International Schools Award

Music from around the World

The children in Year 3 and 4 have enjoyed participating in some Samba drumming with an external provider who has visited the school as part of our work on exploring different types of music from around the world.

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Our Polish friends have written to us again!!!

The children in Y6 were excited to receive another parcel from our Polish partners.

This time it was a booklet that the children had made to tell them about their town and local area.

This made our children even more curious about their friends and wish they could go and visit them.

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World Water Day

The children in Year 6 had a virtual visit for World Water Day where they learnt about how water is being wasted and what we could do to change that, for example: take 4 minute showers, only boil kettle for how many cups you need, turn taps off when brushing teeth. The children made posters to display around school to ‘spread the word’ about the importance of saving water and act as a reminder to all.

Two pupils them felt so strongly about this issue that they produced posters in their lunch break to increase awareness within our school community.

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World Water Day

Celebrating our wonderful hertitage and supporting our children with English as an Additional language - E-pens

Thanks to some funding from the Rotary club we have purchased some more e-pens. These are a fantastic resource for supporting our children with English as an Additional Language.

Teachers have commented that the use of the pens alongside the dictionaries have impacted on pupil ‘engagement in class through development of their key word vocabulary’ and using with them non-fiction books has increased their ‘exposure to a range of languages and multi-cultural stories’.

They provide a nurturing opportunity as listening to a story in their home language gives them a feeling of comfort. ‘Providing other children to listen to a story in another language leads to empathy with our EAL pupils’. Through ‘exposure of the other language the children will develop an interest in Geography and will be curious to find out where these countries are in the world’.

It has also provided staff with the opportunity to develop their vocabulary and pronunciation of key vocabulary in different languages’. Thus supporting teachers with ‘language of the moment’ discussions.

Our headteacher describes the use of these e-pens as having a huge impact on the development of ‘survival language’ for our new to English speakers.

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National French Day 2022

As a celebration of the French language work we complete in school, and to provide the children with the opportunity to find out about French culture and traditions we celebrated ‘National French Day on Monday 21^st March (the actual day was Sunday 20^th).

During this day children tasted French food, which they ordered in French, listened to music by French composers, completed art images in the style of Monet, took part in a French orienteering activities and creating fact files using a range of information sources. The children also had the chance to celebrate their achievements in French through being recorded speaking French.

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National French Day

The Big BK Dig

On Thursday 24th April we had five willing workers to help out with the 'Big Dig.'

We dug out some beds at the front of the school, for the children to plant wild flower seed. This will support the Eco Club in their aim to encourage more wildlife to the school.

A special thank you to the Rotary Club volunteers for your help and support. It was hard work but it will be well worth it!

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BK Big Dig

International Project - Small steps to solving a big problem - KS1 Eco Club

The focus for KS1 Eco club this year is looking after our local wildlife through the seasons. During the Autumn term, pupils began by planting insect friendly bulbs around the school, in preparation for the Spring, and to encourage a variety of insects into our school environment. A number of different wildlife habitats have also been placed around the school, including bug hotels, log piles, bird boxes and a hedgehog house. Pupils are aware that these are necessary to protect different species during the colder Winter months. Bird feeders and bird baths have been located, which the children replenish with food and water regularly. In addition, the children made their own pinecone fat balls that they hung from the trees in the woodland area, within the school, and have monitored how popular they have been.

During the Spring term, wild flower seed will be sown by the pupils, in our new school wildflower area, where pupils will be able to monitor the variety of insects that visit. Throughout the year, Eco club have also been engaged with litter picking and the pupils understand how important it is for the wildlife to keep our environment safe and clear from litter pollution.

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KS1 Eco Club

International Schools Award Project - Learning a language together

Learning a language together

Along with introducing a new French scheme, 'Language Angels', we have made contact with a local secondary school who are willing to support us to prepare our KS2 children for KS3 French lessons. This is an exciting opportunity and will provide scope for the shaping and sharing of grammar, phonics and vocabulary between both settings.

Happiness Partner Project

This week we received a fantastic video sent from our wonderful partner School in Italy. It is full of fantastic pictures which the children drew to describe being 'happy'. Please take the time to watch the video. Our children really enjoyed talking about the children's pictures and comparing them to their own drawings.

