Children in Jerusalem video.

https://youtu.be/da3K3W_kWak

This video shows the worry and fear of children - and teachers - in Jerusalem now.

عودة طلاب ابوديس الى مدارسهم بعد عطلة نصف السنه وبعد اسبوع من المنخفض الجوي

عاد الجميع الى مدارسهم في كل المراحل والمدارس خاصة وحكومية بعد عطلة استمرت قرابة 20 يوم، لكن عودة طلاب مدرسة ابوديس الثانوية للذكور كنت مختلفة وتحديداً طلاب صف التوجيهي حيث يفتقد طلاب الصف زميلهم الشهيد محمد نبيل حلبية الذي استشهد عند معسكر الجيش الاسرائيلي قبل بداية الفصل الدرسي بأسبوع 

هذة الصورة التقت لطلاب الصف مع بوستر لصورة الشهيد على مقعده الدراسي

يذكر أن العديد من طلاب الصف معتقلين في السجون الاسرائيلية

السلطات الاسرائيلية تفرج اليوم عن الأسيرة الطالبة في مدرسة بنات ابوديس الثانوية جيهان عريقات بعد أن أمضت ثلاث شهور في سجون الإحتلال حيث كانت قد اعتقلت مع شقيقتها عن محاولتهما الدخول الى الحرم الإبراهيمي منتصف شهر أكتوبر الماضي وقد كانتا قد تعرضتا للتنكيل والضرب على أيدي الجنود الاسرائيليين المتواجدين على الحاجز العسكري المقام عل ى مدخل الحرم وتم اعتقالهما وافرج عن الشقية الكبرى بعد اعتقال دام ثلاث ايام فيما حولت الصغرى جهان وهي طالبه في السنه الاخيرة من المدرسة التوجيهي الى المحكممة العسكرية التي قررت بعد ثلاث شهور الافراج عنها لعدم وجود أي تهم تنسب اليها 

What an amazing time...

Hi All

What an amazing time.

Felt it was all very well organised and liked the structure of a booklet. It might have been useful to send the booklet to the host groups in advance if it were available, in order to highlight the thinking behind the residential etc. and to focus our discussions, consistent with the TIA residential etc.

Given the shortage of time, I would have liked presentations from Palestinian teachers that were balanced in favour of the effects of occupation as opposed to the facts of occupation and an understanding of how education has to accommodate to but also challenge the occupation (I wonder if there might be some other way of UK side presenting what we think we know about the occupation, since recognition is so important).

I am torn between thinking that all the activities were worthwhile, and wondering if the teachers had been able to spend more time with their twinning partners, whether deeper and more fruitful relationships would have been possible and enabled more space for acclimatisation/reflection/enjoyment. My fear is that they return from such a whirlwind for a rest and back-to-normal. I just hope the continuity is maintained.

THANKS TO CADFA FOR ALL THE HARD WORK

Jane

" I feel like many horizons appeared after this visit"

After a long week and a busy residential for the teachers,  the teachers finally met for an evaluation meeting. They discussed things they learned throughout the journey like the types of education systems, cultural differences, and the general enviornment in the UK. In an interview with Zuhair Khalil, an English Teacher from Beit Leed/Tulkarem, he said, "I can't wait until I get back home to start this association with the academic society of Pendle and strengthen personal connections with the teachers I have met here."

Beit Leed's link with Pendle is very new and Khalil was the first teacher to visit Marsden Heights School/Community College.  When asked about his stay in Pendle, he said, " I felt very important and respected. They organized a huge event so I can speak about education in Palestine and make a presentation about Beit Leed's School. This is where I felt like I did not only come here to make twinning links happen but I also came here to raise awareness about the right to education and the situation teachers and students face every day."


Khalil continued saying, " I feel like many horizons are appearing after this visit, and I have so many ideas for the UK teachers visit to Palestine." Khalil who was active in the NUT conference discussion on the 16th of January said in one of the worshops, "We will face many challenges introducing twinning links to the old fashion traditional education in Palestine, however, I am willing to fight for this after coming here and seeing how hardworking and serious everyone is about this"

Towards the end, Khalil answered the question about his final thoughts saying " I would like to encourage many Palestinian from different parts of the West Bank and hopefully Gaza to participate in programs like these. They are incredibly good for you as a teacher and most importanly good for you as a Palestinian teacher."

