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Go4It Arctic
Radio 4's Go4It featured the partnership between Glaitness Primary in Orkney and Ataguttaaluk Elementary School in Iglulik in Canada's arctic province, Nunavut.
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World Class Darwin
Young people at the Charles Darwin Research Station in the Galapagos Islands answered questions in a webchat as part of the BBC's Darwin season.
Schools near Darwin's house in Kent worked with the BBC News Channel to send a film of their questions to the Galapagos. Schools around the world submitted their Darwin questions online.
Obamarama
BBC News worked with BBC World Class to find out what young people in schools all around the world thought about Barack Obama in the days before his inauguration as US President on 20 January 2009.
The "Obamarama" started with Prince Henry's Grammar School and their 'twins' in countries around the world. Schools everywhere were invited to join in, feeding their ideas into the Obamarama map on the BBC News website.
World Class China 2008
Building up to the Beijing Olympics we encouraged UK schools to link with schools in China and featured stories from the hundreds of UK schools already linked.
Highlights included Breakfast on BBC One and BBC London's film of Hackney schools' Chinese Opera. See the Teachers section for our schools packs.
World on the Move 2008
Radio 4 followed animal migration in real time with the Natural History Unit for 40 weeks starting February 2008.
World Class is encouraging schools to twin on migration paths: Starlings for Poland, Cuckoos for Ethiopia, Swallows for South Africa and Whooper Swans for Iceland.
Request the World on the Move Schools Pack and explore the World on the portal Move.
31 January 2008
News 24 linked a Richmond school with the children of Ngola Baka, in the rainforests of Cameroon.
During the day Baka children saw their first TV, hunter gatherers showed their lethal darts, we found out what caterpillas taste like, and Baka elders talked about their “religion of the heart”.
Views on the News: what do kids make of BBC World News for Children?
Breakfast - Northumberland/Nairobi school partnership reviewed the bulletin. Kenyan children were interested to hear about the healthy school dinner debate.
Hindi Service – children in Delhi picked their own news priorities live on air. They thought Zimbabwe wasn’t relevant – and wanted more news about Bollywood.
The World Today – “The bulletin should be longer!” demanded pupils from Islamabad Convent School, “We want to debate twenty-four seven!”
October 2007
The British Council brought pupils from schools across Africa, the USA, the Caribbean and the UK to Parliament to debate the legacy of slavery.
The debate was reported by Hansard. World Class worked with BBC Parliament. They filmed the event. It was included in their “Best of 2007” tape and broadcast many times.
Delegates also contributed to Network Africa and were the panel for a special edition of Africa Have Your Say on the BBC World Service.
Freedom season
Spring 2007
BBC World Class provided a schools competition for the BBC’s Freedom Season marking the anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
Hundreds of schools sent in poems, stories and raps about what freedom means to them and winners were live on the BBC.
Share the news with BBC World News for Children
March 2007 + Views on the News
News, Newsround and World Class collaborate to make and broadcast audio an news bulletin for children launched March 2007.
Broadcast each morning on BBC7 in the Big Toe Books programme, the bulletin is updated and more international stories are added at lunchtime.
BBC World News for Children is also rebroadcast via World Service partner stations in Ghana, Uganda and Gambia.
School Day China
November 2006
News 24 linked up Our Lady’s Convent in Hackney with their partner school Beijing Academy of Science.
Global News season 2006 looked at the world through the eyes of under 18s.
The central event was School Day 24, link ups on air of schools across conflict throughout the World Service languages on a single day.
School Day South Africa
June 2006
News 24 decided to work with World Class to mark the 30th anniversary of the Soweto uprising. The uprising was initiated by pupils demonstrating against education reform.
School Day South Africa was a day of live link ups on air with Fergal Keane in Pfeheni High School and Phillipa Thomas in a school in Preston.
Sierra Leone: the way I see it
February 2006
World Class schools visit: Dorton House School for the Blind is linked to Milton Margai School for the Blind in Freetown.
Breakfast followed Kent pupils Kyle and Leanne on a school visit to Sierra Leone in a series of three films.
Quake Day: Pakistan link up
November 2005
BBC News worked with World Class for Quake Day, a month after the Kashmir earthquake in November 2005.
Schools in Muzzaffarabad and Bradford linked up online and on TV.
BBC World Class invited UK schools to twin with Pakistan – more than 100 schools joined.
Africa Lives on the BBC: The Bigger Picture.
Over 12,000 children in twinned schools in the UK and Africa drew postcards of something which matters to them. The child who drew this postcard is “learning hard to become a nurse”.
The pictures were scanned into an online searchable database where they can still be viewed. The Bigger Picture was printed on to banners and wrapped around the British Museum at the Africa Live event July 2005.
The Bigger Picture was a collaboration with support from Gemin-I, the British Council, and Link Community Development who initiated the postcard exchange.
Bangladeshi week on Five Live
May 2005
Five Live Sport marked the historic first ever tour of the UK by the Bangladeshi Cricket team with a World Class week in Tower Hamlets.
St Pauls Road Community School linked up with schools in Dhaka and Sylhet.
Five Live, Asian Network, Big Toe and the Bengali service all came live from St Paul’s Road school.
China Week on Five Live. April 2005
Five Live broadcast their China Week live from schools in Shanghai and Chongqing twinned with schools in the UK.
Linked partner schools in Kent and Liverpool live on air.
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