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Afghan refugees – how to help locally
Asylum Welcome, the Oxford-based refugee charity, is supporting over 160 Afghan refugees who were evacuated from Kabul in the emergency airlift. The new arrivals – men, women and children – are being housed in hotels whilst awaiting longer-term housing. The new arrivals have lived through unimaginable trauma. They need support to feel safe, settled, and look forward with hope for the future. This work includes providing activities and English language classes, and helping the children adapt to school. The support from the local community has been astounding but there is still so much more to be done. Asylum Welcome is incurring significant extra costs
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• Donate to Asylum Welcome to support this work: www.asylum-welcome.org/ donate • Volunteer (we are particularly in need of speakers of Dari or Pashto): email volunteer@asylum-welcome.org • Donate laptops or devices: email office@asylum-welcome.org • For landlords with spare accommodation in Oxfordshire, contact refugeehousing@oxford.gov.uk
For more information about Asylum Welcome, please visit www.asylum-welcome. org Thank you so much for your all your support and solidarity. We wish you a safe, happy and healthy 2022, from all of us at Asylum Welcome. Top: The Asylum Welcome team photographed holding the orange heart of compassion and solidarity from the Together with Refugees campaign. Middle: Children at the hotels enjoying the theatrical world of play and performance created by The Flying Seagull Project. Image credited to Asylum Welcome. Bottom: Group of Women. Image Credited to Paula Lerner / Alamy
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Welcome to the January - February issue In this issue we look at how a local charity is making a huge difference to the Afghan refugees arriving in the Cotswolds (p4), as well as celebrating the role of female astronomers in the history of astronomy (p12) We also explore whether a longer school day should be implemented on p10. I hope you all enjoy this issue and I’ll see you again in March. Best wishes,
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Rissingtons Local History Society Events Friday 21st January @ 2.30pm. “The Archeaeology of Stowe Landscape Garden” a talk by Stephen Wass charting the discoveries of Roman, Medieval & Tudor periods in the garden.
Friday 18st February @ 2.30pm. “RAF Brize Norton – over 80yrs of Flying Operations” a talk by Trevor Jackson charting the activities from WW2, through the cold war, USAF and todays RAF operations.
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Would a longer school day be beneficial to children? Nadhim Zahawi the Secretary of State for Education has suggested that the school day should be extended. He has also said that there are “excellent examples” of the benefits of longer school hours. What he did not mention was that there are also examples of longer school days failing the advancement of children. Longer school days have been tried in various countries including the USA, Canada, Latin America, Indonesia and the Caribbean. The United Nations have also published a report dealing with pandemic-induced learning losses and no doubt the Department of Education will lean heavily on its findings in their research. So, what are the problems in extending the school day in order that our children may catch up on the lost months of education that they have suffered over the past two years?
Length of a School Day The Secretary of State for Education has urged all schools to ensure they move to the average school day length
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of 6.5 hours tuition which may come as a surprise to many parents that not all schools in this country have the same length of tuition. In the USA the average tuition time varies between a minimum of 6.5 hours to a maximum of 7 hours each school day. Length of a School Year This varies in Europe between 165 days in Albania, Malta and Romania and 200 days in Denmark and Italy. The majority of European countries teach between 181 and 190 days. In England local authority maintained schools must open for at least 190 days. All this in comparison with Japan who have 210 to 250 school days a year.
Pupil Concerns We must consider – socialisation, pastoral care and the overall wellbeing of the children. These are major issues that many teachers and education experts are raising as an important element in any catch-up plan that involves the implementation of longer school days. Yet to date almost no studies on the effects of longer school days exist.
Teacher Fatigue Research from the Institute of Education led by Dr Ed Baines noted that “…overly long school days will not be conducive to a good mental state or allow them (i.e., the teachers) to deliver quality teaching. Extending the school day after the added stress and upheaval of lockdown may also be highly detrimental”.
Conclusion This is a complex issue and will not be easy to resolve but what must not be forgotten is whatever decisions are made, the Department of Education must not forget that extended school time will affect whole families in terms of their happiness and quality of living. Therefore, it is of crucial importance that any extended teaching must be of the highest excellence. Wishing all Cotswold Link Readers, A Happy Healthy 2022 John Harris
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Cotswold Sky This may not come as a surprise, women astronomers have made some amazing discoveries throughout history. You may not have heard of some of the following, but their contributions are well worth further reading: Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) Caroline is perhaps the most well known of past female astronomers discoverer of several comets and became the world’s first professional astronomer and the first woman to become an Honorary Member of the Royal Astronomical Society. Elizabeth Brown (1830 – 1899) Elizabeth lived all of her life in Cirencester her achievements and contribution to encouraging women to the field of astronomy are immeasurable. Being refused membership to the Royal Astronomical Society because of her sex she became a founder member of the British Astronomical Society. Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868 – 1921) The discoverer of “Leavitt’s Law” by which astonomers can measure distances to remote galaxies.
Women Astronomers Vera Rubin (1928 – 2016) Found the evidence that 90% of of the mass in the galaxies consists of invisible dark matter.
Meteorite Showers:
Quadrantid Meteor Showers peak on the 4th/5th January. Could be ideal for viewing around midnight looking above the North Eastern horizon. Mercury Evening planet during January most visible during the first two weeks of the year in the South West at sunset. Close to Venus on 1st January and then close to Saturn on 14th January. Difficult to observe during February. Venus Can be observed close to Mercury in the South West at sunset on New Year’s Day and reemerges towards the end of January as a brilliant morning star in the South East. Difficult to miss during February in the pre-dawn sky Mars Rises in the South West 2 hours before the Sun during January. Brightens gradually over the weeks and will be observed beneath Venus towards the end of February. Jupiter Best observed during the first half of the January evenings but losing its brightness by the end of February. Saturn Located lower down and to the right of Jupiter during January around twilight time but will not be visible following the first few days of February.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900 – 1979) proposed that stars including our Sun was made up of hydrogen and helium. Cecilia was the first female professor at Harvard University.
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