[eal-bilingual] Refugee week

Thanks for these Stuart - they look very useful indeed.

By the way, some interesting Refugee Week and other programmes coming up on  
Teachers' TV:

ASYLUM 
_http://www.teachers.tv/video/20633_ (http://www.teachers.tv/video/20633)  
25 minutes 
Wed 20th Jun  22:30 
Thu 21st Jun  23:00 
Fri 22nd Jun  03:30 
This Academy Award-nominated documentary is a powerful,  dramatic tale of a 
young African woman's tragic entanglement in the choking  threads of politics 
and culture. 
Baaba Andoh, a young Ghanaian woman,  goes in search of her father's blessing 
to marry a young man. Her joy at finding  her father turns into a nightmare 
as he insists she submit to his choice of  marriage to an old man. Her father 
also tells Baaba that she must undergo female  genital mutilation as part of a 
bloody, life threatening tribal custom which,  although illegal, is still 
practiced in Ghana. Baaba is forced to flee her  father's village, seeking refugee 
status in the USA. Once overseas, however, she becomes  embroiled in the US 
immigration system; asylum in the USA often means spending  years in prison. 
REFUGEES IN  SCHOOLS 
_http://www.teachers.tv/video/3115_ (http://www.teachers.tv/video/3115)  
30  minutes 
Tue 19th Jun  20:30 
Wed 20th Jun  00:30 
Thu 21st Jun 02:30 
Refugees in Schools highlights  the problems that face refugee schoolchildren 
in Britain and how schools in  Birmingham have been working with parent 
partnerships to help children settle  in. The programme shows how schools are 
working with  parents to help integrate Somalian children and their families into 
British  society. 
The schools work with parent partnership  co-ordinators, who provide a 
crucial link between the families and the school.  This relationship is explored as 
we follow the co-ordinator on a home visit and  see interviews with parents, 
giving a fascinating insight into the culture of  families. 
REFUGEES LIKE ME 
_http://www.teachers.tv/video/20703_ (http://www.teachers.tv/video/20703)  
60 minutes 
Tue 19th Jun 23:00 
Thu 21st Jun 05:00 
Sun 24th Jun 00:00 
This programme provides a voice for six  people with six very different 
stories. These people are from six very different  parts of the world, yet all have 
a familiar tale of  refugeeism. 
Each has endured the betrayal of their  own governments to keep them safe and 
protected in their homelands. Many have  risked their lives in escaping 
tyranny; all have suffered the loss of loved  ones. In the end, however, these 
refugees are all a telling testament to the  triumph of the human spirit over 
repression and  justice. 
ALSO: 
POLISH  INCLUSION 
_http://www.teachers.tv/video/17833_ (http://www.teachers.tv/video/17833)  
30 minutes 
Tue  26th Jun 12:30 
Tue  26th Jun 20:30 
Thu  28th Jun 02:30 
A look at the different challenges faced with the  arrival in Britain of 
emigre children from the new EU states, such as Poland.  Since EU expansion the UK 
has seen a transformation in the nature of  immigration, with Europeans from 
the newly admitted eastern states becoming the  dominant group. Much is made 
of the negative effects of immigration, but this  programme looks at how four 
schools, who have been facing the challenge of  integrating large numbers of 
newly arrived Polish students across the key  stages, are not only managing but 
see benefits from their  arrival. 
Most of the new students arrive with very little  English but all four 
schools have been successful at including them, whether  they have been able to draw 
on an existing Polish community or  not. 

Tim Spafford

In a message dated 06/06/2007 09:54:53 GMT Standard Time,  
stuart.scott at collaborativelearning.org writes:

I  have posted an activity on migration which is geared to 
primary/lower  secondary. I would like to produce a more complex version 
with more  information (social/historical/economic) from older or wiser 
children.I  would appreciate any corrections, additions, suggestions so 
that I can  post it in time for the week. 

Go to  http://www.collaborativelearning.org/newsletter.html
or details and the  link. 

Also I am working with Lucie Polya of Camden EMAS to run a  humanities 
workshop on the afternoon of 3rd July. Outside Camden schools  are very 
welcome to join us for only £25 each. We try to keep costs well  below 
Capita prices!

Stuart
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Stuart Scott,  EAL Consultant for Nottingham, The Sandfield Centre, Sandfield 
Road,  Nottingham NG7 1QH Tel: 0115 91 50786   
www.nottinghamschools.co.uk/emag
Collaborative Learning Project, 17 Barford  Street, London N1 0QB
Telephone: 0044 (0)207 226  8885
Website:http://www.collaborativelearning.org

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