Equality and Diversity

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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.

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Staff Training

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. 

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Erasmus

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

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

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 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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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'

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.