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For teachers and other educators who have already developed and used schemes of work and learning resources that address identity, diversity and citizenship themes please select 'Learning Resources' to view and download a broad range of recommended resources from the WDWTWA online database.

Consider how you might begin to draft a programme of work for WDWTWA Week 2009 based on some of the following key questions, topics and themes:

Theme 1: School and community - Key questions:

• Who are the people that I see around me?
• Do I know my neighbours, or the people in my street?
• How do I contribute to my school community / local community?
• How do I define what ‘my community' is?
• Do I belong to more than one community?

Theme 2: History and settlement - Key questions:

• Why do we live here?
• What makes where we live important?
• Has my family always lived here?
• Why did my family move here?
• Will I stay here, or do I want to live somewhere else?

Theme 3: Relationships, belonging and faith - Key questions:

• Are there people who act and think like me?
• Do I have a faith / belief?
• Are there specific events that I observe - and why? E.g. Christmas, Easter, Eid, Hanukkah, Halloween, Bonfire Night, Chinese New Year, St George's Day, etc.

Theme 4: 'Britishness', national identity/values and the 2012 Games - Key questions:

• How do I describe myself?
• What things are important to me - family, friends, books, ideas, sports, etc?
• What do I value in life?
• How important are these things when I describe myself to others?
• What aspects of British national identity (or ‘identities') will we present to the world as part of the 2012 Games and the ‘Cultural Olympiad'?

NEXT STEPS

Think about how you might support the cross-curricular delivery of the WDWTWA programme in a school, college or LOTC (Learning Outside the Classroom) setting and then consider the following next steps:

• Discuss with colleagues some of the creative, cross-curricular teaching and learning activities that you might undertake with children and young people as part of WDWTWA Week 2009.
• Select the 'Get Involved' section (from the menu bar above) to view examples of the range of activities that took place in schools, colleges and academies during June 2008 within the WDWTWA project's four local authority pilot areas - Barking & Dagenham, Bradford, Bristol and Cheshire
• Contact the Schools Linking Network to discuss how to incorporate school-to-school linking projects and/or school-to-community partnership initiatives during WDWTWA Week 2009.
• Explore the Global Gateway to discover how you can develop international links with schools in different parts of the world and enable young people to engage with global citizenship issues.

If you would like to discuss and share your initial plans and ideas for WDWTWA Week 2009, please post a comment on the WDWTWA blog ('Have your say'), or contact the WDWTWA Project via email c/o wdwtwa@rgs.org.