London Borough of Havering Schools visit to China

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London Borough of HaveringSchools visit to China

• Ardleigh Green Junior School
• Crownfield Infant School
• Edwin Lambert Primary School
• Parklands Junior School

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Where is Havering
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What is it like?

• 275,000 people in the Borough
• 95 schools
• High achieving at all key stages
• Very low ethnic and cultural mix
• A mix of dense housing, large shopping centre,
  farmland and industry

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The Schools

• The schools are all Primary schools, taking
  children from 3 to 11

Ardleigh Green Junior School Crownfield Infant
School Edwin Lambert Primary School Parklands
Junior School
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Crownfield Infant

• Is a bright and happy school even the
  cloakrooms are decorated!
• 235 pupils

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Ardleigh Green Junior

• Is the lead school for ICT in Havering
• 356 pupils
• The school has ICT Naacemark award
• They provide ICT training (ECDL) to parents,
  governors and the local community.

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Edwin Lambert Primary

• Has a nursery taking pupils from age 3
• 336 pupils, 54 of these are in the nursery

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Parklands Junior School

• Has an animal area with goats, chickens, rabbits
  and guinea pigs.
• 475 pupils
• Largest Junior school

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Visit Themes

• Geography
• PE
• Olympics

• ICT
• PE
• Citizenship

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Learning Objectives

• To develop links between our cities and to share
  resources in the run up to 2008/2012 now that
  London and Beijing are twinned Olympic cities.
• To experience different teaching and learning
  styles and to engage in a professional dialogue
  about teaching and learning.
• To explore the role of ICT in a different
  educational context and to particularly
  experience and share knowledge of using
  Interactive Whiteboards across the curriculum.

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Contribution to Pupil Achievement

• The classroom based projects will provide pupils
  with an opportunity to explore a different world
  culture.
• By sharing experiences via video conferencing and
  email will enable pupils to learn at first hand
  from their Chinese counterparts.
• Teachers will have an opportunity to explore
  teaching and learning styles and return to the UK
  with new ideas and experiences to put into
  practice.
• To enable our Chinese friends to experience our
  teaching and learning styles.
• Promotion of healthy life styles and sport within
  the curriculum.

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How will ICT contribute to the project?

• Citizenship create English and Chinese guides
  for Olympic visitors 2008 2012
• Pupils to undertake PowerPoint presentations to
  share with the Chinese partner schools.
• The London Grid for Learning portal will be used
  to communicate and disseminate project
  objectives, findings and outcomes and to support
  communication during the project.
• Video conferencing will be used to develop
  communication.
• Pupils will engage in the use of digital cameras
  and video cameras to record messages and
  activities.

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What do we hope to gain from the visit?

• Develop a greater understanding of Chinese
  education system.
• Research the use of Interactive Whiteboards in
  international classrooms.
• Discussion with colleagues of experiences in
  Chinese classrooms and relate to own classroom
  practice.
• Joint curriculum development between two schools
  leading to joint classroom projects.
• Evaluation of the impact of ICT use in the
  Geography curriculum.

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• We live in one world. What we do affects others,
  and what others do affects us, as never before.
  To recognise that we are all members of a world
  community and that we all have responsibilities
  to each other is not romantic rhetoric, but
  modern economic and social reality
• DfES International Strategy

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• Our young people must learn to live with a
  lifetime of change
• David Milliband

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• What do we mean by an "information society"? We
  mean one in which human capacity is expanded,
  built up, nourished and liberated, by giving
  people access to the tools and technologies they
  need, with the education and training to use them
  effectively. The hurdle here is more political
  than financial. The costs of connectivity,
  computers and mobile telephones can be brought
  down. These assets -- these bridges to a better
  life -- can be made universally affordable and
  accessible. We must summon the will to do
  it.The information society also depends on
  networks. The Internet is the result of, and
  indeed functions as, a unique and grand
  collaboration. If its benefits are to spread
  around the world, we must promote the same
  cooperative spirit among governments, the private
  sector, civil society and international
  organizations.And of course, the information
  society's very life blood is freedom. It is
  freedom that enables citizens everywhere to
  benefit from knowledge, journalists to do their
  essential work, and citizens to hold government
  accountable. Without openness, without the right
  to seek, receive and impart information and ideas
  through any media and regardless of frontiers,
  the information revolution will stall, and the
  information society we hope to build will be
  stillborn.
• UN Secretary General Kofi Annan