citizenship is not an additional subject, but a way of teaching the existing curriculum, which promotes social justice and equity.

This handbook explains Global Citizenship and develops its principles into clear, practical pointers for use in school. By discussing the issues, ideas and approaches in this handbook users will be able to explore and develop their own understanding of Global Citizenship. Teachers will be able to bring its concepts into their educational practice, through every subject area, into assemblies and across the whole school. The handbook will be a valuable tool for classroom teachers, headteachers, teacher educators, student teachers and home school educators. It will also be of interest to non-teaching staff, governors/school-board members and parents.

It contains:

• an exploration of issues to consider, and strategies for implementing whole-school change;
• assembly themes and ideas;
• a wide range of activities to deliver subject areas including Citizenship/PSHE, PSD and PSE through Global Citizenship;
• lesson plans and resource material to support Literacy/English in the classroom;
• ideas and guidance on incorporating Global Citizenship into the QCA Geography Schemes of Work;
• over 30 texts and worksheets to photocopy for classroom use;
• a comprehensive list of resources and useful addresses.

To order, please contact OXFAM www.oxfam.org.uk or one of the Development Education Centres,  or www.globaldimension.org.uk  

Key Stage 2 & 3 Geography & History

New learning resources to accompany the Royal Geographical Society’s exhibition on China entitled ‘Seeing China: Community Reflections’ have recently been added to the popular ‘Unlocking the Archives’ website for schools. The resources called ‘China – Snapshots in Time’ target the key stage 2 and 3 Geography and History curricula and explore themes of exploration, migration and identity.

Each of the distinct learning themes on the site features fact sheets providing background information, associated downloadable activities and a gallery of archive images for use within the classroom.

New resources can be accessed by visiting www.unlockingthearchives.rgs.org

For further information about free educational resources, free exhibition hire and creative workshops to accompany exhibitions please contact the education officer on 020 7591 3057 or email uta@rgs.org.

Sustainable schools

The sustainable schools area of TeacherNet is designed to support schools on their journey to sustainability, introducing the principles of sustainable development and offering guidance on how to embed these principles into the heart of school life. www.teachernet.gov.uk/sustainableschools/

Creativity: find it, promote it

This site provides detailed information on approaches to the creativity dimension, including whole-school guidance and subject-specific examples. www.ncaction.org.uk/creativity/

All our futures: creativity, culture and education

In this report, the National Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education puts forward the case for developing creative and cultural education. It considers what is involved, looks at current provision, and assesses the opportunities and obstacles. www.dcsf.gov.uk/naccce/

Creative partnerships

Creative Partnerships enable schools to work with creative practitioners to develop a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum. It enables practitioners to work in partnership with schools, developing long-term, sustainable relationships. www.creative-partnerships.com

Who do we think we are?

The "Who do we think we are? educational programme engages primary and secondary   school teachers in the exploration of identity, diversity and citizenship with children and young people – in their schools, local communities and nationally. www.wdwtwa.org.uk/

The Citizenship Foundation

The Citizenship Foundation is an independent education and participation charity in the UK. Their vision is of a just society in which everyone has the knowledge, skills, confidence and motivation to engage effectively in their communities. www.citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/

Diversity & Dialogue

Diversity & Dialogue, a UK multi-agency project, uses local and global issues to build understanding between young people of different faiths and backgrounds.
www.diversityanddialogue.org.uk/home

Institute of Community Cohesion

The Institute of Community Cohesion was established in 2005 to provide a new approach to race, diversity and multiculturalism. Their work focuses on building positive and harmonious community relations. iCoCo represents a unique partnership of academic, statutory and non-governmental bodies, combining the experience and expertise of four Universities with practitioners from a range of diverse backgrounds and professions. www.coventry.ac.uk/researchnet/icoco

The School Linking Network

This site offers support for school linking within the UK. www.schoolslinkingnetwork.org.uk

India and thengapalli CD-ROM for KS2

A new CD-ROM, Kesharpur Update brings fresh information for pupils on life in the Orissa village of Kesharpur,including the impacts of a brand new road scheme.

