NewsletterCraven Development Education Centre

www.cravendec.org.uk Autumn 2014

All teachers in the Craven area are welcome to visit the Centre, which holds a large store of resources which are available free on loan. If you would like to borrow resources please download a Resource Request Form from the Craven DEC website, and email to Liz Roodhouse.

Craven Development Education Centre St. Andrew’s Church Hall Newmarket Street, Skipton, BD23 2JE

To make an appointment to look through resources, visit the Centre or discuss your school’s needs, please contact Liz Roodhouse, Coordinator.

Email: liz@cravendec.org.uk Telephone: 01756 790 737 Mobile: 07810 200 202

www.cravendec.org.uk Registered charity no. 1091643

Global Wallplanner and Light teaching resource

SELECTED DIARY DATES:16 September AGM of Craven DEC and Global Voices Event in Skipton (P.1) 18 September Makutano Project meeting, (P.2) Children’s Centre, Brougham Street, Skipton, 1.30pm to 4.30pm 21 September International Day of Peace 26 September European Languages Day 1 October Black History month begins 6 October World Habitat Day and beginning of Children’s Book Week 15 October Global Teachers Award Level 1 course at York St John University (P.1) 16 October World Food Day21 October Composting and Waste afternoon at Embsay CE Primary School (P.2) 19 – 26 October One World Week – the theme for 2014 is “Living Differently” Resources available on the website http://www.oneworldweek.org 6 November Deeper Understanding of Global Citizenship workshop (P.1) 11 November Armistice Day 16 November Inter Faith week begins 19 November World Toilet Day 20 November Universal Children’s Day 1 December World Aids Day 2 December International Day for the Abolition of Slavery 3 December International Day for Persons with Disabilities 10 December Human Rights Day

Find out more and get suggestions for teaching resources at www.globaldimension.org.uk/calendar

Visiting and contacting CravenDEC

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Don’t forget that if you haven’t done so already, you can order copies of Think Global’s Global Dimension Wallplanner for the 2014/15 academic year. The theme of this year’s wall planner looks ahead to the International Year of Light 2015, using photos around the theme of light. There’s also a teaching resource featuring all the photos, and from 1st August an electronic iCalendar. All of these can be downloaded or ordered via: http:// globaldimension.org.uk/wallplanner

GLOBAL TEACHERS AWARD LEVEL 1Wednesday 15 October 2014 & Tuesday 10 February 9.30am to 3.30pm, York St John University Full day £125 (includes lunch and all other refreshment) or ‘free’ for schools who wish to use the GLP e-credits

This course provides accredited recognition and is ideally suited to those teachers who are ‘Global Advocates’ in their own schools or settings. (For example, teachers who are new to a post and are interested in or are coordinators of Eco Schools, Fair Trade, Rights Respecting, Global/ International Schools and Global Links.) It benefits both participants and their schools within the field of global learning as can be seen from the comments made by teachers on the course.

Tutors: Rosina Gilboy and Liz Roodhouse

To book a place on either of these dates contact: Liz Roodhouse, Craven DEC Coordinator T: 01756 790737 M: 07810 200202 Email: liz@cravendec.org.uk

DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

Thursday 6 November, 1.30pm to 4.30pm, York St John University

A FREE Course for schools registered with the British Council Connecting Classrooms Programme. This workshop/course is for teachers who want to deepen their understanding of global citizenship and how to apply it in their classrooms. Participants will find out about:

• Relevance of global citizenship for young people around the world • Themes and practical ideas for the classroom • Best practice teaching methodology Tutors: Liz Roodhouse, Craven DEC and Rosina Gilboy, Centre for Global Education, York To book a place register now at www.britishcouncil.org/connectingclassrooms-pd For more information contact: Liz Roodhouse, Craven DEC Coordinator E: liz@cravendec.org.uk M: 07810 200202

Resources to support learning about GLOBAL ISSUESMap: All the countries that contribute to a single jar of Nutella Some 250,000 tons of Nutella are sold across 75 countries around the world every year, and this map is an interesting illustration of a global supply chain.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/12/map-all-the- countries-that- contribute-to-a-single-jar-of-nutella/282252/

New El Salvador Geography pack from CAFODCAFOD’s Geography education pack for KS2 is designed to support the new primary Geography curriculum. The pack focuses on El Salvador and includes an illustrated map, photo cards, online films and classroom activities. The resources will help you meet the core requirement for pupils to extend their geographical knowledge and understanding beyond the local area to include North, Central and South America.

