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Global learning in primary schools

Websites and key resources

Links to websites, and key publications mentioned in the text of the publication Global learning in primary schools can be found here.

Click on the chapter headings below to see the resources for that section.

Introductory section

Key documentation:

The global dimension in action
Use the search facility at www.qca.org.uk

Every child matters
www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/aims

Developing a global dimension in the schol curriculum
www.dfes.gov.uk/publications/guidanceonthelaw/115_00/index.htm

DCSF framework for sustainable schools
www.teachernet.gov.uk/sustainableschools

Guidance on the duty to promote community cohesion in schools
www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/communitycohesion

The learning outside the classroom manifesto
www.teachernet.gov.uk/learningoutsidetheclassroom

The primary review
www.primaryreview.org.uk

The World Classroom – Developing global partnerships in action
www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/world-classroom.pdf

Putting the world into world-class education
Search for policy documents at www.globalgateway.org.uk

Just Linking ~ A handbook for linking schools
Published by Leeds Development Education Centre
ISBN: 9780955003882
Can be obtained from Oxfam Education Website
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education
or from Leeds DEC, email: resources@leedsdec.org.uk

1: Me … my identity and my learning needs

SEAL [Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning]
www.bandapilot.org.uk/primary/

Sustainable schools
www.teachernet.gov.uk/sustainableschools/]

Philosophy for children
www.sapere.net

Reggio Emilia [Italy]
http://zerosei.comune.re.it

Benjamin Zephaniah website
www.benjaminzephaniah.com

Family album ~ photos and activities to explore family issues
Published by Tide~ global learning
Click here for details

Just Linking ~ A handbook for linking schools
Published by Leeds Development Education Centre
ISBN: 9780955003882
Can be obtained from Oxfam Education Website
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education
or from Leeds DEC, email: resources@leedsdec.org.uk

A different story ~ literacy to open up the world at KS2
Published by Tide~ global learning
Click here for details

Start with a story ~ supporting young children’s exploration of issues
Published by Tide~ global learning
Click here for details

See article Using story for details of the story books featured in this section

2: Understanding social connections

ICT climate change project
www.climatechange.wmnet.org.uk

Thinking through climate change
www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/ttcc

Learning outside the classroom manifesto
www.teachernet.gov.uk/learningoutsidetheclassroom

Learning journeys
Published by Language Alive! and Tide~ global learning
Click here for details

3: Understanding commonality
           
QCA Citizenship Unit 5: Living in a diverse world
www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes2/ks1-2citizenship

TFF News Navigator
www.transnational.org/Resources_Media/TNN.html

QCA Geography Schemes of Work
www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes2/geography

A different story ~ literacy to open up the world at KS2
Published by Tide~ global learning
Click here for details

Window by Jeannie Baker
Published by Walker Books
ISBN 9780744594867
www.walker.co.uk

Boy Overboard by Morris Gleitzman
Published by Puffin Books
ISBN 9780141316253
www.puffin.co.uk

Teaching Geography in Primary Schools by Fran Martin
Published by Chris Kington Publishing
ISBN 18999857834
www.teachingexpertise.com/area/geography

From dawn to dusk
Series of non-fiction books set in various countries
Published by Frances Lincoln
http://www.franceslincoln.com/index.php?page=results&biccode=656&c=1

Water issues ~ local & global
Published by Tide~ global learning
Click here for details

4. Understanding interdependence

Sustainable schools doorways
www.teachernet.gov.uk/sustainableschools/framework/framework_detail.cfm

Writing our past
Published by Tide~ global learning
Click here for details

Jamaica ~ out of many, one people
Published by Tide~ global learning
Click here for details

5: Understanding participation

GLOBE programme
www.globe.org.uk

Water Maths
www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/water_for_all

Thinking through climate change
www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/ttcc

Environmental footprints
www.footprintnetwork.org

Nek Chand’s rock garden
www.clt.astate.edu/elind/nc_main.htm

Plastic carrier bags
www.environ.ie/en/Environment/Waste/PlasticBags

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_shopping_bag

Case studies on zero waste
www.zeri.org

House made of recycled tyres
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3655022.stm

‘Earthship’  homes
www.greenhomebuilding.com/earthship.htm

Wastewatch
www.wastewatch.org.uk

Climate change ~ local & global
Published by Tide~ global learning
Click here for details

21st century debates: Waste, recycling and reuse by Rob Bowden
Published by Hodder Wayland
ISBN: 978 0 7502 3819 9
www.waylandbooks.co.uk

Global learning ~ key resources

The global dimension in action
~ A curriculum planning guide for schools, QCA 2007
Use the search engine at www.qca.org.uk

Global dimension website
www.globaldimension.org.uk

Oxfam education website
www.oxfam.org.uk/education

Geographical Association website
www.geography.org.uk

Trentham Books 
www.trentham-books.co.uk

Teaching Geography in Primary Schools by Fran Martin
Published by Chris Kington Publishing
ISBN 18999857834
http://sharedweb.srv.poptel.org.uk/chriskingtonpublishing/index.html

Here, there and everywhere ~ belonging, identity and equality in schools
by Robin Richardson
Published by Trentham Books
ISBN: 9781858563435
www.trentham-books.co.uk

Young children & global citizenship
Published by Tide~ global learning
Click here for details

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