International Link
The project below is a partner initiative of the EC Foundation and could be useful for international links.
International Links
February 22, 2007
September 19, 2006
International Education Week 2006, 13-17 November
Help us celebrate the benefits of embedding an international dimension in education!
International Education Week (IEW), now in its 4th year, is an excellent opportunity for you to show the world how being internationally minded has benefited your school, college or organisation. You don't even have to do anything extra (unless of course you want to!), all that we ask is that, if you are planning anything related to your international activities for the Autumn, you consider holding it between 13 - 17 November so the entire country can celebrate together.
We are hoping to generate local press coverage for many of your events so please let us know of your plans for IEW 2006 by emailing us at iew.england@dfes.gsi.gov.uk or visit the IEW 2006 website for more information at www.teachernet.gov.uk/iew where details of all the events taking place during the week can be found.
Need inspiration? Some of the fantastic IEW events held in previous years include: a visit by a Russian Space Expert and a Russian Cosmonaut to schools across Bedfordshire giving talks about their experiences; international video-conferences; a series of workshops with a Jamaican musician and storyteller; language speaking competitions; international days including students wearing their traditional national costume, playing international music, dancing, cooking traditional food, folk art and crafts, language events, and drama skits; A group of school footballers from Le Havre visiting a school in England to participate in a range of international sports based activities.
Just two of the major events already planned for this year are the British Council Education and Training Group National Conference (www.britishcouncil.org/learning-above-and-beyond) and the Development Education Association Global Learning Award (www.dea.org.uk/adult/projects_gla.html)
Everyone, at all levels of education across England, is invited to join in so come on - get involved and pass the word!
June 21, 2006
Gateshead Cultural Ambassador's diary from Lebanon study visit
For Refugee Week
Mrs Patricia Riddell is a special Cultural Ambassador teacher. She covers schools across Gateshead as a supply teacher, taking all her CCA information along with her.
Patricia has just returned from a study visit to the Lebanon and has sent this extract from her diary for other Cultural Ambassadors and interested teachers to read:
I went to the Lebanon with a group of teachers into the schools in the Palestinian refugee camps in the Spring Bank Holiday with a charity organisation called Education Action International.
Monday
Today we visit schools in the Shatila Refugee Camp. Fifty yards from the school, 1,000 names on a wall mark a mass grave and ensure that those massacred in a three day killing spree are not forgotten. It puts is in a sombre mood. We are guided around the camp and are shocked by the terrible deprivation of the estimated 15,000 refugees living in Shatila. They are cramped into an area little bigger than a football pitch.
In the school I read the hopes of the children on their frieze - ’I want to be in Palestine'.
I meet my co-teacher and the smiling children in their pink tops. Later in the week I’ll be teaching them.
Time to meet Ms Afaf Maki, Head of Education at UNRWA (United Nations Relief & Works Agency), which runs the schools. She is proud of what they have achieved with such limited resources. There are not enough schools so a double shift system is in operation with boys studying in the morning and girls in the afternoon.
Later at ARC, Education Action’s other partner in Lebanon, we learn how crucial seeing the child as a whole and not just in terms of their education needs is. This is especially important here where life outside school is a
struggle. I am raising awareness in the schools here of the educational needs of the children. I have lots of photographs, a video, profiles, stories etc. If you are interested and would like to know more please contact me on my e-mail: riddellpat@hotmail.com
I am fund raising for the charity which gives help to educate children in those countries, where because of fighting, the children are denied a quality education. If you are interested in donating to this charity please contact me or the charity at:
Education Action International, 14 Dufferin Street, London EC1Y 8PD
international@eductio-action.org
020 7426 5820
Postscript:
Hear Pat talk about her trip next Sunday, 2nd of July on BBC Radio Newcastle's Sunday Breakfast Show with John Hall at 8.20am.
October 25, 2005
International Links with Gateshead schools
This list gives a taste of how far afield our schools' international links are.
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