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Internationalising Learning at Leasowes Primary School, Stafford By Sandra Fyfe and Chris Frodsham
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Internationalising Learningat

Leasowes Primary School, Stafford

By Sandra Fyfeand

Chris Frodsham

First steps

•Introduced internationalising learning to all staff in February at an Inset Day

•One focus of the Inset day was updating our behaviour policy and we used the UNICEF rights of the child to explore class charters

•Our second focus was celebrating diversity at our school

•Final focus was planning for the Olympics

The Rights-Respecting School Award

www.rrsa.org.uk

Behaviour policy

• Shared UNICEF Rights of the Child with all the staff

• Agreed to produce a class charter agreeing rights and responsibilities for each class in line with our Behaviour Policy

Reception

• Our school motto is ‘Together we learn, together we grow’ and the children in Reception based their charter around a growing plant.

Year 4

• 4G used ICT to design their display including Rights and Responsibilities.

Year 6 charter

• Rights on the flower• Reponsibilities on the

sun

Other examples

Parental Involvement

• Copies of the Class Charter were sent home to parents inviting comments.

Letters sent to parents

Playground Charter

• Lunchtime supervisors worked with children, teachers and teaching assistants to produce playground charter

• Playground charters were discussed at School Council with Deputy Headteacher

• Meeting organised for this week to agree final playground charter

• Playground charter to be sent home before Easter

Diversity at Leasowes

• Celebration of all children’s backgrounds

• Identified children whose cultural heritage was other than English

• Multicultural assemblies

Use different headings depending

on the target audience

hobbies family

food

heritage

work

beliefs

me

Year 6 Celebrating Diversity

Year 1 working with parents

This is what they produced

David from Nigeria

Leasowes- a family of languages

The Olympics

• Shared the single story on inset day

• Met with PE co-ordinator and planned sports day with an Olympic theme

• Planned cross-curricular half term of work on Olympic theme, to be delivered in second half of summer term

• Conclude with a planned International Day at end of topic


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