2GETHER:
Project Report
Sustainability, Citizenship and Enterprise in Education linking School, Community and Business in Highlands & Islands
 

   Introduction   The Brief   Targets   Rationale   Recommendations   CPD      Flexible/Alternative Curriculum

Local Solutions   Eco-Schools in Action   Sustaining Culture   School/Community Links   Charities as a Focus   Global Citizens   Appendix

Charities as a focus in schools


Kirkwall Grammar School Charities Focus

Contacts: John Devine Citizenweek
Morag Ewing Pastoral care
Kathleen Houghton Enterprise/Business Studies/Audit
Linda Ross Work Experience
Jim Chalmers Sustainability management Orkney College
School Charities Committee

Charities as theme for cross-curricular links:

Children in Need Remembrance Day Poppies Aids Day
  • English and Communication
  • Expressive arts
  • PSE
  • RE
  • Social Subjects
  • Business Studies
  • Computing
  • English and Communication
  • Expressive arts
  • Modern World Studies
  • RE
  • Social Studies
  • Business Studies
  • Languages
  • English and Communication
  • Biology
  • PSE
  • RE
  • Social Subjects
  • Business Studies
  • Computing
British Heart Foundation Children's  Crohn's Disease Jeans for Genes
  • English and Communication
  • Expressive arts
  • PSE
  • RE (transplants issues)
  • Biology/ Chemistry
  • Business Studies
  • PE
  • English and Communication
  • Biology/Chemistry
  • Art (visual awareness)
  • Business Studies
  • Computing
  • English and Communication
  • Art
  • Biology
  • RE (Designer babies debate)
  • Business Studies
  • Computing


Notes: plan is for S6 to follow up Citizenweek by contacting a chosen charity and arranging fund raising events. Contact will be made by the pupils to subject teachers to engender activities that will raise awareness of the issues surrounding each charity.

 

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