Would your school benefit from a link with a partner school in the UK? Does your school have interests that may benefit a UK school? The school linking programme currently links teachers and students in about 15 Sierra Leonean schools with their counterparts in the UK.
This Linking Programme builds on the successful Millennium Project ‘On the Line’. It promotes understanding of the contemporary UK educational scene among teachers and students helping to develop teaching standards and broaden the Sierra Leonean curriculum.
School partnerships are about learning from each other. You can start a partnership with a simple exchange of letters. The link may also encompass activities like sharing traditional stories or food recipes, through to fully developed joint school curricula. When you choose to link with a school, it is important that the relationship should be equal, reciprocal and contribute to the curriculum and broad interests of both schools.
Within the past two years, about 20 school linking co-ordinators in Sierra Leone and the UK have benefited from reciprocal visits to each other’s countries.
If you need some inspiration and ideas for linking your school, take a look at the Windows of the World Website. Here you will find examples of some of the successful partnerships we have already supported.
Limited funding is provided for partner schools and is available for the following:
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for key individuals to visit each other to establish links and plan work |
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to pay for planning materials and towards the cost of curriculum-based projects |
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for work in partnerships which support the development of a global dimension in the curriculum, the learning of foreign languages, or projects that involve school management, teaching and learning. |
If you are interested in taking part, come and discuss your ideas with our Schools Linking Officer at our Freetown office; s/he will give you an application form. You can also visit Windows of the World for project ideas, funding opportunities and information on finding a partner, and much more besides.
Find detailed information on case studies, teaching resources, teacher's areas and forums in the North-South School Linking Project.
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