All aboard for citizenship education in 2012 and beyond!
The Citizen ship sailed into the TeachFirst harbour to discuss all things citizenship, including assessment and social action for a really inspiring session. Last week I met with nine citizenship...
View ArticleTen Years of Giving Nation – lessons learned…
Today our annual Giving Nation Awards will celebrate 10 years of the programme. Back in 2003 the Giving Nation programme had just completed our first year in schools as a project of the Giving Campaign...
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Giving Nation go to India
On Saturday 16 February, five students from Queen Elizabeth’s Girls’ school in Barnet will embark on a trip of a lifetime: a week long expedition to India to witness the work of the charity Raleigh...
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First impressions of India
On the 16th of February, myself, Annie, Jemma, Cecilia and Jo met with Ms Nocivelli and Naomi from Giving Nation and said farewell to our families at Heathrow airport (yes, Annie and Jemma did cry)....
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Learning about sustainability and buying saris!
So its day 3 of our India trip,and we have done so much today!! For some reason we woke up at 4:30 to the sound of screaming cats and couldn’t get back to sleep! We had an amazing breakfast, which...
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Hosavidahundi (Continued)
We stayed the night at the Hosavidahundi village in Karnataka. In the morning we met the ICS volunteers again and had some porridge with them. After that we walked up to the school playground and...
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Sustainable technology in action
Today we were let loose in the kitchen! Cecilia and Georgina made the porridge, it was really nice. We all added Nutella it was great. After breakfast we set off for a local farm which was a 45 minute...
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A Passage to India
The journey from launching Giving Nation to our year 8 students, way back last year, to arriving back at Heathrow airport has been inspiring and fulfilling on so many levels. As a teacher, the Giving...
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Charity champions visit South Africa
On 16 February five Year 9 students from Stroud High School in Gloucestershire will embark upon a trip of a lifetime to Durban, South Africa as the winners of the 2013 Giving Nation video competition....
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Young environmentalists return from a trip on the wild side in South Africa
On Monday 24th February one Giving Nation representative, five students and their teacher from Stroud High School in Gloucestershire arrived home from a week long trip to the ‘Wild Coast’ in South...
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