Projects

Bon Appetit!

WEDG is planning a project with Primary schools, to help children explore food and cultures. Run as an after school club, WEDG will work alongside teachers and volunteers from the community to deliver fun, active sessions on foods associated with cultural celebrations. The project will also focus on where foods are grown and healthy eating issues.

If you would be interested in taking part or finding out more about this project please get in touch click here.

"My Dad says..."

Funded by the Department for International Development, "My Dad Says..." is a three year project with Secondary schools in East Kent.  The project is working with Dover Grammar School for Boys, Fulston Manor, Marlowe Academy, St. Anselms Catholic School, Simon Langton Girls’ Grammar School and Spires Academy to raise levels of empathy and critical thinking around the topic of immigration. This is a thorny topic that teachers can find tough to tackle, so we will be working to raise awareness and confidence among teachers in challenging the myths and stereotypes that some young people believe about immigrants.

WEDG will work with Citizenship teachers to develop schemes of work that deal with issues such as migration, poverty, the media and community cohesion. We will also be conducting research to establish the effectiveness of this intervention, carried out by our partners at the University of Kent. At the end of the three-year project we plan to publish the results and materials used in a resource.

If you would be interested in finding out more about this project please get in touch click here.

Making Friends

This is an Early Years project working with six nurseries in Margate to test a new resource being developed around diversity. 

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Attitude is Everything

This is a three year project (now in its 3rd year) working with Early Years settings that has been developed out of the pilot project using Persona Dolls called 'Dolls Defying Discrimination'. The project will identify how existing practice at 3 settings can be adapted to put in place the values and attitudes that need to be nurtured for successful Global Citizens of the future.

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Globetrotters

This is a three-year project offering a FREE after school club for primary schools. The club provides fun and interesting activities on global themes. Each week the Globetrotters Club ‘visits’ a country and looks in more detail at an issue such as Fairtrade, conflict and sustainability. At the end of the project a resource will be produced. click here for more

Fairtrade Garden Competition

Find out about the schools that took part in the WEDG Fairtrade garden competition in 2007-2008 here.

WEDG provides workshops and assemblies on Fairtrade issues.

Call 01227 766552 for more information.

For further local information on Fairtrade see:

www.canterburyfairtradenetwork.org.uk.  www.thanetfairtrade.org.uk

Young Diasporas - Longing and Belonging

This book, compiled and edited by Tasos Papadimitriouis, is built around the stories of young people who live in Kent, but have roots in and connections with other parts of the world.  The book (with accomanying teaching ideas) is available to purchase from WEDG.