International Link

News Flash!!

- we have now been granted an International School award by the DCFS.

 

Our school has an international link with Twatemwa Basic School in Kitwe, Zambia.

 

Mrs Whitman, our Headteacher, visited Twatemwa at Easter 2006.  She brought back some superb pictures, some of which can be seen below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        This is Mr Chilufya.  He is the Acting Headteacher at Twatemwa Basic School.  He visited Curry Mallet in October 2006.  He told us some fantastic stories and made us think very carefully about the way we lead our lives.

 

 

Sharing Learning

 

Class 3 have sent their projects on water to Twatemwa Basic School in Zambia.  In exchange, the children of Twatemwa have produced powerpoint presentations, also about water. This has enabled the children from both schools to see how water is used in different parts of the world.            

 

 

A Big Trip!

 

 

 

In February 2009 two of our teaching staff - Mr Wayland and Mrs Devereux vistited Twatemwa Basic School. They lived with two teachers from the school and spent several days seeing what happens in Twatemwa and in other schools in Kitwe.

 

 

                                        

 

 

Partnership Agreement

between

Twatemwa Basic School, Kitwe, Zambia

and

Curry Mallet Church of England Primary School, Somerset, England

 

General aims:

• Enhance international co-operation and understanding
• Understand and respect differences between peoples, cultures and environments and stimulate ideas and discussion on life’s everyday aspects
• Encourage pupils to look at their own world from different perspectives
• Gain knowledge, skills and understanding to become informed, active, responsible citizens at local, national and global levels
• Understand the need to maintain and improve the quality of life now without damaging the planet for future generations

 

Objectives:

• To engage our two schools in an educational manner
• To structure projects within the curricula of both schools
• To work towards reciprocal teacher visits to support our link
• To build an awareness of the daily lives, traditions, local history/geography/economy of our link school
• To use ICT to support our link

 

We recognise that our partnership may be affected by time, money, geography and change of personnel.  We would therefore seek to review our agreement every two years.

 

Our partnership is an attempt to bring an international, multicultural dimension into our schools for all our pupils and staff.  As partners, we all seek what is best for our pupils and will try to provide this opportunity in order to enhance their educational experiences.

 

This agreement is written and agreed to in goodwill and with educational objectives in mind for the enhanced education of our pupils.

 

 

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