Happiness project - 01.03.2022

The children in Reception commented on the amazing details in the drawings completed by the children in the Italian school.

After watching both presentations the children in Reception, who had previously made and drawn happiness jars, wanted to produce their own pictures like the ones from the Italian children. Here are some examples.

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Happiness Project

Mother Language Day -21st February 2022

During 'Mother Language Day' the children in KS2 completed fact files about their mother language to share with other children.

The children in Early Years and Year 1 were filmed saying ‘hello’ in their home language and together we found their countries of origin on a globe.

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Mother Language

Celebrating our Wonderful Unique Heritage

The children in Early Years have been celebrating Chinese New Year through tasting chinese food, exploring chinese writing, making lanterns, enjoying chinese dragon dances, listening to stories about chinese culture, using chopsticks in the role play restaurant and watching programmes about how people celebrate Chinese New Year.

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Chinese New Year

Taking small steps towards solving a big problem

As part of this project our Year 6 pupils wrote letters to several national companies and the Prime Minister regarding the impact that plastic packing is having on the planet. We were delighted to receive very prompt replies. The children have written to the children in one of our partner schools in Poland suggesting the they do the same.

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International project - What makes you happy?

We are delighted to have had a really quick response from our partner school in India. Please take the time to look at the fantastic powerpoint which illustrates what 'happiness' means to the children and families at Mongrace Montessori House and Daycare Centre. We look forward to showing this to our children in Early Years and hearing their thoughts.

'Happiness' by the Mongrace Montessori House

Connecting Classrooms project

Although this project has come to an end, and has unfortunately been quite disrupted by the Global pandemic, we have still managed to develop a very positive relationship with our partner school. We therefore intend to continue this partnership through ISA (International Schools Award) projects and the exchanging of work/photos once all children are back in the classroom.

International Schools Award project - 'Taking small steps towards solving a big problem'

The children in Year 6 have been learning about the COP26 conference that took place in Glasgow at the end of October. They have used their research to create powerpoints which have been sent to one of our partner schools in Poland. We are looking forward to hearing their thoughts and ideas about Climate change.

The children are now starting to consider ways in which they can make a difference. They have created posters and have been litter picking within the school grounds.

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International Schools Award project - Polish penpals!

The children in Poland were very excited to receive our letters and have immediately written back. The children now have their own personal penpal with whom they have exchanged several letters. These pictures are of the children in Poland holding their most recent letter from their penpal at Bishop King and then holding their responding letter.

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Pen Pals

International Schools Awards partner project - What makes you happy?

The children have explored the word 'happiness' through discussions, drawings and a story. We have shared our work with our partner schools in India and Italy.

We were very excited to receive this presentation from our partner school in India. We will be looking at it with the children during the Spring term when we will exchange some more work and ideas.

World Hello Day - 2021

As in previous years World Hello Day was a huge success, providing children from many nationalities with the opportunity to learn about different countries and share some of their own heritage.

Children from each class have explored the culture and traditions of a chosen country. This is either a country from which a child originates or their class topic. As this event is about bringing people together, we invited governors to come and celebrate with us. All participants say ‘hello’ to as many people as possible in their chosen language.

During the event a film was created of learning that has taken place in each class. This provides children with the opportunity to learn about the countries which were focused on by other classes.

Please see the attached films and powerpoints to find out more. Details of every class' learning is also on this terms' Global Learning monitoring document.

Whole School Celebration Days

As part of our International ethos we will be celebrating the following International Days throughout the school.

