Children’s Mental Health Week

Using a Global Citizenship Education approach, learning can explore wellbeing alongside issues such as relationships, inclusion, identity and social pressures, supporting empathy and understanding.

Reading Schools Week

Through a Global Citizenship Education approach, literacy can be used to explore identity, rights and global issues, helping learners make connections between stories and the wider world.

LGBT+ History Month

LGBT+ History Month highlights the lives, experiences and contributions of LGBT+ people, past and present.

Translating Global Values into Community Action 

MD Rezaur Rahman, PhD researcher and chair of the West Lothian Community Race
Forum, explores how Global Citizenship brings communities together.

Power Walk

This activity helps us explore how ‘power’ describes the ability to shape one’s life and one’s environment.

Seeing the world differently

A simple technique to help pupils reflect on the views of others and to build empathy.

The Danger of a Single Story

This activity challenges us to question our assumptions about ‘other’ people and to listen to multiple voices in order to understand the world about us better.

Which toys are for girls and which are for boys?

Pupils explore their attitudes towards gender and play through categorising different toys.

Exploring perceptions

This activity encourages young people to think about how they form their views of people and places.

The Wall in the Middle of the Book

Use this picture book by John Agee to explore article 2 of the UNCRC the right to live without discrimination.