Case Studies : School & Community : Secondary
Case Studies
28/03/2008
Valuing Difference: Raising Students' Awareness and Appreciation of Diversity
At Notley High School (Braintree, Essex) RE, PSHE and ICT teachers worked together to develop and deliver a new, cross-curricular module of study to enable students to achieve greater positive awareness...
28/03/2008
High Achievement Project
Preston Manor, a very successful school in Brent, has particular success with African Caribbean boys and has developed a comprehensive approach to raising black achievement. Strategies include: Inclusive...
30/03/2008
Integrating Education for Diversity
With clear leadership and commitment from the head teacher, Knutsford High School, a largely white school in Cheshire, is developing an exciting conceptual curriculum offer from 11 to 18, avoiding subject...
28/03/2008
Using Assemblies to Support Diversity Education
The head teacher at George Dixon School in Birmingham runs a school that has built success from the point of near closure by opening its doors to all refugee children seeking a place: The personal vision...
30/03/2008
CREAM (Curriculum Reflecting Experiences of African Caribbean and Muslim Pupils) Project
CREAM is a research project by Maurice Coles et al. to establish the extent and quality of materials reflecting the experiences of Muslim and African Caribbean pupils, which could be used by mainstream...
28/03/2008
Community Forum and Mentoring Project
Valentines High School is a very successful multiethnic school in Redbridge, East London.The school has built close links with its local community by setting up a Community Forum, which meets formally...
28/03/2008
School Linking Case Study
Moat Community College in Leicester, with a school population that is 95% minority ethnic (mainly Muslim), has placed itself at the centre of its community.Local people are allowed to picnic on the school...
28/03/2008
Making a Difference
‘Making a Difference' was the title of a 6 week cross-curricular programme of study about the life experiences of unaccompanied asylum seekers in the UK - developed by JCORE (Jewish Council...
28/03/2008
Learning Outside the Classroom (LOTC)
As part of a recent LOTC (Learning Outside the Classroom) initiative staff from the RE and ICT departments at Our Lady and St Bede RC School incorporated an outside visit to Bede's World Museum (Jarrow,...
28/03/2008
Post-16 Citizenship Project
"In order for you to live peacefully with others you needto get to know about them, their beliefs. I want to get toknow them...once I've finished with Oldham they'll allthink differently!"(Student at...
28/03/2008
School Linking Between Mainstream and Supplementary Schools
Copland School in Brent (London) has an excellent reputation for its work in a diverse community and has been involved in many successful projects aimed at raising achievement. A major aspect of the head...
07/04/2008
Holocaust and Human Behaviour Case Study
‘Holocaust and Human Behaviour' is a 12 week course undertaken by year 9 pupils from Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys in their history and citizenship lessons. The course is based on a learning...
07/04/2008
Somalia History and Culture Project
The Somalia History and Culture project - jointly run by DECSY (Development Education Centre, South Yorkshire) with Sheffield EMAS (Ethnic Minority Achievement Service), local Somali organisations...
21/04/2008
PROMISE Project - Comenius School Partnerships Programme
Blaengwawr Comprehensive School has been learning about their own community through linking with partners in Europe under the Comenius programme, in a joint project on immigration and emigration. ...
15/05/2008
Cultural Heritage GPS Trail and DVD
A cross curricular project involving students from secondary schools across the district, researching, scripting, writing and filming an area of Bradford - looking at shared heritage, migration diversity...
29/05/2008
Campaign! Make an Impact - 'Bitter Sweet' Project
Campaign! Make an Impact is an innovative project in which children change their lives through engagement with museum and library collections. First they study a historic campaign such as the movement...
29/05/2008
Campaign! Make an Impact - Recycle Project
Campaign! Make an Impact is an innovative project in which children change their lives through engagement with museum and library collections. First children and young people study a historic campaign,...
28/03/2008
Campaign! Make an Impact - What's Your Story?
Campaign! Make an Impact is an innovative project in which children change their lives through engagement with museum and library collections. First they study a historic campaign such as the movement...
29/05/2008
Campaign! Make an Impact - Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Project
Campaign! Make an Impact is an innovative project in which children and young people change their lives through engagement with museum and library collections. First, pupils study a historic campaign such...
19/06/2008
Campaign! Make an Impact - Street Crime Project
Campaign! Make an Impact is an innovative project in which children and young people change their lives through engagement with museum and library collections. First they study a historic campaign such...
22/06/2008
Celebrating Diversity, Encouraging Inclusion and Involving the Local Community
As a school, Bishop's Hatfield want to ensure their learners are being prepared to understand and appreciate changes to the diversity of the local community and wider UK society. To address this, a whole...
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