Respect My World/Country

 

Everyone has a different background. You may have been born in another country, or perhaps your parents or another relative was. Using a map of the World and British Isles, locate countries where children have been on holiday, where family live abroad or have come to Britain. 

 

POSSIBLE ACTIVITIES:
 

• Class family heritage audit – talking homework – ask parents about family origins.

• Whole school family heritage audit – tick list of where parents/grandparents come from. Audit across the classes. 

• Use information to create a family tree using ICT textease template or 2simple 2connect. 

• World celebration – investigate different foods you’d find in a supermarket and discuss their place of origin (talking homework). Record findings back in class on world map.

• International food day – invite people from school community to present food from their traditions or perhaps visit local authentic pizza parlour!

• Create a We are Britain collage. Draw a body outline on a role of paper. Colour different sections of this body to look like flags or pictures of food, objects, places to show the countries that you are connected to or have an interest in. 

• Discover festivals of light e.g. Chinese Moon Festival, Christmas, Diwali. Use poem “Festival Candles” by Brenda Williams.  Take advantage of children in school who practise different religions and ask to share their experiences and knowledge.

• Create a faith display – Share and Compare e.g. Diwali and Christmas. Read e-book Special Days Poems which features poems from across all cultures. 

• Play music from across different cultures in the classroom whilst carrying out activities.

 

SUGGESTED QUESTIONS:

Where were you born? Were your parents born in the same place?

Do you know where our town is on the map of the British Isles?

Where have you been on holiday? Do you know where that is on the map/globe?

Do you know where different foods come from?

When do you celebrate special days?

 

Thinking Skills
 

ENQUIRY

• Use techniques to collect and organise information

• Ask relevant questions

• Ask and answer questions, select and record relevant information

• Use a range of data gathering techniques

• Ask different types of questions and decide how to find answers
 

PROBLEM SOLVING

• Consider a range of possible solutions

• Ask questions and record information relevant to the problem
 

CREATIVE THINKING

• Ask ‘why’, ‘how’, ‘what if’ or unusual questions

• Reflect critically on ideas, actions and outcomes

• Respond to ideas, tasks and problems in surprising ways

• Make connections and see relationships

• Reflect critically on ideas, actions and outcomes
 

INFORMATION PROCESSING

• Understand what is relevant information

• Know where to find information

• Talk about and recognise similarities

• Use first hand experiences and simple information sources to answer questions

• Summarise information

• Record information using a given format or a format they have devised
 

REASONING

• Explain what they have done and why and the conclusions they have reached as a result

• Predict and anticipate events

• Recognise and challenge assumptions

• Use the language of similarity and difference

• Offer evidence to support reasoning
 

EVALUATION

• Draw on a range of evidence sources to support evaluation

• Express their own views, opinions and preferences

 

RESOURCES

Poem “Festival Candles” by Brenda Williams (aknowledgement - Brenda Williams/ www.scholastic.co.uk/junioredplus
direct link- http://education.scholastic.co.uk/resources/51828

World Map

Map of British Isles

Special Days Poems – oxford owl

Music from audio network plc - https://audionetwork.lgfl.org.uk/terms.aspx (note for Lancashire schools this access was provided as part of your broadband packagae)