Article in Arabic about the teachers' exchange

http://www.alwatanvoice.com/arabic/news/2016/01/26/857032.html

Schoolgirls in Ramallah today

Palestinian schools have been shut because of the weather for the past couple of days and will probably be shut tomorrow too. Look at this picture UK teachers and you'll understand part of the reason why Palestinian schools shut when the weather is severe! This is a picture from Ramallah today - You can tell these are school children from the uniform.

Today it is colder in Jerusalem (3 degrees) than London (11 degrees).  Palestinian schools have no heating inside...

Photos by Adnan (I think)

ميله زياكانت لحظات جرتنا للملكه المتحده واضافت لنا خبره رائعه

ميله زياكانت لحظات جرتنا للملكه المتحده واضافت لنا خبره رائعه

What struck the Palestinian teachers on this visit?

What did you find that was...

SURPRISING

Technology (lots of people said this)

Way that we kept coming together and separating again – I hadn’t imagined it

Methods of teaching – brainstorming

Huge schools 

Long lessons

Hard work for the teacher

Assistants for special needs students

People know more about Palestine than I expected (in London, in Wales) (discussion on this: people decided this was SOME people)

Transport

People use maps to find their way round 

Even local people need maps to find their way round

Very old people and lots of them walking in the streets

Met Muslims and Arabs who knew nothing about Palestine at all

People spending a lot of time underground

Walking quickly

Hearing ‘free Palestine’ when I was in the street with a kaffiyeh

FUNNY

Having security men inside schools

Two colour uniform in school to give students a chance to choose

Students in schools in Llanidloes wanted to go to Palestine, to see the weather, short days of schools and long holidays

To take a photo with a policeman

The rivalry between people from Liverpool and Manchester (football)

How to make students silent  in class... " sh 5 sh 4 sh 3 .. "

That this had to happen several times in an hour

SAD

Being away from my family and children

It’s a short visit really

Wanted to go to other places

Sad to lose one of our participants (this was Lina who wasn't able to travel as her mum was ill)

A lot of work and not much time off!

Leaving England and going to Palestine

A long discussion about the difficulties/ pressures organisations wanting to work with Palestine are facing

Sad to leave the Llani people and not to go to the school again

I LIKED

Haven’t seen any military tanks or cars on the streets

No checkpoints

Relationship with all the group is very good

I really like being with the group

Hospitality from the British teachers and our hosts

Residential

Great organisation of the project by CADFA which made it easy for us

I DIDN’T LIKE

People being frightened about talking about Palestine

At the conference – would have been good to have more time for all of us to talk about our experience in Palestine. Perhaps the conference was too short: should it have been two days?

(This isn't the whole of the evaluation - this was just the beginning from thee Palestinian end)

School twinning resources from the British Council

Many thanks for the invitation and best wishes with all of your school linking work; all of our schemes, opportunities, programmes and resources are on our British Council Schools Online website at www.britishcouncil.org/schoolsonline

John Rolfe

Education and Society

British Council

www.britishcouncil.org/schoolsonline

Kevin Courtney's talk at the conference

This is text I prepared for my speech – but I varied from it.

NUT and Palestine

NUT is proud of its international work. We are working to support the growth of strength of teacher trades unionism in Sierra Leone. We are working to against our own Government efforts to privatise education in the global south – through DFID support to companies engaged in that – like Pearson. We are engaged in work with other unions in the global north in a similar effort to resist the spread of what we call the Global Education Reform Movement – which sees a hug increase in testing and spread of market methods which we say are failing.

And we are also engaged in a variety of streams of work around Palestine, just as previously this union and its members engaged in a variety of streams of work around apartheid South Africa.

NUT is doing work around

• a boycott of goods from illegal settlements
• a series of solidarity visits by teachers from here to teachers there
• direct support for the GUPT
• and work on educational materials with Edu Kid.

These all around Palestine – but different strands of work  with different purposes that I will come back to – particularly about the work we are encouraging teachers to do in schools.

It isn’t always easy doing work around Palestine – and much of that for the reason the previous (or next) speaker has spoken about. There is a real danger of self-censorship.

But it wasn’t always easy engaging in work around South Africa.

At Mandela’s death David Cameron said Mandela was "a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death – a true global hero". Which would make you think we were all on the same side and it was easy to do work on those issues?

But Margaret Thatcher when Prime Minister described the African National Congress, which Mandela was the leader of as "a typical terrorist organisation" and she fiercely opposed sanctions against the apartheid regime.

Sir Larry Lamb, a personal friend of Thatcher and then Daily Express editor, declared in 1985 that Mandela's unconditional release would be "a crass error".

Thatcherite MP, Teddy Taylor, declared that Mandela "should be shot".

