DEED
In today's fast-paced and interconnected world, Global Education has a place at the heart of teaching and learning. Today’s children are the innovators, educators, designers and leaders of tomorrow’s world - it is our role as educators to embrace global dimensions in all aspects of their learning and development.
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The Millennium Development Goals - what can we do to reduce global poverty by 2015? Come along to a half day training event for KS2 and above teaching staff to be held in Wimborne on 1st February 2012. Local schools and the British Red Cross will be sharing activities and resources to support your work in the classroom. Click here for flyer and more information. You may also be interested in these websites for further information and resources on the MDGs.
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/category.htm?37
http://teachunicef.org/explore/topic/millennium-development-goals-0
http://www.cafod.org.uk/primary/mdg
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Fairtrade Fortnight 2012, 27 February - 11 March
Click here for DEED's Fabulous Fairtrade programme of support for schools.
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Living the Dream. Fairtrade & the Olympic Games, Tuesday 28th February 2012 9.30am to 12.30pm, Allendale House, Wimborne. A DEED workshop suitable for Teachers, Training Assistants and Pupils from Key Stage 2 and 3 that will:
- Explore practical activities for successful Fairtrade & Olympic-themed events
- Share new teaching and learning materials, resources and websites
- Provide participants with the opportunity to learn alongside staff and students from other schools
Click here for details
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Further Steps on the Rights Respecting Journey, Tuesday 24th April 2012 1.30pm to 4.30pm, venue in West Dorset to be confirmed. A half day event for teachers and teaching assistants that will show you ways to strengthen Rights Respecting Schools work in your schools and beyond. Suitable for first, middle and primary schools at all levels of the RRSA. Click here for details.
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DEED’s training programme for the 2012 Spring and Summer Terms is available on our training page.
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Pupil Workshop flyers
Two new flyers for DEED pupil workshops are available to download. Click here for Distant Localities and here for Themes.
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DEED has moved!
Our new address is DEED, St. Aldhelm's Academy, Herbert Avenue, Poole BH12 4HS, access via the main school entrance. Our contact details and opening times remain the same. Click here for more details in our latest edition of DEED News.
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Our Sankofa Exhibition from Ghana, West Africa is available to hire. Our Dorset's Hidden Histories exhibition can be hired with a creative writing workshops from Louisa Adjoa Parker. Click here for details of all our displays and exhibitions.
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Are you on the Rights Respecting Schools journey? Are you looking to develop the Global Dimension across your whole school? More than 25 schools have now benefitted from the course and your school could be one of them. We welcome clusters and partnerships of schools working together to share good practice and share costs. In addition current DEED Subscribers are eligible for a further 10% discount. Click here for more details.
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Could you be a DEED VOLUNTEER? We need someone to help us keep our website and facebook pages up to date with articles and photos. Also to generally help out with office admin. Please let us know if you have a day a week to spare. We look forward to hearing from you.
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Click the link below to follow us on Facebook!
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Click the link below to follow us on Flickr!
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Visit DEED TV and see some of our local schools putting Global Citizenship into action.
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We look forward to working with you.
