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.