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Disciplined Innovation in Primary curriculum planning

Exploring an approach using Citizenship with History and Geography.

Case Study

Children at Halterworth School have been learning about the Earth's resources and climate change. Working with a local sustainability group, the children launched a campaign to reduce the use of plastic bags in their community. Inspired by the children's work, teachers developed the project as a focus for geography and citizenship in the curriculum. Children went on to design bags and commission a fair trade company in the Pondicherry region of India to produce them.

Halterworth Primary Citizenship education film from the QCDA from Association for Citizenship on Vimeo.

A film describing the active Citizenship education work on pupils at Halterworth school. This film was made for the QCDA resources to support the introduction of the Rose Review curriculum.

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The Big Picture of the Primary Curriculum 2010

Uploaded : 19 March 2010

Filename : bigpicture_pri_04_tcm8-157420.pdf ( 443 K )

Description : Thinking about the Primary curriculum-the Big Picture