International

Ingleton Middle School

International Activities

IMS has long had a reputation for excellence in this field and this was confirmed during our latest inspection. "Ensuring pupils from this small rural school in the North Yorkshire Dales, are not isolated from the wider international community is an outstanding feature of the school's work. The school makes a deliberate and determined effort to bring into school visitors from as many other countries as possible so as to widen pupils' horizons and provide an international dimension to the school's work."

The TIPD Programme (Teachers' International Development Programme)

At a time when the new citizenship programme was being launched in the UK, three teachers (Christine Best, Judith Shackleton and Kate Butcher) from IMS travelled to the partner school in Naples to see how citizenship, an established part of the curriculum, was taught there. They observed classes, scrutinised text books and had long meetings with the staff who taught citizenship in Naples. This helped to give IMS a head start when citizenship became part of the UK curriculum.

The Global Dimension.

We were informed last summer that we had been fortunate in being selected to receive a grant of £750 to promote The Global Dimension in our school during the current academic year. We began by drafting a policy (see enclosed). We then decided on a course of action. We agreed to;-
· prepare a topic about an environmental issue for one or more year groups.
· produce a display which would be used during the pupil conference
· produce a play involving pupils from all year groups. It would focus on world-wide environmental issues.
· introduce more topics on our environment where appropriate and work in a cross-curricular way.

What has been achieved?
· With year seven, we examined the loss of the Amazonian Rainforest. A display was taken to Leeds for a conference in February. A further display was produced for use in school.
· With year six, we examined the damage taking place on our own doorstep in the Yorkshire Dales and a display was produced for a sharing evening in March. This involved work completed in Humanities, English, Art, Music and Technology.
· We have written and produced TWO plays on the theme of the environment. Over half the pupils in the school performed in one or both of these plays.
· Other topics have been developed this year such as "India, a developing nation" and "Bradley Stoke", both in year eight humanities. More emphasis has been placed on how "development" affects the environment.
· Visits to our link school in Uganda have taken place and staff from Uganda have visited our school.
· Our school has raised money for a playground in Peru and we supported "Red Nose Day". In addition, we supported "Samaritans Purse" by collecting shoe boxes for their Christmas Appeal.
· Each classroom has a plastic tray for paper re-cycling and waste paper is taken to a local collection point.
As a result of all these activities, our pupils are more aware of the wider world and we believe we are giving them knowledge and skills to help them combat prejudice and discrimination.

We are currently involved in several major projects, further details of which are available through the links below.

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