Ways To Introduce Global Learning To Students

Ways To Introduce Global Learning To Students

As teachers, it is essential that we allow the values of internationalism to be passed on to our students. We need to discover key concepts that support global learning and learn how to introduce them as part of our lessons in order to successfully teach students...
What we can learn from The Gambia

What we can learn from The Gambia

In between our packed schedule of summer ‘Key to the National Curriculum’ school visits,  we’ve realised our annual trip to The Gambia is creeping up fast! The visit which this year takes place at the end of November 2018 will be our 25th trip! (we started in 2000...
Why we’re smiling

Why we’re smiling

We are delighted that our new Key to the National Curriculum KS1 and KS2 geography resources are going down so well! We were thrilled to have been highly commended at the Geographical Association Publishers’ Award  earlier in the year and are equally pleased that the...
Importance of Teaching Cultural Diversity

Importance of Teaching Cultural Diversity

Two areas that directly impact student success are classroom and school culture. Taking that into account it is vital that both classroom and school culture reflect, understand and celebrate diversity. For teachers, teaching cultural diversity isn’t always an easy...
The Benefits of Global Learning

The Benefits of Global Learning

Global learning offers excellent teaching opportunities to those working for academies and schools in the UK. If your school hasn’t adopted the global learning model, the information on this page will help to highlight the benefits for both students and teachers.We...

Under the Baobab tree

Thoughts from Ric and Ann Sims , unpaid Teaching Assistants for the week. A big thank you to Des and Pam for inviting us to join them for a Gambian Cocktail. A cocktail of enthusiasm, dedication, kindness, endless energy and fun.  It was uplifting to witness the work...
Recycled aluminium ladles

Recycled aluminium ladles

In The Gambia there is a thriving industry based on recycling of waste aluminium to produce a range of kitchen and other goods including aluminium ladles. Recycling here is not a duty, like it is in the first world, but a real economic necessity. The cost of imported...
Study Visit to The Gambia

Study Visit to The Gambia

Study Visit to The Gambia – Sunday 26th November to Sunday 3rd December 2017 The study visit is run and organised by Pam Copeland and Dr Des Bowden the directors of B&C Educational Ltd.. Pam taught in primary schools before becoming a senior university...
The “Great Get Together”

The “Great Get Together”

Eleven schools, 25 teachers, 60 children and 60 balloons, united together on Thursday 16th June, to celebrate the ideas of Jo Cox MP on the anniversary of her death. The 16/17 June was feted as the “Great Get Together” to celebrate the life of Jo Cox MP. Her husband...
Making the Most of Collaboration

Making the Most of Collaboration

Our next Teachers’ Meet is on Thursday 29th June from 4.30 pm onwards, at Ashwood Park Primary School, Stourbridge (DY8 5DJ). Following on from the success of the first B&C Teachers’ Meet held at the Nettl Studios in Central Birmingham, the intention...

Our next Teachers’ Meet

Following on from our first ever Teachers’ Meet back in March we are delighted to announce our next free networking and sharing event, this time being held at Ashwood Park Primary School, on Thursday 29th June from 4:30 pm onwards.  Once again we are delighted to be...

B&C’s First Ever Teachers’ Meet

Join us for our first B&C Educational Teachers’ Meet on Tuesday 21st  March 2017 at Nettl Business Store, Great Charles Street, Birmingham.    This evening session will bring together primary teachers from across the West Midlands who we have worked with on...

Good news from The Gambia

After the unsettled period of political unrest since the elections of 1 dec 2016, the future for The Gambia is now looking bright. Adam Barrow’s government has received major funding from the European Union. The new president has expressed his wish for the...

Plastic kettles – updates

The West African recycled plastic kettle is found across that part of Africa.  Unless you have been to West Africa it is hard to understand its importance in the everyday lives of ordinary people.  They are used for carrying water, filling pots and pans, washing hands...

Teachers’ Workshop

Teachers’ Workshop in Cape Point, Feb 2016             B & C Educational sponsored an international teachers’ workshop and welcomed 19 Gambian teachers, 3 Senegalese and 8 UK educationalists.  The morning was spent...

The Day we went to Senegal

  The background In March 2015, the schools in B and C Educational Ltd.’s informal network were encouraged by the British Council to consider  developing tripartite partnerships with The Gambia and Senegal based on their already successful inks with Gambian...

