The ENACT offer has just got better, with the ENACT team at Newcastle University offering to help North East schools to set up Around the World Clubs and explore the diverse range of language and cultural activities available through the ENACT app.
In the Around the World Club, children of all ages can learn new languages and cultures while doing a hands-on cultural activity with the help of the free ENACT digital web app. The ENACT team has secured funding to be able to help schools in person, to set up their own clubs in North East schools. Click here to see full details and download the 2025 package.
The cultural activities on the web app have been contributed by people around the world to help develop cross-cultural understanding. The ENACT web app is suitable for lunchtime/after-school activities as well as PSCHE sessions and can be integrated into the curriculum in a range of subject areas including: Human Geography, Global Citizenship, Modern Languages, Religious and Moral Education, Food Technology, Craft, Cross-Cultural Studies and Communication Studies.
The app is free and currently offers 150 cultural activities from all around the world, from dancing to cooking, pumpkin carving to paper crafts, something for every age and ability. Many activities produce a craft item which children can take home with them, while some produce food which they can eat.
The ENACT web app develops cross-cultural understanding and global citizenship and its use in schools therefore helps develop policies and agendas in the areas of globalisation, equality, diversity and inclusion. The Around the World Club helps teachers bring the world to their classroom!
The Around the World Club is an educational package conceived and trialled in four Newcastle primary schools by Newcastle University N.E.S.T volunteers as an after-school club working with refugee children, using the ENACT web app produced by a Newcastle University team.
Links and contacts
- If you would like to set up an Around the World Club in a school anywhere in the North-East, please contact the ENACT team at Newcastle University on enacteuropa@newcastle.ac.uk.
- If you would like to set up an Around the World Club in a school in the Newcastle area specifically for refugee/asylum seeker children, contact NEST advancement@newcastle.ac.uk
- These activities can also support work around Schools of Sanctuary and progression through the levels of British Council’s International School Award