We have been working with two Brighton & Hove primary schools: Elm Grove Primary School and Cottesmore St Mary's RC School, both of which are on a journey to become 'Global Schools'.

"The Global School programme has had a significant effect on the approach to curriculum delivery at Elm Grove Primary... we are developing an increasing understanding of helping children to develop a global perspective when learning."   John Lynch, Head Teacher, Elm Grove.

All teaching staff have been involved with training to encourage planning and implementation of global citizenship, school wide and throughout the year.

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart”
- Nelson Mandela

BPEC’s school team has been working with Judy Hawker, Brighton & Hove Primary Languages Consultant, following  a successful teacher’s conference for primary language coordinators, which examined the global dimension in relation to language learning.

Colourful and creative resources for teaching Spanish while learning about Mexico and French whilst learning about Morocco are now available for teachers to borrow.

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In 2009, Global Citizenship was introduced in the first semester to first year BA students. This commences what will be a progression of understanding throughout their four year course.

'Making Connections', a third year module,  examines cross curricular projects and requires students to develop work linking two foundation subjects and integrating an aspect of Global Citizenship within them. BPEC provides targeted Global Citizenship sessions to assist students. A module on 'International Education' is also delivered with third year BA students which has been very succesful in the last two years in developing understanding of global learning.

Find out more about our work with the University of Brighton here:
http://clients.squareeye.com/uploads/dea/documents/gdw_building_confidence.pdf

Teaching resources - network creates toolkit

A dedicated group comprising teachers from West Sussex, BPEC education team and the West Sussex Healthy Schools Team have collaborated on an exciting new resource for primary schools.

The aim is to enable teachers and pupils to explore Global Citizenship through a series of key questions in commonly taught topics, which enable the development of critical thinking skills.

A draft version for KS 1 and 2 was successfully trialled in West Sussex schools by primary teachers with some Global Citizenship training. Feedback suggests that teachers found the resource extremely useful:

“Children loved it, having freedom and responsibility of their own learning, able to justify their position and develop thinking skills. The quality of the work as a result was purposeful and enriching, not flat, bringing the topic alive, building opinions, skills in questioning, and embedded across their learning.”