KS3/4 Citizenship: Establishing Communities
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(narrator) The teaching of community
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is key to
the citizenship curriculum.
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Jamie Elliott,
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citizenship co-ordinator
at DeincourtSchool in Derbyshire,
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won praise from Ofsted
for his outstanding approach.
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We've come to see in detail
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how he teaches the concepts
of community so effectively.
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It all starts with his year 7s
stranded on a desert island.
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It was new to me. I didn't know
what citizenship was until that day.
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(boy) And some shops.
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As if they'd have shops
on an island!
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Communicating with our teams,
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cos we were all finding out facts of
what we could do and sharing ideas.
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We've got to watch out
for a shark or...
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(narrator) Watching
and commenting on the lesson
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is Dr Hilary Cremin,
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director of the Centre for
Citizenship Studies in Education.
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All look at the board.
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- What is it? Ian?
- It's a map.
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- (Jamie) It's a map or a picture.
- Island.
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It's an island, isn't it?
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There's different things
on this island,
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different aspects on this island.
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At the beginning of the lesson,
the main point
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was for them to have
something to look at,
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which immediately
gets them thinking:
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"What is it for? What are we doing
today? What is this map about?"
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It's to get them to
think a little bit deeply
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rather than just having the title
up there immediately.
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This map contains within it,
or will contain within it,
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a community.
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What does that word mean,
do you think - community?
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It's like our whole area
of countries.
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Countries.
What other communities, then?
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- James?
- Towns.
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Towns and cities
are all communities.
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There are different ways
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how these communities
work effectively together.
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Cos they do work together. Otherwise
it'd be chaos, wouldn't it?
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The general theme of the lesson was:
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What essentially makes
an effective community?
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And to recognise these positives
and some of the aspects
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that go towards
making this positive community
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and the role
that they have in making this.
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The teamwork, the cooperation,
the support, the suggestions -
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all this is part of being
an effective community.
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And map three. So you...
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(narrator)
Jamie's plan for his lesson
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on the building
of a successful community
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is available
on the Teachers' TV website.
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Could someone read me through
that piece of information?
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"You are in a school party
off on holiday with two teachers."
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"On your way to your destination,
your ship sinks,
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and all the adults, including the
crew and all teachers, are killed."
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"You and five of your school friends
survive the shipwreck
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and manage to swim
to a desert island."
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This is now your community,
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where you are.
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Through his exercise we'll find out
some of the things you'll need to do
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that makes an effective community.
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A lot of the communities we present
to children are ready-made by adults
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and they can only respond to them.
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But an activity such as this one
gives them the chance
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to think about: What would we do
if we were starting from scratch?
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List the things that you feel
that you would have to do
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in the first few days.
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The second task,
you then need to decide
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which order you think those things
need to be done in.
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You could find bits of...
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Water...
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And find bits of twig and stuff
to build a shelter.
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- We can make a fire.
- Yeah. We have to keep warm.
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(Jamie) Very good.
Some very good ideas.
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That'd have to be number four -
find twigs and glass to make a fire.
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- Would glass make fire?
- You could shine the sun onto...
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a piece of leaf or paper
or anything you can find,
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and put some twigs and that,
and it'd...
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- Yeah, put twigs on and glass...
- It'd smoulder. Then blow on it
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and it'd turn into a big flame.
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Normally when you've done this,
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they're thinking about
shelter and about food.
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But what they are doing - what
they're perhaps not more aware of -
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is that they're talking
and communicating.
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They will share ideas.
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They will argue and give reasons
for a point of view,
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which ultimately is what I want.
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I want you to explain now:
Why is shelter gonna be up there?
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Why do we need shelter? Sam?
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Cos you don't want, say,
if it started to storm,
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you don't want to get wet or...
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if you're under a tree,
get electrocuted or something.
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Fantastic. You want some shelter
to keep protected from the elements.
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(Hilary) One of the ways that
I might extend this activity
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would be to rotate the sheet
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so that the pupils are
commenting on each other's lists.
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Then they would be
prioritising somebody else's,
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and that's also a way
of sharing information as well
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and finding out what
another group's thinking about.
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Look carefully at this map
and mark on where you feel
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would be best to set up camp.
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Now they've got to negotiate.
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Now they've got to
decide and prioritise
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which one is more advantageous
than the other.
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So, even though a couple of people
don't agree with the others,
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they have to reach a compromise.
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And compromise is a skill
within an effective community.
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What you have to weigh up are some
of the advantages and disadvantages.
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So now you're sorting out
and deciding...
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- The volcano might be extinct.
- OK.
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So you're actually thinking now
according to this picture.
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Too often in education
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we concentrate on the content
of what we're teaching
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and not enough on the process.
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And here the real learning
is about the process
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of developing a community,
of creating ideas,
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negotiating,
working together as a group.
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There's wild animals there.
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They may be dangerous
but it only says "wild",
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it doesn't say
"wild, dangerous animals".
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- You could eat them.
- But you don't want to harm them.
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- Well, no. There may be that.
- This is their life.
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- This is where they belong.
- But, if you're really hungry...
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Uh... yeah.
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Some very good points.
Very well explained. Good thinking.
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In that activity the children
were using moral reasoning
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to really good effect.
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One lad talks about animals and
the fact that they were there first
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and whether they should be killed
for food or not.
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That's the beauty of using a big
simulation activity such as this
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where the young people can talk in
groups and bring in their own ideas.
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Yeah, but...
we're close to the volcano.
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- It don't matter. It won't go off.
- No?
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Ian, from this group,
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could you come and point where
you decided your group is gonna be?
