Has there ever been an exhibition like this?

Children in a besieged enclave write poems inspired by two paintings. They enter them for a competition and the competition poems are made into a book, complete with the two paintings and illustrations by the poets for their poems.

Then the enclave is subject to what the (grown-up) poet Tamim Al-Barghouti describes like this: No city in Palestine has witnessed a massacre of this magnitude, probably, since 1099. He is referring to the capture of Jerusalem by the crusaders, when the streets were ankle-deep in blood.

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Despite the dire conditions in Gaza right now, Hanaa Mansour has managed to set up and run the ‘Better together club’; an English drama club for children which meets every few days in Jabalia refugee camp in the north of Gaza. We’re all immensely proud of this and of you Hanaa! We’ll do everything we caa to support you with this.

It usually takes place every two days. Here are some images and videos of their session today in which the children played the ‘two truths and a lie’ game and created some still images.

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Project based learning, when applied well, can be a great learning tool for both children and adults. It allows for exploration of language, the satisfaction of a completed project, and an opportunity to engage with a topic beyond what might normally be possible. The focus of this blog is to get students to engage with global issues by making a stop motion animation video

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The tragedy currently unfolding in Gaza has myriad consequences, but by far the worst and most long-term are those being heaped upon Gaza’s children. For years UNICEF has warned the world that children bear the brunt of the violence that relentlessly hammers Palestine. This week’s horrors multiply the trauma they already feel to an unimaginable degree.

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