Follow-up workshop forschools visiting

60 students is £100 for a full day & assembly60-120 students is £150 for a full day & assembly120-200 students is £200 for 2 full days & assembliesAfter visiting The Journey and following the storyof Leo, your school has the opportunity to followup with a programme designed to tackle issuesof today from your understanding of the past.Through workshop based activities, students areasked to take an objective look at prejudicewithin their community and find active ways totackle it.

Aim of theWorkshopsThe workshops are designed tofacilitate the continuation ofchildren’s thinking following theirexperience of The Journey. Bannersand images from the Journey willprovide linkage to their experiencein the Journey, whilst practicalactivities will encourage thinkingabout contemporary issues. Inparticular the workshop will exploreprejudice and discrimination andthe students ability anddetermination, to both identify andtackle such issues in their owncommunities as active citizens.

Prejudice andPromisesBy using a combination of visual,practical and hypothetical learningstrategies, students work togetherto identify what prejudice is, andhow it affects them on a day to daybasis. This encourages criticalthinking and helps them form theirown opinions about prejudice. At the end of the first session, thestudents are invited to make apromise that they will try to keepin order to help prevent prejudiceor raise awareness about it. Thismoves the students on theirjourney as active citizens.

Bullying andBraveryAlong with the facilitator, studentswill breakdown prejudice into itssimplest and most recurrent form-bullying. We work together tounderstand what makes usdifferent, but also what makes usall very similar. The students areencouraged to debate theiropinions on bullying and especiallywhose responsibility it is to stop it.By the end of the workshops,students will understand whatprejudice, bullying and intoleranceof difference can build into. Thestudents will finish feelinginformed and empowered to makea positive difference in their schooland wider community.

Community CohesionAfter the students have completed the workshops, they willuse the rest of the afternoon to design and create their ownassembly to show to their parents. This will consist of anythingthe students feel they want to share with the communityabout what they have learned. It could be facts and figuresfrom their visit to The Journey, or a short sketch aboutprejudice in their local area. This gives students theopportunity to voice their own opinions and desires to tackleprejudice. This will actively encourage community cohesionand the celebration of diversity, hopefully inspiring membersof the community to get involved with the schools programmeof ending prejudice and bullying at school and in the widercommunity.

Meeting GovernmentObjectivesAs well as creating well informed, active citizens of tomorrow,these workshops also help schools fulfil their Governmentrequirements:The international dimension in education is becoming anincreasingly important feature in government schoolsinitiatives like the Inclusion and Participation framework. The Sustainable Schools National Framework states that:

“By 2020 the government would like all schools to beacting as models of social inclusion, enabling allpupils to participate fully in school life while instillinga long-lasting respect for human rights, freedomsand creative expression.”

Inclusion and participation are important goals of sustainabledevelopment learning, seeking to replace national, cultural andindividual divides with respect, care and understanding.Schools that encourage global citizenship projects, curriculum-based international work and involvement with the localcommunity have been commended by Ofsted and the BritishCouncil’s International Schools Award (ISA).These workshops are designed to encourage both local andinternational acceptance; Acceptance of difference andindividuality, lessons that work both on the play ground and in the wider world.

For more informationcontact Kate O’Dell, Outreach Officer

kate.odell@holocaustcentre.net

07917 663 565