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Training events 2009/10 Globettrotters Community cohesion and focus weeks Programme of training events out now
Book a workshop Globetrotters Handbook Young Diasporas: longing and belonging
Dolls Defying Discrimination a handbook for using Persona Dolls £4.50
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Welcome to the website of WEDGWEDG is the Global Education Centre for East Kent and provides training, a resource centre and projects for educational providers including nurseries, schools and universities to promote global citizenship and sustainability. We help to embed a whole school approach to the global dimension.
Globetrotters handbook - run your own club The new handbook provides 10 easy-to-use session plans for running your own after school club. Using successful ideas trialled over 3 years the activities will help you introduce children to global issues in a fun and active way. Buy now. Price £25.00 'I'm very pleased that the work you did in school has resulted in such a fantastic resource. We thoroughly enjoyed running the club and i know the children got a lot of fun and educational value from the activities' Headteacher, All Souls CEP School, Folkestone, Kent.
World Food Day 2009 "this is where Fairtrade comes into the mix" Marlowe Academy, Ramsgate, student Margate was the setting for World Food Day 2009 where local producers were selling their wares or just showcasing what they do from farming snails and baking cakes to running a community allotment project. Fairtrade was the theme for looking beyond our immediate localityand finding out about farmers in other countries and how we can help lift them out of poverty by what we choose to buy in this country. 12 students and three teachers from the Marlowe Academy worked all day with small groups of children from local primary schools to find out about local produce, Fairtrade and different food from across the globe. "Fantastic Year 11 student working with our Yr 5 & 6 children" St Nicholas at Wade CEP School, teacher "Excellent use of Yr 7 students from the local high school they really wanted to talk and help our children learn" Monkton CEP School, teacher Standing up against poverty Children attending the event from 5 local schools were transfixed as Tammy Stuart Jones of the Thanet Fairtrade Initiative called upon everybody to stand up in solidarity against poverty. Tammy then contined on behalf of everyone present , to demand of our elected world leaders that they work harder to eminate the causes of poverty, as agreed in the year 2000 when the Millenium Development Goals were A GTP (graduate trainee programme), teacher from the Marlowe Academy summed up what she had gained from the day “Terrific experience, really interesting to learn about the effects of poverty and development and how Fairtrade comes into it”. Teacher, Marlowe Academy Supported by Local4global,building a learning community for the global dimension Never too young to learn that racism is wrong
Atttude is Everything in the TES to f ind out more about how it is impacting on nurseries and preschools in East Kent.
WEDG & Canterbury Christ Church University(CCCU) WEDG has always worked with a handful of like minded tutors within the Faculty of Education at CCCU, the local teacher training university, delivering student sessions as well as professional exchangeof ideas and updates.
expertise of WEDG to work with additional tutors to help embed a global dimension into a broader range of the 36 entry routes into teaching. The work is funded by the Department for International Development’s Enabling Effective Support initiative, via the southeast regional consortium of teachers and other educators building a learning community for the global dimension. Supported by
Fairtrade Gardens Well done to all of the schools that successfully created a Fairtrade Garden. See some more photos of the gardens and find out about how these schools interpreted the challenge to create a 'Fairtrade' garden. Click here.
This book, published by WEDG, is built around the stories of young people who live in Kent, but have roots and connections with other parts of the world. They have dreams, aspirations and difficulties - like everyone else. They long for a normal life; they want to belong. Supplemented by teaching notes, and website lists, it provides an engaging resource for teachers of Geography, Citizenship, PSHE, and Englishat KS2 and KS3. 60pp book in full colour with total content on accompanying CD. £10.00 plus For a list of the stories, themes and curriculum links click here For sample story (Charlie from Ethiopia) click here Another sample story(Thandiwe from Zimbabwe) click here see interviews with the youngsters at www.kenttv.com
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