We have undertaken two workshops with schools, providing a background to the proejct and encouraging young people to consider their own schools and learning experience compared with children in Afghanistan and Pakistan. From this point we have been encouraging young people to develop ideas for making a school in the Pukhtoon region. If you and your school would like to join in the project please contact us!
Thetford School Workshop [with Y12+13 students]
Ramon provides background to life and learning in Afghanistan
Students develop narratives for a new school in the Pukhtoon region. What would it be like for children arriving on their 1st day at a new school?
“As I gazed at the final creation, I noticed the red clay walls intertwined with wooden slabs. The smell of fresh paint upon the door, leading into the wondrous classroom, furnished with dainty desks and brilliant books enthralled me. This was made for us. It is sat upon the rocky, barbaric foundations of our conflicting nation: Our hope.”
Design ideas and layouts for a new school
Ecclesfield Primary School [with Y5 students]
The workshop started by the children surveying their own school and looking at specific parts, what they are used for and how they are constructed.
Ramon talked about a typical day in the life of a child [of Y5 age] in northern Pakistan which often involved spending the whole day working, usually hearding animals or working in the fields. Many children do not have the opportunity to go to school at all.
Following on from this, the children started thinking about how their school may be adapted if it could be transported to afghanistan. The children developed ideas for powering the school, and making it safe.
Children then drew their ideas for part of a new school in the Pukhtoon region, thinking about how it may be built and powered as well as how children may learn and play within it.
