The Foyle Contested Space programme involves 3 post-primary and 5 primary schools in Derry/Londonderry, the core aims the programme involve: offering sustained and significant collaborative shared education opportunities in this distinctly contested area of Northern Ireland; providing pupils with learning and skill development opportunities; promoting reconciliation in the City via the movement and engagement of pupils, parents and educational staff through a contested space and capacity building with teachers.
The Partnership has identified a number of key need areas which impact both on pupils and the community as a whole and intends to address these needs through a shared and collaborative approach in schools using Key Stage 2 PDMU and Key Stage 3 Learning for Life and Work curriculum. In order to effectively address the identified need, the Foyle Partnership is in agreement that classroom activity must be relevant to the live issues affecting young people in the City of Derry/Londonderry; therefore schools need to address the following: young people using drugs and alcohol; sexual health, sexuality and resilience; impact of the internet and various social media; community relations, space, shared space diversity, inclusion, sectarianism and anti-social behaviour.
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