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Introduction
Primary Assemblies for the Global Dimension includes 40 primary assemblies for to help you ensure that the global dimension ethos is key to your school’s curriculum. Teach your students about issues that have a global significance, with assemblies that tell stories with strong global messages.
Benefits
Each assembly tells its story in an accessible way, usually through the experience of a person or group of people. Links to SEAL and the five outcomes of empathy, motivation, self-awareness, managing feelings and social skills are also provided.
Summary of contents
Primary Assemblies for the Global Dimension is a brand new publicationof 40 assemblies that draw out theemotional, moral and spiritual aspectsof the stories they tell. In order to dothis, the stories are about people – thestudent on a gap year, the farmertrying to sell his bananas, theinternational artist whose stage is thewhole world. We consider theirproblems, their feelings, the ups-and-downsof their lives.
- Global citizenship
- Conflict resolution
- Diversity
- Human rights
- Interdependence
- Social justice
- Sustainable development
- Values and perceptions.
Chapter breakdown
Mi casa, su casa – celebrating cultural differences
Voices on the bus
Pasties in Peru
Where is home?
The United Nations – the vision of world unity
Pen pals from Bolivia
The globally connected school
Our changing planet
Polar bears and Inuits
Farming in Britain
A fishy tale – the story of cod from John Cabot to today
Flashpoints
Global commodities – oil
Sharing a land boundary
Sharing a sea boundary
Trying to be green
Palm oil and biofuels – the big debate
Disappearing rainforests – the lungs of the world
Global families
Staying in touch – a family brought together by the web
The jet set doctor
Laying fibre optic cable
Learning new languages – and the mistakes we make
Water
Too much water – flooding in the UK
Not enough water – drought in Australia
Digging wells in Africa
Sanitation
Marine debris – Seal Island and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Making a difference
Allotments – growing your own
Fairtrade
The carbon footprint
International jobs
The wildlife cameraman
The film production designer
Advertising in Hong Kong
The gap years
Lang Lang – an international artist
Grand design
Hydroelectric power in Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Tidal energy in Ireland
London Eye
The European Space Agency
Arts and cultures
Sharing art
The Elgin Marbles
Mamma Mia! around the world
From Bhangra to Riverdance
Chicken tikka masala
Details
Print: A4 Ringbound file, 170pp
eBook: 1x PDF eBook
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