Our Learn Together Program

Ethical Education is taught in place of religious instruction in all Educate Together primary schools. We are particularly proud of our Learn Together program here at GETNS, as it has been developed through consultation and collaboration with the whole school. It is also a flexible program which enables us to add and remove learning content in order to cater for our ever-growing and changing school community and, indeed, our global community.

The Learn Together Program is taught under four strands:

–          Moral and Spiritual Development

–          Equality and Justice

–          Belief Systems

–          Ethics and the Environment

During each term, the children are taught across all four learning areas. We take a whole-school approach to this program, meaning that children are learning about the same topics, at a similar time, at appropriate levels. Our Learn Together program is taught in a Year A and Year B format, in line with the Primary School Curriculum, which is also taught over a two year period.

The objective of Ethical Education in our school is to instil in our pupils a sense of self, a sense of community, a sense of belonging and an understanding, respect and appreciation of our global community, environment and belief systems.

Principal Helen McClelland and teacher Aoife O’Sullivan, coordinate the Learn Together program in our school. Please contact the office to make an appointment with them if you would like to discuss any aspect of the program, or if you would like to make a suggestion.

Thank you.

Learn Together Ethical Curriculum 

Here are our upcoming topics and values for April, May and June 2022.

	April	May	June
Value	Honesty	Trust	Self-Motivation
Moral and Spiritual Strand	Inclusion	Kindness	Perseverance/Commitment
Justice and Equality Strand	World Autism Awareness Day	Traveler Pride	Whole School Amnesty/Friendship Day
Ethics and the Environment Strand	Earth Day	Rewilding Wild Flowers, Bees, Biodiversity	World Bicycle Day/ GETNS Park and Stride
Belief Systems	Easter Ramadan The Passover  (Compare and Contrast)	Humanism- focus on naming ceremonies	Wedding Ceremonies around the world

Learn Together and SPHE Plan 2020/ 21

	September	October	November	December	January	February	March	April	May	June
Value	Responsibility	Independence	Respect	Kindness	Open-Mindedness	Love	Happiness	Honesty	Trust	Self-Motivation
Moral & Spiritual	Sense of Self	Communication & Cooperation	Social Responsibility	Giving/ Receiving/ Gratitude	Disability Awareness	Family Units	Reflection and Silence	GETNS Grandparents Day	Elements of an apology	Forgiveness
Justice & Equality	Class rules/code of behaviour	Jealousy & disappointment	Conflict resolution	Homelessness	Martin Luther King Day	Class Nationalities	Challenging Stereotypes	Ageism Autism Awareness Day 2nd	Animal Welfare-pet care	Feeding the world
Ethics & the Environment	Caring for our Local Beach	If the world were a village of 100 people	Freedom vs responsibility	Sustainability at Christmas	Millennium Goals	Natural Disasters	Waste Week	World Health Day	Walking School Bus	Travelling Culture
Belief Systems	Rosh Hashanah, Jewish new year	Harvest/ Halloween/ Celtic Traditions	Bible stories	Christmas around the wold- choose one place linked to your class nationalities	Sikhism -Birth  of Guru Gobind Singh	Chinese New Year 21st	Irish Myths and Legends	Easter/ The Passover	Christianity -May is the month of Mary, Jesus’ Mother	World Humanist Day June 21st

*Please take note of the Educate Together Ethical Calendar 2020/21, there might be some important dates you want to mark in your classroom.*