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Alun School. Refugee Week Global Learning Programme Wales. Planning. Global Learning Network. June 2014 – first meeting Autumn Sharing good practice Developing a shared focus Spring Developing resources Summer Evaluation, sharing good practice & focus for next year.

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  1. Alun School Refugee Week Global Learning Programme Wales

  2. Planning

  3. Global Learning Network • June 2014 – first meeting • Autumn • Sharing good practice • Developing a shared focus • Spring • Developing resources • Summer • Evaluation, sharing good practice & focus for next year

  4. The Welsh Government aims to encourage schools to challenge learners to engage in culturally diverse experiences, critically evaluate their own values and attitudes, and develop skills that will enable them to challenge injustice, prejudice and discrimination.

  5. Donaldson Report: The purposes of the curriculum in Wales should be that children and young people develop as: ethical, informed citizens of Wales and the world

  6. Lead School Global Learning Programme Cross curricular Literacy & Numeracy ESDGC Audits Critical Thinking Year 7

  7. Refugee Week 15th June 2015 • Idea 1: Year 7 • Cross curricular activities during lesson time • Activities developed by global network& working group & department input • Booklet produced with activities for each lesson. • Skills development – literacy, numeracy • Self and peer assessment • Evaluation within booklet • Reflection on cut out for Tutor notice boards

  8. Refugee Week Idea 2: Learning spirals …..

  9. Target Outcome: EMPATHY

  10. Delivery

  11. What does home mean to you? Art & Design Celf a dylunio

  12. Lesson Plan for Year 7 Refugee Week (W/C 15th June) You may consider running this over 2 lessons. Lesson/PowerPoint order Introduction: Discuss some ideas of what home means to them. The first few slides show examples with captions to discuss; family, friends, feeling safe, loved, comfy, gardens, furniture, modern technology, good food, pets, pampering, movies, sweets, celebrations, birthdays, leisure activities, music….. Artists inspiring the project: Kurt Schwitters, a collage artist and refugee during World War 2 Becky Adams, a contemporary collage artist based on home related themes Main Task: Design and make the front of their postcard. Students need to write a sentence or 2 about what home means to them and then address the postcard to someone in their family or a close friend. Reflection/plenary: Kurt Schwitters was a refugee. Questions for the students to consider: How would you feel if……1. You had to leave your home?2. Some of your family were left behind?3. You could only take a couple of items with you?4. You were sending your postcard to a loved one from a strange country?5. You didn’t have a choice? End of lesson: Show slides of refugees and explain that sometimes people have to leave their homes through no fault of their own.

  13. What does it feel like to be a refugee? Drama Thought Tracking

  14. (Untitled) In my dreams, I walk among the ruins of the old part of town, looking for a bit of stale bread. My mother and I inhale the fumes of gunpowder I imagine it to be the smell of pies, cakes and kebabs. Edina, 12 English Saesneg

  15. Maths Mathemateg

  16. Geography Daearyddiaeth • Where do refugees in the UK come from? • Push & pull factors • Geography in the News – can we always believe what we see, read or hear? • Quality of life • Case study

  17. Britain, refugees and the Kindertransport History Hanes • What was the Kindertransport? • Source examination and discussion • What were the positive and negative experiences? • Can we make comparisons today?

  18. Refugees in the UK Humanities Skills Watch this clip. Imagine you are Ali. Write a paragraph explaining how you felt on your first day at school • http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/z3r92hv

  19. Journey from Eritrea PE • Orienteering activity around school grounds

  20. Cymraeg • Poetry - A gymri di Gymru? • Numeracy – Refugees in Wrexham • Welcome to Wales

  21. Ysgol Owen Jones

  22. Outcome

  23. English I now know what refugees feel like when they have to leave their home, what they miss and what has stuck in their memory. Everyone should be equal and treated with respect.

  24. What’s the impact? They are taking our jobs Miss! They are only coming over here for “free money” We don’t want them here!

  25. Next steps …Refugee week 2017Primary activitiesDACWGLP-Networks

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