A full set of 12 short films about El Salvador is coming soon to support the new curriculum.

www.cafod.org.uk/ Education/Primary-schools/Geography-NEW ^ up to Resources and Publications menu

WANT TO CELEBRATE HARVEST DIFFERENTLY THIS YEAR? WANT TO CELEBRATE THE WORLD’S HARVEST? The challenge is to sell 90kg of fairly traded rice – the amount of rice sold that would enable a Malawian farmer pay for a year’s basic secondary education for one child.

For more information ring the Just Trading Scotland (JTS) warehouse on 0141 887 2882 or email info@jts.co.uk and they will answer any questions and arrange a free delivery of rice to your location. Alternatively go to http://www.justtradingscotland.co.uk/pages/90kg-challenge for case studies, inspirational video interview with Howard Msukwa, a rice farmer from Malawi, and lots more information about how the challenge works.

GLOBAL VOICES IN SKIPTON A regular event organised by Craven DEC

and open to everyoneTuesday 16 September, 7.30pm, St Andrew’s Church Hall, Skipton

Speaker: Will Sutcliffe from Bradford Ecumenical Asylum Concern (BEACON). BEACON is an organisation set up to address the practical and spiritual needs of the many asylum seekers and refugees who now live in the Bradford district. But how does BEACON fit into the picture? Come along and find out more about this organisation and the City of Sanctuary movement.

During the summer distressing images of displaced people have been a daily occurrence in the media but sadly this is nothing new. Many asylum seekers and refugees now live in Yorkshire. Bradford is a City of Sanctuary and part of a network of towns and cities across the UK.

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GET READY TO CELEBRATE AND BAKE ...FAIRTRADE IS TWENTY!

For your free pack go to http://schools.fairtrade.org.uk/action/throw-fairtrade-bakesale-party

Inside the free pack you’ll find:

Step by step teacher’s guide, lesson plan, world map, pupil activity hand-outs, attractive stickers, a blank

poster for you to publicise your bake sale. Congratulations ...To Cracoe & Rylstone CE Primary School on becoming the latest Fairtrade School in Craven. There are now seven primary and two secondary Fairtrade schools in Craven.

Congratulations also to the winners in the competition to produce a story book or a board game bringing Fairtrade issues to life.

There were 58 entries and the overall winner was, ‘The Banana Boy’s Story’ by Ella-Louise Purvis and Matthew Stevens from Greatwood Primary School.

In the KS2 category there were joint winners and both were for Fairtrade inspired board games; Ruby Ingham, Hannah Myers, Vienna Powell and Rosie Robinson from Carleton Endowed CE Primary School and Imogen Livsey, Leah Loughran and Luis Seal from Greatwood Primary School. The KS3 prize winner was Ruby Sheridan from Skipton Girls’ High School for her game, ‘Find your way to a better world’.

On June 12th Ings Primary School hosted 94 young people from six schools in the Skipton area for an afternoon of Fairtrade fun organised by Skipton Fairtrade Initiative and Craven Development Education Centre.

They were joined by Cllr John Dawson, Mayor of Skipton, who presented; certificates recognising the ongoing Eco-schools work that is done in all the schools; and prizes to the winners of the Skipton Fairtrade competition.

Vanessa Brain, a past student of Skipton Girls’ High School and until recently employed by the Fairtrade Foundation in London, gave a talk on Fairtrade cotton. She urged everyone to write to retailers, especially Marks and Spencer, to get them to make school uniforms using Fairtrade cotton.

At M & S write to: Phil Townsend, Sustainable Raw Materials Specialist, Marks & Spencer Group Plc, Waterside House, 35 North Wharf Road, London W2 1NW.

Later there were games of Fairtrade snakes and ladders and ‘Cotton On’, when the children were amazed to hear that in the UK we throw away 1 tonne of textiles every thirty seconds.

The picture shows Liz Roodhouse working with a group.