One of Thatcher’s biggest fans in the press, the News of the World's "Voice of Reason", Woodrow Wyatt, accused Mandela and the ANC of trying to establish "a communist-style black dictatorship".

And during Thatcher's time in office, members of the Federation of Conservative Students (FCS) went as far as wearing stickers declaring: "Hang Nelson Mandela".

So it wasn’t ever consensual and it wasn’t always easy doing work on that issue. But it mattered to teachers – because black kids and other kids in our schools could see what was happening on their TV screens and it mattered that you could talk about it and it mattered that they could see that not everyone agreed with Thatcher and Lamb and Woodrow Wilson.

And it matters now that Palestine is an issue that can and should be spoken about.

Like I said there is a real danger of self-censorship.

And I do think the fantastic work that the Camden Abu Dis friendship group does is a really important way of overcoming the fear of talking about Palestine.

We hope that the work we are doing with Edu Kid can be similarly helpful.

Edu Kid is a charity – runs projects on Cambodia, Uganda and now Palestine. These projects are about children living in conflict zones or in zones that have recently been conflict zones. The projects are about getting children in one country to see the world a little through the eyes of children in another country.

We have been working with Edu Kid on a series of short films and teaching packs about the lives of Palestinian children living in the west Bank and living in Israel.

They aren’t about the Israel Palestine conflict – but about the lives of the Palestinian children.

They are about getting to school, about children’s ambitions about dabka dancing.

On one level they are just a way of saying these Palestinian kids exist.

The teaching materials are graded for age - and they encourage debate and discussion.

Hundreds of teachers have downloaded the materials – and I would encourage you to look at them too.

We have taken one of the films down “My name is Saleh” and I’d like to say something about that. The film is about a little boy Saleh – who lives in Hebron and whose daily journey to school is very difficult because of the illegal settlement there.

We launched this film at Easter – but during the middle of August – when there was not much other news there were suddenly complaints. They were various - that the film referred to Israelis as Jews, or that in the Arabic it referred to them as Jews, that the materials were unbalanced, that Saleh himself was probably the child of terrorists because someone had a picture of him holding an assault weapon. There were complaints to the DFE about the NUT and complaints to the Charity commission about EduKid. Complaints were made to Ofsted about a particular school that might have used the materials.

Tory MP Eric Pickles said that the NUT had really stepped over the line by referring to Israelis as Jews.

And in truth if we had done that would have been a big problem. There are very many Jewish members of the NUT who do not support the illegal settlements or the illegal wall and who wouldn’t not support many of the actions of the Israeli Government.

We tactically decided to take the materials down whilst we looked at the complaints. We may well have taken different decisions if we had been not in the middle of the summer holidays without easy access to one another.

But we made clear we weren’t backing away from the project overall – or from work on the issue.

And know we have looked at all the issues.  There is no reference in the English to jews. There is no reference in the Arabic to jews. The assault weapon is a plastic toy. The materials are balanced.

The DFE has made clear that it isn’t saying the materials are unbalanced. Ofsted has said the same. Just to be clear they aren’t saying they are balanced either – they say balance can be over a series of lessons and the duty to provide balance lies with the school.

We’ve challenged people who say they are unbalanced to point to balanced materials – and we’ve had no answer.

And we’ve been building support for the materials – so that we can considers that in our consideration of if, when and how we put them back up.

It was only the one film we took down the others are still there and still being used. I would encourage you to look at them.

Pictures from Hackney

Safeguarding and human rights

SAFEGUARDING & HUMAN RIGHTS - WHAT CADFA CAN CONTRIBUTE                                                                   

·         We believe that our children and others are safeguarded in a context and atmosphere of human rights.

·         We work for human rights and encourage children and others to value and work for human rights on the basis that all are equal.

·         We fight against all racism including Islamophobia, against an atmosphere of censorship, self-censorship and fear.

·         We believe that our children and others should grow up with the right and ability to look at the truth, examine critically what they are told and be equipped with peaceful ways to work for human rights.

·         CADFA has duties in relation to the government’s Prevent agenda both because it is a charity and because it does educational work, much of it with young people.

·         We are concerned that the Prevent policy has in some places been understood in a way that restricts discussion. We are horrified to learn that in some cases, discussion of Palestine per se has been seen as dangerous and not allowed.

·         We believe that the big danger comes from lack of consistency across the world, that unequal treatment (such as ignoring the human rights of some where others are seen as more important) causes mistrust, and that this can lead to dangerous behaviour.

