Young people growing up in Scotland today can look forward to spending their working lives as citizens of an increasingly complex world. International education will become fundamental to their realising their potential in such a multicultural and global society.

International education is a broad concept, and it can be exemplified in a variety of forms and experiences. These include school-based experiences, often using ICT, in addition to school links, exchanges and overseas visits. Learning in and through international education can make learning about any subject or any cross-curricular theme more relevant and fun.

(Extract from Learning and Teaching Scotland website)

Global Citizenship

 

We are keen to involve our children in discussing global citizenship, in our weekly assemblies we look at the Global Goals shown in the image above.

Global issues are important in the lives of all young people, living in a world where economies are increasingly interdependent and global communication is a daily reality. Young people have access to the internet and increased opportunity to travel, watch news stories from around the world as they develop and follow for example international sporting events as they happen. They have access to a wide range of cultural goods, media products and information from other countries, and an awareness of human transnational migration. The benefits for young people of international education include:

• having a platform from which to develop empathy and an active concern for those with whom they share the world
• having an intercultural awareness which helps make connections with others and which helps combat racism and xenophobia.

Here is what our children think…

“At Tulliallan we learn about global goals. There are 17 goals. In school we learned about them in assembly and each week we have a goal of the week depending on what we have been doing.  

Global goals are goals that the world aims to achieve by 2030. They will solve the world’s problems if we achieve them. They include No poverty, life on land, climate action, zero hunger and Gender equality etc. All classes focus on at least one global goal as part of our topic.”