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Aylesbury Development Education Centre

Working in Depth with Schools - Aylesbury High School (AHS)

1. Community Cohesion Day at AHS
Starting with Vox Pops of young people’s views, highlights what young people think is wrong with Aylesbury. Audience include community leaders, local government, the LA and other partner organisations.

2. “No more excuses”
An evening of select workshops for educational agencies and a wider audience, delivered by a multi-agency approach of partners, working with the Learning Support Network. Workshops are interactive and show examples of best practice teaching in Global Citizenship for over 16s, hence no more excuses from the audience!

3. Citizenship day
A series of workshops, repeated three times throughout the day, delivered to the students by a number of different organisations. The aim is to give the students experiences of various GD issues.

4. Staff Training
Training for 4 AHS staff on including global dimension in the school curriculum. Includes LA involvement.

‘Heat Is On’ (HIO), a project on climate change, water, environment and recycling.
Outcomes:

  • ADEC are now offering ‘Heat Is On’ days to Buckinghamshire schools a at supply rates.
  • Staff and students now working on their own initiative taking ideas further, e.g. making a video, designing a supermarket survey on recycling and fair trade, contacting SHANKS for recycling boxes in college.
  • New partnerships with Learning Support Network (LSN), Defra, Peace Child, and Brighton Peace Education Centre (BPEC).
  • Reducing Footprints on the Planet using ‘Be the Change Lifestyle Challenge’.
  • Making a media advertisement for the local radio.
  • HIO Presentation: students presenting together with teachers and ADEC co-ordinator at LSN event in London.

This project is significant to us because:

  • We feel passionately about the environment.
  • We could see that many others did too.
  • Many schools wanted to do something about it but didn’t quite know what to do or how.

The work of Local 4 Global contributions:

  • Enabled ADEC involvement in the project, paying for meetings with partners and schools, to develop new partnerships and build on existing partnerships. Project delivery funded by other sources.
  • Enabled effective support to the staff at AYA, Aylesbury College and the schools.
  • Value added contributions were made by partnership organisations in the use of their facilities and additional staffing hours.
  • Local 4 Global planning conference made sharing of best practice possible between ADEC and BPEC.

Mehtab Hashmi Culling, ADEC, July 2007

Read on ADEC's website how it engaged twenty-five Buckinghamshire schools in a white band project to MAKE POVERTY HISTORY  
ADEC website: www.adec.nildram.co.uk

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