Journey with Face to Faith

S.no	School	Country	Date	Teacher	Facilitator	Topics	Age
1.	Christian Brothers College	Australia	25th March, 11 at 3.30 am GMT	Mr. Leigh Williams	Ms Jo Malone Technical expert – Ms. Becky Brownfield	· Culture · Daily activities · Festivals PPTs and Questions were shared from both sides	14/15 years
2.	Sidmouth College	U.K.	15th July, 11 at 8.am GMT	Ms. Becky Maxwell	Ian Janison Technical expert – Ms.Linda Lentz	· Lesson · When & how religion is studied. · Looking after environment · General Lifestyle · Activities in spare time PPT  was sent from our students Models of Places of Worship were prepared and shown by our students during the VC Charts displaying real photographs of students depicting their lifestyle. Students from UK had shown stamps which they receive as a reward from their teachers and photographs of churches	12/13 Years
3	Kings- bridge College	U.K.	2nd, November,11 at 9 am GMT	Ms. Lorwyn Randall	Ms.Simmi Kher Technical expert – Ms.Becky Brownfield	· What wakes us, who we are? · What is faith? · How do people express their beliefs e.g. Worship PPT from us	12/13 Years
4.	St. Patrik college	Australia	17th Nov,11 at 3:30 am GMT (45 mins)	Mr. Jim Walters	Ms.Simmi Kher Technical expert – Ms.Linda Lentz	· Culture · General life style. act · How  children feel about being born in India on Australia! · Hoe I see faith  acted out in my world.	12/13
5.	St. Virgils College	Australia	17th July, 12 at 3.30 am GMT	Ms. Renee MacGregor	Ms. Simmi Kher Technical expert – Ms. Linda Lentz	· School Life · Festivals (culture National) · What is your faith & how it inspired you to work for humanity. PPts from us	14 /15 years
6.	St. Virgils College	Australia	28th Aug,12 at 3:30 am GMT	Ms. Renee MacGregor	Ms. Simmi Kher Technical expert – Ms. Becky Brownfield	WEALTH, POVERTY AND CHARITY · What makes you happy? · How your  faith inspires you to give? · How are you wealthy? · Spritiual wealth vs Material wealth	14/15 years
7.	DLF Public School Bal Bharti Public School, Pitam Pura Al –Azhar Islamic Sr. HS	UN –MALARIA DAY SPECIAL   India India Indonesia	25th April,12 At 3.00 am GMT (90 mins)	Ms. Vidhya Sumesh Ms. Sarabjit Kaur Ms. Mariyam Thalib	Mr. Cory Davis Technical expert – Ms. Linda Lentz		13- 15 years
8.	Nottingham Girls’ High School	U.K.	15th February,13 At 9am GMT   (60 mins)	Ms. Toni Ford	Ms. Kristen Looney Technical expert-  Mr. Sanjay Bareja	· What does faith mean to you · How is faith seen in your society · Ways of worship, which may also include places of worship · What is life like for teenagers in your country · What are your hopes for the future for yourself	12/13 years

FACE TO FAITH IN CLASSROOMS

How has your school been using Face to Faith in the Classroom?

Our school has made a wonderful attempt of mainstreaming face to faith in our classrooms. The purpose behind this attempt is to give an opportunity to maximum number of students to inculcate in themselves the value and attitudes laid down by TBFF.

To mainstream Face to Faith in school, F2F lessons have been included in the table of class teachers of class & a few more teachers. They have been allotted to zero periods of 1 hour each in a week. Class teachers take F2F Introductory module in class VIII and other subject teachers try to integrate other modules special VCs with their subjects and other activities of classes VII and VIII. The important attempts are being summarised below.

Introductory Module

With inspiration from F2F changes were made in festival celebrations.

Ø  Students Tried to celebrate important festivals like Holi & Diwali in an eco friendly manner.

Ø  National festivals were celebrated with a tribute to leaders of other  countries like Pakistan & South Africa along with Indian leaders

Ø  Festivals of other faiths like Lohri, Eid and Christmas were celebrated in school premises.

Wealth Module

As a part of preparation of wealth module, each class in the school prepared a Graffiti wall on the topic “What makes me happy”. After the VC on “Wealth Module”, Classes VI & VII were inspired to visit old age home & spend time with old people there.

