Scottish Learning Festival

Practical steps to Developing Global Citizenship

Grange Academy is situated in Kilmarnock and shares a newly built single campus with Annanhill Primary School and Park Special School. Grange Academy won the Entrepreneurial Learning Award category in the 2010 Scottish Education Awards. Grange Academy serves as the Gaelic Hub for East Ayrshire and the Confucius Hub for the “Three Ayrshires”. The campus has improving international links with a range of countries and has welcomed over three hundred and thirty international visitors during the past two years including sixteen student teachers from Sweden who have completed  student placements at the school.

The school is working closely with a range of partners to develop very practical approaches to developing Global Citizenship through a range of initiatives, some of which curricular inserts others as permeating elements.

The school is one of three secondary schools in Scotland to be invited to participate in the 'Silk Road' project. This developing aspect of our school work is an interdisciplinary theme using 'The Silk Road' as a context for learning and will enable pupils to develop a greater understanding of the local and global community A focus on Music will be the stimulus for learning in other curriculum areas including, Art, Social Subjects, physical education, sciences, mathematics and Chinese.