Friday 19th November - World Hello Day

Monday 21st March - French Language Day

Tuesday 21st June - World Music Day

International Schools Award - 2021/2022

We are currently in the process of applying for the reaccreditation of our International School Award. This Year, 2021/22, our International projects are:

Small Steps to solve big problem – an environmental project with one of our partner schools in Poland. Focusing on the Sustainable Development Goals and Picture News the children will work together to identify environmental issues and look at ways of having a positive impact on these, however small.
What make you happy? – an Early Years/Key Stage One project with two partner schools. One in Italy and the other in India. Children to exchange pictures, images and films about being happy.
Penpals – working with one of the Polish partner schools from our most recent Erasmus KA2 project, alongside another Polish school and our Connecting Classroom partner school in Uganda. Children to exchange cultural information through letters.
Learning a language together – embedding a new French scheme into the Key Stage 2 curriculum whilst working with local Secondary schools to ensure children are ready for KS3. As well as a French Day which will be an opportunity to find out about French culture, as well as provide KS2 with opportunity to share learning and prepare KS1 for learning French in KS2.
Celebrating our wonderful, unique heritage – celebrating our multicultural community in a variety of ways, thus ensuring children are given the opportunity to share their culture as well as find out about the culture and traditions of their peers.
Music from around the world – exploring music from a wide variety of countries through ‘composer of the month’, our current music scheme ‘Charanga’ and external providers. This will lead to a concert on ‘World Music Day’ in June.
Human rights – using Sustainable Development Goals and the convention of ‘The rights of a child’ to identify the differences and similarities between children’s daily lives around the world and how this links to human rights.

Erasmus KA2 Culture, Curriculum and Communication.

This project has come to an end. Although it was a shame that the global pandemic has impacted on the project, in terms of travel, you can see from the documents below that the children of Bishop King and other partner schools have still benefitted greatly from participating.

Children from Bishop King said that:

'It gave them a purpose to use their first language'.

Teachers from partner schools in Poland commented about the

'friendly atmosphere, mutual respect, celebration of personal culture of each child, behaviour and smiling staff' when visiting Bishop King. They described it as an 'inspirational school and experience, which broadened horizons and impacted on their knowledge of teaching methods in the UK'.

KA2 Project Evaluation

Polish Newsletter

KA2 Project Leaflet

Erasmus KA2 Culture, Curriculum and Communication

Due to our children and staff not being able to travel to Poland for the last 2 mobilities of this project, children from all 6 schools have taken part in a virtual mobility.

For this the children at Bishop King created a virtual tour of the school.

Click here to view our Virtual Tour

Global Learning - Staff Training

During staff training on the 16th June 2021 staff were reminded of the different strands of Global Learning in BK.

1. Knowledge of the wider world

2. Awareness of other cultures and their similarities and differences

3. Knowledge of recent news events from around the world

They were all reminded of the list of website which contain a wide range of activities and resources eg. Global dimensions, Fairtrade, Risc, Global Learning and Global Goals.

The all, in year group teams, completed a Global themed activity on their table and shared it with the rest of the staff.

In order to ensure that our Intent statement reflected the whole school community. The staff completed an activity where they wrote about what skills, knowledge and values they thought a ‘Global Learner’ should have.

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Staff Training

Erasmus KA2 – Culture, Curriculum and Communications

As part of our Erasmus KA2 – Culture, Curriculum and Communications staff from two partner schools delivered some training to all 6 partner schools on Monday 14^th June.

One of the Polish schools delivered a fantastic powerpoint about returning to school after the National Lockdown. This was really interesting. Their focus was completely on the well-being of all pupils. There were no tests and won’t be for the rest of the year. Classes were more interactive, more outdoor learning/activities and a big focus on all being together. They discussed how they had changed during Lockdown and how they felt about seeing their friends again. They had several large trips with children from different classes all going together. These involved a big bike ride, visits to trampoline parks, campfire trips, theme parks, the cinema and sleepovers.

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Penpals - Erasmus project 'Communication. Culture and Curriculum'

Due to the Global pandemic we have been unable to complete the final two mobilities from this project. In order to maintain contact during this challenging time the children have exchanged letters with other children from all three schools in Poland. We plan to complete a virtual mobility in May to finalise the project and ensure all aims are met.

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Penpals

Connecting Classrooms

This is a collaborative project which involves pupils from Bishop King and our partner school, Gombe Standard Primary in Uganda, exchanging work and ideas focused on Global issues through activities agreed by both schools.

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Connect

Multicultural Books

We feel that, in order to develop our childrens' understanding of the wider world and their place within it, it is vital to expose them to a wide range of both fiction and non-fiction books from other countries and cultures. These are some of the ones we have focused on during the Autumn term.