UN Malaria Day VC

Science teachers of classes VII, VIII & IX prepared the students for this VC as the topic integrated very well with the subject.

Chart Decoration

Each class prepared & displayed chart about different country.

Food Activity

Even teachers of primary classes were so affected by Face to Faith that while

teaching the chapter of Food in their classes they did not forget to put the spices of

internationalism into it.

 

BIG SCIENCE CHALLENGE

UN Malaria Day Multipoint VC

D.A.V. Public School, Khera Khurd celebrated the cause of Malaria Eradication on UN Malaria Day by participating in a multipoint special videoconference arranged by Tony Blair Faith Foundation for the discussion about the same theme. The two other schools, one from Delhi and another from Indonesia participated in the conference. Two special guests: Ms. Nina Pine and Ms. Rachel Finn from San Francisco addressed the students about how and why Malaria is an important global issue. They advised students on some precautions to protect themselves from the disease and also suggested the ways in which they can contribute for the cause to the world. The students of all the participating schools discussed the activities they have been undertaking to fight the disease and then some faith element was added to the issue when speakers told them that there are countries where faith leaders play a major role in the eradication of Malaria. At the end of 90 minutes discussion, facilitator, Mr. Cory Davis from United States summed up the discussion. During the dialogue students came up with some very effective steps to aware people about the causes, precautions and symptoms of disease such as Talk Shows, Door to Door campaigning with the help of MCD, Street Plays etc. DAV, Khera Khurd has started their work towards the Malaria Eradication Program and will continue it in coming Monsoons.

International School Award

Our school, DAV Public School, Khera Khurd is now a proud recipient of International School Award, ISA for next three years i.e. 2012-2015. With the collective efforts of Teachers and Students, DAV Khera Khurd has once again proved itself to be above many others. All the hard work which was put by each member of this family has finally brought great success and honour to the school. I personally being the 'Coordinator for International Activities' want to congratulate everyone associated with DAV Public School, Khera Khurd. Also, I wish them all a great success for future and also assure them that our school will keep bringing more such recognitions and thereby offer many more learning opportunities for its students by collaborating internationally. Once again Congratulations! to all.

Anti Malaria Campaign

WHERE’S THE NET?

February – June 2012

The 2012 summer Olympics will bring together nations worldwide and the Olympic torch will pass from bearer to bearer until it reaches its destination – travelling a route which traditionally has symbolized human achievement.

Beginning in February 2012, Faiths Act will spearhead a similar relay - between people of diverse faiths sprinting towards the UN’s Millennium Development Goal of zero malaria deaths by 2015.  And they will travel a path of considerable human achievement as they go. 

THE CAMPAIGN

The Where’s The Net?campaign is a global interfaith initiative aimed at raising awareness of malaria and increasing the use of bed nets, which can protect lives. From February till June 2012, symbolic net displays will pass from person to person worldwide spotlightingpeople of diverse faiths and cultures uniting to take action to eradicate malaria by 2015. 

The India net will arrive in Delhi by March 15^th, 2012.  It will carry stories of multi-faith collaboration while collecting messages of hope, blogsand photos along the way, which we’ll showcase on our website.  We want the nets to tell a truly global story of interfaith collaboration to prevent deaths from malaria – this is the story of real human achievement.

YOUR ROLE

You have been selected to be a net bearer for this campaign as a proactive Face to Faith school in India. As a net bearer, your school will be one of the few places in India that the net will travel to – carrying messages of hope and interfaith collaboration. We request that you organize an activity to coincide with the net’s arrival at your school as innovatively as you can. Some ways to do this is:

·         Organizing a school assembly around malaria messaging with a drama performance by the students

·         An evening event with food for local school children and their parents focused on malaria awareness and messaging

·         An art competition for students on malaria transmission

·         A sporting event using the malaria net as a backdrop

Please keep in mind that these are merely suggestions – we would really like for you to make this event your own and to design any event that would showcase the malaria net and highlight the interfaith work that you’ve been doing.

NEXT STEPS

If you are interested in becoming a net bearer, please reply to this email indicating the event that you would like to hold and the preferred dates of hosting the net. Please also submit a photo of your school along with a short description.

Please note that the cost of transporting the net will be covered by TBFF. In addition, participating schools will be profiled on the TBFF website (www.tonyblairfaithfoundation.org).

With warm regards

TBFF India Team