Holy Family is an accredited Global Learning School. Global learning is essentially education for a fair and sustainable world. Key global learning concepts include poverty, global inequality, social justice, sustainable development and global interdependence. We recently rebranded our World Around Us topics to include the themes of Global learning in our planning.

Global learning helps pupils make sense of the increasingly globalised, complex and rapidly changing world in which they live. It enables pupils to think critically about world issues and to develop an awareness of the impact our own actions can have on others. A holistic approach to global learning equips young people with the essential knowledge, skills, attitudes and dispositions that will enable them to realise their potential and make a positive contribution to our world.

Global Learning is not an add-on to the curriculum, but rather provides an important lens through which to explore and enhance the existing curriculum strands, topics and skills. Global learning complements the other initiatives and award schemes that Holy Family has already committed to, such as Eco-Schools, International Schools and Rights Respecting Schools.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 For many years Holy Family has had close links with Uganda. The British Council Connecting Classrooms funding has allowed teachers from Holy Family to travel to Uganda and teachers from Uganda to travel to Belfast. This has been spiritually uplifting experience for the whole school. We were able to experience life for the children of St. Paul's Primary School through photographs, videos and stories from the teachers. The reciprocal visits are a huge celebration event in each school community and Parish. Shared learning projects are a key focus of our partnerships and we feel we can gain so much knowledge from each other. The Ugandan prayer “God is Good, all the time, all the time, God is Good” has become one of our Holy Family assembly favourites and the African song “Maliswee” is a guaranteed crowd pleaser in our choir’s repertoire!

Holy Family is part of a cluster of Belfast schools; St Kevin’s, Holy Trinity and St Teresa’s who all have Ugandan Partners. Below is a photograph of the team planning together with Emmanuel, the Ugandan Coordinator.

Unfortunately, the 2020 trip to Uganda was cancelled in light of the Coronavirus crisis and there are currently no plans to travel but we still hope to maintain ties with our friends in Uganda.  

Have a look at a slideshow of photographs from previous visits!