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Programmes
Challenging-racism-&-celebrating difference
The programmes offered are aimed at Key Stages 2 – 4 and are appropriately differentiated within these stages.
The programme lengths vary from 3 – 6 sessions for each class/group of 10 – 34 young people. All programmes can be adapted to the needs of your school or organization.
Life Skills Education aims to:
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help-students-go-beyond-judging-others superficially, and relate to them on a deeper level.
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encourage students to be open-minded and sensitive to the feelings of others in their speech and actions.
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support students’ confidence and skills when dealing with people from different background to their own.
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develop more thoughtful attitudes to other cultures and races.
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provide the opportunity to explore and, where necessary, change the perception of people from different cultures.
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recognise the importance things that all human beings share, as well as to value the differences between people, whether they are personality traits, goals, values and lifestyles.
Facilitators are highly professional and are drawn from a wide range of expertise including:
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Teachers
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Drama and play therapists
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PSHE experts
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Assertiveness self-esteem trainers
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Life Coach experts
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Conflict resolution professionals
The need to explore the roots of racism, challenges myths and stereotypes, increases understanding between different racial groups and empowers young people to create change.
“It is vital to build communication and understanding between young people of all ‘races’, so that increasing racial polarization and conflict is halted and reversed,” Marietta Harrow (in Challenging racism, valuing difference 1995)
“Work on challenging racism will give the young people the inner confidence as well as the intellectual and practical tools to challenge and withstand racism. It will allow them to recognize the connections between their own experience of oppression, and other people’s different experiences of oppression, whether it be based on ‘race’, ‘class’, gender, sexuality, special need or age.” (Marietta Harrow ibid)
Activities are designed to create challenges but not conflict, to develop self-esteem and mutual respect, to celebrate and value similarities and differences, and to be thought-provoking as well as fun. They also develop the core skills of communication, problem-solving and personal and social skills.
What can we offer?
| Introduction to Racism & Celebrating difference
(One Morning) KS 2 - 4 |
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COST:£ 400 + 12% Includes:
2 Facilitators
9am – 1pm (Flexible) |
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Challenging Racism & Celebrating difference
Courses
(Three sessions /class – total 3 hours) KS 2 - 4 |
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COST:£100/session
(Total: £300)
Includes: 2 Facilitators
Tailored Programme
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Challenging Racism & Celebrating difference Courses
(Six sessions/class –
total 6 hours) KS 2 - 4 |
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COST:£100/session
(Total: £300)
Includes:2 Facilitators
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Call office for price for multiple bookings.
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National Curriculum
The Education Reform Act of 1988 places a responsibility on schools to ‘provide a balanced and broadly based curriculum which:
- promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society
- prepares such pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life
Since this legislation, further DfE documents give guidance on the need for schools to have an Equal Opportunities policy, and to promote equality of opportunity across and through every area of the curriculum.
For example:
- Schools should ensure that: ‘positive attitudes to ..cultural diversity are actively promoted’
(Guidance Document on the Whole Curriculum, 1990, NCC)
- Pupils should consider such issues such as ‘the interdependence of individuals, groups and communities; similarities and differences between individuals, groups and communities and their effects; the existence of differences of perception and the ways in which these may be reconciled; Britain as a society made up of many cultures, ethnic groups, faiths and languages; the diversity of cultures in other societies; a study of human development and culture from different perspectives…..the origins and effects of racial prejudice in British and other societies’.
(Guidance on Education for Citizenship, 1990, NCC)
- Pupils ‘should learn to question the stereotypes produced by social groupings, particularly in case of gender and race. They need to understand the ways in which cultural diversity can be celebrated and inequality and prejudice combated’.
(Community Understanding, 1992, CCW Advisory Paper)
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