Internationalising Learning: On the Global Stage

1. Internationalising Learning: On the Global Stage Bev Pullan & Dan Bousfield

2. Context Context • 350 children • 2-form entry • Deprived area • High percentage of free school meals • High percentage of special educational needs • Children with low expectations of themselves • Not multi-cultural

3. Context Our Aims • Promote global awareness • Explore some big ideas and issues • Collaborate between year groups Things to Consider • Age gap between Y3 (7-8) and Y6 (10-11) and differentiation between year groups • Bev works part time

4. Context Session 1 – ‘The World Came to My Place Today’ • Observed part of each other’s lesson

5. Context Session 1 – Outcomes • Children surprised at how far food travels to get to supermarkets • Surprised at what food looks like before packaging • Didn’t know the location of many places on the map • Very keen to complete the tasks and find out more

6. Context Session 2 – Bananas game • Observed part of each other’s lesson

7. Context Session 2 – Outcomes • Children really enjoyed it • Argued their points well • Picked up quickly on the injustice • Surprised when actual amounts were revealed and this led to discussion about the fairness of it

8. Context Session 2 – Outcomes

9. Context Session 3 – P4C ‘Amazing Grace’ • Own class, shared findings • Year 3 questions • Is calling someone ‘black’ racist? • Why did Nana take Grace to the ballet? • Why did the children say Grace couldn’t be Peter Pan? • Is it true that Grace can be anything she wants to be when she grows up?

10. Context Session 3 – P4C ‘Amazing Grace’ • Year 6 questions • Why are black people treated differently to white people? • Does everybody have their own rights, no matter who they are? • Why do things need to be the same as the original? • Why does it matter if you’re black or white? • Why are people so judgemental?

11. Context Session 3 – Outcomes • Detailed discussions • Mature responses to questions • Children felt safe and secure to talk about it • “I thought we weren’t allowed to talk about it”

12. Context Session 4 – The Black Hole • Swapped Classes

13. Context Session 4 – Outcomes • Lots of discussion about greed • Children gasped when the paper fell off • Wide range of responses to the questions

14. Context Session 4 – The Black Hole • Year 3 “Nothing. I would get a Build-a-Bear and JLS.”

15. Context Session 4 – The Black Hole • Year 3

16. Context Session 4 – The Black Hole • Year 6

17. Context Session 4 – The Black Hole • Year 6

18. Context Session 5 – Drama in Education: ‘The Sad King’ • Both classes together

19. SHORT TERM PLAN

21. Context Session 5 – Outcomes • Great for children to experience injustice for themselves • Children taking on and maintaining roles • Y3 and Y6 working together • Excellent feedback from the children

22. Context Associate Learners • Julie (Year 4 / MFL Co-Ordinator) • Taught ‘The World Came to My Place Today’ lesson • Julie very interested in International Learning and is very skilled at P4C • Children did not respond as expected • We need to tackle this lack of interest from the children

23. Context Associate Learners • Val (SEN Teacher) • Taught the Bananas game • Took an entire morning because the children were so enthusiastic • Val also very enthusiastic about International Learning

24. Context Other Tasks • Rewrite of History / Geography Curriculum (Examples) Key Stage 1 History: Changes in own lives and the way of life of their family or others around them (Y1 “Changes in our Lives”, Y2 “Family Life in the Past”). - Different ways of life for families in different places. Links to RE to explore way of life for different religions. The lives of significant men, women and children drawn from the history of Britain and the wider world (Y2 “Samuel Pepys”, “Florence Nightingale”). - Explore international artists, engineers, explorers, inventors, pioneers, rulers, saints, scientists such as Leif Ericson (Icelandic), Christopher Columbus (Italian), Mary Seacole (Jamaican), Pocahontas (Native American). Perhaps look at how their lives differed to people in Britain at the same time.

25. Context Other Tasks • Rewrite of History / Geography Curriculum (Examples) Key Stage 2 History: British History: Victorian Britain OR Britain since 1930. - Slavery and transportation to Australia. - Individuals, events and changes that happened across the world during the Victorian era. - Environmental impact of the Industrial Revolution. - The rights of children in Victorian times and the rights of children now. - A German perspective of the Second World War. - Life for ordinary Germans. - Ensure that international aspect is always there by e.g. looking at German propaganda - Study of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

26. Context Other Tasks • School Links ‘A primary school where pupils contact children around the world through blogging has been classed as ‘outstanding’ by Inspectors.’ ‘ The so-called ‘quad blogging’ – so-called because each class is in touch with four different countries – was praised for allowing pupils to learn about other cultures.’

27. Context Other Tasks • School Links • Despite getting no response from the school, we have now made some initial links with a school in Abu Dhabi who are keen to communicate with us.

28. Context Next Steps • Continue to establish link with school in Abu Dhabi and others • Develop an International / Olympic Week in the summer term • Implement the new History / Geography curriculum • Add international links across other subjects • Explore the news for current events that can be discussed in school to broaden the children’s global understanding • Run a staff meeting about this course, what we have learned and our vision • Encourage more staff to try out some of the activities