A timeline dating back to 1917, featuring web site links to newspaper reports and video footage, provides pupils with an insight into the history of the conflict, whilst a section entitled Key People offers details on the figures involved in the peace process, such as Yasser Arafat, Ehud Barak and Bill Clinton. Links to other useful web sites, including the UN, the White House and the Israeli Government’s official web site, and a news package on the hopes and fears of children in Israel, can be found under Recent Events.
Suggested classroom activities within the Special Report cover a number of subjects including Personal Social Health Education (PSHE), History, English, Geography and RE. For PSHE, pupils are asked to consider the skills that Bill Clinton will need to help the sides work together, and for History, they are challenged to explain the events in the lead up to the conflict from both Israeli and Palestinian viewpoints. English skills are encouraged through the production of Israeli and Palestinian newspaper reports whilst RE tasks include an investigation into why Jerusalem is such an important religious site.
“Our special relationship with a number of leading news production companies enables us to respond very quickly to important world events and relate them to the curriculum through focused activities”, explains Lewis Bronze, Managing Director, Espresso Productions. “We produced a similar report during the Kosovo conflict, and it was very well received. By delivering these Special Reports to schools within days of the events occurring, Espresso is providing an invaluable teaching tool.”
This report is just one of the latest elements of Espresso for Primary Schools, a service designed to offer support and lesson ideas to primary school teachers and to teach children skills and concepts relevant to the National Curriculum 2000. Espresso for Primary Schools includes news updated every week, as well as TV packages on subjects as diverse as ‘how music can improve learning’ and the ‘technology behind sharkskin swimsuits’. Contemporary TV programmes are used to illustrate the use of mathematics in everyday life, while children can use newspaper work as a base for English topics.
Espresso uses satellite technology to deliver weekly feeds of information to schools. A satellite dish and Espresso box - costing £1500 - are required to receive and store the information. For the average Primary School a subscription fee of £4.50 per pupil is payable yearly.
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