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 * Children’s Pan workshops – Summary **
 * Benefits of International linking and next steps: **

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 * Parents actively involved in classroom learning.
 * Motivation/engagement, challenge parents views
 * Broader, realistic view of world.
 * Pupil experience – should include links with other agendas, eg. Sustainability, development education, millennium goals, community service.
 * Voki.com – to avoid safeguarding issues.
 * Project that raises aspirations of pupils, parents and carers.
 * Drama – traditional stories – art, music and dance.
 * My school day – comparing photos
 * Photos of things we pass on our way to school
 * Pupil international forum – what ideas have the children produced –what do they want to find out? Use these ideas to find links.
 * Improve cultural understanding
 * Bring a ‘buzz’ back into the staffroom
 * Getting more staff directly involved with links, not just one or two individuals – all are involved in projects, but nor direct personal links at this stage.
 * Develop our network in LA as a base/ connecting classrooms.
 * Roots – where do we come from? – Ask children, parents and grandparents (National, global experience)
 * Leadership – too many different labels – one clear, concise definition or label would help.
 * Look into what type of funding is available, and for what type of activities.
 * Comenius assistants to use in the school
 * All curriculum areas to have a link abroad to support teaching.
 * Year 4 to have a link with similar aged children in an Islamic country
 * Quality, integrity, values – authentic voice, challenge for heads.
 * One teacher can change the school – initiative overload
 * Staff – not creating extra work, sharing the work out.
 * Global community – teachers working together
 * Make it real – extend cultural understanding.
 * Diversity – address inequities
 * Big Picture-responsible, confident and successful – Global outlook identity.
 * Community – what is the curriculum? Results driven – parents view of the school.
 * Flexible to new technologies
 * Motivate the whole team, CPD opportunity, change the pedagogy.
 * Time made available for coordinators to develop international work.
 * Equal opportunity for all pupils.
 * Independent learning for pupils through technology.
 * Quality experiences of working with other leaders/cultures/countries that raise standards and enjoyment.
 * Pupil self-esteem and awareness of other cultures etc..
 * Maintaining the thirst for engagement among pupils and teachers alike.
 * Independent communication for the pupils
 * Similarities, not just differences.
 * Challenging stereotypes, locally and globally.
 * Global citizenship permeates curriculum, so schools don’t just rely on one person to motivate/manage activities.
 * Aspiration – By 2012 have every KS3 to have actively and positively experienced working with an international partner.
 * Aspiration – By 2012 for our school to be a ‘hub’ for international collaboration/work for the surrounding town.