Global Citizenship

What and why

Curriculum

In the whole school

Getting started

Ideas to inspire

Assembly ideas

Acting it out

Linking across the globe

What's my job

Sustainable life redcuing waste

Co-operation

Local and global news

Assembly planner

Classroom activities - under 5's

Classroom activities - KS1

Classroom activities - KS2

School Speakers

Literacy and English

Geography, people and place

Assembly idea: Co-operation!

The poster 'The Two Mules' from Quaker Peace & Social Witness provided the idea for this activity.

Aim:
To encourage pupils to think about how difficulties can be resolved through compromise and co-operation.

What to do:
Put a PE hoop on the floor, and ask two children to stand in it, facing opposite directions. Put one apple on each side of the hoop, just out of reach. Ask the children inside the hoop to hold hands, pull in opposite directions and try to reach their apple. (Explain to them that they must not pull each other over!) Then ask other pupils to suggest why this is not a good idea, and how the children in the hoop could each reach their apples in a more co-operative way. The most obvious way is for the children to move together to pick up the apple first from one side and then from the other.