Carr Manor High School is one of the schools in Leeds that plays host to many young people arriving from other countries. The important thing when they arrive is to make them feel welcome

ELFM are working with Carr Manor to create a dvd resource that tells the new arrivals and their families what the school is all about. We are working with a group of young people at the school who themselves were new arrivals at Carr Manor in the last few years - who better to explain what it is like to start at a new school in a new country.

The project has been commissioned by Education Leeds and we are currently in production. We thought you might be interested in a little taster of the work…

Photos by Lizzie Coombes

 

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ELFM caught up with Iranian flamenco guitarist Ramtin Montazemy to discuss life as a musician and as a refugee, he also treated us to amazing music.

For two more pieces of music from Ramtin check out his other podcast by clicking here.

 

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Inspired by the young people, Hiwa and friends from Leeds Kurdish Community Association put together a show discussing some of the important issues for the Kurdish community.

 

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I’d been talking with Richard Byrne about how we can link up our work at ELFM with refugee groups with his work as Regional Media Officer for the Refugee Council. Didn’t realise how much of his work was put into promoting blogging, podcasting and video podcasting. Thought we might learn something from him about how we might start to develop this new ELFM website. Have a listen and hopefully Richard will be posting himself to point us in some interesting directions…

 

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In the summer of 2007 ELFM worked with a group of young people who were attending a literacy summer school at Wortley City Learning Center to make a collection of podcasts about their experiences, feelings and thoughts. Most of the group had arrived in this country in the past 12 months and English was their second language. This podcast is a collection of their stories.

 

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