Happiness Hits Howley

Happiness Hits Howley   Please link to find out how Happiness hit the West Midlands in an inter-primary school United Nations style conference to celebrate the International Day of Happiness

What a busy time we had in The Gambia

There were so many highlights for this particular study visit to The Gambia organised by B and C Educational through their Global Dimension Partnership branch. We were delighted to meet 5 teachers from schools in Senegal who joined our group for 4 days. They took a...

Exciting start to 2015

B&C Educational have had an exciting start to the new year. Nettl of Birmingham (nettl.com) have just upgraded their website (www.primary-school-resources.com) and it went live and Friday, so we are looking forward to a flood of new orders for our educational...

Gambia visit excitement mounts

Despite the random rumours emanating from West Africa, there are still no ebola officially recognised in The Gambia and the Global Dimension Partnership trip scheduled for mid November is going ahead. The Gambia has suffered from the ebola scare as fewer tourists have...

Ebola and The Gambia: we all need global education

The ebola crisis in Guinea, Sierra leone and Liberia has once again bought home how people in UK lack a sufficiently informed world view. With the high profile news coverage, it is clear that many people consider Africa to be one place, rather than a huge continent...

Gambia visit excitement mounts

Despite the random rumours emanating from WEst Africa, there are still no ebola officially recognised in The Gambia and the Global Dimension Partnership trip scheduled for mid November is going ahead. The Gambia has suffered from the ebola scare as fewer tourists have...

Next Gambia study visit

We as the Global Dimension Partnership are now actively planning for the next Gambia study visit (19-26 November) and working with busy teachers is sometimes very difficult. Last week we were fully booked with 16 places, now two have had to drop out and we are looking...

New new curriculum

As primary teachers are feeling the effects of a long year, facing sports’days, parents’evening, report writing and beginning to think about the coming holidays, so the new curriculum is published in more or less its final form.  There have been some...

New Primary Curriculum 2014

The new primary curriculum 2014 seems to be causing confusion in some primary schools and indifference in many others. The new programme is expected in September 2013 so that schools can spend 2013/14 preparing their curricula for the new programmes of study. However...

Advanced Planning Now!

Having had such a successful time in our April trip to The Gambia with a pleasingly diverse group of people who work in primary schools, namely three heads, two deputies, 9 class teachers, 1 learning assistant, a chair of governors, and PTA rep. The group gelled well...

Preparation is All

This week we seem to be preparing. We are preparing to exhibit at the Geographical Association Annual Conference in Derby from 4-6 April; we are stand 70 and hope to be talking to a lot of conference goers. It will feel strange to be at a conference and not delivering...

Coal Pots- Recycling Dilemma

B&C Educational have a coal-pot dilemma.  We have some 400 Gambian coal-pots which we need to dispose of.  These coal-pots are like mini-barbecues and are widely used in The Gambia for boiling tea and for cooking (see man in photo with his tea boiling at his...

India Photopack ready at last

  At last the India Photopack is now published and for sale. There are 28 photos and maps including a blank map of India for photocopying. The aim is to stress the diversity of India in terms of environment, climate and human and economic geography.  It has...

Images and Artefacts

B&C resources are normally produced as a result of our own visits, experiences and efforts.  I am currently producing an photopack on ‘India’ to complement our other resources on India which include Images in and around Chembakolli and an Indian...

Dee Covets Kettles!

B and C have been very busy in the second half of January. Our visit to the marketing gym and Dee Blick was exciting, eye opening and hard work! (www.themarketinggym.org)  We feel we learnt so much and have already hired two Girl Fridays to work on our tactical...

Happy New Year

Back to work again and what a prospect of exciting developments.  We are going to visit Dee Blick (dee@themarketinggym.org) next week and we hope she will be able to help us set up a marketing strategy for all our activities, which if successful will certainly be a...

Gambia and Back with 84 plastic kettles

We are just back from our week revisiting The Gambia with friends and family.  We were busy, so busy; we were making new contacts, buying resources for our African Locality Packs (see www.primary-school-resources.com), developing new opportunities for the primary...

Gambia again

27 November 2012 Pam and I are very close to our departure to The Gambia for a week during which we will buy the stock that we need to keep the African Locality Packs authentic .  We are making lists and gestimating  quantities and are in contact with our ‘product...

The next adventures

Pam and I are currently developing our marketing strategy, but not most exciting news but nonetheless very necessary.  We are planning a mail shot  to hit half the schools in England in January 2013.  There will be special country packages of our educational materials...

Hello blogging world!

Our new blog is now live! We look forward to keeping you updated on the developments and adventures. For more information please visit our website. You will see our products and teaching aids listed under each country. Go on, have a quick look now 🙂