International News
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Thousands of miles across the world, there is a small country called England. In this country, there is a school called Baden Powell and St Peter’s Middle School. Students there are doing something called Global Week.
They even have a particular activity called the hot off the press, where children interview other children from different groups and find out what there thoughts are on Global Week. Each class has been split up into different groups, the groups are given a name of a country from Africa like Libya, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Cameroon and much more!Angola has been doing some singing called ‘The School Anthem’ and they have enjoyed what they have done so far. There is another group who have been creating useful objects out of recycled materials.
Others were being taught about children’s rights, they were finding it very interesting at how many rights children have! Here are what some of the reporters had to say:
Go Green
The music that bellowed from the science lab was simply astonishing. As we walked through the doors into the group of Angola the children were hard at work, we were inspired. Amelia, ten years of age said,“we are doing the Go Green activity and have to make a song that we sing for the school anthem”.
Louis commented, “I would give my work nine and three quarters out of ten”.
As I moved on to group Niger, I found out that they were also doing the Go Green activity but they were finding out about what things are thrown away. Chris, a 11 year old commented, “I like my work because it is imaginative and amusing, and I would not change anything about my work, I also like this activity because it is challenging”.
Inventions whizzed by as we interviewed the children. Harry invented a shoe box hamster cage, Amelia made a flower pot into a pet bath! “The activity has really made me think about recycling things more often!” said Amelia.
We then moved to group Angola. Alex thought that it was really fun. She told me that they got the ideas from what they feel bad about, like global warming and racism. “I wouldn’t change anything but we could have made it louder. I would give it nine out of ten.”
Laila said that she had fun doing the school anthem because she likes singing and she thought that it was a great bonus. She revealed that there were two men doing the recording for the Angola group.
I then interviewed Shahina aged 11, also doing the school anthem, “We have to take the lyrics like Global warming from London’s burning and then sing it, I really liked watching the two men play a bow and arrow like an instrument.”
Let’s Talk About it
A group of approximately 31 children aged 8 to 12 have been making posters on essential children rights with year six leader Mr. Godfrey and French teacher Miss Evans. I interviewed an 8 year old girl from group Namibia called Shannon, she explained that she has really enjoyed her activity because she was eager to learn about what is actually happening in our world. She strongly believes that all countries in the world should have equal amounts of money instead of some countries being poor and some having more money than they need.
A group of approximately 31 children aged 8 to 12 have been making posters on essential children rights with year six leader Mr. Godfrey and French teacher Miss Evans. I interviewed an 8 year old girl from group Namibia called Shannon, she explained that she has really enjoyed her activity because she was eager to learn about what is actually happening in our world. She strongly believes that all countries in the world should have equal amounts of money instead of some countries being poor and some having more money than they need.
Another boy, called William, liked the activity because it was very fun and interesting. Overall the whole group liked this activity and would like to do it again another time!
What do they think?
So lets find out what the children think of global week and whether they are enjoying it. Lottie, age 12, from group Namibia said, “it is great fun but a bit tiring. A boy aged 9, called Jacob in Mr Godfrey’s group commented, “I think global week was a good idea because it is useful to learn about different lifestyles and it is very fun, it’s better than the normal timetable”.
So it seems that the children of BPSP have had a great week, some of the events that have been taken part in, are going to be performed at the school fete. This includes the African, and Caribbean dancing and singing they have been doing. The students will also be wearing some of the clothes that they have made, the girls will be wearing skirts and Bandanas and the boys will wear a sash and a bandana. We believe that the whole week has been a success and that the children have enjoyed learning about other countries.
Frankie said that she had learnt how much we take clean water for granted and she never really realised how much water she uses every day. She found working with different people quite fun even though they kept spilling water all over 
Maddi in year seven said, “It was really fun, I really enjoyed it because we got to get mucky!” Carl was asked what his most challenging activity was: “the one I’m doing now, printing!” Daniel in year seven was asked about his easiest activity, “printing on skirts and bandanas was easy but it was also very good fun”.
Global week proved to be a winner with the pupils, Sam from Year Six said, “Global week is much better then normal lessons”.
The aim of global week is to teach the school pupils, and teachers, about the world they live in, and it expresses the population, and how to prevent global warming.
“It works by having 31 pockets, and we’ve been creating images, to go in those pockets, so what we will have is a folder, and for example when it comes to July, we can choose all the images we like and they should fit in the date pockets, so hopefully, between mine and Miss Stutely’s class we will have plenty of images to go inthe pockets 1 to 31.”A pupil at Baden Powell School, Jamie said, “I think it ties in with global week because it gives you all the special days like American Independence day”. Another Pupil said, “My favourite part was making the pictures for the calendar.” Eliana explained, “ The interactive calendar has a pocket for each day of the month. I have really enjoyed this.”
One pupil age 12 said,” I have really enjoyed learning about the different ways that drums in Africa are played, especially the patterns and rhythms”. Also she liked the idea of global week because she likes to learn about other religions other then her own. She said she was happy with the group she was in because all the years are mixed so she gets to know a lot more people then she knew already.
