Global learning examples B:Investigating globalisation and

interdependenceThe samples of work in this presentation were submitted by these schools as part of their applications for the Geography Quality Mark:

• Bishop Challoner School, Birmingham

• Broadwater School, Farncombe, Surrey

• John Gibbard School, Sharnbrook, Bedford

• Malmsbury School, Malmsbury, Wiltshire

• Sarum St Paul’s School, Salisbury.

Key Stage 1 have a unit on economic awareness. During this the children participate in activities where they have to earn money and then work collaboratively as a group to decide how to spend it. This is followed up using the Go Bananas resources from Oxfam and culminated with the children using Fair Trade products to host a Fair Trade Coffee Afternoon for the parents, where leaflets about Fair Trade are displayed and parents have the opportunity to purchase items from the Fair Trade stall.

Children earning their wages, deciding what to spend it on, then buying their pudding.

Year 1: Interdependence and Fair Trade

Newton Farm school is a FairTrade school and so we teach lessons which allow children to compare their own lives to the lives of others overseas. The children run a FairTrade tuck shop, speak with politicians about FairTrade issues, and work in all curriculum areas to support their learning.

Tuck shop balance sheet

Our Local MP visits the school to discuss what we are doing with Fair-Trade. An entry into a whole school writing competition about Fair-Trade.

Fair Trade

A diary entry illustrating pupils’ understanding that we live in a culturally diverse country and that Divali is celebrated in Leicester. Pupils gain a greater understanding of a range of places in the world by comparing the locations of our school in Salisbury and Adhyapana school in Madurai, South India

Year 6: Indian connections

Who is responsible for the deaths of the workers? Key elements of our best lessons: global learning, enquiry, literacy, use of imagery, analysis and evaluation.

Rana Plaza mystery

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Collecting the schools views on what should be in the next Millennium Goals for the Shape the

Future competition

Selection of Independent Learning Tasks created by pupils as extended homework

Models with explanations

Y7 My favourite place

Yr9 Globalisation: board game, diary of a worker and revamp clothing

Design boards and Games

Cakes !

Y8 Settlement

Films – animations and Mocumentaries

Y7 Importance of Geography

Y9 Investigating Blood Diamonds 40min report

Websites

Y8 Population

Students are set Independent Learning Tasks where they are given an area to study and guidelines of how they will be assessed. They then are free to work either individually or in small groups to present their information in whichever way suits them best. On attached CD rom are examples of videos produced and the above link is to the website.

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Bishop Challoner School

T-shirt project displays

India Scheme of Work

Chinese student

getting to know you

session

Year 8: Getting to know China

Display of findings from getting to know you session