WEATHER STATIONS

ABOUT THE
SUBSTATIONS
In Ireland – Coláiste de HÍde, Mount Seskin Community College
and Firhouse Community College
Tallaght Community Arts and producing partner Collective
Action are engaging in an educational arts programme with
three second level schools focused on how storytelling can help
us re-imagine how we might live our lives in 2050 as a result of
climate change. Teachers and students, ages 14–17, have been
working with a number of science experts and our Weather
Stations Writer in Residence, award-winning Irish children and
young adult writer and illustrator, Oisín McGann.
The project addresses learning across Geography, Science
Arts, English, Foreign Languages, ICT and personal and social
development. The schools taking part include: Coláiste de HÍde,
Mount Seskin Community College and Firhouse Community
College.
In the UK – Arts and Media School, Islington
Free Word has been working together with staff and students
from the Arts and Media School, Islington (AMSI) to think about
how we might use literature and storytelling to think and talk
about the issue of climate change. The project has encouraged
students to engage with sustainability and the environment on
a local and a global level.
AMSI is a comprehensive trust foundation school for boys and
girls in the heart of Islington, London. It has an open, friendly
and enthusiastic approach to education and provides a vibrant
learning community which sets high expectations for all pupils.
The workshops take place within an after-school enrichment
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