Martin Crabbe, a teacher based at Glebe School in Kent, has submitted the following information about his plans for WDWTWA Week 2008.

1. School details:
Glebe School, Hawes Lane, West Wickham, Kent, BR4 9AE
(a secondary school for students with statements of moderate learning difficulties).

2. Year Group(s) participating in WDWTWA-themed activities in 2008:

• Year 7 - most of the Year group (approx 26 students) at a basic level and 10 students at a more involved level with the Kobi Nazrul School in Tower Hamlets: see http://sustainablegeography.co.uk/glebeandkobinazrul.aspx
• Year 9 - whole year group (about 30 students)
• Year 10 and 11. 10 students producing work as part of GCSE Geography coursework.

3. Brief description of the planning undertaken & activities for w/c 23rd June 2008

A series of development activities has been undertaken to prepare students for the week:

• Students from Glebe School have been developing a link with a primary school in Tower Hamlets called Kobi Nazrul School. This link has so far involved 2 reciprocal visits to each location; a joint Mudchute Farm visit, and an online web-conference. The link is being led by older KS4 students from Glebe and involves 10 year 7 students from Glebe School and 10 mixed age students from Kobi Nazrul - see http://sustainablegeography.co.uk/glebeandkobinazrul.aspx
• Key Stage 4 students have produced a number of think pieces on identity and place
• Year 9 students will use literacy, history and geography lessons during the week to write short essays answering the question Who do you think you are?
• The week between 7^th July and 11^th July a small task force will explore areas of London to explore the question further ( visiting Kobi Nazrul School and Brick Lane, Brixton and China Town)
• All the above is/ will be made publically available through the school's sustainable geography website at http://sustainablegeography.co.uk/wdwtwa.aspx

4. Summary of the expected learning outcomes, subject-specific skills (as well as concepts & processes), values and issues to be explored during the course of WDWTWA Week

• Literacy: the week will support the school's efforts to use real world learning opportunities with a relevance to student's lives to support literacy development primarily with Year 9 students
• History: the week will look at the historical roots to identity with Year 9 students
• Geography: Older students will use the week to consider the unit: My Place in Britain for their Geography GCSE coursework; Younger students will use the week to develop their understanding of identity, place, interdependence, global dimension etc

5. Statement about why you would recommend WDWTWA to other teachers.

"It's a fantastic opportunity to reflect on identity with students. This issue particularly relevant to schools involved in linking projects."

Martin Crabbe

Crown Woods School (a Specialist Humanities College in Greenwich, London) held a special Humanities Day event linked to Who Do We Think We Are? on Thursday 26^th June 2008.

During the day all the year groups participated in a range of cross-curricular activities and projects - including:

• Tutor group quizzes
• Workshops about the life experiences of refugees and asylum seekers
• Drama sessions on identity with Year 8 groups
• Display work on Identity Montages designed by Year 10 Art & Design students
• An International Drama Project with Year 7 students at the Tramshed Theatre
• Workshop activities in the library led by staff from London Transport Museum
• Mini Olympics event and flag making activity for Year 7 tutor groups with flag making in tutor groups

In terms of cross-curricular links, teachers of the following subjects incorporated ‘Who Do We Think We Are?' into their Humanities Day timetables - and the preparatory lessons leading up to the day:

• Citizenship ‘Making a Change' project - 16 Year 7 students visited a recycling plant
• KS3 Drama - Week-long series of lessons on identity
• History - Year 7 Olympic anthems and national identity; Year 8 British Empire; Year 9 - Ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary
• Citizenship - Year 7 Environment and how this influences our identity; Year 8 Exploration of Britain's ethnic diversity, tied in with the Refugee Week workshops; Year 9 & Year 10 Youth Crime research projects. There will be displays created following the completion of these schemes of work.
• RE - A lessons that considered the question, ‘Where do I belong?' with all year groups
• Sociology - Identity and Educational Achievement, Year 10 course unit
• Modern Foreign Languages - Week-long series of lessons raising awareness of French/Spanish culture, famous people, stereotypes with a quiz to finish off the week.
• Geography - A series of lessons on ‘The Olympics' for all year groups
• English - Year 9 Poetry: ‘Speak Out for Me' Unit. Students wrote poetry about celebrating difference and freedom of speech/ expression; Years 7 and 8 explored issues of identity through considering roots and celebrating diversity through poetry appreciation and their own creative writing.
• Music - Series of lessons focusing on how the music we listen to and like helps form our identities.
• Maths - 'Who do you think we are?' Each teacher dressed up as a famous mathematician (Newton, Pythagoras etc) and taught a one-off lesson in character. Students had to interpret clues to identify which mathematician each teacher represented and produced display work about the mathematicians investigated.
• Information Technology - Data activities based on the local area.
• Vocational Education - Classes focussed on identity and what this means in their chosen vocation.
• Business - "Who will I be in 10 years from now?" Students discussed and drafted profiles of their educational and career progressions for the next 10 years.
• Art - As the art department has been tackling issues of identity with Year 7 and Year 9 groups students completed display work for Humanities Day
• Science - DVD/ film project involving Year 8 students talking about their cultural background and finding out the history about their surnames.
• Media studies - Year10 lesson on media, culture and identity

For further information about Crown Woods School please select http://www.crownwoods.org.uk.

The Citizenship and Community Cohesion Project involved primary and secondary schools working collaboratively on action research projects, developing and reviewing resources to support the delivery of Community Cohesion and Citizenship in Bradford Schools and beyond. The question 'Who Do We Think We Are?' and associated explorations of identity, diversity and citizenship, were integral to all the projects developed by the schools.

On 30th June 2008 a symposium was held at the Bradford Academy to present the outcomes of the projects, share good practice and enable young people to feedback their thoughts on the success of the initiative.

The following eight schools presented their work and a summary report of the young people's views is available online at http://www.cohesionbradford.org/:

• Bradford Academy - Genocide and the Holocaust
• Feversham Primary - Sacred Spaces
• High Fernley Primary - Slavery: An Unfinished Business & REWIND Anti-Racism Project
• Laisterdyke Business and Enterprise College - The Holocaust;
• Nessfield Primary - Cultural Heritage Trails
• Newhall Park Primary - Sacred Spaces
• Queensbury Secondary School - REWIND Anti-Racism Project
• Woodside Primary - Cultural Heritage Trails

For further information, please visit the Cohesion Bradford website (managed by Education Bradford's Diversity and Cohesion Service) at http://www.cohesionbradford.org/.