What a day! In just a few breathless hours, 15 students, four babies and two teachers managed to take six different trains, visit the Observatory, visit Greenwich park, visit the Queen’s House, have lunch and walk up and down Greenwich hill. We also managed to get a buggy stuck on a train, […]
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Thanks to Bekele and the New Citizens Legal Advice Service for a fantastic workshop at Notre Dame on Saturday 23rd November. 28 students participated and left knowing a lot more about immigration legal advice, what constitutes good and bad advice and how to defend yourself in the face of speculative police […]
On Wednesday 19th November eight EFA students from our Surrey Square Primary School group took action alongside Southwark Citizens to demand a meeting with Rory Patterson, the Head of Children’s Services at Southwark Council. Our class was concerned about child destitution and anxious that the Council do all they can […]
We are two sessions in to our new research project, The Power of Discussion. The theme of immigration and specifically “illegal” or “undocumented” migrants emerged in the first session and we exploredit in greater depth on session two. We have launched a blog thepowerofdiscussion.wordpress.com and a Twitter Account “Discussion Power”. […]
A few weeks ago, the students at our Tower Hamlets class wrote a letter to David Cameron and Ian Duncan Smith about their views on workfare. Today we received a response from 10 Downing Street and the Department of Work and Pensions; this was great as we feel like we’re […]
Yesterday we had a day of story-telling for families in Battersea. We started with the story of Little Red Riding Hood, which was a familiar story with an unfamiliar title for most of the group. We discussed the moral, the meaning of the wolf and the various endings. Does the wolf […]
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