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Sustainable Schools in Merseyside CPD
Time and place: 21st March 2012, 9am-3pm at Hope University. Cost: £65 per person.
The training will include workshops and contacts with leading providers of environmental support for schools. Please contact the LWC if you would like a place on the training.
Please take a couple of minutes to complete our short survey on sustainability to receive 50% off the February Sustainable Schools in Merseyside CPD. To complete the survey please click here.
OFSTED rates LWC training as "outstanding"
LWC worker Andrea Bullivant and Hope education faculty have worked together to create and deliver a highly praised course for teacher trainees.
In May 2011, OFSTED inspected Hope's Initial Teacher Education saying "trainees on the BA programme benefit greatly from their participation in the ‘Widening Perspectives’ module. This distinctive and compulsory module has enhanced undergraduate trainees’ understanding of the global dimension to learning very well." For full report go to Hope's own web page.
"Flourish the Fairtrade in Merseyside schools"
Flower producer from Kenya at LWC's workshop in Knowsley
Liverpool World Centre organized a Fairtrade worskhop for Merseyside schools on the 21st of June in Knowsley. We invited a flower producer from Kenya to the event to bring the Fairtrade message to the children. Joseph Kibuta works at the Panda Flowers limited in Kenya which produces about 200.000 roses per day - 40% of which are Fairtrade.
Mr Kibuta says: "I am delighted to be in the UK, finding out about how schools are campaigning for Fairtrade and talking with pupils of all ages about the difference Fairtrade is making to workers at Panda Flowers and their families."
His tour was part of a wider Fairtrade Schools initiative to engage school children and young people in development and wider global poverty issues.
An Easy-to-use Guide to Changing the World: The Updated GCC Handbook
May 2011: The first version of the GCC Handbook was published four years ago, so we thought it was time to freshen it up a little. All the basic and useful information in the Handbook are updated and revisited: we left out the websites which don't exist any more; and put in new, interesting and informative websites which didn't exist at the time the first Handbook was published. Since 2007 our offce has moved to the Toxteth Tv Centre. Our new address can also be found in the updated and upgraded version, so nobody will get lost looking for the Liverpool World Centre in Sefton street.
We added a new chapter on diversity and the child-friendly version of the 8 key concept of the Global Dimension can also be found in the "Big Words" section.
The new version's focus shifts from school councillors to any schoolchild, who is active and looking for ideas how to make the world a better place.
Click here to download the new version of the GCC Handbook!