Connecting Classrooms is a project that builds lasting partnerships between schools in the UK and around the world. The aim is to build understanding and trust between young people in different societies – helping to create the global citizens of the future.
In practice, teachers and school leaders are supported to develop international school partnerships through a range of projects and activities.
Connecting Classrooms in Spain
The focus of Connecting Classrooms is in Catalunya, where ten schools have been teamed up with counterparts in Bosnia, Poland and Scotlandon projects to promote inclusion and strengthen leadership skills amongst young people.
In 2010, our Connecting Classrooms schools in Baix Maresme exchanged culture boxes, made mini movies and organised a photography competition between schools in the four countries.
Read the project blog at the Catalan Department of Education (site in Catalan).
Getting your school involved in Connecting Classrooms
The new British Council Schools Online site.
is the best place to learn about Connecting Classrooms. It features:
- help on finding partner schools
- resources and ideas for international activities for your students
- guidance on funding opportunities
- information on the International School Award
The Big Dance schools event
Big Dance has been running in the UK since 2006, and is now the world’s biggest dance event. The British Council has brought Big Dance into the Connecting Classrooms programme to make dance the focus of international school partnerships, culminating in an international Big Dance schools event on 18th May 2012.
