Badges of Responsibility

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Badges of Responsibility

• Connecting the Agendas of Citizenship,
  Creativity, Enterprise, Eco-Schools
• and Health Promotion.

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Who was involved in the project?

• Primary 2 children
• Ms Thom Class Teacher
• Mrs Pountney-Nursery Nurse
• Miss Baird Classroom Helper
• All staff and all pupils at Whitfield Primary
  School in Dundee

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How did the project begin?

• Children love having responsibility it makes them
  feel valued.
• They enjoy being classroom helpers, computer
  monitors, playground assistants etc.
• Children often have these jobs in nursery/school
  but nobody knows what they are doing or why they
  are in corridors.

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Decision to make badges

• Making and wearing the badges would boost
  self-esteem.
• Making badges for the children who had
  responsibility in the school would ensure that
  these children were recognised as being
  Responsible Citizens.
• The type of badges we were going to make also
  shows the value our school places on giving
  pupils responsibility and involving them in the
  school community. (Pupil Councillors, Playground
  Assistants, Positive Citizens)

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What did the children do?

• Decided who we would need badges for.
• Consulted all staff and children about the type
  of badges they would like.
• Decided how many badges we would need.
• Collected and Organised the information.
• Displayed information.
• Created the badges using ICT/Art and Design.

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What did the children do?

• Involved all classes in school by asking them to
  judge winning designs.
• Uploaded the information to the School Website.
• Made comments about their project.
• Evaluated their work and uploaded to School
  Website.
• Designed a leaflet to go out to parents.

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Comments from children

• I am learning to use the scanner.
• I like drawing the badges.
• I like putting the text on the badges.
• I have learned how to get into School Website.

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Communicating with parents

• Children designed leaflet to go out to inform
  parents about their project.
• The leaflet also provided the address of the
  school website.
• www.whitfieldps.ik.com

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Our Badges
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The way forward

• We are using the Connecting the Agendas format in
  our school as a way of creating rich and
  meaningful experiences for the pupils.
• We see this as a way of de-cluttering the
  curriculum and avoiding repetition between
  subjects which encourage using similar skills.

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Curriculum of Excellence Comments

• better connect the various stages of the
  curriculum from 3 to 18.
• clear links between the different aspects of
  childrens learning..
• reduce over-crowding in the curriculum and make
  learning more enjoyable.

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Connecting Learning

• In Connecting the Agendas between Citizenship,
  Creativity, Enterprise,
• Eco-Schools and Health, we are also helping
  children to become
• Responsible Citizens, Successful Learners,
  Confident Individuals and Effective Contributors.

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Conclusion-Learning and Teaching Scotland

• Schools, should model the kind of society in
  which active citizenship is encouraged by
  providing all young people with opportunities to
  take on responsibilities and exercise choice.
• (Professor Tom Wilson LT Scotland)