Secondary
Find out here how secondary schools have included a global dimension in the curriculum and school life.
After-school
- GLADE Film Club (or download as a PDF)
The GLADE centre in Ilminster, Devon, organised issue-based film shows as a way to explore global issues
Citizenship
- Learning about fair trade chocolate
Children at a Yorkshire school took part in a simulation game to learn more about the relationships between cocoa farmers, chocolate companies, supermarkets and consumers. - A Year 8 class follow the journey of a banana
Year 8 classes at a Sheffield school learnt about world trade issues in Citizenship through Oxfam's Go Bananas photo-pack. - What Do YOU Think? (or download as a PDF)
As Pastoral Head of Year 8 at Chilwell School in Nottingham, Dan Williams reviewed and redeveloped the PSHCE scheme of work to ensure students weren’t just told what to think, but thought about the issues for themselves.
Cross Curricular
- Legacies of conflict
Pupils at Glasgow Academy explored the impact of conflict and what it can mean for people, especially children, caught in the middle. - Challenging extremism locally and in the wider world (or download as a PDF)
Accrington Academy in Lancashire worked with local artists to tackle extremism, through an intensive programme of dialogue with students, reflecting on local and then wider world issues. This led to the creation of a public art installation and a Community Ambassador programme. - Using the arts and global issues to re-engage young people and improve behaviour (or download as a PDF)
A group of Pupil Referral Units in Birmingham held an issue-based, cross-curricular theme week with a global focus. - Dig for Sustainability - learning from the older generation (or download as a PDF)
A project from Cambridge linking the World War II 'Dig for Victory' campaign to current-day concerns about climate change and sustainability. - Transition, peer education and the global dimension (or download as a PDF)
Manchester schools used peer education methodology and the global dimension to address issues of transition from primary to secondary school. - Positive images project - understanding refugees
Workshops delivered by Red Cross volunteers in Glasgow helped students to understand the real-life experiences of refugees and asylum seekers, and developed their critical thinking skills and open-mindedness. - 'Do it with passion'; a school cluster link with Kenya
A cluster of secondary schools in the Forest of Dean discovered how a curriculum-focussed school partnership project could reach across a number of curriculum areas, including Maths, Science, Geography, English, Art, Drama, Music and ICT.
English & Drama
- Have You Heard Us? - driving up attendance and achievement (or download as a PDF)
Notre Dame College in Liverpool used global learning approaches including ‘forum theatre’ to re-engage young people at risk of exclusion. - Story-telling in Ghana and Scotland
A rural school in the north-east of Scotland used storytelling as a means of helping students to understand their own and others' values and beliefs. - An innovative writing programme
A Scottish inner city, school worked on a multicultural writing programme where writing about different aspects of cultural identity developed students' self-awareness and open-mindedness towards difference. - Studying literature from around the world
Studentsand teachers at a school in a deprived inner-city area are given a daily opportunity to 'read for pleasure', which broadens their perspectives on world literature.
Geography
- What are the food miles in my Christmas Dinner?
Year 9 students at a Manchester school ran a model 'United Nations conference', thereby gaining an insight into democratic structures, the complexity of global issues and and how decisions are arrived at. - UN Earth Summit Day in Manchester
Year 9 students at a Manchester school ran a model 'United Nations conference', thereby gaining an insight into democratic structures, the complexity of global issues and and how decisions are arrived at. - Identifying stereotypes through images
As part of a unit of work on Kenya, pupils from Wales examined the stereotypes they held of life in Africa. Their attitudes were explored again following work on challenging stereotypes.
ICT
- Making ICT Real (or download as a PDF)
Providing students with the opportunity to communicate with a real audience for a real purpose brings greater motivation, improves results, challenges stereotypes and fosters a sense of common humanity – as well as improving their ICT skills.
Mathematics
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World Food Day lesson at Winterbourne Academy
Exploring how different families around the world have very different resources available to buy food.
Music
- Cultural understanding through music
Formby High School devel0ped a Year 8 unit based on African music and life.
Religious Education
- A link with Mexico
A link with a partner school in Uganda, which makes its own bricks, has brought a global dimension to the science curriculum.
Science
- Brick making with Uganda
Schools from different countries can work together to test out ways to reduce energy use. - Medicine and its global roots
A secondary school in the south of Scotland brings a global perspective into chemistry by making a link between traditional and modern pharmaceutical drugs. - Becoming a better Global Citizen – a challenge for the 21st century
n this Comenius project involving Hagbourne School in Oxfordshire schools share and investigate strategies to address 21st century challenge of sustainability.
Whole School
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Climate conscious schools
Liverpool World Centre worked with school councils across Liverpool to increase awareness and understanding of climate change. -
Liverpool Schools in One World (or download as a PDF)
Liverpool World Centre worked with school councils across Liverpool to increase awareness and understanding about issues of trade and fair trade. - A Whole School Approach (or download as a PDF)
Melanie Stockdale, Head of Geography at Benton Park School in Leeds, was keen to encourage the inclusion of the global dimension in a range of subjects, and to get staff working on cross-curricular themes. - A student's viewpoint (or download as a PDF)
A 16-year-old from North Londong International School explains what has helped him to develop an understanding of global issues. - Education is about their future, not our past (or download as a PDF)
At Whitefriars First and Middle School in Harrow over two thirds of pupils have a home language other than English. As well as working on joint curriculum projects with a school in Uganda, they have integrated global learning across the curriculum.
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