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Welcoming the Stranger

Welcoming The Stranger Year 2 – 2024 – 2025

Year 2 of Welcoming the Stranger saw 3 new schools join the project: St Michaels Nursery and Infant School, Workington, Ewanrigg Junior School, Maryport and All Saints Primary School, Cockermouth. The schools working on their second year of the project used the stories created during Year 1 as stimulus for creative arts sessions to develop […]

Welcoming the Stranger Year 1 – 2023 – 2024

Welcoming The Stranger is a 3 year project funded by The Paul Hamlyn Arts based learning fund. The Laal Collective is working in partnership with Cumbria Development Education Centre and the teachers in the partner schools, to build children’s creativity, empathy, resilience and curiosity and to explore how the creative arts can support the delivery […]

Welcoming the Stranger pilot 2022

Welcoming The Stranger is a pilot project working with all the pupils of Seascale Primary School (age 3 – 11 year olds). One of the impacts of Covid is that children’s ability to negotiate and empathise has been severely challenged. Isolation hasn’t just affected learning but leads to emotional issues and struggles with peer relationships. […]