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International links through the Kwathu Project – Norfolk Schools
The word Kwathuis Chichewa because family.The project is creating a broad kind of resources apt narrate the sights, sounds and issues of daily life via the eyes and ears of children of both UK and Malawi civilizations.Recommended resource: Check out our imaginary new paperback for worldwide schools,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], International Mindedness: a whole-school evolution agenda (published 2009) The Kwathu Project has had a profound clash above the lives of hundreds of teachers and thousands of students. The schools comprised in the project have a fundamental faith namely our teachers and students have to amplify a extra sophisticated knowing of the wider world.The most efficacious course to do this is at enabling both teachers and students in both countries to communicate instantly with every additional about real issues and consequently collapse their stereotypical views of life in other civilizations. The project has fulfilled the following: Fortnightly email communication with everyone involved in the project for the last 4 annuals The premier ever visit of Malawian teachers as part of a British Council Global Partnership project The training of the 40 ICT teachers from 30 schools in Malawi.Ten of which are immediately being used for ICT educator trainers using a course created by Alex Savage.Two of the teachers are likewise assisting the Malawian Examination Board to design the new ICT exam. Donated 2500 to the Malawian partner schools to buy teaching resources of their alternative Created a correlate with 2 Norwich Rotary clubs leading to 10,000 donation to New Gift School to build two new classrooms Won the altitude award of the Norfolk Environmental Award for our exemplary activities raising awareness of environmental issues to students in the UK and Malawi' Linked the Malawian partner schools to the Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi (WESM).Using money raised by Notre Dame, the schools have set up projects to build a fish harvest, and orange grove and amended sanitation Assisted the British Council in finding a beyond ten schools in England and Scotland to establish global partnerships with schools in Malawi Created one nationwide digital library of stills and video of life in Norfolk and Malawi.This has been donated to the British Council in Malawi as the root of a digital library to be accessed by folk across Malawi Trained teachers in Norfolk and Malawi on how to take digital stills and movie, then to establish digital presentations and videos Curricular clash The project has benefited the curricula of the link schools in the emulating ways: Created extensive resources on the teaching of Macbeth and Julius Caesar to be used in Malawian schools. As a result the schools are teaching literature courses for the first time Enabled teachers to visit areas and work with specialists in their own countries as well as abroad such as the Forestry Institute of Malawi Enabled teachers in both countries to explore how to improve the curriculum with global issues.These include: Citizenship: Studying rights and responsibilities by looking at photos of educate life in dissimilar nation ICT: Developing skills to effectively quest the Internet by researching a Safari holiday in Malawi.Developing modelling and presentation capabilities by researching global water use Geography: Studying hydroelectric power product at Nkula. Studying the impact of deforestation in Malawi.Studying Wind Power at Ecotech in Norfolk.Comparing climate statistics among Malawi and Norfolk Economics: Using Malawi as a circumstance learn of a developing country in A level Economics Art: Creating masks using traditional Malawian disguises as inspiration Whole school impact The partnership benefits teacher and students by enabling them to: increase student warranty with the curriculum promote and develop a wide range of studying styles qualify students to browse a variety of global issues via the eyes of other kid from differ races and cultures give all students of both genders (especially those with Special Needs) greater way to the curriculum, specifically numeracy, literacy and ICT The partnership gives students real opportunities to explore and develop the following: spirituality and morality critical calculating, reflection and reasoning skills ingenious and communication skills collation, treatment and introduction of fancies using ICT (when feasible) crew work and social skills literacy and numeracy investigation and evaluation skills The partnership continues to support each schools individual development arrange by: being a explicit dynamic instance of the schools Mission Statement being put into train promoting the schools patronize and relationship with not only the local yet multinational community to enhance the magnitude and formative an understanding of Human Rights and Fair Trade enabling the new subject of Citizenship to be at the heart of the schools curriculum and to be instructed in entire subjects enabling numeracy, literacy and ICT (while possible) to be educated throughout the curriculum to support the social, moral, spiritual and cultural evolution of every student to comprise all students however their age, gender alternatively ability Wider impact Given several interviews on BBC Radio Norfolk and issued treatises in the Eastern Daily Press Enabled Alex Savage to give presentations at the following events: Eastern Regional Teachers Award Trust rite Celebrating Comenius session at the British Council Norfolk LEA KS2 ICT Coordinators conference Norfolk GTP and SCITT training day Enabled Alex Savage to be invited onto the Editorial Board for the Global Gateway Website At the launch of the Global Gateway website at the Houses of Parliament, Charles Clarke said the Kwathu Project as an example of exceptional practice. Kwathu Project 05 The project has the emulating intentions for2005: To aid more schools to set up worldwide links, not fair with Malawi but Cambodia, Egypt and Australia To establish a an day module for GTP trainee teachers on how to embody global curriculum themes To create a CD rom of resources to be given to schools in Norfolk LEA To enable a Malawian Art teacher to be a resident talent for 3 weeks in 3 Norfolk schools To conduct an Action Research Project for the University of East Anglia on the motivational effects of providing a real crowds in other countries for students go
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