Presentations

The MDGs featured strongly in the Global Awareness week at Robert Wilkinson Primary School, York (29 Oct.-2 Nov.)

Year 5 a global village

The week began with a KS2 Assembly for over 300 pupils with a guest speaker from the "Global Education Centre", Mick Bradley introduced the 8 Millennium Goals. Other year group teachers attended so they could in turn to introduce the MDG themes in their own classes.

Change the World in 8 steps (MDGs) was the focus for Year 3 classes while Y5 and Y6 classes used the Better by the year website in exploring climate chaos. The whole global week was a great success and this was reported back to school governors.

During the week Assemblies - KS1 Oxfam ,KS2 Mike Bradley Introducing theme to children (All classes started with 8 Millennium goals) Year 3 had workshops with Mike Bradley about where our food comes from. Fair Trade stand run for two days . Each Year group then followed a theme for the week. Celebration Assembly on Friday

Themes used were as follows:
Reception/Year 1/Year2
Your World, Our World (based on Ethiopia, Brazil, Russia and India).

Comparing countries India and Russia year 2 class.

Year 3
Change the World in 8 steps (MDGs)
Mick Bradley ran two workshops exploring the world in my shopping bag

Year 4
The Clothes Line

Year 5/6
Explored Climate Chaos- using these websites

1) teachernet-sustainable schools
2)Better by the year MDGs
3)Carbon Footprint.

Additional themes across the age range (4-11 years):

• Find your way through trade
• The World in my shopping bag
• Speaker from Oxfam
• Fair trade stall

Also planned:

• Friday November 2nd Non-Uniform day to raise funds for OXFAM.
• Mobile Phone collection in school to raise funds Oct 07

Where do we go next?

Plan a theme week annually to build on work covered this year.
On going class discussions re topical issues.
Keep adding to our school resources.

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