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| Bridges'
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| Artefact Boxes for Schools |
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| Information about Bridges |
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| Bridges'
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| Views from Shropshire – Celebrating
Diversity |
| The Views from Shropshire
resources provide a unique showcase of diversity in Shropshire.
Click here to find out more about the project and to download
or purchase the resources available. A summary of the resources
available is listed here. |
Exhibition to hire
eight
and three panel displays suitable for community venues, schools
etc. Available from £10 for two weeks. |
Book
a collection
of 30 oral histories from around the county. |
Film
Short DVD featuring
participants who have come from around the world to live
in Shropshire. |
Workbook
A workbook
can be purchased
to accompany the film. The book is available to buy for £7.00,
the film and Workbook is available to buy for £4.50.
Please add £2.50 for p&p. |
| KS2 & 3 lesson plans
and activities |
| Lesson plans and activities
can be downloaded from the 'Views
from Shropshire' website. |
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| The World In Shropshire |
| Making Global Citizenship
Relevant in a Rural Area. |
| Our new booklet for
primary schools on ways into Global Citizenship is available
to download here or as hard copy from Bridges @ £5.50
+ £2.50 p&p. The booklet contains tips and examples
from Shropshire schools, plus ideas for activities on World
News, Fairtrade, Recycling and Diversity. |
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| G8 Challenge clips |
| Click below for 6 short
video clips featuring primary school council members from
the G8 Challenge project. The clips include extracts from
our Making the World of Difference conference and all end
with a question or two to inspire discussion and action. |
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| Harab aw Salam – Teaching
About Darfur |
| Using Experiential Education
to Tackle Controversial Issues. |
| Bridges has developed an
online resource about the crisis in Darfur for use at KS3
year 8 or above in secondary schools. All the materials you
will need to complete the day or half day sessions are available
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| www.taw.org.uk/lic/projects/bridges |
| Click on the ‘teachers’ section
of the site to download the accompanying resource booklet
and gain passwords to access the site. |
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| Artefact Boxes |
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| Eight themed artefact boxes
are available to hire at £5 per week. The boxes are
designed enhance children’s learning of different countries
and topics. Each box has about ten artefacts and accompanying
resources for teachers of 7 – 11 year olds (Key Stage
2). |
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| India at Home and Abroad |
| A box full of colour and
sparkle, including clothing, bangles, food platters and cups.
As well as ideas for activities, there is a fascinating DVD
on children’s life in Kolkata and there are books and
photos taken of the Indian community (Ladypool Road) in
Birmingham |
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| Ladypool Road in Birmingham |
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| Fairtrade |
| A box packed with items
to help pupils find out more about fair-trade. Includes lots
of fair-trade goods – toys, food, clothes- posters,
leaflets and books with a host of activity ideas. |
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| Life in Mexico |
| This box contains plenty
of eye-catching objects such as a Mexican chocolate whisk,
a donkey rattle and skeleton decorations for the Day of the
Dead. There is a guidance pack with background to the objects
and ideas for the classroom, including recipes and piñata
instructions. A CD Rom full of photos of city and country
life is also included. Amongst some of the objects are cooking
items, toys & decorations, religious artefacts. |
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Zinacantan Backstrap Loom
(Credit:Julia Ruxton) |
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| My Brand New Bicycle - global
solutions to rubbish |
| Over a dozen artefacts from
Africa to inspire pupils to reduce, re-use and recycle. Includes
toys and instruments made in Zambia out of recycled materials
and unusual items such as a horsehair flywhisk and a goatskin
fan. Five books compliment the artefacts with ideas on how
to use everyday objects to make new things in Design and
Technology and Art. |
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A Zambian toy made out of
recycled
materials |
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| Southern Africa Boxes |
| We hire out 4 artefact boxes
containing resources collected from ordinary people in southern
Africa. They come with a pack of lesson plans, worksheets
and a CD Rom. The focus is KS2, but the boxes can be adapted
for use with other age groups. |
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| Farming and food |
Cooking and food preparation |
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| Games and music |
Village Life |
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| Resource Guidance |
| We are able to give guidance
to educators who wish to resource their work on global issues.
The ‘Global Dimension’ www.globaldimension.org.uk is a useful search engine for globally themed resources and
will tell you the best way of purchasing a resource. Those
organisations involved in project work are able to use a
resource loans service. |
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| Information
about Bridges |
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| Bulletins |
Bridges now produces
e-Bulletins for Schools and the Community, sent out three
or four times a year. Our first
e-Bulletin can be downloaded
from the right of this page. |
| The Schools e-Bulletin |
| The Schools e-Bulletin aims
to keep schools in the locality of Shropshire, Telford and
Wrekin informed of global issues, campaigns and action. |
| The Community e-Bulletin |
| The Community e-Bulletin
is to help keep interested individuals and those who work
with the community informed of global issues, campaigns and
action in, Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and the surrounding
issues. |
| Sign up for a schools and/
or community bulletin by emailing admin@shropshirebridges.org.uk |
| Please get in touch with
your name and address if you wish to receive paper copies
of this information. |
| Back copies of the Bridges
Bulletin and Global Planner can be downloaded
here. (Download section at the top of the this page). |
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| Annual Report |
| Our Annual Report 2008-2009
is now available to download – click
here |
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