Preparations underway for Language and Culture Week 2025
The TY GCE class have a busy term ahead of them. The overall aim of this work is to help all the school community to ‘unlearn and reconstruct’ ideas that we may have held for many years on certain global justice issues.
The centrepiece of their work will be the Language and Culture Week which this year takes place between 10th and 14th March. This week and the period running up to it will feature a number of activities with the TYS playing an integral role.
1. Groups of the TY GCE class will be engaging in peer education with younger classes on a range of topics. These include, gender equality and unconscious bias, ‘showing racism the red card’ and ‘Nora’s Case’. The latter is based around the story of the young girl in London during the Second World War who had to be evacuated to the country during the ‘blitz’ bringing just a small suitcase with her. The link is made to those who are forced to leave their homes in different countries in 2025.
2. MCS Olympics: This involves students in every tutorial taking part in activities during their PE lessons, along with the chance to take part in a chess and draughts tournament. They compete in teams and each team represents a nationality that is present in the school at this time. The overall winning team/country will receive medals to mark their achievement.
3. Global Kitchen: 1st year Home Economics students will have the chance to choose and then prepare dishes of traditional food from countries represented in their class.
4. The World in our School quiz: this is a chance for the whole school to test their knowledge about the nationalities present in the school – national flags, borders, landmarks, celebrities, traditional food will be among the topics.
5. Art Competition: This is open to junior classes and the theme is We Work Better Together.
6. The 1st years will have the chance to take part in a workshop run by Sports Against Racism Ireland (SARI) called Football and Discrimination. SARI have visited us on three previous occasions and the workshops shave proved very popular.
7. A Celebration of Culture and Inclusion. This event is open to the public and will take place on Tuesday 11th March at 7pm. Over the years it has proved to be a wonderful celebration of the culture and diversity. Different countries are represented through song, dance, poetry, spoken word and music. Traditional Irish culture will feature prominently on the night. There’ll be the chance to taste food from different countries prepared by members of the community. We will also have a guest speaker. Amongst all the celebration it will be a chance to reflect on important issues such a migration, inclusion and racism.
We are grateful for the ongoing support of WorldWise Global Schools (WWGS) for their ongoing support for our school’s work in the area of global citizenship education.
