IB Community Theme: Sharing our humanity

IB Community Theme: Sharing Our Humanity with HUB-GPN and UWC for A Better World!!!

This is a very special invitation for you, as a fellow UWC member, toplease visit www.GiveWhileYouReceive.com/UniteForImpact<http://www.GiveWhileYouReceive.com/UniteForImpact> . Please also follow

Swine flu - links to information

Swine flu has recently killed a number of people in Mexico, and cases have been indentified in the US.The links below give up to date information on this viral disease and this outbreak. 

World Malaria Day - 25 April 2009

World Malaria Day - Saturday 25 April 2009

World Malaria Day is an opportunity to remember and find out more about this devastating but preventable disease. Malaria affects 550 million people in the world and kills 3 million people each year.

2009 marks the second United Nations World Malaria Day.

Visit the World Malaria Day website

Education resources from British Red Cross

The British Red Cross has developed many teaching resources - lesson plans, games, assembly ideas etc - in issues relating to its activities. 

These include the following topics relevant to the IB community theme:  

Green Land Pré Vert International School students won the IB "2007 Robert Blackburn Award " for their C&S project

IB Community theme in action at United World College-USA

Dear  IB-ers,

We are a two-year, all-boarding IB Diploma school.  We adopted the IB Community theme as the theme for our latest newsletter.  In it, we highlighted some of what our school has been doing in terms of the High Noon topics (Global poverty, Education for all, Peace and conflict, Global infectious diseases, Digital divide, and Disasters and emergencies).

Global issues in the English language classroom: TESOLers for Social Responsibility Caucus

 Don't be put off by the name. A very useful website for teachers of English wishing to include global issues and concerns in their teaching. Links to resources and teaching materials.

Statement of Purpose

WORLD MALARIA DAY (25 April)

 Visit this wesbite (in English and French) to find out more.

http://www.rollbackmalaria.org/worldmalariaday/