Examples of Linking

Hothfield and Barkerend

Two primary schools – one urban, one rural, one with a population of mainly Pakistani heritage Muslim children and one with a majority of white British children.

These schools are 15 miles apart and have a fascinating connection through history and geography. The urban school is situated in the centre of the city where the wool industry thrived over a hundred years ago. The rural school is surrounded by sheep farms and is near the canal which goes into the centre of the city and was used to move the wool from the farms to the mills.

Linking within a Secondary School

Featured as an example of good practice in the report by Sir Keith Ajegbo, The Diversity and Citizenship Curriculum Review 2007, Reflections developed over three years to enable students in a large mixed secondary school, and eventually from feeder primary schools too, to explore issues of diversity. Groups from widely diverse heritages took part, predominantly White British and Pakistani Muslim, with a fairly high number of children from families of asylum seekers and refugees, as well as new immigrants from Eastern Europe some of whom lacked basic English skills. Some students came from poor families, some had faced racism and prejudice.

In Your Shoes

Promoting Community Cohesion in two primary schools and exploring issues of identity and diversity in the classroom and outside through Active Citizenship and Schools Linking.

Is it possible to stand in someone else’s shoes and see the world from their point of view?

Can we enable others to stand in our shoes?

How does it feel to stand in someone else’s shoes?

If we could do that, would it make us feel differently about them?

Would it make us feel differently about ourselves?

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Scholemoor Case Study

Children from Clayton C.E. and Lidget Primary Schools worked as part of the Education Bradford Schools Linking Project, in association with the the University of Bradford, to research the period covering the World Wars in their locality. They spent two days in Scholemoor Cemetery carrying out the survey, and worked on the project over six months.