Skipton Fairtrade Initiative is delighted to announce that Skipton has been granted Fairtrade town status and has joined a growing family of Fairtrade towns and cities in Fairtrade Yorkshire, the UK’s first Fairtrade Region. http:// www.fairtradeyorkshire.org.uk/

DID YOU KNOW? In the UK, £10.2 billion of food is wasted each year. If we reduce food waste, on average

a family could save £50 per month.

MAKING ECO-STOVES IN SKIPTON In June, Ings School in Skipton hosted a very successful afternoon for teachers and children from Carleton, Cowling, Gargrave and Skipton Parish schools. In Bo, Sierra Leone, where three of the schools have links through the Connecting Classrooms programme, most people cook on traditional three stone open fires which consume large quantities of firewood, are a health and safety hazard and are inefficient. Using eco-stoves has many advantages, e.g. they are made using local materials which cost very little. Having seen an eco-stove being made when we visited Bo last October, Tracey Bentley produced a set of simple instructions. The children used these to make their own eco-stoves and enjoyed getting very dirty in the process. A diamond ranking activity considering the advantages of using eco-stoves was provided as a follow up activity to prompt deeper thought and discussion.

To download instructions and diamond ranking activity go to www.cravendec.org.uk

ROCKET LANDS IN EMBSAY ... A first for North Yorkshire schools There was great excitement when a Rocket food waste composter designed to recycle food wastes arrived last term. For Mrs Walker, class 5 teacher at Embsay CE Primary School and Eco-Schools Coordinator, this was a dream come true. With the help of Craven DEC, she submitted a successful grant application to the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust. The school has received most of the money required to pay (from the Sustainable Development Fund) for this amazing machine, which will be recycling food wastes on site and producing compost to use on the school garden and to sell to the village community. Rockets are a continual flow system with waste being added daily and compost exiting daily. They require little except for a single phase power source, to be located under cover and to have a good dry source of woodchip to add to the food wastes. A free supply of wood chip has been sourced locally and a shelter has been constructed, which will have a living roof if further funding

is secured. Composting doesn’t get more exciting than this! There will be an opportunity to find out more about the Rocket and see it in action during the afternoon of Tuesday 21st October when Embsay School will be hosting a Composting and Waste Extravaganza from 12.45 to 2.45pm. Teachers and members of their eco- teams will be invited. The draft plans for the day include: a tour of the rocket system, making mini wormeries with the North Yorkshire Rotters, ideas to reduce waste in your school, creating recycled art with Captain Rummage and a waste activity with a global perspective led by Craven DEC. For more details contact Ruth Stacey, Schools Carbon Reduction Officer T: 07792 954112, E: Ruth.Stacey@northyorks.gov.uk

NEW from PRACTICAL ACTION ...Practical Action Schools has just launched a Facebook page and are hoping it will give them yet another way to spread the word about their work and support for Science and D & T teachers.https:// www.facebook.com/pages/Practical-Action-Schools/1464342807166031

A FREE interactive 60 to 90 minutes workshop from engineers without borders for KS2 and KS3 delivered by a group of engineering students from a university near you. Working in teams your pupils will explore issues around energy in the developing world and build their own wind turbine.

An excellent starter activity (15 to 20 mins) for 11 to 18 years. Pupils take on a character role and find out what places them at risk from

natural hazards such as flooding. It can be used flexibly in Geography lessons to introduce how natural disasters affect people or to introduce one of Practical Action’s natural disaster related STEM challenges, e.g. Beat the Flood or the Floating Garden Challenge.

Yummy Yoghurt Makers After finding out how changing milk into yoghurt is a better way for farmers in Bangladesh to make money the challenge is to investigate how to make the tastiest yoghurt from milk.

DID YOU KNOW? Most of the food we throw away is fruit & vegetables, and potatoes are the most commonly wasted food.

Update and Introduction to the Makutano Project!Thursday 18th September, 1.30pm to 4.30pm, Children’s Centre, Brougham Street, Skipton.An opportunity to hear from teachers who have been using the Makutano resources in their classrooms and to be introduced to the exciting new resources developed over the summer, ready for piloting in schools this term. Many of these are related to money, food, health and well-being. All will engage pupils, stimulate talk for learning and critical and creative thinking. For more information see insert and/or contact Liz Roodhouse, Craven DEC Coordinator, E: liz@cravendec.org.uk M: 07810 200202