News and events
Archive 2007
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Global Learning Communities
Welcome to Global Learning Communities Conference Centre used by ever increasing numbers of children and young people throughout the world http://www.glc.me.uk/conferences/
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11 Million Day – Friday 23rd November
Today, Friday 23 November, Mulberry School student Hodan helped run Tower Hamlets
Children’s Services, as part of 11 Million Day. Click here to find out more
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Victor proves a real golden boy Ashley Wilson on his way to bronze
The exploits of young Tower Hamlets athletes were beamed into homes across the nation at the recent English Schools Athletics Championships. Click here to find out more
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Students join celebration for a year of international success
Over 300 parents, carers, guests and their children attended a graduation ceremony and celebration at the Mile End Ecology Pavilion on July 3. Click here to find out more
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Love London Love Your Planet
Sustainability Weeks 3 – 17 June 2007
Hundreds of events - Over 2 weeks - All over London

What is sustainability? What is a global and an eco-footprint? Visit www.globalfootprints.org
and find out… Also visit our webquest on sustainability, click here
To find out more about what is happening in London
visit the Sustainability London Weeks website, click here

www.lovelondon.org.uk
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Local course inspired designer to take her fashions worldwide
A dream of becoming a fashion designer has come true for former Tower Hamlets student Victoria McGrane. Victoria from Whitechapel has launched her own label, Neurotica, and has just delivered her spring/summer 2007 collection to three outlets, two in London and one in Australia. Victoria always knew what she wanted to do, but could not quite work out how to achieve her dreams. Click here to find out more
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World Environment Day 5 June 2007
For ideas on how the day can be commemorated
Please visit The World Environment Day Alphabet - 77 Ways to Celebrate
Click here to find out more http://www.unep.org/wed/2007/english/ © UNEP
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A portrait of docks in decline
The Museum in Docklands has acquired a significant work from artist Stephen Willats showing life in the docks in the 1970s. “It is an expression of the uncertainties of ordinary people working in the docks at a time when their lives and livelihoods were under threat, but in capturing this passing moment, the work has also become a testament to the ever-changing nature of the city itself.”

The Musuem in Docklands, West India Quay. For more information call 0870 444 3856.
Click here to find out more
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Magic in the rain
The rain failed to dampen the spirits of the thousands of people who turned
up for the Baishakhi Mela on Sunday, May 13. Click here to find out more
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Grim reminder of darker days
The discovery of a World War Two bomb in Bethnal Green brought just a small taste of the chaos that descended on the East End during the dark days of the Blitz. Click here to find out more
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The return of a 262 year old ship to London Götheborg
The Götheborg is the only ship like it in the world and the first ever replica East Indiaman to sail into London. The Götheborg is returning to London 262 years after her original namesake left for Sweden; a dramatic, final voyage that saw the ship wrecked just outside Gothenburg Harbour as an insurance scam on 12 September, 1745. Her cargo at the time was valued at more than the Swedish national budget. Click here to find out more
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Find out more
Would you like to see a memorial statue like this artist's impression,
placed at Bethnal Green Tube Station
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Date with paradise
Victoria Park in Tower Hamlets will be the picture of paradise when a fantastic 21st century
festival takes place later this month. Paradise Gardens is in its second year and brings an
explosive mix of the best in music, street arts, carnival, dance, design and circus to the
heart of the East End on May 26 and 27. Click here to find out more
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Escape to safety
Escape to safety is an interactive multimedia installation, built into a 12.5m box-trailer that enables you to experience something of what it is like to be a refugee seeking asylum in Britain. It is designed for young people and adults from the age of 10 upwards. It challenges the current myths that surround the topic of asylum in our society. Click here to find out more

Part of our Dreams & Nightmares project, in preparation for Refugee Week, June 18 - 24.
Click here to visit Refugee Week's site
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The fears and myths of asylum seekers
A new exhibition giving people the opportunity to experience what it is like to be a refugee
seeking asylum in Britain opened in Bow last week. Escape to Safety at the Humanities
Education Centre in Bow last week arms visitors with a portable CD player to listen to refugee
voices from Rwanda, Afghanistan and Palestine interacting with border immigration officials
and the media. Click here to find out more
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Eibhlin shares green dream
Climate change was the hot topic for youngsters at the 2007 Tower Hamlets Public Speaking Competition. Nine finalists fought it out and the judges were so impressed with the high standard set, they decided to award two third places.

Morpeth School student Eibhlin Priestly won the final with her speech: “What needs to be done about climate change and whose responsibility is it?” In the final, at the Lloyd’s building in the City, Eibhlin, 14, impressed the judges with her measured delivery and well-researched facts. “Climate change can be an inspiration for us,” she said. “Together we create an unstoppable force. We can be the change in climate change.” Click here to find out more
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Bicentenary of the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
The Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was passed by Parliament on 25 March 1807.
The campaign to abolish the trade was the first example of mass public protest in Britain.

Visit the Global Dimension website to find out more.
Visit the Freedom website to find out about Britain's involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Ideas for the classroom http://www.antislavery.org.uk/
Ready made lessons
http://www.setallfree.net/ includes 10 different assembly concepts

The National Maritime Museum will mark this year with a range of events to remember
the millions of people who suffered and died through enslavement, to honour those
who resisted it and pay tribute to those who campaigned for abolition. Find out more
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How a hunt for gold had a silver lining
Jackie Keily is one of the curators of the Museum in Docklands’ exhibition 'The New World', which celebrates the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the settlers in America. Click here to find out more
For more information call 0870 444 3856 or visit www.museumindocklands.org.uk
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Celebrating 365 days of black history

Email us at: globalfootprints@gn.apc.org
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Change the lives of millions of farmers, workers and their families in developing countries.
Tower Hamlets was awarded Fairtrade Borough status as the result of over a year’s work
by the Tower Hamlets Fairtrade Group. Find out about this month's events
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March 14th is Maths Day!
Whizz Education, an educational publisher, is launching an initiative dedicated to
raising awareness of the importance of maths for both parents and children.
Wednesday 14th March will become the first ever National Maths - Whizz Day.
Click here to find out more
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We launched East End Eye this February

A packed audience at the launch of East End Eye during Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) history month. Click here to find out more.
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