This session brings together all the parts of the rainforest creativity theme. From music created with made instruments, dance and the wearing of headdresses to the displaying and showing of pots. Celebrate everything that has been achieved.

Amazing Amazonian Appliqué! Children use the work of an artist inspired by the rainforest and Deep in a Rainforest as a starting point for some art work of their own. They create simple designs and dye their fabric nature’s way in this session.

Explain that the population in Britain has been rising steadily since World War 2. This is not only due to immigration, but also to improved health services. Discuss the birth of the National Health Service. Children draw graphs to show population growth.

Adinkra cloths are craft with a message. Children explore the traditional symbols printed on the cloths and create their own symbols to tell a story of their own lives.

New arrivals in Britain should be made to feel welcome. Think about children moving to a new school from another part of Britain or from another country. Children create posters or write leaflets to welcome newcomers to their school.

Listen carefully to some children in Ghana describing their home town or use descriptions from your link school friends of their town. Imagine the teacher and some children from your link school are going to visit your town! Describe the places they should visit. Suitable for years 5 and 6.

Discussing dandelions! Children raise a question about the dandelions growing in the school grounds before planning and carrying out their investigation. Careful observation and measuring in groups are essential before they draw conclusions. Suitable for Y5/6 pupils.

Children find out how a tumble drier works, list the advantages and disadvantages of tumble driers and then have a debate about whether they are a good or bad thing!

Who says learning can’t be fun! Children play and interact with a variety of computer games in the internet, all with a serious message. Children evaluate which are the most fun to play but also best at getting that message across.

This session examines through real stories the varied reasons why 40 million children in Africa don’t attend school. Children play a ranking game to explore obstacles to education. Suitable for years 5 and 6.

Using the delightful illustrations and books of Michael Foreman (Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish and I'll Take You to Mrs Cole), children have many opportunities to practice simple, compound and complex sentences with powerful verbs. They then create their own stories based around I'll Take You to Mrs Cole, by Nigel Gray and Michael Foreman.

Forces are everywhere, there is a force driving everything that moves. Children get to grips with real life examples in this session as they develop their understanding of gravity and begin to measure forces using forcemeters. Suitable for Y6 pupils.

Through playing the Christian Aid Chocolate Trade Game (need internet) children come to understand, in a fun way that world trade rules are unfair to developing food producing countries. They think about human causes of food security issues.

Look at case studies from different African countries and using the healthy box discuss what things are missing from the healthy box, which explains diffs between the UK & Africa. Children share their case studies and key points. A focus on children’s health. Suitable for years 5 and 6.

Immigrants who have been in Britain for a few years can ask to become British citizens. Take a look at the criteria they have to meet and some sample questions from the test they have to take. Explain that children around the world share some rights.

In this session a representative from Native Nursery visits to hear the findings from the growing tests and find out more about the electrical security devices. Will the children impress with their understanding of scientific concepts? Suitable for Y5/6 pupils.

Using the techniques of flour resist batik, children create wall hangings in the style of the Mozambique batik they have studied. Children are encouraged to carefully select techniques and tools to create a quality product.

Time to be a mask detective and ask, ‘what is a mask?’ Children explore the rich masking tradition in Africa and consider their design and purposes, looking at lots of examples from across Africa.

The English language contains words from many different languages. Children investigate old Saxon and Celtic words used in British place names, Greek prefixes and word roots that are used in English words and words that have been introduced from other languages.

Most immigrants who have come to Britain have brought skills with them. Many immigrants or descendants of immigrants have become well-known in the fields of sport, entertainment, politics and the professions. Children research and list examples.