This seminar will be delivered by the Active Citizenship Scottish Education Awards winning school which will exemplify the strategies used in the classroom to promote the wider citizenship agenda either locally or globally to its young people. In this session you will be able to find out how this excellent practice can support you own local developments. http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/slf/previousconferences/2007/seminars/educationawardwinneractivecitizenship.asp

1. Citizenship at Corseford
Successful Learners Confident Individuals
Effective Contributors Responsible Citizens

2. Responsibilities
Others
Self

3. Service to the Community
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4. All year round
Collected
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Delivered
Christmas Mail Delivery World Book Day

5. Successful Learners
Motivation
Creative thinking
Technology
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Literacy and Numeracy

6. Confident Individuals
Relate well to others Prepared to accept
responsibility
Confidence in decision
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Making choices

7. Effective Contributors
School Assemblies
Problem solving and
generating ideas
Organisational skills
Actively participating in
school life
Team working
Range of media

8. Responsible Citizens
Respect for others
Informed choices
Rights and Responsibilities and decisions
Social issues

9. Environmental Issues
Pollution

10. Human Rights
Right to Water
Right to Food
Right to Homes

11. International Awareness
Ethiopia
India
Zimbabwe

12. Local Collaboration
Corseford
Fordbank
Lalibela ,Ethiopia

13. International

14. Mgcini
• Sponsored no sweets
• Sponsored eating porridge
every morning for a week
• Made and sold a calendar ,
involving whole school
• Sponsored 5 a day eating of
fruit and veg
• Activities were chosen
through whole class
Been sponsoring for 10years discussion to reflect on
Mgcini’s life.
Through Plan International
£144 per year

15. Last year we were able to send extra money to pay for 2
goats, to register a child and to buy kits - little doctor kit,
2 vaccination kits, a sight for sore eyes kit and a clean
hands for health kit.
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G Sight for Sore Eyes Kit

16. Ownership
• Discussion
• Decision making
• Collaboration
• Responsibility
• Team work
• Effective communication
• Choices
• Commitment

17. School Council
Responsible Citizens
Effective Contributors Confident Individuals
Successful Learners

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19. Work Experience
Reception School shop
Internal
External
Arriva bus garage Shopmobility

20. Confident Independent
Individuals
Keswick Kielder
Tall ships round Britain Glasgow

21. Ongoing at Corseford
• Newspaper Delivery - Daily
• School Shop – Wed. Fri. Thurs.
• Specialist Shops – Mothers Day, Valentines Day, Easter, Christmas Fayre etc.
• School Council – Bullying, School Rules, School Bus Livery ,Length of School Day
• Sponsorship – Plan International
• School Production – In discussion
• Work Experience – Shopmobility , Local Garage,, Castlehead High School, S. W.East Ren.
• College Partnership – Reid Kerr, Clydebank, Kilmarnock
• Ethiopia - Inter school liaison with Fordbank
• Coffee Mornings – Groups of parents
• School Trips – Discussed and decided by members of each class
• Fun Day – Discussed Summer term
• Prize Giving – Celebration of success in all areas of school life
• Assemblies – Monthly -led by pupils of individual classes

22. National Identity
Parliament Visit & Elections
Great Scot Competition – St Andrew’s Day

23. 1999-2007
Pupils have contributed to:
• Our Lives Our Conference: Children’s Rights in Scotland
• Improvements in Scottish Education Bill : Consultation with Young People
• Education Consultation : Meet the Minister (Sam Galbraith)
• Manifesto for the Millennium
• Standards in Scottish Schools Bill
• Listen: a Million Voices in Scotland
• Partners’ Project : Children’s Rights Fiesta
• A World Fit for Children
• United Nations Special Session on Children
• What Matters to Me
• Having Your Say at School
• European Year of Disabled Launch
• Citizenship in Practice
• Childline Young People’s Conference
• On the Right Track – Rights and Responses 11 -18
• General Issues – Children’s Commissioner’s Visit and consultation at School
• Moving & Handling (Safer Assistance)-Children’s Commissioner’s Office
• Participation and Learning Resource. (Learning &Teaching Scotland & Save the Children)

24. Contributions to National Issues
Contributing to National debates
Attending Workshops
Discussions with
Children’s Commissioner

25. Citizenship at Corseford
Successful Learners Confident Individuals
Effective Contributors Responsible Citizens