UK Schools – We hope you’ve had a great summer holiday. At School Connect we’re ready to tell you about some exciting projects we have planned for the new school year. All teachers in our link schools (and beyond) are invited to our next twilight meeting on Monday 19th September at 4.30pm at Kingsmead Primary School, Canterbury, CT1 1BD. Email contact@school-connect.org.uk to let us know you are coming.
School Connect UK School’s Co-Ordinator’s Meeting
Just a reminder that we will be meeting for coffee and a sharing session tomorrow at 4:45pm. Thanks once again to Kingsmead School for the use of your lovely meeting room! See you tomorrow.
Geoff and Christine News!
Geoff (the founder of School Connect) and his wife Christine will soon be jetting off with their family to their new posting in Mozambique. You can keep up to date with the goings on in the Holder household by logging on to thier new blog http://candgholder.blogspot.com/
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Popping into Selling CEP
Massive thanks to all the Staff at Selling CEP who made me feel really welcome last week (24th March). It was really great to spend some time planning with you and chatting through the work that School Connect does in both Uganda and the UK. I am really looking forward to seeing some of the work that your pupils generate over the next few months.
Connected Kids Workshop
How is Ugandan School and village life different to yours?
Hand painted response to Ugandan source material
Look at this amazing art that has been produced by the Children of Kingsmead during a special day. They looked at a picture by a Ugandan artist which shows a scene of Ugandan life and then decided to make their own scene, depicting life in the Kingsmead Playground. Later in the day Uganda Class spent some time learning about the types of Toys and Games that Ugandan children use to entertain themselves. Then they made some of their own toys and games using recycled materials and junk that they had found around the school.
Check out their picture – it is ace! They have decided to send it to their Ugandan Partner School as a gift.
Website Launched at Kingsmead Primary School
Thanks so much to those partner schools who came to our website launch last night. During the meeting it was decided that UK schools should write their own descriptions and add some photos to their work so that the Links Page begins to fill up with information. Lots of ideas were shared as to how pupils could do this and it was agreed that these would be sent in to School Connect in the next few weeks. If you were not able to make the meeting please take a look at this page and begin to plan your school’s description as well. Emma shared some lesson starters and activity ideas to support you in this term’s theme of Ugandan Food. This will be available as a pdf file on the website in the near future.
Matt
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You have found your way to the News blog for School Connect, a Christian charity based in Canterbury in the UK. Our mission is to link Primary Schools in the UK with Prmary Schools in Uganda, Africa, with the aim of deepening the educational, cultural and developmental experience of the children of both countries. For a better undertsanding of what we do then please visit our website www.school-connect.org.uk and take a look around.