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- There.
- OK. So you're gonna be there.
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Tanya, could you
feed back for me, please,
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why you've decided to go there?
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Because we're near the sea,
so we've got water,
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and that's where the fish are,
so we can catch fish,
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and we're well away
from the wild animals and stuff.
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There is one small dilemma in that,
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cos you did talk about water.
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I want you to think about that.
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Sea water has salt in it
and it's very salty.
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(Jamie) Indeed.
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- But river water can come fresh.
- It comes fresh water.
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You can't drink salt water.
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(Hilary) It's a good strategy
to structure feedback carefully
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so there are two or three key points
they feed back.
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Sometimes
when feedback's unstructured
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you can end up
with a nightmare scenario
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where it just drags on and on
and pupils start to get bored.
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You get bored, but you feel
you can't draw it to an end
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because you're not
being fair to everybody.
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(narrator) It was Jamie's own idea
to link this classic scenario
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to the citizenship curriculum.
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(Jamie) Planning and organising
what the outcome would be was tricky
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because it was quite complex issues
they were dealing with.
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In the initial stages it took me
maybe an hour to plan that lesson,
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but now that lesson is planned
and can be used in subsequent years.
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I know it's an effective lesson.
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(narrator)
The next part of the lesson
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aims to get the pupils to consider
what qualities make a good leader.
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What I want you to do
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is look through
those cards of information
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about those different people.
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You decide who you think
would make the best leader.
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Remember, give reasons
for your choice.
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(girl) "Philip. 15 years old."
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"He has a bright personality
and is popular with group."
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He's confident in himself...
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Yeah, but Catherine's really clever
and has bright ideas.
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Yeah. She's good
at organising as well.
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- And she's older.
- Yeah, so that might be a good one.
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Let's have a vote.
Who wants Catherine?
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Me.
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Who wants Philip?
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(Jamie) Could this group explain to
me the person that you have chosen?
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We chose Philip cos
he's got a bright personality,
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he's popular with the group,
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he's confident and he speaks clearly
about things that concern him.
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How did you make that decision
based on that information?
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We looked at all the other ones,
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and Catherine's too shy,
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John tells you
more about his family,
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Kevin doesn't find it easy
to talk to other people.
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So it all leads to Philip.
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So you actually
come up with your leader,
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as well as based on
the qualities that he'd got,
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but also based on the weaknesses
that the others had.
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Which is a very detailed
decision-making process and sorting.
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OK? That's excellent.
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What they're actually telling me is:
This is what a good person has.
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This is what a person
in a respectful community has.
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This is what it is to be
a respectful person.
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Ultimately the students will realise
they too have these qualities
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and they know they have
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and will realise that they,
just like this leader,
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have a central role to play
in that community.
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"In order to run the island smoothly
you need to have some rules."
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You need to write down five rules
that you feel would be important
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and then think of reasons why you
have chosen those particular rules.
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Everybody's got to collect
at least one bit of wood.
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The second one,
you've got to share the water.
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(girl) Listen
to other people's opinions.
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Yeah, that'd be a good one.
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What about some rules in terms of
staying alive, for food and water?
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- Take it in turns to go fishing.
- Share food.
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You may come up with
maybe another couple more. OK?
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Excellent.
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It wasn't a rule from me.
It was their own rules
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that they felt would
best support their own community.
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But they were aware of the rules,
aware of what rules mean,
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the meaning of the rules -
that it's there for your own safety.
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That they're there to protect,
to support, to keep you from harm.
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And that relates into their own
community environment
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in terms of school rules and
the wider community rules as well.
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No wandering off without
telling anybody where you're going.
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So if you get lost,
no one knowing where you are.
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Don't try wrestling a bear.
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Share.
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The main part of the plenary was the
brainstorm at the end of the lesson,
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which was just a simple
mind map at the end.
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Question exactly the same as
the title question for the lesson.
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- What makes an effective community?
- Work as a team.
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Teamwork.
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- Anything else?
- To put gentle persuasion in.
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Gentle persuasion. Very good.
Where have you got that from?
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- From this morning's assembly.
- To use gentle persuasion.
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If you remember, it's our
theme of the week in assembly.
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So good link there. Well done.
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I was going to ask the question: How
does this lesson support what we do
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through the pastoral time
or in terms of assemblies?
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But John brought it up first where
he talked about gentle persuasion.
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And that's been the theme this week.
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It is important that students
recognise those links.
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It makes those links real
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and it makes the pastoral programme
important and relevant,
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and it also makes citizenship
relevant and important to those.
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These things
that we are looking at here now
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also relate
to your school community
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and the community around you
nationally and globally.
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We have leadership,
strong teamwork, work together.
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What's our slogan
on your sweatshirts?
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- (pupil) "Achieving Together."
- "Achieving Together."
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So the rules of your community that
you set up on your desert island
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are exactly and very similar to
the community rules
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that we have
in our school community.
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(narrator) So what did
the pupils think of the lesson
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and what have they learnt?
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I think citizenship means
respect to your friends
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and to the community.
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Because, when we done that map,
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we all had to agree
on where we were putting it,
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and we all wanted
our friends' opinion,
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so we were, like, communicating.
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And we weren't, like,
hitting each other,
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so we were respecting one another.
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I enjoyed the lesson
cos we all worked as a group
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and we all shared
each other's ideas.
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I think it's good with citizenship,
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cos it shows how to cooperate and
makes you learn how to cooperate.
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You have to agree
with each other, like,
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so you have to vote
for whose opinion...
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Or you can, like,
get both opinions together
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and make one big opinion.
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Doreen Trenerry
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