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Link Your School - Background
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Aim
Our “link a school project" is aimed to provide a sustained improvement in the performance of pupils in Zambia and an improved understanding of Zambian cultures in the UK.
Where support will go
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Your support will be spent based on the current requirements of your link school. Each school is different but initial evaluations have determined that flushing toilets are the most important first stage of development followed by desks, a library, stationary, sports equipment and then library. Your support will make a massive impact for hundreds of young people.
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Projected financial plan
- £150 – 2 Flushing toilets·
- £300 – 2 Flushing toilets, 10 Desks·
- £500 – 2 Flushing toilets, 10 desks and library books·
- £700 - 2 Flushing toilets, 10 desks, library books, stationary and sports equipment·
- £1000 - 2 Flushing toilets, 10 desks, library books, stationary, sports equipment and electricity. ·
- £1500 – Provide all of the above and build a school library·
- £2000 – Provide all of the above, a school library and continued professional development for teaching staff. (Electricity will lead to further opportunities for development including a potential internet link that will enhance communications with your link school)
Benefits for the School
- Heightened cultural awareness
- Enhanced understanding of global citizenship
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Visit from Zambian Peer Leader
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Receive a Friend of EduSport DVD
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Demonstration of chimbomba making
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Supporting a school from Zambia
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Citizenship classes encourage pupils to develop skills of participation and responsible action. These include: skills to empathise with the views and experiences of others and explain views not necessarily their own. Additionally pupils participate in school and community based activities and reflect on their participation.
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Advantages of linking a school and becoming informed citizens.
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Rights and responsibilities, including human rights and rights as consumers
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Mutual respect and understanding for diverse communities around the world
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Ideas for resolving conflict
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The significance of the media and the importance of a free press
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Advances global citizenship and acceptance for cultures different from our own
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Responsibility and sustainable development
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Develops the world as a global community (ECM)
On January 4 2007, International Development Secretary, Hilary Benn, and Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, launched the “World Classroom” , a publication encouraging UK schools to build links with their counterparts in the developing world. The British government has an ambitious programme to link every school and college in the UK to an overseas counterpart by 2010. St Johns will have achieved this initiative 3 years early.
“International links can be a powerful way to support the global dimension across the curriculum, bringing the issues to life for students in both countries. One of the main aims of the DfES International Strategy is to enable every school in England to establish a sustainable partnership with a school in another country by 2010” (Department for International Development 2007)
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Once there was a little boy who was walking down the beach. On that
particular day there were thousands of little star fishes thrown up on
the sandy beach at the high tide line. The little boy decided to start
throwing the little fishes back into the ocean. While he was doing that,
an old man came over to him and said to the boy, " What difference is
what you are doing going to make, can't you see that there are too many
of them?". The little boy got one fish and threw it back into the ocean
and said, "This one sir. This one will make a difference.
