1. It’s not all knitting and Bingo….. Teresa Atkinson Jennifer Bray
Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia Intergenerational Schools Project
It’s not all knitting and Bingo…..
Teresa Atkinson
Jennifer Bray

4. Building Emotional
Resilience

5. 22 Schools
6 Primary
7 Secondary
13 Evaluation

6. Who was involved?
Primary
Secondary

7. Many pupils hadn’t heard of dementia before….

8. Many pupils hadn’t met a person with dementia before….

9. What do people with dementia enjoy?
bingo
knitting

10. Successful school interventions
effective partnership working with local agencies
supportive school leaders
good integration with the wider curriculum
(Office of Public Management and National Foundation for Educational Research, 2011)

11. Effective Partnerships….
Gloucester College teaching Newent Secondary
Newent Secondary working
With Gretton Primary and
Harewood Junior School

12. Good integration with the wider curriculum
Dementia awareness lessons (Assistive Technology, the brain, memory, ageing, living well with dementia)
Meeting someone with dementia & their carer
Debates
Life histories
Drama, art, music
Singing/choir
Tea parties
Dementia Ambassadors
Whole School Assemblies led by pupils

13. Reaching out…….and in Northfleet Girls School, Kent
Bernard Gilpin School,
Tyne & Wear

14. Who did schools work with?
Local MP’s
Local GP’s
Local Care homes
Carers
Who did schools work with?
Alzheimer’s Society
People with dementia
Other schools
The wider community

15. Activities and Learning
“it’s harder than it looks”
“it gets quite tiring,
annoying”
“Just by doing simple activities you can see how difficult it must be for them [...]
that was quite a big learning experience, ‘cause we didn’t expect it to be as bad”

16. Life story books

17. Northfleet Girls School, Kent

18. © The Association for Dementia Studies
And finally...
“People with dementia are just like other people they just need a little bit of help” “I’m glad I now know about dementia so now I’m ready if any of my family get it”
© The Association for Dementia Studies

19. Thank you for listening!
Teresa Atkinson & Jennifer Bray
University of Worcester
Association for Dementia Studies
Photographs of people living with dementia taking part in
ExtraCare Charitable Trust Enriched Opportunities Programme
University of Worcester Association for Dementia Studies