Report - ATWC at the Great North Museum for Families (Oct-Nov 2025)
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UK-Turkey Around the World Club Tandem Exchange!
On 8 October 2025, students at Benfield Secondary School took part in an engaging Ebru marbling workshop led by ENACT and N.E.S.T as part of an e-Tandem exchange with a partner school in Turkey!
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Join us at Around The World Club at the Great North Museum!
This term (autumn 2025), ENACT are delighted to be hosting several Around the World Club sessions at the Great North Museum, Hancock.
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ENACT and WORI collaboration in Uganda!
In a recent visit to Jinja, Uganda, ENACT had collaborated with the Women Rights Initiative (WORI) https://www.wori-uganda.org/ where the latter created a cooking activity making a traditional Ugandan meal.
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Lithuanian flower crowns bloomed again in The Big Animal Adventure Week
Lithuanian flower crowns bloomed again in The Big Animal Adventure Week at Newcastle University on 28 July 2025. The event was hosted by N.E.S.T for children from refugee and asylum seeking families. As ENACT research assistant Eve shared her culture, it opened the floor for the children to do the same, some rushing to the painting station after their crowns to share something of their own.
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ATWC Outreach in Sri Lanka, June 2025
Last June, ENACT research assistant Eve brought the Lambton Worm tale to the children in a Sri Lankan orphanage. Through rhymes and crafts, children enjoyed making their worms and warming up to their new volunteers during play-time hours.
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Year 3 visit from Excelsior Academy
We loved having a visit from the Year 3 students at Excelsior Academy on 10th July. They made crepes with the help of their lovely teacher Miss Seymour, then worked with our migrant volunteers to produce Eidiya - special money envelopes given to celebrate Eid. This activity was created and developed by the volunteers so it was great to see everyone working together. The Year 3s had a wonderful time and took away lots of memories from the session!
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ENACT at Sixth Form Culture Day, July 16th 2025
Paul and Eve engaged a group of Sixth Formers from Excelsior Academy in one-of-a-kind Chinese calligraphy during a vibrant Culture Day. Entirely student-led, the event became a remarkable platform for meaningful cultural exchanges, and we're very grateful to have been a part! Students were most interested in researching beyond and writing their own names in Chinese scripture.
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MFL PGCE - Class of 25
We had a wonderful morning on 17th June with the MFL PGCE cohort. We had great fun using ENACT to make pancakes, with some excellent flipping, then we moved on to datiles con queso. Finally we spent a lovely hour with two of our MA EIP students who helped us to master the art of Chinese calligraphy. The newly-qualified teachers could see the potential of the app in their future teaching, and took away lots of ideas of how using it could help embed and enhance cultural capital opportunities in the classroom. Good luck with your future teaching careers!
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ATWC Lambton Worms in Star of the Sea Primary, June 2025
ENACT research assistant Eve and Eleanor visited two Year 5 classes at Star of the Sea Primary School in Whitley Bay. Children learned importance of dialects and pronunciations whilst making their personalised Lambton Worms.
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ATWC Taster at West Denton Primary, June 2025
Paul and Eleanor had an amazing time delivering the ATWC taster at West Denton Primary! Around 90 talented Year 1 and 2 pupils created stunning French Mardi Gras masks last June.
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Around the World Club at the Museum
We had a fantastic Refugee Week 2025 event at the Great North Museum on 22nd of June! Languages and cultures are our superpowers!
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ENACT joined West Jesmond Primary's International Evening - 22 May 2025
ENACT's research assistants Eve and Eleanor had a fantastic time at West Jesmond Primary's International Evening which took place May 22nd 2025. With a total turnover of 520 attendees, with over 80 performers, ENACT's Lithuanian flower crown stall was one of 20 cultural stations, with over a few dozen flower crowns made! https://enacteuropa.com/?q=node/470
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ATWC at West Jesmond Primary - throughout May 2025
West Jesmond Primary's Year 5s travelled north-Europe without having to leave the classroom during our Around the World School Club taster sessions throughout May! The sessions hosted 10-15 children, who made Lithuanian flower crowns and Finnish landscapes with Eve.
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Our first activity in Albanian & Daisy Flower Crowns (Lule Margarita) workshop at Shkolla Shqipe ILIRIA, London
We made Daisy Flower Crowns (Lule Margarita) with 15 children on 26 April 2025 at Shkolla Shqipe ILIRIA, at the Chipping Barnet Library in London! All children made beautiful crowns and learned different parts of the flower, e.g.
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ATWC at Benton Dene Primary - 2 April 2025
15 beautiful Rosa de Sant Jordi Roses nurtured at the Around the World Club taster by Benton Dene Primary's Year 5s and 6s. Children loved the Spanish tradition, and their roses are almost as beautiful as their vocabulary! The session was led by Eve, 2nd of April 2025.
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ATWC at Gosforth Junior High - 26 March 2025
20 children (Year 8) from Gosforth Junior High Academy got hands-on with German lantern traditions https://enacteuropa.com/?q=node/190 & Chinese calligraphy through the first Around the World Club free taster session.
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Students studying Chinese at Newcastle University used ENACT to try out Chinese calligraphy and learn Chinese words
On 25 March 2025, students studying Chinese at Newcastle University used ENACT to try out Chinese calligraphy and learn Chinese words in ilab:learn.
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Our AAAL 2025 talk
Professor Paul Seedhouse gave a talk on the ENACT web app and project at the 2026 AAAL conference in Denver, Colorado.
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Around the World Club at West Pelton School
At an Around the World Club at West Pelton School on 9 January, children learnt Chinese words and learnt about Chinese New Year. They did this by doing calligraphy (painting Chinese characters) and by making red envelopes, traditionally given for new year! They personalised the red envelopes for their family and took the red envelopes and calligraphy rice paper home.
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Around the World Club is shortlisted as a HundrED innovation!
The 'Around the World Club' has been shortlisted for the HundrED and Montessori Global Education’s Spotlight on Child-Centred Learning: https://hundred.org/en/collections/child-centred-learning
Read about our innovation here: https://hundred.org/en/innovations/7-the-around-the-world-club
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'Around the World Club at the Museum' is featured on the Association for Language Learning website!
We are pleased to see our web app feature on the Association for Language Learning website.
https://www.all-languages.org.uk/research-practice/language-zones/home-h...
You can find our report on their pages specific to home / heritage / community languages pages.
Scroll down to the Good News Stories section!
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ENACT podcast powered by AI (NotebookLM)
Auto-generated by NotebookLM https://notebooklm.google/ using our FLTMAG publication: https://fltmag.com/cultural-tasks-enact/ All great except our web app name is pronounced 'enact' (one word) - and not E.N.A.C.T as spelled out with individual letters in the podcast.
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Around the World Club - in collaboration with International Newcastle
Read the full article here: https://internationalnewcastle.org.uk/around-the-world-club
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