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'Il-Maltija' Dance and Costume Exhibition

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'Il-Maltija' Dance and Costume Exhibition

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During this experience, through a short dance, children wore clothes that were typically worn by Maltese people in old times. Children learned a traditional dance and we performed this during a special assembly in front of the school and in front of a group of foreign educators participating in an Erasmus project. We also had the opportunity to discuss how things have changed over the years and how different countries all have their typical clothes around the world. It was appreciated by Maltese children as it is something different to what they are used to wearing but even more so, children of different nationalities could understand and learn more about the Maltese culture in a fun way. This allowed for multiculturalism to be celebrated. We also discussed how each country has a different flag to represent it and we hung these up in our classroom to give a self-identity and sense of belonging to each and every student. This allowed for some interesting discussions between children.

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Celebrating Diversity in Our Classroom

Aiming to introduce the children to the concept of peace, we tried to take the children on a colourful journey around the globe to meet different children and learn about ways to say peace.

We started the activity by reading the book ‘Can you Say Peace?’ by Karen Katz. Children had the opportunity to talk about differences and similarities in the way of living of children around the world. Afterwards, students had the opportunity to draw a self-portrait, highlighting their own physical differences and similarities. To conclude the activity, the children used their own portraits and fingerprints, which is also unique to each one of us, to promise they will always be advocate of peace in class and wherever they go.

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As part of Social Studies students had a fieldwork at Marsaxlokk. Here we walked around Marsaxlokk and discussed the culture linked to it by seeing the church, statues, traditional fishing boats and building, after we took the students for food tasting at a Maltese restaurant. Here the owner prepared a table with traditional Maltese food such as bread, Maltese sausage, galletti, bigilla, aljotta and much more. There were students who had never tasted such food and tried it for the first time. This was also beneficial for our two foreign students as they came to Malta this year and got to learn more about our culture.

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To celebrate women's day children were split into five groups. They had to read about 5 special Maltese women who are important in the history of Malta - Agatha Barbara, Mary Ellul, Mabel Strickland, Madame Manfre and Amy Camilleri Zahra. After, they shared the information they discovered to their peers.

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Promoting Multiculturism İn TURKEY Scholl- CEYHUN ÇELİK 

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Promoting Multiculturism İn TURKEY Scholl- CEYHUN ÇELİK 

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Although our class lives within the borders of the same country, they come from different family dynamics and the subject we will cover is a global one.
In our class, it covered a subject related to the month of Ramadan, which is very important for the Islamic world and is the subject of worship.
This study aimed to introduce the culture to children from other countries and Turkey, especially those who have the Islamic faith and have other faiths. Manis and Ramadan music were included.
One of the working plans was the Ramadan drum, which was made to wake people who sleep at night in the Islamic world and Turkey. Another work of ours is the mani recited mutually to spend the month of Ramadan with fun.
First, an oral presentation was given to the students to learn how to make the Ramadan drum. The materials were prepared together with the students. At this stage, we both had fun and did an activity based on social interaction with the students.
School administrators toured one by one, drums were played and manis were sung. I think that in the near future, our students with autism will be more involved in Ramadan activities and their awareness will increase.

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Promoting Multiculturism İn Turkey Scholl-Ali KARAASLAN

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Promoting Multiculturism İn Turkey Scholl-Ali KARAASLAN

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With our students coming from different regions of our country and from different cultures, he discussed a subject related to the month of Ramadan, which is very important for the Islamic world and is the subject of worship. At the same time, the issue we will discuss is a global issue.

This study aimed to introduce the culture to children from Turkey and other countries, especially those who have the Islamic faith and who have other faiths.
Two activities, "Manis and Ramadan music", were included in our lesson. It was the Ramadan drum made in Turkey to wake up the sleepers at night. Another of our works is the manis that are read mutually to spend the month of Ramadan with fun.
Firstly, an oral presentation was given to the students to learn how the Ramadan drum is made. The materials were prepared together with the students. At this stage, we had fun with the students and did an activity based on social interaction.
As an event application; School administrators and other classes were visited one by one, drums were played, manias were sung.
In the near future, we organized an event where our students with autism will be more interested in Ramadan activities and their awareness will increase.

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Learning about one of Malta’s traditional food 

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Learning about one of Malta’s traditional food 

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Our school consist of children coming from different countries, which leads to different languages and different cultures. Our school organized a maltese week, which allowed us educators to plan activities that are related to traditional things about Malta. This initiative allowed children from other countries and even maltese children to get a glimpse of traditional games and food Malta has to offer. One of the activities plans was that of doing the traditional maltese bread which consists of tomato paste, olive oil, tuna and olives. First we watched a video of how the traditional maltese bread is done and then children were encouraged to prepare the filling and enjoyed the end result. In the near future, I would like to pick a country from were children of my class came from and plan a day focusing on the culture of that country, so that they feel more welcomed in the classroom.

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In our school we have children from different countries and different cultures. I wanted the children to learn about diversity. First I showed the students a video - So Many Colours, So Many Shapes by The Singing Walrus. Afterwards  we discussed the video were the students interacted in the discussion about diversity. Than the children coloured pictures of children from different countries. The more they know about cultures of others, the more they become open minded and tolerant towards the other students from different cultures, thus preventing racism, hate and discrimination.

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Our class consists of different races, religions, and cultures as we have students whose parents are of different nationalities, and recently a new student from Albania joined our class. We wanted to do an activity where we make students aware of the differences there are between us and how to embrace them. We started by reading the story ’What if zebras lost their stripes?’ and students discussed what differences we have in class. They presented some research they did at home about different countries and their cultures, food, traditions etc. They drew the flag of the country they talked about, and we observed the map of the world where we found where the countries are.

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In our schools, students coming from different countries encounter quite a number of challenges. The biggest challenges are the language barrier and cultural differences.
Ms Fiona, a teacher from the Migrants' unit, is a regular visitor to our school where she delivers a number of lessons weekly to these students and together with the other educators supports them and ensures that they have a smooth transition in our school community.