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A school in Poole, south of England, have gone global in an exciting and creative week teaching them about the lives and cultures of others and everyone’s amazing world!
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.In assemblies, yet more facts are fired at the children in a friendly manner, and some of which most people are unaware…If the world were a village of 100 people…
61 would be Asian.12 would be European.
1 would be from Oceania.
The first day kicked off with an amazing assembly about the strong message of that week. The children also found out who they were with, and which group they were in. Next the children were whisked to their different classrooms for the morning. The children will be with a range of teachers for two lessons during the week, doing creative activities about different aspects and issues of the world. Though today they will be with their teacher for three lessons, as they complete a “get to know you” session after assembly, where they found out information about each other! Lets find out about how they got on in their activities.
We first caught up with group Egypt and Mali, they were designing an interactive calendar for the school assembly hall. Each square was fifteen by fifteen centimetres. The pupils made pockets out of card, with one pocket for each month, and then each pupil is drawing a symbolic event on a smaller square of card, like the beach for July, or V.E day for May. Teacher, Mr Williams explains:
“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.”
We first caught up with group Egypt and Mali, they were designing an interactive calendar for the school assembly hall. Each square was fifteen by fifteen centimetres. The pupils made pockets out of card, with one pocket for each month, and then each pupil is drawing a symbolic event on a smaller square of card, like the beach for July, or V.E day for May. Teacher, Mr Williams explains:
“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.”Amazing music and dance bellowed from Baden Powell and St Peter’s school hall, we had found groups Egypt and Mali. It actually did feel like Africa! The music and dance was played by children of all ages. Between 15 to 20 children were all sat in a circle and the dances were in the centre of the drummers.
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.
Bethany, aged ten said, “I really like playing the African Drums because I like banging them”. When the children were finished practicing, they had to put the African Drumming and the African dancing together. It was really nice to watch.
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.Bethany, aged ten said, “I really like playing the African Drums because I like banging them”. When the children were finished practicing, they had to put the African Drumming and the African dancing together. It was really nice to watch.
The first day of global week has been a huge success. A pupil called Alex in year six said, “I love the idea of global week because you can have a lot of fun learn new things. Another pupil called Claudia explained that it gave her a chance to meet new people and have a mix around and have a lot of fun.
The school is buzzing and with so many activities still to do, the Ethiopian Enquirer will be keeping you up to date. In tomorrow’s edition will be catching up with history and art activities!!
The school is buzzing and with so many activities still to do, the Ethiopian Enquirer will be keeping you up to date. In tomorrow’s edition will be catching up with history and art activities!!
