1. …seizing opportunities for global learning.
If you put your hand up…
…seizing opportunities for global learning.
Emily Daly, International School Linking Officer
Lindsey Watkins, Head teacher,
Millbrook Primary School – a GLP Wales Lead School

2. Aims:
Show how we can develop global learning for pupils, staff and the wider community by seizing opportunities for global learning.
Show how partnership between ourselves, network schools and ISL Wales has helped to create opportunities for global learning.
Show how this work links with the new professional learning standards for practitioners in Wales.

4. Our Network Schools: Network 1: Pillgwenlly Primary School
St Andrews Primary School
St Woolos Primary School
Crindau Primary School
Malpas Court Primary School
Eveswell Primary School
Maindee Primary School
Maesglas Primary School
Malpas Park Primary School
Lodge Hill Primary School
Network 2:
Duffryn Infant School
Monnow Primary School
Gilfach Fargoed Primary School
Soffryd Primary School
Llanmartin Primary School
Greenhill Primary School
Dewstow Primary School
Cefn Fforest Primary School
Pembroke Primary School
Shirenewton Primary School
Newport High School
Ysgol Panteg
Ysgol Gymraeg Ifor Hael
Ysgol Gymraeg Bro terynon
Llanwern High School
Crumlin High level School
St Josephs Primary School
St Marys Primary School
Ringland Primary

5. Network 1- Focussed on:
curriculum development;
sharing practice, ideas
sharing global connections and opportunities
– worked with Emily Daly on this.
and set up a Global Ambassador network for
students as part of our legacy.
Network 2 – Focussed on:
Global learning ideas at primary and secondary level
Sharing resources and links
Book looks and standards review of global learning
The Geography Quality Mark
How Global learning relates to the new curriculum in Wales

6. Network Global Learning partners: creating opportunities
One of our key Global learning partners through our networks is Emily Daly and her team from International School Linking.
Our networks wanted to learn how to improve their links with schools across the World. We were able to show case how we have established this at Millbrook through our partnership with Emily and her team.
As a result, network schools joined British Council Schools Online, Etwinning and some even submitted their own bids for Key Action 1 and 2 of Erasmus.
Schools within our networks have:
Linked with and visited Romania
Linked with and visited Finland
Linked with and visited Sweden
Linked with and visited Spain
Linked with and visited Germany
Linked with and visited Greece

7. International School Linking What do we do?

8. European Projects
KA1 (staff CPD) current projects
Global Futures
Digital Competence
Top of the League
ALN
Community Education
Inclusion
Working with migrant children
Collaborative Learning
Maths
Science
Wellbeing

9. European Projects
KA2 (partnership programmes) current projects
Learning and Teaching Together
Challenging Extremism
Creative Arts
Culture of Learning
Raising Achievement Together in Europe

10. European Projects
KA2 (partnership programmes) applications 2017
Digital Competence
Robot Dance
NEET
On Your Bike!
Project Based Learning CLIL
Quality Through Equity

11. France Wales Partnerships – Bordeaux and Burgundy
IPLCs
New York
India
Hong Kong
San Francisco …….
Connecting Classrooms
Zambia
Bangladesh
China
Sri Lanka …….

12. Impact of International Linking
Forging student-led partnerships &
embedding work across the curriculum
We partnered with L’ecole de courcelles le gisors in Amiens, France. Together both schools studied World War 1. The children even built a trench within the grounds of our school! This work culminated in a visit to Amiens to meet our French friends and visit the battlefields and graves. We took part in The Centenary of the Somme commemoration.

13. Making friends for life
French & Welsh students became close friends. They studied together and played together. Together the children created their own WWI museum in Amiens.

14. Impact of International Linking 2. Learning a modern foreign Language
We have an on-site Confucius Classroom. This provides us with the resources and expertise to teach Mandarin. To date, over 20 students have gained The Youth Chinese Test qualification
In partnership with The Confucius Institute, Cardiff, we provide whole school workshop opportunities to experience Chinese culture.
The whole school celebrates some key Chinese festivals:
Mid Autumn Festival, Chinese New Year & The Dragon Boat festival.

15. Impact of International Linking
Erasmus Plus KA1 & KA2 successful
collaboration & research
Through our work with Emily and her team with have participated in various KA1 and KA2 collaborations. These have impacted positively on student, staff, family and whole community learning.
Family Engagement Research Project
An example of this is our work with schools in Cardiff, Ferrol in Northern Spain and Warsaw, Poland to research ways to improve family engagement in our schools.
This led to whole school engagement and whole school improvement. Our reading café became a very successful tool to engage parents in reading as a result of this work.
Staff, students , family members benefited from this work and enjoyed collaborating with our international partners.

16. Impact of International Linking
Year groups partnered with a country – global learning embedded across the school
Work has enriched learning opportunities for all, making learning real - this is one of the pedagogical principles that underpin Successful Futures.
Students have been able to make real life connections, learning about other countries and other cultures
Staff professional development has significantly improved. All but one teacher has now embarked on some form of international research.
As a result, the school has improved its practice and provision in a number of areas including: family engagement, outdoor learning, maths provision and pedagogy, historical study, literacy and leadership.
We now have a Confucius classroom – a facility that enables our students to learn Mandarin and to learn about Chinese culture – over 20 have a recognised qualification.
Standards in the school are in the upper quartiles and the school has been identified as “good” in a recent ESTYN inspection.
“Provision for developing pupils’ understanding of global citizenship is highly successful. There are purposeful opportunities to learn about different cultures, particularly about the language and culture of China.” (ESTYN, Nov 2016)

17. Opening windows to The World…

18. Linked to the new professional learning standards for Wales
Improved understanding of pedagogy at a local and national and international level.
“Top of the League” researching leadership in Finland, Poland, Germany and Wales
Pedagogy
Opportunity to collaborate within school, between schools and between countries at all levels.
Values
and dispositions
Collaboration
Leadership
Opportunity to create, change and innovate ideas across the curriculum and the school
Professional
learning
Innovation
Opportunities for staff professional learning at home and abroad
Millbrook Primary School is a Professional learning Pioneer School for Wales.

19. Interested in putting your hand up…?
Emily Daly
International School Linking
Cardiff
Lindsey Watkins
Head teacher
Millbrook Primary School