To tie in with this year's Red Nose Day's focus of getting African children into education, Teachers TV is also showing documentaries exploring inspirational practice in schools in Africa and looking at how some individuals and projects are succeeding in removing barriers to learning for the poorest children.

Global Issues with Comic Relief (Key Stage 2)
Lisa Taner teaches at a primary school in North London. Lisa plans her lesson on global issues using resources supplied by Comic Relief as part of Red Nose Day 2007, and is then observed as she teaches it by citizenship expert and ex-headteacher, Marguerite Heath.
  
Global Issues with Comic Relief  (Key Stage 3)
Can a charity based on comedy help teach children important lessons on values and human rights? Sarah Coleman finds out in her Key Stage 3 citizenship class as she uses Comic Relief teaching resources supplied free to schools as part of Red Nose Day 2007.
  
The Big Cook 
Will a surprised team of school staff be able to beg enough local produce, cook enough food, and sell enough dishes at their local market to raise a tasty amount of money for Red Nose Day?
  
The Big Dig
Will a surprised team of school staff be able to create an eco-friendly garden in their school grounds from scratch to be ready in time for its grand opening in just 36 hours?
  
The Big Dance
Follow a team of staff from a school in Hackney, Britain's most multicultural area, as they try to become expert Morris, clog and sword dancers in just 24 hours to raise money for Red Nose Day.
  
The Struggle for Education in Karamoja
Find out how, after a troubled history, the Karamoja region of north eastern Uganda is finally embracing education for its young people.
  
Inspirations�A West African Story
'Women of Liberia, do not weep', cries a small boy in a play about the use of boy soldiers in his homeland. Against a backdrop of civil war, brutalised children, poverty and displacement, this pupil and his peers have found refuge in the Carolyn Miller primary school in their refugee camp in Ghana. And for all the school's struggles � hungry pupils, unpaid staff, no electricity or resources � this remarkable school has high ambitions for its pupils.
  
Black Pinocchio
In this programme, theatre director Marco Baliani journeys to Kenya on a three-year project to cast a modern-day production of Pinocchio.

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Natalie Haynes on Comedy in Class
Teacher-turned-comedian Natalie Haynes thinks pupils and staff alike would benefit if schools were given an injection of humour. To assess her theory she travels the country in an attempt to discover the scientific and pedagogical truth behind her supposition � and along the way reveals some key pointers on how to make comedy in the class work.
  
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is no longer just the stuff of High School musicals in the USA. Grangehurst Primary has taken to its blend of high energy dance and stunts in a big way!
  
The Teaching Challenge � John Hegley
Britain's 'alternative poet laureate' John Hegley launches himself in a Year 6 class in North London. The pupils of Eleanor Palmer School are a lively bunch and are enchanted when their guest teacher arrives with a pile of dried leaves and a ukulele.
  
Plain Old Greed
Investigating the US financial meltdown, this powerful documentary reveals the ruined lives, crooked banks and the stupidity that brought it all about, laying bare the bankers' addiction that drove world markets into recession.