Become a We Are What We Do school

Our Primary Schools programme includes a one-day workshop to train year 5 or 6 students and their teacher to become We Are What We Do campaigners.

It includes a range of materials and ongoing support to allow them to then involve all year groups in a campaign to make their school a We Are What We Do school.

It is designed to complement school's delivery of the curriculum, SEAL framework, and Sustainable Schools framework.

The programme aims:

• To use We Are What We Do's simple everyday actions to promote a positive school environment
• To develop students' confidence and leadership and management skills
• To encourage creativity, use of ICT, and the application of key skills and thinking skills
• To emphasise the benefits of education for sustainable development to the school environment

Outline of the package

Training session:

• 1 day training session for a group of Year 5 or 6 students to become We Are What We Do campaigners and 1 teacher to become a We Are What We Do co-ordinator.
• Creation of campaigning materials making use of the free online resources and a set of extra resources for We Are What We Do schools.
• A We Are What We Do experience, modelling actions and behaviours and creating a learning environment that promotes actions such as #124 Don't worry if you make a mistake, #107 Look closer, #113 Ask Why? and #101 Make someone smile.
• Setting up the We Are What We Do campaigners to run a series of 6 campaigns based on the following actions selected to complement the SEAL framework and education for sustainable development: 

  

  • # 128 - Involve everyone
  • # 120 - Give lots of compliments
  • # 114 - Love where you live
  • # 127- Recycle your toys
  • # 103 - Grow something and eat it
  • # 125 - Talk rubbish to your parents

Ongoing support:

• Email and phone number of We Are What We Do school support, offering ongoing guidance on using the website resources and running school campaigns
• One further visit to the school to support a particular campaign or event
• Case studies of other We Are What We Do schools providing examples of campaigns and how they have been run

  

Use of website resources:

• Action tracker: To set up a class or school group, select actions to track and track them.
• Campaign planner: To set up, as a class or school, a campaign targetting selected actions.
• Tools: 'How to...' clips, facts and stats, and creative assets to use to create campaigning materials.

 Further resources as part of the package:

• We Are What We Do actions pack - with resources to support each of the 6 actions, including posters, stickers, ideas on activities etc.
• Action trackers - materials to give physical representation of the online action tracker to form part of school displays
• Books: A set of 'Teach your Granny to text' books
• We Are What We Do certificates: For year 6 campaigners outlining their achievments. For the coordinating teacher as evidence for professional development portfolios.
• Goodies for the teacher: A 'Plastic Ain't my Bag' bag, 'Change the World for a Fiver' book and We Are What We Do stationery for the coordinating teacher
• We are a We Are What We Do school logo: A logo to display on the school website, and a feed of the school web page of the We Are What We Do website.
• Discounts: We Are What We Do schools will be entitled to discounts on further supplies of books, stationery, mugs etc.

Costs

The cost to run the whole programme as a package is £1,000.  We are also able to run shorter introductory workshops for either teachers or students.  A 2 hr workshop costs £250 plus travel expenses.

To find out more about the programme and for a chat, please contact Nicole Van Den Eijnde, tel: 020 7396 7403.