Empowering students to make a difference in the local environment and community, creating caring local and global citizens
Explanation:
Encourage the development of links between students and local representatives, charities and businesses to help identify manageable projects where students can have a real impact. Encourage students to contribute to the development of community service provisions—for example, by encouraging markets for local food—to help disadvantaged groups.
Use themes and action-based projects to make connections across subjects and issues, and link classwork into both the school community and into learning in the local environment and community. Collaborative planning of the curriculum framework is needed, particularly at the secondary level, to find the most effective synergies and projects and avoid duplication. Allow teachers to help design the curriculum.
