New Resources
A Good practice Guide to Whole School Linking
This practical guide will enable you to independently establish a link in your school or help you find an organisation who will support and work with you. It is also a guide to best practice that will encourage you to consider the complex and potentially mutually empowering relationship you build with your partner school and how to sustain it. This book will hopefully enable the reader to go some way to reflect upon the fundamental inequalities that exist between schools in the North and South.
Water Issues – Local and Global
This resource shares ideas about using water issues as a way of exploring sustainable development. It includes a set of sixteen A4 colour photographs which raise questions about water issues in different places all over the world, plus this handbook a handbook which outlines a range of practical classroom activities. the teachers who developed the resource found that water provides a tangible starting point for upper primary children to explore their world and its 'everyday complexity'.
Food and Farming – Local and Global
How does the food we eat tie in to lives and places in our country and all over the globe? How can we effectively engage children in the 'everyday complexity' of live issues about food and farming? This resource has been devised by West Midlands teachers to share ideas about this debate, including practical examples of classroom practice. With an introduction by Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo, full colour photographs and photocopiable classroom materials, it aims to stimulate lively teaching and learning about these questions.
Climate Change – Local and Global
We all know climate change is a looming global issue which is growing in size and significance. We also know that there are huge debates about the science involved, what it means, and what we can do. This resource has been developed by teacher groups in the West Midlands, as a framework which enables children's enquiry into these complex issues. It can be used to support enquiry into various sustainable development themes.
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