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MultiCultural Books

The World - Nursery

The children in Nursery have made images that represent the world using pipettes and ink on material. They talked about the green bits being where people live and the blue the water where animals live.

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World

World Hello Day - November 2020

World Hello Day 2020

World Hello Day has been a great success again this year with children learning about a wide range of countries, cultures and traditions. As usual all classes chose a country from which someone in their class originated. The countries chosen included Mexico, Poland, Spain, Italy and Vietnam.

Due to the current global situation all activities took place within the classrooms and have been shared virtually. Key Stage 2 classes have made some fantastic films to show what they learnt about their chosen country whilst Early Year and Key Stage one used Google classroom to say hello to each other in their countries language.

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World Hello Day 2020

Language of the month - Lithuanian.

Chinese New Year 2020

Children in Early Years enjoyed dressing in traditional Chinese outfits while they used their fine motor skills to explore chopsticks in the role play. They also had a go at writing some Chinese symbols, listened to a story about a Little Chinese boy who loved noodles, tasted traditional Chinese food, made up dragon dances, made money pockets and watch film clips about how people celebrate Chinese New Year.

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Chinese new year

World Hello Day - 21st November 2019

World Hello Day is celebrated on the 21st November every year. At Bishop King it is an important day in our school calendar. It focuses on bringing people together through using language and communication to break down boundaries and resolve conflict. We use it as an opportunity to not only learn about new cultures but celebrate our diverse community.

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WorldHelloDay

Environment Project

Think Globally, Act Locally.

The aims of this project were to increase awareness of current environmental issues. Through a range of activities, the children have developed an understanding of ways they can help the environment as individuals, as a school, in their community and throughout their home life. Therefore broadening the children’s knowledge and understanding of current global environmental issues and hopefully encouraging the children to think more about their own carbon footprint. The project started on World Environment Day on the 5th June 2019 but will continued well beyond the planned month of June. It has definitely been seen as a turning point for change throughout the school with all staff members and children making small changes in their everyday lives. We have been so inspired by the work completed that we are now applying to become an Eco-school. Finally through developing their geographical awareness of issues facing different parts of the world they will develop as Global citizens.

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Environment Project

'Curriculum, Culture and Communication' Project

02/05/2019 - Four members of staff travelled to Elblag in Poland as part of the Erasmus KA2 project 'Culture, Curriculum and Communication'. During their trip they took part in lessons, learnt about the Polish key text for the project 'The Baker Boy', visited a museum to find out about Polish local culture and traditions, were provided with the opportunity to practise some Polish and carried out risk assessments in preparation for our children travelling over in May.

21/01/19 - This week we welcomed teachers from our 3 partner schools in Elblag Poland as part of the project 'Curriculum, Culture and Communication'. During their time with us they listened to a presentation about the school and enjoyed a lengthy tour, during which they spoke to children and staff in detail about school routines, environment, curriculum and behavioural expectations. They were incredibly impressed by all aspects of our school, particularly pupil behaviour. The children who originate from Poland very enthusiastically took the lead and confidently spoke to the teachers, in their home language, about school life.

Over the next two years Bishop King is involved in a really exciting project with St Peters at Gowts Primary School, Monks Abbey Primary School and three Primary schools in Elblag, Poland. The project is entitled Culture, Curriculum and Communication and involves teachers and children from the Lincoln schools travelling to Poland. Today, 10th January, the children from all three Lincoln schools, who will travel to Poland this year, spend the afternoon getting to know each other and preparing for the Polish teachers visit on the 21st January. They took part in 'getting to know you' activities, made International Ambassador profiles and created Lincoln Castle fact files for the Polish teachers to use during their visit to the castle.

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Polish Visitors 2019

This week we hosted some children and teachers from Poland as part of our Erasmus KA2 project 'Culture, Curriculum and Communication'. Our children and Polish visitors had a fantastic time visiting Sherwood forest to learn about Robin Hood, walking to the South Common to draw the Lincoln Cityscape, making collaborative flags based on both National flags, working in pairs to make comic strips and completing lots of team building games.

