“Knowing Me, Knowing You” is an opportunity for mainstream and ESL pupils to use ICT to share information about their cultural customs and traditions. Planned activities to support the project will be taking place in Kent and across the South-East region throughout 2009. Activities built into the project will support the wider agendas of developing an intercultural curriculum and promoting community cohesion.

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The project is an opportunity for mainstream and ESL pupils to:

• Develop their language skills
• Publish on the Internet information about their local community
• Learn about the customs, traditions and cultures of other nationalities
• Web conference and meet children and adults from different religious and ethnic backgrounds
• Use ICT to research, present and share their learning with others
  

This project will be of interest to:

• All Key Stage 2 and 3 Teachers
• ICT Coordinators and Leading ICT Teachers
• MFL Coordinators and Leading MFL Teachers
• Minority Communities Achievement Teams
• Early Years Teams
• Adult and Family Learning Teams
  

Project Aims

"Knowing Me, Knowing You" is an exciting opportunity for pupils and members of their local community from different ethnic backgrounds to use ICT to share information about their cultural customs and traditions. During 2009 Schools and Partnerships from across Kent and the South-East will be organising with local community groups and educational providers a number of special themed events. Schools registered to take part in the project will have the opportunity to participate in some or all of these. They will include:

The Food we eat!

An opportunity to share favourite cooking recipes and take part in online cooking demonstrations

Music and Dance

An opportunity to learn new dances and take part in online music festivals with other schools across the region.

Art and religious festivals

An opportunity to publish your Art online and take part in art workshops led by Artists from different faiths

Stories from different cultures

An opportunity to i) publish audio and videos of well known traditional stories and ii) Orally re-tell stories you know

Where I live

Publish and share with others information about your local community and the people who support you.

Sharing our work with others

Every school who registers to take part in the project will be given a log-in and access to the “Knowing Me, Knowing You” project micro-site. Here teachers and pupils will be able to download resources, find out about forthcoming events and publish work by their pupils. This could include:

• Written reports
• Digital Images
• Multimedia Presentations
• Video
• Audio