·         We believe that the sort of work CADFA does, creating links between people, creating a safe space to discuss complex issues and working for human rights, is good for young people and safeguards them and all of us.

·         We want people who work with us to be confident that

• (1)  Our work is to promote human rights and respect for international humanitarian law. 
• (2)  We aim to bring people of different backgrounds (and faiths) together in Britain to learn about each other and work together to promote human rights.
• (3)  We link them to people in other parts of the world, particularly Palestine.
• (4)  We provide an inclusive, equal and safe place in which people can talk about current issues relating to human rights, and find peaceful ways to express their views to each other and to representatives for example MPs, MEPs, the UN.
• (5)  Our events and meetings are open to all who have respect for others and respect their rights.
• (6)  We have policies that relate to safeguarding, speakers and CADFA’s reputation. We have training for CADFA speakers and induction for visitors and volunteers
• (7)  Our Trustees are responsible for our policies and keep these under review.

Sorcha's talk to the conference

Sorcha and Ryan are part of the LSU school twinning club and also part of CADFA youth links. This is the talk that Sorcha gave at the conference.  

Hi, my name is Sorcha and I am year 13 student at La Swap sixth form in Highgate. I became aware of CADFA through my dad, who has worked with them since 2007. I was also aware of the twinning link between La Sainte Union and Abu-Dis Girls School. Through the school link I have met a number of Palestinians from Abu-Dis. In October 2014 I worked with a group of young people from Palestine. This experience gave me the opportunity to make friendships and hear their personal stories. My first impression of the group was how similar they were to a group of boys in London. After getting to know them, I was overwhelmed by the extraordinary stories they had to tell, in particular, Adam’s story of being shot and attacked on his way home from football training. This made me realize how fortunate I am not to be harassed on a daily basis by armed soldiers. During the visit, I accompanied the group to London zoo. I realized that something so normal for me was a new experience for them because of their restrictions on travelling in Palestine. I was surprised at how amazing their English was despite their fear of it not being good enough. I also accompanied them on a visit to the Sobell Centre in Islington, where the whole group was able to participate in a number of sporting activities. It was incredible to see them all enjoy themselves and be apart of that. I became more aware of what life is like for someone my age living in Palestine.

After the visit, I decided to become more active in both the CADFA youth links team and LSU’s school club. I shared the first-hand stories and experiences of young Palestinians with my fellow students. I helped to organise a UN Children’s Day event in 2014, creating a historic timeline of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. As a group, we became more involved in campaigns and demonstrations to raise awareness of the abuse of Human Rights in Abu-Dis. We have set up several stalls in Kentish Town, handing out leaflets and asking people to sign petitions. Last July, the group took part in another successful youth visit. This involved a three-day residential to Norfolk which gave the group more time to be together and plan what we were going to do in London. The residential gave the Palestinians a first time opportunity to visit the sea and play group games on the beach, which they are unable to do in Palestine. In London, the group worked on a drama piece to present at a theatre in Camden. The message of the performance was to demonstrate the contrast between what life is like for young people living in London and what life is like for young Palestinians living under occupation. During the week, we visited Portcullis House to meet the MP for Camden, Kier Starmer. Several of the young Palestinians informed him of stories and experiences of their fellow students and family members who are now in prison and receive little contact with their families.

At the moment, the youth links team are planning a visit to Abu-Dis in July. This will be the first visit by a youth group to Abu-Dis. We are very much looking forward to the visit and renewing our friendships with the youth groups in Palestine. We have kept in touch through social media and continue to hear their stories. Over the last few months, we have been fundraising for the trip through a number of events and demonstrations. Including a sponsored walk from Parliament Hill to the Houses of Parliament where we handed in letters to our local MPs.

Last summer, as a fundraiser for CADFA some of us decided to fast for a day in recognition of the religious season of Ramadan. As a group we raised a considerable amount of money that is being used to further the work of CADFA in Camden.

Over the last two years, I have learned a great deal about Palestine and the effects of the Israeli occupation on Palestinians. I have learned how the occupation affects their Human Rights and their opportunities. I have the opportunity to go to university and fulfill my dreams however I have learnt how narrow and limited all of their futures are. 

Thank you to those who participated in the wonderful school twinning conference

That was a wonderful day. Thank you everyone who came, took it seriously and contributed so much.

Here is a thank you letter to the NUT and to our speakers, because we want to thank you publicly.

 

Dear all,

I'd like to thank you all on behalf of CADFA and the people who have been sending messages ever since the School Twinning conference yesterday and found it very interesting and useful.

