Training

We can provide Continuing Professional Development for teachers and input to Initial Teacher Education courses:

• North-South school linking
• Education for Sustainable Development
• Developing a global dimension to the curriculum from Foundation Stage to KS4
• Developing an anti-racist multicultural dimension to the curriculum from Foundation Stage to KS4
• Development Education Methodology
• Refugee Awareness Training

We can also deliver Refugee Awareness training with community, voluntary and professional organisations.

Workshops and Courses for Pupils and Young People

For further details, such as timings and costs, for the following workshops and course please contact Global Link

Workshops

• Fair Trade workshops and UN simulated Summits for primary and secondary schools, and youth groups, using simulation games such as the Chocolate Trade Game, the World Trade Organisation Game, The Trading Game and Trading Trainers.
• Full or half day UN Summits for secondary schools exploring issues such as climate change, tourism and sustainable development, refugees and international trade.
• Challenging stereotypes of countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
• Refugee awareness workshops
• Racism and diversity workshops

Courses

We can run Global Citizenship General Studies courses exploring issues such as racism and diversity, international trade and interdependence, climate change.

We can run Philosophy for Children and Global Citizenship courses for primary school children.

We can run storytelling sessions for Early Years children to develop a sense of the wider world.

Forum Theatre

Forum theatre workshops exploring what pupils can do about climate change, using our play 'Sam gets a letter'.

Anti-racist forum theatre workshops for predominantly white schools using our play 'Ally Comes to Cumbria', commissioned by Cumbria LEA.

'Ally comes to Cumbria' is the story of a black girl who moves to an all-white school in Cumbria where she is subject to racist bullying, and the play ends sadly for all concerned. The audience, or "spectActors", are invited, during the second performance, to intervene whenever they think the central protagonist (who could be one of them) should do something to prevent the racist behaviour from occurring. The "spectActor" can "rehearse for reality" by replacing the protagonist and show the audience what they think the protagonist should have done; the actors improvise back, in character, and the audience decide whether it was a successful intervention or not. In this way the pupils, enraged by the racist bullying, can change the outcome of the play and reflect on their own attitudes and behaviour in the process.

Forum theatre workshops challenging myths and stereotypes about refugees and asylum-seekers and Gypsies/Travellers using our play 'Just Passing', commissioned by Cumbria LEA. 'Just Passing' tells the story of Nadine who is an asylum seeker from Zimbabwe attending a secondary school in Cumbria and Francis Boswell who is a Gypsy and school dinner lady. Nadine is bullied by the racist Kyle, who is also involved in a campaign to get Francis evicted from her land. Once again, the play ends sadly and the audience, enraged by Kyle, intervene to change the story of the play.