Join us in celebrating the launch of our new project ‘Partners in Development’ and enter our competition.
How can we work together to make the world a better place?
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Win: a year’s free subscription to the Link Schools Programme worth £550 plus video footage from your partner school’s teachers and pupils.
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The Link Schools Programme facilitates school partnerships between schools in England and Wales and schools in Africa. With funding from the European Union for our project Partners in Development, we are adding some exciting aspects to our Link Schools Programme to help you to work with your partner school to learn together:
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Cluster training about success in school partnerships
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Joint curriculum materials to guide the process of learning in partnership
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Support to take action to make a difference
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Provision of solar power, computer equipment, and internet access to African schools to make communication easier
The competition
How can we work together to make the world a better place? Climate change, poverty, conflict, discrimination, disease and inequality – just a few of the issues we must be aware of and take action against as responsible global citizens. Enter our competition and tell us how working in partnership can help us to make a difference, locally and globally.
Choose one or more global issues, and tell us about the action you can take to make a difference. Perhaps you’ve done an environmental audit in your school and have taken action to cut down your energy use. Have you shared your idea with others either in your local community or on an international level? Tell us about it and be entered into a competition to win a year’s free subscription to the Link Schools Programme and some video footage from your African partner teachers and pupils.
The curriculum
There are two categories – one for primary schools (age 4-11) and one for secondary schools (age 11-16). You can advertise the competition to the whole school and it can be integrated into any area of the curriculum – art and design, drama, environmental studies, English literature – it’s up to you.
Submitting your entries
The competition is open to all schools in England and Wales. It does not matter whether you are already part of our Link Schools Programme or not, as long as you are interested in School Partnerships. Each school can submit up to 10 entries per category. Entries should be submitted from groups of pupils, from class or year groups, or from the whole school. Entries can be submitted as:
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creative writing
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video footage of a performance
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or in any other format
You and your students can choose which media to use depending on your curricular focus. If you are sending digital entries, please ensure they are submitted in a widely used programme. All entries should be labelled with your school name, the name of a contact person, the global issue(s) you are presenting, and the category you are entering.
The deadline for submissions is Wednesday 9th June 2010.
Send your entries to Link Community Development, Unit 39 Kings Exchange Business Village, Tileyard Road, London N7 9AH, or to linkschools@lcd.org.uk.
Judging the competition
Entries will be judged by category by a team of judges. We’ll be looking for your entries to tell us about actions you have or could take to make the world a better place. It’s important to tell us how working in partnership can make more of a difference. Entries that represent different perspectives – from a range of groups from your community, or if your school is already linked, from your partner school and their community – will be marked highly.
What to do now:
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Judging will take place on Friday 11th June 2010 with the winning entries per category being announced shortly afterwards.
Click here to download the competition details in PDF format
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