The follow-up workshops are designed to continue students' thinking after visiting The Journey exhibit and explore issues of prejudice. Through visual, practical, and hypothetical activities, students will identify and discuss prejudice in their community and ways to tackle it. At the end of the workshops, students will feel empowered to make a positive difference by addressing intolerance. They will then create an assembly to share their learnings with parents and inspire community cohesion. The workshops help schools meet government objectives around inclusion, participation, and respect for human rights.

1. Follow-upworkshopfor
schoolsvisiting
60studentsis£100forafullday&assembly
60-120studentsis£150forafullday&assembly
120-200studentsis£200for2fulldays&assemblies
After visiting The Journey and following the story
of Leo, your school has the opportunity to follow
up with a programme designed to tackle issues
of today from your understanding of the past.
Through workshop based activities, students are
asked to take an objective look at prejudice
within their community and find active ways to
tackle it.
Aim of the
Workshops
The workshops are designed to
facilitate the continuation of
children’s thinking following their
experience of The Journey. Banners
and images from the Journey will
provide linkage to their experience
in the Journey, whilst practical
activities will encourage thinking
about contemporary issues. In
particular the workshop will explore
prejudice and discrimination and
the students ability and
determination, to both identify and
tackle such issues in their own
communities as active citizens.
Prejudice and
Promises
By using a combination of visual,
practical and hypothetical learning
strategies, students work together
to identify what prejudice is, and
how it affects them on a day to day
basis. This encourages critical
thinking and helps them form their
own opinions about prejudice.
At the end of the first session, the
students are invited to make a
promise that they will try to keep
in order to help prevent prejudice
or raise awareness about it. This
moves the students on their
journey as active citizens.
Bullying and
Bravery
Along with the facilitator, students
will breakdown prejudice into its
simplest and most recurrent form-
bullying. We work together to
understand what makes us
different, but also what makes us
all very similar. The students are
encouraged to debate their
opinions on bullying and especially
whose responsibility it is to stop it.
By the end of the workshops,
students will understand what
prejudice, bullying and intolerance
of difference can build into. The
students will finish feeling
informed and empowered to make
a positive difference in their school
and wider community.

2. Community Cohesion
After the students have completed the workshops, they will
use the rest of the afternoon to design and create their own
assembly to show to their parents. This will consist of anything
the students feel they want to share with the community
about what they have learned. It could be facts and figures
from their visit to The Journey, or a short sketch about
prejudice in their local area. This gives students the
opportunity to voice their own opinions and desires to tackle
prejudice. This will actively encourage community cohesion
and the celebration of diversity, hopefully inspiring members
of the community to get involved with the schools programme
of ending prejudice and bullying at school and in the wider
community.
Meeting Government
Objectives
As well as creating well informed, active citizens of tomorrow,
these workshops also help schools fulfil their Government
requirements:
The international dimension in education is becoming an
increasingly important feature in government schools
initiatives like the Inclusion and Participation framework.
The Sustainable Schools National Framework states that:
“By 2020 the government would like all schools to be
acting as models of social inclusion, enabling all
pupils to participate fully in school life while instilling
a long-lasting respect for human rights, freedoms
and creative expression.”
Inclusion and participation are important goals of sustainable
development learning, seeking to replace national, cultural and
individual divides with respect, care and understanding.
Schools that encourage global citizenship projects, curriculum-
based international work and involvement with the local
community have been commended by Ofsted and the British
Council’s International Schools Award (ISA).
These workshops are designed to encourage both local and
international acceptance; Acceptance of difference and
individuality, lessons that work both on the
play ground and in the wider world.
For more information
contact Kate O’Dell, Outreach Officer
kate.odell@holocaustcentre.net
07917 663 565