There are further perspectives on Hinduism, tribal rights, technology, festival and leisure. The resource, written and developed by Dylan Theodore, DEA global trainer, raises many questions for young learners about change and tradition in the 21st century and supports teaching about India generally, and users of the Thengapalli materials in particular.

Available solely from the Oxfam schools catalogue: www.oxfam.org.uk/education/catalogue

All profits from sales will go to the communities and to forest protection in the area. Further enquiries can be sent to: dylantheodore1@yahoo.co.uk.

'PowerDown' new FREE ActionAid Climate Change resources for schools

ActionAid have developed this new toolkit that brings to life some of the causes and potential impacts of climate change, and explores the extraordinary potential for schools to shape some of the solutions. Due to be launched in September, these toolkits are available free while stocks last as they have been produced with EU funding.

The ActionAid education team have funding to run several regional mini-conferences in the autumn term on the issue of climate change and development. They are keen to collaborate with DECs and other organisations to do this, or to contribute to any other events to do a presentation and/or workshop on PowerDown.

For further information, contact Liz Ewen, Global Action Schools Coordinator at ActionAid, tel: 020 7561 7563, email: liz.ewen@actionaid.org.

Teachernet: Community Cohesion Resource Pack

Since September 2007, all maintained schools in England have had a duty to promote community cohesion and Ofsted plan to inspect all schools against this duty from September 2008.

To support schools in meeting the duty, phase 1 of a resource pack has been developed and is available now at: www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/Communitycohesion/
communitycohesionresourcepack/

CAFOD Educational and spiritual resources 2008

A variety of online, downloadable and offline resources for use with youth can be downloaded or ordered from the CAFOD website.

Primary (Key Stages 1 & 2, see below and website for details):
www.cafod.org.uk/primary
www.cafod.org.uk/kidzzone

Other useful links:
CAFOD’s youth website – www.cafod.org.uk/bigdeal
Spirituality - www.cafod.org.uk/worship
Campaigns – www.cafod.org.uk/campaign
Unearth Justice – www.cafod.org.uk/unearthjustice

For INSET enquiries on Global Justice issues to support RE, PSHE and Citizenship, email the schools team at schools@cafod.org.uk for more information.

For school visits, help with an assembly or classroom activity, please contact your local CAFOD diocesan office:
CAFOD Nottingham
01664 424346
nottingham@cafod.org.uk

From Bangalore to Chembakolli

A photo-pack and DVD which take children on an exciting journey through the diverse communities, cultures and landscapes of south India. Click Here.

Young Diasporas: Longing and Belonging

Exploring the stories of young people who live in Kent, but have roots in and connections with other parts of the world. Click here.

Who Am I?

A cross-curricular DVD made with young people from Sheffield's Somali community exploring how tradition, culture and history impact on who we are and how we see ourselves. Click here.

Myanmar Cyclone Assembly Kit

British Red Cross resource on the recent cyclone that hit Burma, with important lessons about disaster preparedness, and about interpreting media coverage. Click here

Tide (Teachers in development education)

Tide (Teachers in development education) have just published their annual report on all aspects of Global Learning.

for information about:-

• Primary Global Learning handbook
• Sustainable Schools
• Secondary Global Learning handbook
• Cities as a lens to the world
• Study Visits to India, South Africa and The Gambia
• Science and the Global Dimension
• Leadership

NCSL: Valuing our future: a toolkit for developing sustainable schools

A toolkit aimed at helping schools become more sustainable has been designed by NCSL. Whether you're just getting started or have done a lot of work in this area, the toolkit helps you review your current position and plan for a more sustainable future. It has been developed with school leaders and includes case studies, interactive resources and practical tips. The cost of the toolkit is £15. Click here to find out more

New Marine Conservation Society website

The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has launched a spectacular new Cool Seas website featuring interactive games and fun activities, beautiful images and plenty of information about UK marine wildlife, all presented in an entertaining way to appeal to a younger audience.
Check it out at www.mcsuk.org/coolseas

Refugee Week

'Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution’ .
Article 14, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The tenth annual Refugee Week takes place from 16-22 June 2008.