Global Neighbours
We are very proud to gain the BRONZE Global Neighbour Award to share and celebrate our wide-ranging steps to ‘love our global neighbour’ through events involving uniform recycling, active travel, energy saving work and learning about the Rights of the Child.
There are three levels of accreditation: bronze, silver and gold. These are verified by Church of England Education Office assessors, who look for evidence across five areas: school leadership, teaching and learning; collective worship and spiritual development; pupil participation; and community engagement.
Global Neighbours is a Christian Aid initiative designed to encourage children to become courageous advocates for the common good both globally and locally. The accreditation scheme celebrates schools that are helping pupils learn about global poverty and individual responsibility to tackle it, as well as giving them the tools to play a confident part in creating a fairer world.
Christian Aid’s Global Neighbour’s accreditation scheme is child centred- it develops their needs and aspirations, their character, and their hopes for the world in which they are growing up.
The world is becoming more interconnected every day, our lives and local communities cannot be fully understood without reference to a wider global picture. Our world is full of wonder, possibilities and opportunities which are afforded by technology advancements. However, it is also marked by division, extreme inequality, injustice, and poverty, conflict and environmental crises.
The good news is that our school can provide a much – needed safe space and structure in which children can begin to make sense of the world they are encountering and explore their place within it. We aim to nurture the values, attitudes, understanding and skills so our children may realise their hopes and aspirations for a more just and sustainable world in which we live well together, at local, national and global levels.
The Global Neighbours scheme supports any aspiring school to:
- Develop global citizenship/ courageous advocacy
- Advance the spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development of its pupils
- Strengthen its promotion of fundamental British values
- Enhance its religious education (RE)
- Enhanced RSHE curriculum
- Promote critical thinking across the curriculum
- Strengthen links with the local community