Lenzie Academy CrossCurricular Initiative

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Lenzie AcademyCross-Curricular Initiative

• Enterprise and Citizenship
• Fair Trade

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Subject Areas

• Modern Languages
• Home Economics
• Modern Studies

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Planning

• Lunch-time meetings
• Development time
• CPD

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Current Theory

• Curriculum for Excellence
• Education for Citizenship
• International Education
• Determined to succeed

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Modern Languages

• Unit outline
• Pupils read about the Pays Francopone
• Origins of the Fair Trade movement in Europe
• Daily life of a teenager in Cameroun

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Modern Languages

• Aims and Objectives
• Compare daily life of teenager in Cameroun and
  Scotland
• Write a letter to a teenager in Cameroun
• Prepare a leaflet about Fair Trade issues
• Prepare a presentation
• In German learn key words and design a poster

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Modern Languages

• Links to other subjects
• Deliver a unit of work at the same time as Modern
  Studies and Home Economics
• Use materials from these departments to explain
  background and links
• Take part in a coffee morning
• Take part in presentation by outside speaker from
  Jubilee Scotland

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Home Economics

• Unit Outline
• Raise awareness of fair trade and the fair trade
  mark
• To develop an understanding of the impact of
  consumer power
• To involve pupils as responsible citizens taking
  action to support fair trade

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Home Economics

• The Fair Trade Symbol
• What fair trade means?
• Discussion of the Fair Trade symbol and what it
  represents
• Identifies fair trade products

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Home Economics

• Group talk
• Investigating where fair trade products are
  produced and how producers have benefited from
  fair trade
• Reporting back to class on findings
• Tasting products evaluating benefits in
  relation to quality and cost

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Home Economics

• Practical Activities
• Using technology to research
• Producing a selection of recipes
• Evaluating suitability for large scale production
  through problem solving
• Designing posters to advertise and promote use of
  fair trade products

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Home Economics

• Impact of Consumer Power
• Understanding different beliefs and cultures
• Investigating the ways fair trade benefits
  farmers in other countries
• Developing informed views pupils can be
  involved in reducing global problems

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Home EconomicsFair Trade Coffee Morning

• Using fair trade products to bake items
• Advertising the coffee morning
• Organising the room for the event
• Participating on the day
• Raising money for the fair trade foundation

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Modern Studies

• Social, economic and political differences
  between developed an less developed countries
• Globalisation positive and negative
• The Trading Game
• Maras Story
• What can we do?

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Modern Studies

• Maras Story (Oxfam Resource)
• 25 year old factory worker in Cambodia
• Moved to city
• Supports mother and siblings
• Has target to sew 120 trousers per hour
• Earns 70-80p per hour
• Solutions to Maras situation

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Modern Studies

• The Trading Game (Oxfam Resource)
• Divide into six groups
• Each group represents a country
• Two more developed and four less developed
  countries
• Uneven distribution of resources
• Some countries find it easier to make money than
  others

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Modern Studies

• Aims and Objectives
• Write an extended response on differences between
  MECDs and LECDs
• Researching the Internet
• Write a report on chosen African Country
• Compare with UK (Extension)
• Finding solutions to Maras problems
• Carousel method
• Group activity Trading Game

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Extra-curricular activities

• Fairtrade fortnight
• Parliamentary lobby
• Giving out leaflets at Sainsburys

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A Curriculum for Excellence

• Looking at the curriculum differently
• Unifying the curriculum
• Ethos and life of the school
• Interdisciplinary projects and subjects
• Responsible citizens
• Effective contributors
• Play a part in society