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At the CGE we pride ourselves on providing relevant and professional workshops that can be catered to your specific requirements. We use interactive learning techniques to ensure all our workshops are accessible and fully inclusive. Methodologies such as P4C are used as tools to challenge and stimulate learners in all areas of global education.

1. Identity, Cultural Diversity and Community Cohesion

   The workshop is an exploration of what makes us different and what makes us similar and promotes an understanding of how diverse people, places, economies and environment in the global community are interconnected. We focus on what makes us unique individuals and how important it is for us to be recognised and respected as such. We go on to appreciate that other people in our community, be it our school, our town, our country or the wider world, also need to be acknowledged and treated with dignity, whatever their racial, ethnic, cultural or religious background. Each activity sheds light on what identity and cultural diversity really mean and suggests news ways of bringing these ideas to life. For instance, by talking about our names and by considering the many roles we play on a daily basis, we realise how diverse and unique we are ourselves, and we come to understand how painful it must be for people to have their identities denied or to be labelled.

2. Francophone Cinema: focus on a Caribbean Classic

   This half -day workshop is aimed at using Rue Cases – Negres’ ( Black Shack Alley), an internationally acclaimed French Caribbean film, to examine aspects of the French-speaking world in the island of Martinique. Teachers or pupils will be shown how they can use clips from the film to develop inter-cultural learning. As the main characters in the film are young people, this will help to promote empathy in the study of a society which has been connected with France for so long. This vibrant, moving film is the perfect tool to help students understand the role of France in its overseas departments and how its effects on Caribbean society past and present. It will help students to develop an understanding of the impact of slavery and colonialism on the lives of a young boy and his grandmother from Martinique. An opportunity to explore issues of representation, identity and language while developing language skills.

3. Making Global Radio

   This half -day workshop is aimed at using a radio project to develop young people’s skills at speaking, listening and writing while exploring human rights issues. Participants who are teaching Key Stage 3 English/ Media will get practical hands-on experience of how to involve their students in making a short radio programme to help them understand how global stories are represented in the media. The content of the programme will therefore explore issues of representation, objectivity and social justice in the way stories about the developing world are reported.

4. Beyond the Anthology - an exploration of identity and representation in poetry from Africa and the Caribbean

   This half-day workshop is of particular interest to teachers who are using the ‘Poems from Different Cultures’ in the AQA Anthology of GCSE English/English Literature. It may also be of use to teachers of Citizenship who wish to take an innovative approach to issues of identity and representation. This interactive workshop will take teachers beyond the African and Caribbean poems in the Anthology to widen their appreciation of global literature, helping them find new ways of introducing this poetry to young people.

5. Understanding Global Food

   This interactive workshop( please ring to discuss your specific requirements) offers a range of activities around sustainable food for teachers to pilot in their classes, using photos, card games, power-point presentations, traditional tales, etc. Participants are encouraged to reflect on the food we eat and explore the impact our food choices have on lifestyle, health and environment around the world.

   The objective of the workshop is to promote the teaching of the Global Dimension and Community Cohesion in the classroom, by giving the teachers ideas and tools to introduce sustainable food in a sustainable school in a creative, informed and fun

   Workshop A/B for KS1 and KS2 Participants will be encouraged to reflect on the sustainability of the food we eat. They will explore the impact our food choices have on our lifestyle, health and environment around the world and the diversity of the people who bring the food to our plate, by trialling activities such as: ‘The World on your Plate’, ‘Strawberry Compass Rose’, ‘Fishing for Facts’, ‘Snap Fish’, Global Fish Dishes’, ‘Be a Banana!’ ‘The World Came

6. Multicultural Day for a School

   Themes covered for KS2 and 3 using a selected carousel of activities. Please ring to discuss your requirements.

   1. Diversity
   2. Identity
   3. Interdependence and interconnectedness
   4. Global awareness

   Type of activities:

   • Healthy Foods: Global Fish, Chocolate Reporters,
   • Be a Banana!
   • Name Share
   • Multiple Identities
   • Global Poems
   • Global Footprints
   • Global Wombat
   • Let’s Have Tea!
   • Global languages: French & Spanish

   
   
7. It's NOT FAIR!

   A workshop which allows children and young people to explore our global interdependence through trade. Through the use of interactive activities and global simulation games they will be challenged to gain a greater appreciation of how our personal choices can impact on the lives of others. An example of one of our successful workshops involves the Indian Paperbag Simulation Game -children are organised into family units and placed into a scenario where they need to produce bags as a form of income. The numbers produced can then be used to buy goods. Children have an opportunity to reflect on 'Human rights' and 'values and perceptions'.From this experience we explore the goods produced in Indian and question the fairness of the prices paid for these. Children are challenged to consider the need for 'social justice' and their future life choices. Fair trade is carefully considered as a method to address inequality in trade.

8. A day in........

   We are in the early stages of producing workshops which will allow schools to experience different aspects of life and culture in specific countries from education, music, food, environment, language, trade etc. More details to follow.

9. Slavery
10. Introduction to Global learning
11. Children's Rights
12. Global School Partnerships
13. Local Citizen, Global Citizen

    An interactive inclusive workshop that will motivate pupils to explore key global dimensions. Pupils are introduced to globalization, interdependence, sustainability, key global issues and will investigate what it is to be a local and global citizen. Pupils will be challenged to reflect on their own personal responsibility regarding choices they are and will make now an din the future.

14. P4C

    We can work with teachers to introduce them to the methodology of P4C. Alternatively we can run workshops with pupils to explore global issues, from conflict resolution, equality, social justice, difference and diversity, interdependence, wants and needs, sustainability, human rights, citizenship and many more.

15. A day with 'Artefacts'

    We can provide one or a series of our artefact boxes, introducing, demonstrating and explaining their cultural significance. We extend this activity with stories and activities from the countries.