Resources from Woodberry Down Community Primary School

Woodberry Down Primary School has been declared 'outstanding' in all areas in its recent Ofsted report. The school was given the rating by the Government's education standards body after employing innovative teaching methods to support its pupils from mainly Turkish, African and Caribbean backgrounds as well as a very high proportion of refugees. 

This interactive website developed by Woodberry Down Community Primary School, London, contains a comprehensive range of resources addressing diversity in the primary curriculum. A key element of the site is the collection of children's work in all aspects of the curriculum.

The website also features:

• Refugee Boy Project - a new approach to poet Benjamin Zephraniah's story.
  ‘Refugee Boy' is an incredibly powerful and compelling story that engages children with all the issues surrounding refugees. The central character, Alem, is a role model who all children readily engage with. The following is an extract from one of the children's letters to Alem (written at the end of the book): "You helped me as well with my life because I am a refugee too and seeing you on TV I will not give up... After hearing your story I am going to be a brave boy and never give up."
  
  As with the school's 2006 project on ‘The Other Side of Truth' the teaching of subjects is linked to what happens in the text. So prior to reading the book, children learnt (in geography) about Ethiopia and Eritrea using a range of sources. Once they started reading the book a wide range of literacy activities follow, including poetry, newspaper report writing, discussion writing, letter writing, diary writing and playscripts.
  
• Who Was Marshall Taylor? - a new scheme of work developed by the school which aims to embed Black History in the primary curriculum through a sustained topic, and to promote good practice in teaching history. The scheme (which includes teaching materials, PowerPoint slides, audio recordings, etc) costs £75 and is available from 1st september 2007 from Woodberry Down Primary School. For further details click on attachment below.