Equality and Diversity
Global Learning Long Term Overview 2021-2022
Erasmus KA2 Culture, Curriculum and Communication 14th June 2021 Staff Training
Global Learning Monitoring:
- Autumn 1, 2020
- Autumn 2, 2020
- Spring 1, 2021
- Spring 2, 2021
- Summer 1, 2021
- Summer 2, 2021
International Schools Award
Fantastic News! - We have successfully gained re-accreditation of our International School Award 2019-2022!
This involved us providing evidence to show that our international ethos is integrated in all areas of learning, alongside completing a range of International projects. We received some really positive feedback from our external assessor.
The collaborative activities all work well the first two really helping to answer some of these bigger questions for pupils, which your curriculum thrives upon.
Your third activity linked with the Polish schools gives a real opportunity for those pupils in Year 5 to have a purpose for writing but also to be able to verbally explain to visitors - a very enriching activity for all involved. Well done for being able to access KA1 funding to develop French language teaching this will hopefully have a long term benefit and although you explain that next year there will be more cultural aspects it can only be assumed that the topics covered will have explored some of the cultural similarities and differences.
Your celebration of your joint heritage and your use of World Book Day are empowering for the different groups within the school and that confidence building and inclusive element will last longer than the activities. It is great that you have also been able to involve your school and wider community.
Your final activity really builds on the understanding you would have developed whilst being a GLP Network school and is one that pupils really embrace, again good use of literature to create a more cross curricula feel to the activity and that the pupils were able to promote Eco School.
You have worked hard to continue with your ambassadorial role following on from GLP and this will have been a great help to the other schools in your Erasmus project.
The perspective obviously permeates your school , through the appointment of multilingual teachers to the recognition and respect you give your whole school population and your encouragement to develop critical thinking through the P4C. Good luck with the second year of your Erasmus project and keep giving your pupils a real sense of the extended world. Congratulations to all involved!"
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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 21st March (the actual day was Sunday 20th).
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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Year 6
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 - 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.
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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ClimateChange
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'.
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.
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 14th 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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Curriculum, Culture and Communication
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.
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.
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