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Polish Visitors

Story of 'The Birth of Lord Krishna'

This year we shared information about 'how we celebrate Christmas' with our partner school in Ghana. The children sent each other Christmas cards and films clips of traditional songs. We sent them a film of our Lower Key Stage Two Nativity play and images showing the tradition of making Christingles. In response they sent us clips of the Story of 'Krishna'. The children in Bishop King tried some traditional Christmas food from different countries and some of our children spoke to the local press about how they celebrate Christmas in their country of origin, Poland.

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Story of 'The Birth of Lord Krishna'

EYFS - Ghana Project

The children in Early Years have been collaborating with a school in Ghana with the aim of introducing our children to different types of homes from around the world. The project involved both children from Bishop King and Mongrace Montessori House in New Town, Kolkata creating images, listening to stories and singing songs relating to their homes. Initially they drew, painted and created models of their own homes to stimulate discussion about the similarities and differences. They then linked their discussions to the traditional tale from their home country. The Bishop King children used the story 'The Three Little Pigs' and sent pictures they had drawn along with films of the children re-telling the story with actions. In return the other school sent a story about homes for our children to listen to. Through this project the children have become more aware and interested in the wider world from a very real perspective.

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Ghana Project

World Hello Day 2018

During the week leading up to National ‘World Hello Day’ the children have been celebrating our wonderful multi-cultural community. Children from each class explored the culture and traditions of a chosen country. This was either a country from which a child within the class originates or their class topic. As this event is about bringing people together it was fantastic to see so many family members and visitors from our local community, including the Mayor, come into the hall to celebrate. The market stalls on which each class presented food, artefacts, images, information learnt and flags showed a great depth of learning. All children and visitors said ‘hello’ to as many people as possible in their chosen language. Both the EYFS/KS1 and the KS2 end of the event celebration where all children came together to say ‘hello’ in their class’ chosen language, performs songs and share something they have learnt were fantastic. Visitors spoke incredibly positively about the event and the children are all looking forward to learning about other cultures throughout the year through activities such as acknowledging National days, saying the register in different languages, learning about cultures in topic work and reading books from around the world.

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World Hello Day 2018

First News

We use First News as a fantastic way of making our lessons meaningful and linked to current events from around the world.

At Bishop King we take every opportunity to celebrate our International community. We currently have 29 different nationalities in school and we aim to celebrate all of these by acknowledging their National Day. We learn to say 'Hello' in their prominent language and find out simple facts about the country.

Bishop King Collaborates with Mongrace

We have recently been working with the Mongrace Montessori House school in India on a range of projects to support them with their International Schools Award. We received this wonderful email from them:

Hello Chris and the wonderful Bishop King CE Primary school Team in Lincoln....
Thanks to each one of you for collaborating / helping with the collaboration...
The Mongrace Team is overwhelmed with your response...co operating with us in whatever way you could...
Sharing with you the Project Display we had recently..
We showcased all our ISA Projects...at our Annual Exhibition where we showcase the Montessori way of Learning.

Polish and Spanish Teachers Visit Bishop King

Today we have welcomed some Polish and Spanish teachers to Bishop King with a focus on how we teach reading and phonics. They came as part of a project with Branston Junior school and spent time observing phonics lessons in both KS1 and Receptions as well as a tour of the school. They had many questions and were incredibly complimentary and positive about the school. The Polish speaking children really enjoyed talking to the teachers and sharing their learning.

French Teachers Visit

Some French Primary School teachers visited our school with Chris Williams. They were completing a project focused on Science within the classrooms. During their visit they had lunch, visited many classrooms, watched a Year 5 Science lesson and asked about our curriculum, both Science and as a whole. They were very complimentary about our school and the learning behaviours of our children.

World Hello Day 2017

This was a celebration of the countries that children in our school come from including England, Poland, Latvia and India. Each class focused on a different country learning to say hello, making delicious food, doing research about customs and traditions and much more. There work was shared with more than 150 parents and special visitors, including the Mayor, local MP and PCSO on Friday afternoon in the hall, and of course the children were there to say hello in their chosen countries language and to hand out the various dishes.

Equality and Diversity