Amaali – British Value and Prejudice Workshops for Schools

Amaali provides bespoke 'British Value' and preventing 'Prejudice' workshops

Educational providers are  well aware the hoops the government wants them to hurdle through in promotion of ‘British Values’ through spiritual, moral, social, and cultural development. It is certainly valuable - now more than ever, but the manner of its effective delivery is not clear or easy.

And this is where Yesmien (Yazi) rides to the rescue!

Yesmien has developed her skills as a teacher and as a published  author to create a wide variety of bespoke workshops ,introducing Kashmiri/Pakistani culture, Muslim Faith (second highest in England and Wales) to pupils and staff across England.

Yesmien background working with Early Years in Education has supported her to create holistic, fun practical workshops for pupils, students and for staff wellbeing, training days. 

The workshops fully support the curriculum's demands on British Values: Respect, Individual, Liberty.  Also supporting agreed syllabus for Religious Education.

They are exciting, practical, and relevant. They meet Ofsted's requirement that pupils are helped to develop a respect and understanding of different faiths and cultures. Giving schools the opportunity to promote diversity through celebrations of  different faiths and cultures.

• Understand the tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs

• Support other principal religions represented in the UK. 

• Understand the importance of identifying and combating discrimination

• Tackle the subjects of prejudice and discrimination

• Address difficult and controversial events in the news

• Support healthy living , literacy and Art.

The workshops can be adapted but brief layout eg Primary school can be where Yesmien sets up  5 different activities, with pupils rotating through these activities. They can also be 'mixed and matched' to suit each school's needs.

 On offer:

• Kashmiri cooking

• Urdu/English storytelling

• Creative artwork including henna painting

• Dressing up in saris, salwar kameez, hijabs etc

• Arabic/Urdu writing

• Bollywood/bhangra dancing

• Drama improvisation exploring prejudice and racial issues

• Theatre performance followed by discussion or follow up project

• Interactive sessions linking to the current  RE syllabus

Yesmien offers whole school assemblies, collective worship sessions sharing her  and her parents personal journey where pupils can  explore the issues of racial, prejudice behaviours and the history of BAMER communities moving to UK.

Staff training sessions can vary from delivering wellbeing sessions through cooking or understanding positive ways to deal with cultural diversity, sensitive issues related to forced marriages,  cultural abuse and understanding BAMER pupils challenges.

Schools can be visited on a termly basis to work on specific projects.

Festivals, global week, Art week, world book day, can be linked to workshops.

Up coming Muslim Festivals  (exact  day can vary depending on the Lunar calendar)

• Hajj - 17th -22nd July 2021 (Muslims Pilgrimage to Makkah)

• Eid Ul Adha -19th -23rd July 2021

Cluster schools can work together and share travel costs.

below is a link where you can see further images ,video links  feedbacks of some of the past workshops in schools

https://www.amaali.co.uk/british-values-in-schools