Dora Love Prize Introduction Day for Key Stage 2/3

Tuesday 25 September 2012, University of Essex, Colchester Campus

For Key Stage 2/3 students who want to become involved in the Dora Love Prize, a one-day event at the University of Essex, Colchester Campus on Tuesday, 25 September 2012, will mark the starting point.

During this one day, we will inform teachers about the kind of resources that we can make available, but even more importantly, students have a chance to speak with two survivors and hear their stories, listen to extracts of interviews that Dora Love gave, learn what students did in a similar project last year, and at the end of the day come up with ideas for the kind of project they want to embark upon in the following six to eight weeks.

The overarching theme is "Building Bridges – Fostering Futures": bridges between survivors of the Holocaust and today’s younger generations, bridges of understanding why genocides and hate crimes happen and what we can do to fight them, bridges between countries, between ethnic groups, between religious groups, between different sexual orientations, between disabled and able-bodied people – bridges leading away from intolerance, hatred and discrimination and into a future where everyone takes personal responsibility for his or her neighbour.

This theme reflects and takes up the official themes for Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain chosen each year by the UK Holocaust Memorial Day Trust: the Dignity of Difference (2007), Stand Up To Hatred (2009), Speak Up, Speak Out (2012) and Communities Together: Build a Bridge, the official theme for the 2013 Holocaust Memorial Day.

Projects can come from any area, ranging from the creative and performing arts to history, religious studies and politics and including projects based in the local community. Taking an approach that is not based on one single traditional discipline but combining several could also be a good way of encouraging us to come together to build stronger and more tolerant communities.

The submissions to the Dora Love Prize can be a written report, but we equally welcome poetry, posters, photographs, performances and any other form that encapsulates the main theme.

The winners of the Dora Love Prize will have a chance to present their projects during the University of Essex Holocaust Memorial Week at the Lakeside Theatre, and their school will receive an award to support Holocaust awareness and general human rights education.

We hope that participation in the Dora Love Prize will support what schools are already teaching, and add an additional dimension through project focused work, increasing the understanding of the importance of the subject matter and through active personal involvement embed the learning at a deeper level.

We would hope to get a firm commitment from schools at the end of the one-day event that they will participate in the Dora Love Prize 2012-13, and that their students develop a good sense of the kind of project they want to undertake.

The Dora Love Introduction day is free to attend, although places are limited.

Programme

Dora Love Prize Introduction Day programme (pdf file)

Booking and further information

The Dora Love Introduction Day is free to attend, although places are limited.

If you would like further information or to book places, please email Julie Storey, jstorey@essex.ac.uk, or Ian Dudley, idudle@essex.ac.uk.

Directions

Directions to the University of Essex Colchester campus

Parking

Parking will be available on campus for school parties attending the event.