Geography Teaching Today

The project particularly explores the themes of:

• School and community
• Relationships, belonging and faith
• History and settlement
• Britishness, national identity/values and the 2012 Games

Schools can become involved by accessing http://www.wdwtwa.org.uk for starter activities, case studies, tool kits, guidance and ideas on how they can take part and can also register for updates by visiting http://www.wdwtwa.org.uk/registration.
Further information about the project and support in planning and delivering activities can be obtained by contacting the project officer at wdwtwa@rgs.org.

Over 500 schools, colleges and academies across the UK actively participated in the first Who Do We think We Are? Week in 2008.

Some examples of the types of activities that took place in 2008 within the WDWTWA project's four local authority pilot areas (Barking & Dagenham, Bradford, Bristol and Cheshire) included the following:

• Many Faces: Visual Display Project - involving explorations of identity through portraiture and collage work
• Many Voices: Soundscapes Project - involving whole-school debates about 'Britishness'
• DVD / film project about religion and faith in the school community and the wider locality - involving interviews with representatives of faith-based organisations
• 'Video Wall' Identity Project - involving the preparation and display of short film clips - where young people used music, drama, dance, ICT and the visual arts to creatively express their answers to the question, "Who am I?"
• School Linking Initiatives - where teachers and young people from two schools got together to host a 'Great WDWTWA Debate' relating to one of the 4 WDWTWA themes: School and community; History and settlement; Relationships, belonging and faith; ‘Britishness', national identity/values and the 2012 Games. During WDWTWA Week 2008 many schools hosted their Great Debates in local museums, public libraries, or civic venues - such as the Council Chamber of the local Town Hall.
• Active Citizenship Initiatives - where schools established links with community-based organisations to run volunteering projects in their local communities.