Projects

Gender Action
Gender Action is an award programme which promotes and supports a whole-school approach to challenging stereotypes. Tiered progression levels put gender equality at the heart of policy and practice, recognising those striving to ensure there are no limits on young people reaching their full potential. Register your nursery, school or college as a Gender Action supporter...

Gender Equality Charter Mark – 2
DECSY is working as one of nine partner countries bringing the Gender Equality Charter Mark to countries across Europe.

Learning from a Pandemic – teaching resource and funded training sessions
This new resource and associated free training sessions will help teachers make a contribution to a recovery curriculum in schools, and beyond this, by providing interesting, engaging and relevant content that encourages pupils to recall, discuss and process some of their thoughts, feelings and memories. The next training session - January, 2021, TBC.

Resources for Home Schooling
These resources are aimed at children / young people learning at home. They are aimed at parents and carers but can also be used by teachers and in some cases for self-directed study.
Snapshots From The Borders
Snapshots From The Borders aims to improve European, national and local decision makers’ critical understanding of migration flows, as well as that of the public and their opinion of the movement of people.

School Linking and Outdoor Learning
This project supports primary school pupils in Sheffield to gain hands on experience of an organic farm, paired with classroom learning surrounding sustainability based on those experiences.

Non-Violent Action: A Force for Change
Non-Violent Action: A Force for Change is an exciting new curriculum development project funded by Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust which aims to create a series of lesson plans across different curriculum areas for students aged 8-13 using P4C.

Philosophy for Children P4C
Philosophy for Children (P4C) has long been valued by teachers as a method for developing critical and creative thinking skills through real dialogue about issues that matter to children.

The Schools Linking Programme
The Schools Linking Programme aims to bring communities together by linking schools from different areas across Sheffield and Rotherham.

Fairtrade
Recommended resources tried and tested by a group of teachers during a 'Preparing for Fairtrade Fortnight' workshop in 2013.

P4C national SAPERE project
Evaluation project designed to find out the extent to which P4C can raise standards in schools with substantial numbers of pupils in areas of lower socio-economic groups.

Building Communities through Dialogue
Using dialogic learning methods to enable young people to have increased ability to communicate constructively and build trust with people from different backgrounds to their own.

SEAL & The Global Dimension
Embedding the Global Dimension within the Social & Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) programme, engaging schools across South Yorkshire and beyond in the personal, political and planetary implications of development.

Gender Respect Education Project
This project embeds critical global learning in teaching and learning of mathematics in school. The focus is on 10 - 12 year olds and their teachers.

Book Launch – 18th October, 4.30pm – 6.30pm
at Scotia Works, Leadmill Road, Sheffield, S1 4SE

Gender Equality Charter Mark
Create whole-school change for 13 - 18 year olds that will impact on young people's expectations of gender roles and challenge gender stereotyping.

PiCaM
This project embeds critical thinking and global learning within the teaching and learning of mathematics in school. The focus is on 10 - 12 year olds and their teachers.