The students were all well prepared to lead full days in primary school this year. This was a really powerful learning experience for the students and I was immensely proud to have been a part of this. Thank you so much for your efforts. Please continue!!!
Year 5 Teacher

Peer Education Project

Clusters

Examples of Activities
  • Global Citizenship Workshops for year 5 pupils and their teachers
    This workshop involved 5 pupils with a teacher from each school learning about global connections and global citizenship
  • Peer Education Sessions Year 8’s teaching Year 5’s
    2/3 Year 8 pupils went into each primary school to deliver sessions (2 in total) in:
    - Introduction to Global Citizenship
    - Children’s rights – Locally and Globally
  • Global Week
    An entire week of events across all schools in the Bolton Cluster, where DEP arranged for each school a ‘Global connections, Fair trade and Drumming’ workshop delivered by an educational consultant and musician. DEP also delivered a Philosophy for Global Citizenship Session to Year 4 & 5 classes.
  • The global citizenship game creation workshop
    These sessions was based around the creation of a board game that helped pupils think creatively about the concept of global citizenship, and increase their understanding of it. The sessions also involved role play, discussions, games and idea sharing activities.
  • Pupil Forum on Fair Trade
    This forum for pupils in Trafford area looked at Fair Trade. The day included a pupil presentation, simulation games, story telling, drama and art workshops. The forum gave pupils a great opportunity to think about the wider world and their role in it.
  • Pupil Forum on Food
    A food event for Year 5, 6 & 7 pupils from Manchester schools, a day to encourage pupils to be healthy, enjoy and achieve and make a positive contribution. Pupils explored food and environmental sustainability through drama. They used rhythm and clapping in a food tasting session of fruit from around the world. Pupils also looked at different spices and their uses in different cultures and cooking through global food art.