Internationalised learning at Crowland Primary School

•Meaningful and relevant

•curriculum delivery through thematic approach to the

curriculum themes. (weeks)

•flexible use of curriculum time.

•alternative curriculum pathways making links, local, global and

internationally (project work)

•Buddy classes, groupings across the year groups

•Concentrating on developing key skills.

•Revised timetable, more breaks

•Use of resources

Eight Key Concepts

• Citizenship • Social Justice • Sustainable

Development • Diversity

• Values and Perceptions

• Interdependence • Conflict

Resolution • Human Rights

•Whole school project•Lead a team to compile list of activities and resources.•Disseminate outline of week with suggested activities to teachers.•Staff meeting to share aims and objectives of week.•Workshops on water by Fresh water theatre Company

Skills

Critical thinking

Have concern for the environment and promote

sustainability

Empathise with others

Understand that actions have consequences

Understand that resource allocation and

economic choices affect individuals,

communities and the environment

Geography/philosophy Lesson

Package

Year 5 children sharing their questions about water

Another example

St Patrick’s Day

Subject

R.E

Learning Objective

To know and understand why St Patricks Day is also celebrated Montserrat

SkillsMap skills, critical thinking, making links, Speaking and listening

Activity

Introduction: Show children image of Montserrat.

Q. What can you see ?

What has happened? Where do you think this place is and why? Why do you think we are learning about ? Why do they celebrate St Patricks Day?

Teacher lead discussion

Key Vocabulary

Irish, heritage, volcano, St Patrick, emerald,

Year 4 lesson On St Patricks day

Why Montserrat celebrate St Patrick's day

• Background Information

• Montserrat was populated by Arawak and Carib people when it was claimed by Christopher Columbus.

• *The island fell under English control in 1632 when a group of Irish suffering anti-Catholic violence in Nevis, many of whom had been forcibly removed from Ireland as indentured servants, settled there.

• *The import of African slaves, common to most Caribbean islands, began early.

• *An economy based on sugar, rum, arrowroot and Sea Island cotton was established. By the late 1700s there were many plantations on the island.

• *In 1782, during the American Revolutionary War, Montserrat was briefly captured by France. It was returned to the United Kingdom under the Treaty of Paris which ended that conflict.

• The Irish presence in Montserrat dates back to the 1630s, when the first pioneers -- Roman Catholics -- sailed over from St. Kitts because of friction with British Protestant settlers there.

•  *The Irish planters brought African slaves to work their sugar cane fields. Soon the slaves outnumbered them 3-to-1 and began rebelling.

• *In 1768, the slaves planned an island-wide attack on St. Patrick's Day, when the planters would be celebrating.

• *Servants were instructed to grab all the weapons they could find inside the Government House while field slaves stormed the building with rocks, farm tools, clubs and homemade swords. But someone leaked the plan, and debate over who's to blame still continues. Local authorities punished the slaves severely, hanging nine.

Why Montserrat celebrates St Patricks day

Is celebrated to remember those slaves who tried to escape on this day the on 17 March 1798 and failed. This led to Montserrat becoming one of only two places in the world that celebrates St Patrick's Day as a public holiday, the other being Ireland. Slavery was abolished in Montserrat in 1834. In the decades after Britain abolished slavery in 1834, most whites left the island. *But their surnames were adopted by the slaves and live on

Children were shown map. Do you know where Montserrat is? What continent is it in? Do you know the names of other countries in that continent?

Children were asked to indentify Ireland on the map

Sharing Work

St. Patrick's Day is an Irish holiday celebrated all around the globe to honour the patron saint of Ireland.

• But did you know that Montserrat, an island in the Caribbean also celebrates this day. 

• To all parents/Carers in key stage 2, you are invited to come along and watch the children in year 4 and 5 perform the Irish Jig on Wednesday 17th March.• Performance will be held in the dining hall at 

Invitation inviting parents to watch Irish dancing

• Lesson delivered to both year 4 classes, year 3 and year 2

• Power point of St Patricks Day put on the shared drive for staff.

• Irish dancing workshop organised for year 4 & 5

• Children said they went home and informed their parents.

• Spring festival• Staff meetings• Article sent to local paper

• www.globaldimension.org.uk• http://www.globalgateway.org.uk• http://www.teachandlearn.net/teachglobal/• www.collaborativelearning.org• http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/

resources/mapping_our_world/mapping_our_world/