Global Citizenship
Live the Values and be a caring and responsible global citizen
I CAN make a difference. Together we can make a difference
These two of our 7 school mottos are part of the school vision to help ensure that all members of our school community understand the importance of strong global citizenship and our collective responsibility for helping to make the world a better place.
They are also underpinned by our Values Education which gives a powerful scaffold for our education about equal opportunities and human rights and responsibilities in our school and in the wider world.
Our Values are: appreciation, compassion, cooperation, courage, creativity, determination, freedom, honesty, humility, kindness, loyalty, obedience, resilience, resourcefulness, respect, thoughtfulness, trust, understanding, rights respecting
Global Citizenship is embedded in our whole school ethos and throughout our school systems, structures and curriculum. Dobcroft pupils take responsibility in our school through Pupils’ Parliament, JobSquad and QuarrelBusters.
Thought-provoking assemblies help our pupils to see beyond themselves and their own school and community to the issues and needs of our global and ever-changing world. Global citizenship work and understanding is planned in to all schemes of work and is covered in a cross curricular way.
Dobcroft is a training school for Philosophy4Children. Classes have philosophy lessons in which a ‘community of enquiry’ or philosophy circle is held to debate global and citizenship issues.
We regularly hold special focus weeks and themed days to support learning and understanding in this area. Every child experiences French, German and Spanish language courses as Modern Languages are taught in all year groups weekly. Y6 children have a weekly topic lesson in French – a very exciting initiative! Our school is a regular support partner of Sheffield Soup Wagon, Foodaid, TASTE (clean water project in Achi, Nigeria) and the Uzbekistan Eye Initiative (cataract surgery for children). We seek out extra curricular opportunities and visitors to enhance the curriculum and to broaden our experiences. We also support 2 children through Christian Aid and Toybox.
Governors, Senior Management, staff and pupils are fully supportive of embedding strong Global Citizenship in our community, upholding and regularly reviewing the relevant policies and initiatives. We were delighted with the Ofsted December 2006 judgment that Dobcroft is an ‘Outstanding’ school with exceptional spiritual, moral, social and cultural development which shares its good practice in global citizenship with others.
Inspectors wrote to pupils:
“We were extremely impressed with your personal development. You are some of the most responsible and caring children that we have met. QuarrelBusters, the Job Squad, philosophy lessons, and the Pupils’ Parliament are some aspects of the school that made a very strong impression on us. The school’s values, which we know that you appreciate very much, help to make sure that you are very good citizens and will be valuable members of society in the future.”