Welcome to the website of WEDG

WEDG 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

set.  Read the full account

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  through a regional consortium of educators,

Local4global,building a learning community for the global dimension

Never too young to learn that racism is wrong

Read the full article about the WEDG Early Years project

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.

Since October 2008, CCCU have bought in the services and

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.

(www.local4global.org.uk )

Supported by - Building support for development. Read more.

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.

Young Diasporas: Longing and Belonging

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

£2.50 p&p.  Contact WEDG.

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