A very big thank you to the NUT for the use of your hall and great facilities ... it was great to be there and to know that we share concerns (and activities) with you. We hope to go on working with you (and see below). Please give our thanks to the very helpful people who sorted out the food (and everything else).

Una, thanks for your patience as chair with so many notes about changed timings and agenda!

Many thanks indeed to our wonderful panel of speakers - Amazing from the minute Shereen kicked off the conference in the right direction with her powerful speech through Kevin and Rania and every single one of you - I felt it was a real privilege to be there, and it was one of the rare times (for me) when I wanted more speaking from the front than workshop space as it was all so much to the point.

*I wanted to ask if it would be possible, where you have your talk written,  to have a copy and put it on our blog?  If not but you have something allied written, it would be great too to have it ... Don't worry if not, but we'd like to let more people know what you said, if we can.*

Thanks Eddie and Fiona, and also Una, for leading the workshops which looked energetic! (Eddie, I hope your MA afternoon was really good as you missed a vigorous part of the conference!!)

Sorcha and Ryan, thank you very much for your descriptions if your work with CADFA which encouraged us all!

NUT people, we wonder if there's any chance to ask for space again for something that came out of the discussion and then one of the workshops yesterday? We'd like to hold another public workshop on Prevent/free speech/ room to contest ideas/ values and education ... and invite others to this. We'll work these ideas up into a proposal and hope you'd consider sponsoring this... It seems just one useful outcome of this conference.

Abed,  thank you so much for all the hard work, all day long, on translation (as well as your own talk) - your memory is just astonishing: few of us broke what we were saying early enough to make it easy for you and you did a great job.

Talal, we missed you of course - not only unable to leave Gaza but no electricity for Skype.  But Abed read your talk and we are grateful to you for sending it. We look forward to you coming in person sometime, Talal, and never think this issue is forgotten.

I will thank Rudaina and Moin personally but don't seem to have their emails here.

Luca, thanks too for your timely intervention from the floor - and for the disagreement which was very useful and helped to open discussion.

John, thanks for your upbeat presentation at just the right time.

All in all, THANK YOU 

- It was good to work with you all; there's so much to do; let's keep going.

Nandita

School blogs

This has been a wonderful visit - Not quite finished, but already we can see so many links made and so many good ideas. We think we are strengthening the school links and we are looking for all the support we can get.

Today, before our CADFA lunch, we had a blog workshop, and we discussed people's action plans for the next stage.

Here is a blog post from one of the Palestinian teachers...

http://unrwaabudis.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/a-viisit-to-maria-fidelis-regent-school.html

The Camden schools' blogs are collected on the CADFA web page. We helped teachers who are not in Camden to make new blogs - they will talk about these to their linked schools and see if they are useful. The Northampton school already has its own.

Memories

Beginning with the first evening activity, a frosty morning and remembering (Freedom for) Palestine, wonderful artwork and Alaa's welcome to Tower Hamlets meal at Ariana (Persian) restaurant. What an amazing week. So much to reflect on. Wishing all our new Palestinian friends a safe journey back to your homeland.
Lindsay


Our first activity

Our first evening




A frosty morning



Welcome to Tower Hamlets

Sameh visit to schools in Camden

بدأت زياراتي الى لندن بزيارة مدارس في ضاحية هاكني يوم الاثنين حيث زرت مدرسة اوكلر حيث قمنا بزيارة مرافق المدرسة والاطلاع على الانشطة داخل المدرسة كما واجتماعنا مع المعلمين لتعريفهم على المهمة والمشروع الذي ننفذة وقد فتح المجال للاسئلة وقمنا بالاجابة على كل الاسئلة المطروحة.

اما عن يومي الثلاثاء والاربعاء عملت في مدرسة كسبل اوج الابتدائية توأمة مدرستنا مدرسة الوكالة حيث قمت على مدار اليومين بمرافقة المعلمين خلال الحصص الدارسية ضمن برنامج كان معد مسبقاً من ادارة المدرسة أعجبت كثيراً بفلسفة التعليم التي ينتهجونها في التعامل مع طلابهم في الفئات الصغيرة حيث يتم تعليهم وتدريبهم على طرق التفكير دون الحاجة الى التلقين فيما تحتوي المدرسة على صفوف تمهيدي ما قبل الصف الاول حيث يتم تحضير التلاميذ وتهيئتهم للصف الاول الابتدائي ضمن برنامج مدروس ويتم تدريب التلاميذ في دروس العلوم على استخدام اللغة العلمية واستخدام الوسائل والاساليب العلمية في تدريس الرياضيات فيما يتم تعليم مادة خاصة بالفلسفة للمرحلة الابتدائية 

