Schools
From Scotland to the wider world, see how our schools are inspiring young people as global citizens ready to make a difference. Bold ideas, big conversations, and the stories shaping education’s future start here:
Global Maths
What role can maths play in understanding and addressing global issues young people care about? We hear from Maths teachers who have been exploring this in the classroom.
Making the SDGs Meaningful for Transition-Age Pupils
An inspiring transition teacher in the Liberton Learning Community in Edinburgh is focusing on embedding global citizenship throughout the curriculum.
Portobello climate activists
Catriona Crawford, teacher at Portobello High School, urges leaders to listen to young people’s voices and understand their frustrations.
Start an Anti-Racist Club
Gemma Walters, Principle Teacher of Equity at Smithycroft Secondary School, Glasgow, explains how and why she started an Anti-Racist Club in her school.
Embedding SDGs across learning
Jennifer Hutton, class teacher and project lead for Learning for Sustainability at Dunblane Primary School, shares a whole school focus on SDG 10: Reduced inequalities.
Fair Trade Champions
Pupils from St John the Baptist primary school, raise their voices in support of Fair Trade in Scotland and the impacts it can have on communities around the world.
Trees of Peace
Pupils from Oakgrove Primary School will be taking their unique performance of Wangarĩ’s Trees for Peace to the Scottish Parliament on 21 September, International Peace Day. Here Ellis Brooks from the Quakers shares their project.
Dragon’s Den
What happens when you cross a group of engaged and motivated young people armed with inspiring climate-smart ideas for Earth’s future with COP26, the world’s biggest climate change conference? Katie McGeary from IDEAS reports.
Cearcal Clothes
Ben Sparham and S1 pupils from Inverness High School introduce the Geography of clothes and their prize winning social enterprise Cearcal Clothes.
Remediating Stevenson
Pupils at Law Primary School experience Robert Louis Stevenson from a fresh perspective.
NOTiCEBOARD
Join online for the launch of antiracisted.scot’s new Anti-Racist Literacy materials, designed to support teachers in embedding anti-racist practice across any literacy genre and CfE level
The new Art for Action toolkit supports upper primary and secondary teachers to facilitate creative, learner-led “artivism” projects focused on social justice and environmental issues
Link maths, science and global citizenship using past and present examples of plant collecting for the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s collection of 3 million pressed plant samples stored in its Herbarium. Find out more