Websites

Pathways to learning for new arrivals
These web pages provide guidance to teachers on enabling newly arrived pupils to participate fully in school life and the curriculum. There are also examples of good practice.

100 Great Black Britons
This website hopes to redress the balance and make people aware of black achievements and contributions over the centuries. It lists prominent and unknown black men and women, both contemporary and historical.

1001 inventions
This website highlights aspects of science and technology that the Muslim community share with other UK and European communities. It promotes the interdependence and understanding of communities throughout history.

Anti-racist toolkit
This race equality toolkit for teachers, developed by the Scottish Executive Education Department, provides information on legislation, term definitions and examples of good practice.

Black History Month
This website promotes knowledge of black history and experiences, celebrating Black History Month all year round. It includes events, news, resources for schools and other useful links.

Britkid
This website works as an educational tool and looks at race, racism and life, seen through a young person’s eyes.

Bullying online
This website has a specific section on racist bullying with practical advice but also offers general help and support to children and parents on bullying.

DfES: Ethnic Minority Achievement
This is part of the DfES Standards website and provides support to schools and LEAs in raising the achievement of ethnic minorities.

Letterbox Library
Letterbox Library is a not-for-profit website that exists to sell multicultural and non-sexist children’s books that celebrate equality and diversity.

Multiverse
This website provides teachers and student or trainee teachers with resources that focus on the educational achievement of pupils from diverse backgrounds. It also contains case studies and initial teacher training resources.

National curriculum in action
This website contains pieces of pupils’ work with commentaries to show the national curriculum in practice.

Specialist Schools and Academies Trust: Schools network
This website provides strategies for inclusion within the educational system in the UK.

Teachernet: Equality
These web pages offer guidance to teachers on addressing race equality in the curriculum.

Local authority resources

Islington Schools
This website offers a comprehensive range of resources related to many black and minority ethnic groups, for example, African-Caribbean, Bangladeshi, Somali, Turkish and Kurdish. Information on Refugee Support and supplementary and complementary schools is also included.

Portsmouth Ethnic Minority Achievement Service
This website provides case studies and also looks at issues and cultural diversity and pupils with English as an additional language.

Leicester Multicultural Education Services
This site provides guidance for schools on multicultural and anti-racist education.

Hertfordshire grid for learning
The minority ethnic curriculum support service (MECSS) section of the Hertfordshire grid for learning website provides sample policies for helping schools meet the requirements of the Race Relations (Amendment) Act (2000).

Gloucestershire Race Equality and Diversity Service: I Respect
This website is aimed at schools and education practitioners. It promotes active citizenship and positive race relations. There are lesson plans for all key stages in citizenship

Books, articles and guides

Complementing teachers: a practical guide to promoting race equality in schools
(Runnymede Trust, Granada Learning, 2003, ISBN 1840859121)
Complementing teachers helps schools meet the duties placed upon them by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act (2000). Written by a team of teachers, educationalists, and experts on race equality, it sets out how schools across all phases can develop race equality policies as well as providing practical suggestions, activities and background support information.

Education for citizenship, diversity and race equality: a practical guide
(Citizenship Foundation, 2001)
This guidance was commissioned by the Citizenship Foundation and Me Too, an anti-prejudice charity, to help citizenship teachers address diversity and race equality issues in the curriculum. It can be downloaded from the Citizenship Foundation’s website (www.citizenshipfoundation.org.uk).

Here, there and everywhere: belonging, identity and equality in schools
(Robin Richardson (for Derbyshire Advisory and Inspection Service), Trentham Books, 2004, ISBN 1858563437)
This is a resource for schools that explores how issues of belonging, identity and equality can be addressed, illustrated through a range of projects organised by Derbyshire Advisory and Inspection Service.

Keep on moving
(Minority Ethnic Role-models for Learning and Inspiration (MERLIN),
Keep on Moving is a free CD-ROM and resource pack for teachers. The CD-ROM includes a 20-minute film showcasing nine successful role models from different ethnic backgrounds who work in a wide range of professions. It also includes a teachers’ section with lesson and teaching activities. Contact the MERLIN programme manager on 0870 600 2482 for the free CD-ROM and pack.

No problem here (Scottish Centre for Research in Education)
This article by Patricia Donald, Susan Gosling and Jean Hamilton discusses children’s attitude to race in a mainly white area. The article focuses on research in three Scottish primary schools.

Race equality teaching (Trentham Books)
This journal is published three times a year to help teachers respond to the Race Relations (Amendment) Act (2000).

Schools’ race equality policies: from issues to outcomes (DfES, 2004)
This guidance document outlines practical steps schools can take to mainstream race equality within existing work and practices.

Trial and error: Learning about racism through citizenship education (DfES/0723/2003)
A free CD-ROM developed to help schools challenge racism through citizenship.