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School - World Day / Africa Day

Many Schools incorporate a world day or Africa day in their corriculum. Beats-working provides a full day of activities for your day. 

We can provide powerpoint productions, interactive displays, talks and demonstrations for aspects of the primary corriculum. Below are some examples of how your ideas can match the corriculum

Music- African drumming workshop, Singing, dance

Geography - Houses, transport, shops, maps, environment, weather, farming etc

History - Discovery of Africa, tribes, slavery, cast systems

Art- Batik, printing, masks, jewellery

Numeracy - Jewellery (repeated patterns), money

Literacy - Letters to schools, Story telling, descriptive writing, animal stories links to African schools

DT - Food (fruits & food of Africa), Textiles (Tie die) Paper masks, Costumes, Jewellery

Why use Beats-working for your Africa / World day?

We at beats-working have vast experience in Schools working with children of all ages and abilities including children with learning difficulties.

We can cater for the whole school or work with smaller groups during the day.

We can provide 'real' African teachers for your workshops and talks.

 

Mocolou Sawane joins Beat-working to enhance your World / Africa day

 Beats-working is very happy to be assocciated with Mocolou Sawane. We have worked together over the past 5 years and Mocolou is keen to pass on his knowledge to your school.

Mocolou Sawane is an extreemly charismatic and knowledgable musician, linking traditional rhythms to stories from his culture. He plays throughout the U.K and has played at Womad, Edinburgh fringe festival African drum village festival and many many more. The main advantage having Mocolou on board is Mocolou speaks French and good English plus his naive language Mandinka, thus enableing your school pupils to communicate easily plus the possibility of learning a few words of 'Mandinkan' language.

Mocolou in concert England

 Mocolou Sawane (Moc) comes from Casamance in Senegal. Senegal is located on the west coast of Africa. Casamance is a region in the south of Senegal just below Gambia.

Casamance is ritch in culture with influences from Mandinka, Dola, Wolof & Manding tribes.        If you want to know more about Mocolou Sawane follow this link  http://www.myspace.com/moctarsawane   

African Mask making

Contact Steve on 07971535099

Moc with a 1000 drums. Workshop in London