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WEDG Annual General Meeting

Please be our guest at our Annual General Meeting.  

DATE:

Tuesday 21st September 2010

TIME:

Refreshments from 6.30pm

Annual General Meeting 7.00pm 

LOCATION: 

Diocesan House

Lady Wootton's Green

Canterbury CT1 1NQ

GUEST SPEAKER:

Tom Andrews

People United

"We all do good things"

Please RSVP to info@wedg.org.uk or 01227 766552

We hope you can join us!

Resource Sale! 30% off in August

WEDG will be selling their selection of books and resources at discounted price during the month of August!

Come by on Thursdays between 14.00-17.00 to browse through our newly arrived stock.   

*Purchase £20 worth and receive a free map of South Asia

(While supplies last)

Click here to view just a few of the many resource for sale.

Become a Fairtrade School

Is your school interested in or working towards becoming a Fairtrade School?  WEDG has been awarded a small pot of funding to help schools throughout East Kent in achieving Fairtrade School status. The funding time is restricted to 2010 so this offer is on a first come first served basis.  
 
Kind of support on offer:

For more information or to get involved please contact us on 01227 766 552 or email.

Training for EYFS Practitioners

Dolls Defying Discrimination

A Practical course on how to use Persona Dolls in pre-school settings. Persona Dolls are a way of introducing to young children issues such as cultural diversity and caring for each other in a way that encourages positive attitudes and dialogue between children. Persona Dolls also make connections between children’s own lives and those of others,

and helps them to explore difference.

Developing curiosity, empathy and global awareness using objects and pictures in nurseries and pre-schools

This is a half day training session in which practitioners explore different activities

for introducing a global dimension into their everyday practice. Practitioners also look

at their own understanding of issues around global awareness, sharing ideas and

approaches.

For more information click here.

Attitude is Everything

This Early Years project, which took place in three nurseries over the past three years, is now available in the form of a new EYFS practitioner’s global handbook (Growing Marigolds).  Attitude is Everything was based on the idea that building up a positive attitude towards cultural diversity is an essential part of preparing young children for successful lives in the 21st century.  The project included a research component which was carried out by Dr. Lindsay Cameron, Dept. of Psychology, University of Kent.

Findings include:

More information about the project is available in our brochure-styled Final Report.  

For the full report click here.

The handbook, Growing Marigolds, is available to purchase for £6.50 (plus £1.50p&p).

Making Friends

This Early Years project carried out with six nurseries in Margate is now completed.  The nurseries were testing a new resource being developed around diversity. 

Final Report

Growing Marigolds

This handbook is for nursery and pre-school practitioners. The activities are designed to introduce a global element into the everyday life of a pre-school or nursery. The suggestions may be stand alone activities or the starting point for a longer, child inspired project.

Preview Handbook

35pp book in full colour

£6.50 plus £1.50 p&p

  Globetrotters Club Handbook

This handbook will enable you and your groups to take journeys of discovery to different countries and to explore a range of issues such as climate change, rich and poor, and conflict resolution. 

The Globetrotters Club handbook:

-contains detailed session plans and resources

-enables you to run a Globetrotters Club as an after school club

-contains material to support curriculum work on the global dimension

-is suitable for youth groups

-is aimed at KS2 and KS3, but adaptable for younger children

47pp book in full colour with accomanying CD with printable pages

£25.00 plus p&p

Young Diasporas: longing and belonging

This book 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.

£12.00 plus p&p 

Dolls Defying Discrimination

A handbook for using Persona Dolls

This handbook will enable you to:

- introduce an element of diversity into your Early Years group

- promote equality

- increase the emotional literacy of children

- dismantle negative attitudes

  19pp book in full colour. 

£4.50 plus p&p