News Jeans for genes provides free science resources
Jeans for Genes Day has launched a set of new, free resources and educational films as part of the Genes Are Us programme, designed to inform students of what life is like for people who live with a genetic disorder.
Launched at Charles Darwin House in London on 6 September, the resources include a series of five minute films which gently introduce pupils to some incredibly complex issues via four inspirational children who each suffer from a different genetic disorder.
The resources are free to download and are all linked to the national PSHE, science and genetics curricula. Each resource has its own accompanying teachers’ notes, activity sheets, discussion ideas and ready-made assemblies, tailored to Key Stages 1 to 4.
In pilot studies, the films were shown to different types of schools and year groups.
Pupils were interviewed both before and after each lesson in order to assess the impact of the resources on their understanding and empathy. When watching Tamilore’s film about his life with Sickle Cell Anaemia, all of the pupils, regardless of gender, age and ability were thoroughly absorbed and both primary and secondary pupils were able to recall a high level of detail in the post-class interviews. Felicity Mayrs, Science Teacher, Dartford Grammar School, spoke of the resources: “These new resources for 2012 are so inspiring. I’ve used the films and activity sheets with my classes a lot in the past, as they have just been such a great way to help them to understand some of the key aspects of genes and inheritance and these four new stories are fantastic additions to the range. I really look forward to using them this year."
For more information on Jeans for Genes Day 2012 and to download the new, free resources visit
www.jeansforgenesday.org/education
Professor Lord Robert Winston speaks at the Jeans for Genes Day education resources launch event
Worried students want to learn about money
Nearly half of school children worry about money, according to new research published to mark the launch of a new teaching toolkit designed to help children campaign for high quality, personal finance education to be taught in their school.
Journey through the Victorian era with the Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is launching a new educational tour, The Victorian Experience, to offer children a hands-on journey through the Royal Albert Hall, as it was in the 19th century. The tour is an interactive experience offered to schools for Key Stage 2 pupils, as well as families from the October half-term onwards. Aimed at 9 to 11 year-old students, the tour will take in the grade I listed building with live actors in costume taking schools on a journey using the Hall’s rich history to explore the Victorian age. Actors will represent both ends of the spectrum of Victorian society, with the upper-class box holders juxtaposed with a stage door worker. Groups will discover what it would have been like to visit or work in the Hall when it first opened over 140 years ago, whilst participating in an interactive workshop including artefact handling, role-play in period costume and a glimpse into the Hall’s archive collection.
The tour will be open to the public from the October half-term. The Victorian Experience is part of a wider education programme offered by the Royal Albert Hall as part of its commitment to offer public benefit and to provide access to the arts for future generations.
For more information on available dates and booking, contact the Hall’s tours department on 020 7959 0558 or email
groups@royalalberthall.com. The Victorian Experience costs £4.50 per child. Teachers and accompanying adults go free.
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‘Our Money, Our Future’, is a toolkit developed by young people in conjunction with the National Children’s Bureau (NCB) and pfeg (Personal Finance Education Group) and has been developed by a group of 12 young people from across the UK, who have also made their case for financial education in schools directly to MPs at a launch event in Parliament. More than 43 percent of 7 to 16 year olds worry about money, while nearly one in eight has owed someone else money that they could not afford to repay, according to a survey of 1,000 young people.
The survey also confirms support amongst young people for financial education in schools, with 84 percent agreeing that their school did not do enough to teach them about money matters and 96 percent believing that every school pupil should be taught to manage their finances.
Justin Tomlinson MP, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Financial Education for Young People, said: “…I am delighted that young people will now have the tools to enable them to launch their own local campaign for this vital life skill to be taught in their school. The fact that this toolkit has been developed by young people themselves shows that they can make a real difference.”
Jhon Bateman, aged 15, from Young NCB said: “It is so important that we are taught at school to look after our finances so that we can manage our money effectively as we enter adulthood, and as teenagers we spend wisely and also save for college or university.” To download the kit, visit:
www.youngncb.org.uk/what_were_up_to/resources.aspx
Young NCB members with pfeg Chief Executive Tracey Bleakley, Justin Tomlinson MP, No 10 Special Adviser Shaun Bailey and Duncan Hames MP
October 2012
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