Some words from the teacher
The reason for doing this project was to continue the success of the Cop 26 project - we had lots of interest from Bangladesh for that, so they became the next country to learn about and reach out to. The floods in Bahia had just happened at the time we decided to do the project and obviously tied in with samba teaching, so that became the other focus country. We called it Messages of Hope because it was intended as a message of solidarity, child to child.
We did the art as specific lessons to tie in with the theme. We tried to take a multi media approach to learning about the countries involved. We even made lemon tea at Windmill (for the Bangladesh project).
We did have a really great time making the film and children in both schools always ask me if we are going to do more! I have also had a number of students ask to sign up for strings / drumming lessons.
St.Catherines School, Launceston - a piece of music for Bahia, Brazil
Windmill Hill Academy - a piece of music for Bangladesh