Part A – Is our school community balanced?

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As a class discuss whether our school community is balanced. You might find the following slideshow, taken from our Patana Life pages, useful to get you thinking.

Give reasons for your answers.

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Come up with a list of different things that help you decide / measure whether or not a community is balanced.

Things that you can measure like this are called criteria.

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Part B – Your manifesto for a more balanced school

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Your task is to work in a pair (or possibly a three) and design a manifesto poster that explains how you think you could make your school community more balanced.

A manifesto is like a list of instructions / ideas that someone or some people believe will make things better in a community, a country, or the world in general.

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Your poster can be a clearly written bullet point list of things that would make the school more balanced.

It can include simple hand-drawn images / pictures to help the messages stand out.

You must be able to justify (give reasons for) your manifesto.

You should present your manifesto to the rest of the class, explaining why your points would help make the school community more balanced.

A vote will be taken on the three best manifestoes and these will be displayed.