Welcome to the UK project Bringing the outside in workshop.

Welcome to the UK projectBringing the outside in workshop

Bringing the outside in

Using what learners tell us about ‘integration’; their lives, hopes and feelings about settling in the UK to:

• inform courses, activities, events and workshops

• build links with people, places and organisations inside and outside the classroom.

YOGA: Yes, I am very happy and i did enjoy it. Also I will try that at home. It’s healthy for body

FIRE SAFETY: I’m grateful for info... we enjoyed the fire engine.

Brilliant and the firemen were very informative.

Giving good information which some people did not know about

FOOD SAFETY: Kids loved the clean hand demo.Good awareness of healthy food

What ‘integration’ can mean to learners

“I know a lot of things, I can argue a lot of topics, but it’s all inside. This is a

terrible stage ... I don’t want to watch life ... I need to, more English to explain how I feel, what I think.”

“You can do many things you can't do it in your country, for

example to say what you want... if you don't like

something you can ... say I don't like this, it’s very important to have your

freedom, to feel like human”.

“because of the help of studying English like ESOL ... I can reach

people ... who live here for long time, so I feel I’m in a part of this country ... I can

relate to other people”

What does integration mean to learners? At your tables, discuss:

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2. What do learners want to do?

1. What does integration feel like?

3. What can help learners feel a sense of belonging?

Bringing the outside in and building links from the classroom:

courses/topics/activities in the classevents/workshops/trips for the group people/places/organisations to signpost/accompany learners to

Same life aim, three different journeysIn your groups, draw a river illustrating one of the possiblejourneys for a newly-arrived woman who wants to study law:

A. Gets a lot of support B. Gets some support C. Gets little or no support

Identify some achievable goals on each river www.reflect-action.org/reflectesol