1. ESDGC
Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship at Ysgol Griffith Jones

2. ESDGC at Ysgol Griffith Jones
Our journey during 2016
Raising standards, addressing issues
Resources
Impact: Well-being and beyond

3. Our journey during 2016
Entered a PLC with Dyffryn Tâf and cluster primaries
Refugee Project Ks2
Send My Friend to School campaign
Mandarin collaboration with Dyffryn Tâf
The Olympics and bias

4. Refugee project Response to the events of 2016.
Utilising reading and writing behaviours .
Keeping standards at the forefront .
Using the opportunity to address current events and broaden the perspective of pupils.

5. But why did we choose to focus on refugees?

6. Examples of the images the children were being exposed to

7. Examples of the tensions, bias and contradictions the children were being exposed to

8. Oracy Behaviours What we ‘do’ when we talk
Know the purpose of your talk.
Be clear about the audience for your talk.
Select the appropriate vocabulary for your talk.
Understand the role you will undertake in your talk.
Make sure you are demonstrate active listening in talk with others.
Always adapt your language for added impact.
Identify success criteria for the type of talk you are using.
8. Analyse and evaluate your talk to help you target skills which you can improve.

9. Use your 8 Reading Behaviours!
Activate your Prior Knowledge What do you already know?
Self-monitor Make a ‘clunk’ a ‘click’
Question Use your inner voice to ask questions
Analyse and Connect Make links with other texts
Visualise What pictures do you see?
Analyse and Infer Dig for clues/hidden meanings
Analyse and Evaluate Give your opinion
Analyse and Summarise Grab the main points

11. Question Hand Where? When? What? Why? Who? How?
A basic tool to generate accessible questions
How?

12. Question Hand 2 Should? Could? What if? Must? Would? How?
The more advanced question hand uses question stems to generate more open-ended questions – possibilities/ cause and effect
How?

13. Question Generator
A more advanced tool where pupils marry up the question stem with a connecting word/phrase to develop open/high-order questions

15. How did we unearth misconceptions?
Discussion
Question generation
Drama activities such as Hot Seating and Conscience Alley
Debate
AfL techniques

16. How did we address misconceptions?
Sensitivity!
Discussion and acceptance, using the Oracy Behaviours.
Role play.
Evidence collection: reading across print media and screen.
Numeracy tasks.
Discussion of bias.
Active participation in raising awareness of current affairs.

18. The Olympics: an exercise in bias
Used the location of Brazil as an opportunity to discuss bias.
Compared and contrasted official documents, press releases and websites with our own research on Brazil.
Performed numeracy tasks analysing data on performance during a number of Olympic Games.
Analysed and evaluted the relationship between Olympic success and the economic stability of each country.

19. But why did we choose to address bias at all?

20. 2016 was a unique point in our history.

21. Pupil request: Older pupils were discussing the issues.
They seemed confused, but aware of tension regarding both the European Refugee Crisis and the Referendum.
Pupils needed to develop the language and thinking skills to discuss these issues sensitively and in a balanced manner.

22. How did we deal with this sensitively?
By choosing to focus our ‘journey’ into bias on the Olympics!
By reinforcing and implementing the Oracy Behaviours at all times.
By actively taking the role of facilitator and guide and remaining entirely impartial. Not being drawn! And they tried…

23. Recognising Bias
Examples of how we approached bias

24. Estimate How many newspapers are sold daily in the UK?
Examples of numeracy tasks highlighting the importance and influence of print media

25. Sales
The 10 London-based national titles sell an average of 9,540,993 a day.
The 68 English regional dailies (mornings and evenings) together sell 2,085,116. The nine Scottish dailies sell 735,002; the six Welsh sell 183,131; and the three Northern Ireland titles sell 137,230.
Examples of numeracy tasks highlighting the importance and influence of print media

26. Examples of numeracy tasks highlighting the importance and influence of print media

27. Things that don’t suit your argument get left out!
Bias by omission
Things that don’t suit your argument get left out!
Examples of how we approached bias with UKS2 pupils

28. Bias by source choices
Only choosing sources that support your point of view, even though other sources exist in opposition.
Examples of how we approached bias with UKS2 pupils

29. Bias by position
The point of view that you support gets the most exposure. So, if the editor likes a certain idea, it will take the front page.
Examples of how we approached bias with UKS2 pupils

30. Impact: beyond well-being
Anthology of poetry across UKS2
Digital competency tasks using Google Earth
Wide variety of numeracy tasks both as starters and as main tasks, mainly focused on data.
Extended Writing tasks: Discursive/argumentation/recount
Mandarin writing and Dragon Boat Workshop

31. Impact: beyond well-being Summary
Increased opportunities to extend literacy and numeracy alongside the LNF, including extended writing
Some excellent opportunities to create digital competency tasks (Donaldson)
Increased Oracy, Reading and Writing opportunities, including Extended Writing.
Myriad MAT opportunities

32. Rights Respecting Schools: The Award
Standard A: Rights-respecting values underpin leadership and management
Standard B: The whole school community learns about the CRC
Standard C: The school has a rights-respecting ethos
Standard D: Children and young people are empowered to become active citizens and learners
Ties in with RRS

33. Rights Respecting Schools: Impact
98% of headteachers believe that RRSA has had a positive impact on relationships and behaviour.
97% considered that working on RRSA had improved pupil’s respect for themselves and others.
93% considered that RRSA impacted positively on attitudes to diversity and overcoming prejudices.