Global poverty and social justice
Whilst completing a pupil assessment for our International Schools Award we earnt £500 worth of e-crecits to spend on training through the Global Learning Programme (GLP). We are planning to use this funding by staff completing the Global Teacher Award - level 1. We were then offered the chance to apply for further funding and Mrs Ash and Mr Patchell were successful in gaining a grant from the Global Learning Programme. As part of the Global Learning Programme (GLP) for England, they wanted to provide additional funding to enable GLP schools to continue to develop global learning within their own school, and with other schools and their local community. The project was based on a particular understanding of global learning and development education: the critical examination of global issues and the roles that individuals and communities can play in reducing global poverty, within a framework of social justice.
Our project:
In addition to the embedded global work we already do within our curriculum, we wanted to develop pupils global learning within the local community, combining with other schools in the future. Specifically, we wanted the pupils to have an understanding of how poverty is not just in our local area, but a global issue and how their actions can help to reduce this. In turn this will help promote a greater awareness in Southampton schools of poverty and sustainability. Our project will achieve this by giving pupils the opportunity to see first-hand the impact of growing their own produce, the impact of sustainability, building food crates in a DT lesson, a week of poverty on a global scale in Breakfast Club, an assembly and giving the produce to a local shelter - The Society of St James.
This all culminated with our output at the school fete and handing over our first batch of produce from the allotment to The Society of St James. As a school we look forward to building on links we have made during this project and expanding it to the wider Southampton commnity during the next academic year.
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| The Shelter receiving our first patch of produce - rhubarb crumbles |