بالنسبة لي كانت تجربة رائعة آمل أن انقلها الى مدرستي واشارك زملائي في المدرسة بهذة الخبرات

Moeen Abu Helal visit to Hampstead school

مع صديقي معلم التاريخ الاستاذ إيدي كرنت توجهت يوم الثلاثاء صباحاً الى مدرستنا الشريكة مدرسة همستيد في لندن كامدن منذ وصولي الى مكان المدرسة ذهلت من ضخامة المبنى حيث يحتوي على مرففق كثيرة ومتعددة ويقترب عدد طلابها من 2000 طالب وعدد المعلمين أكثر من مئة وسبعون معلم ومعلمة، وينحدر طلاب المدرسة ومعلميها من قوميات وعرقيات مختلفة أكثرهم من الصومال حيث تبلغ نسبة الطلاب الصوماليين قرابة 30% من العدد الكامل هذا بالاضافة الى طلاب من أصول عربية سوريا وعراقية وفلسطينية وغيرهم.

عند زيارة مرافق المدرسة المختلفة أعجبت كثيرا بقسم العلوم الاجتماعية حيث يوجد ثمان معلمين اساسيين في هذا القسم بالاضافة الى المساعدين، ما لاحظته خلال وجودي بالمدرسة على مدار يومين من العمل والتواجد هو تشابه المواضيع المطروحة في المنهاج في كل المواد ولكن هناك اختلاف كبير وفجوه في الامكانات اذا ما قارناها بمدارسنا.

كانت تجربة رائدة ورائعة لي في المدرسة وآمل أن نبقى على تواصل معاً وان نتيج فرص أكبر للقاء مع أصدقائنا في مدرسة هامستيد  

انا وصديقي الاستاذ إيدي في جولة في لندن 

في الخلفية تظر اللندن آي في ابهى حللها

From Adnan Al saweh school ( my visit to Llani school)

قمت بزيارة مدرسة لاندلويس الأساسية صباح يوم الثلاثاء حيث استقبلتنا مديرة المدرسة برحابة وتعرفت على انماط التدريس فيها وكانت برفقتي صديقة اسمها مارك من توأمة لاندلويس الساوية عملت عروض عن قرية الساوية الثانوية لعدد من الطلبة وأجبت على أسئلتهم كلفوني بقرأة القرآن باللغة العربية هناك وقد تم تسجيل صوتي وأعطوني هدية بسيطة وهي كرة الركبي ووعدوا بأن نبقى على إتصال لعمل مشاركات على موقع المدرسة .

ثم انتقلت الى المدرسة الثانوية هناك وكان باستقبالنا المعلم بيتر أعطانا بطاقة زائر قبل أن أجتمع مع مديرة المدرسة قبل أن نأخد جولة في المدرسة ومرافقها مع مجلس طلبة المدرسة وقد كان البرنامج للزيارة محدد ومطبوع بالوقت والمكان مما اعطى انطباع ممتاز عن الزيارة والترتيب لها.

Arab Institute School Twinning with Regents High School

During this stay, we visited different schools in Britain and we had the opportunity to make twinning links with Regents High School in London.  We made visits to the school on two consecutive days, watching and interacting with students and teachers.  We also showed the students some slides about our school (Arab Institute, Abu Dis).

At Regents School we met teachers Rob, Alice, Tamir and Rosa.  With them we agreed to form two groups of students at each school to work on two types of  project.  One project will be for social cases; the other will concern aspects of the curriculum in each school.

Moien Emoor and Mohammed Amleh 

Twinning Schools Jenin Camp and Tower Hamlets

A group of teachers from Palestine visited schools in Britain.  We visited a school in Wales and Knighton School.  After that in London I visited my twinning friends in two schools in Tower Hamlets.  In the Bonner School, Tower Hamlets, we planned together to share action for human rights in Bonner School and my school, Jenin Camp UNWRA School.

Alaa Fayed, Maths Teacher, Jenin Camp School

Various photos from weekend residential and Conference- Fiona, Maria Fidelis

DAY 1 of the residential weekend

Meeting in the 'Hub' and a wonderful wet walk in the Shropshire rain

 

DAY 2: Traditional dress, crafts and art that tells a story, presentations, discussions, companionship

Twinning Conference at NUT HQ-  good speakers, lots to discuss, plan, take away and think about