School partnerships: Finding a partner school and creating a successful partnership
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Many schools would like to link up with another school to exchange letters between students, work on joint projects, and gain new skills.
Please provide information on how to find a partner school e.g. websites that can help.
If your school is, or has been, involved in a partnership how did it start, what activities do you take part in, what is going well, how could things be done better?
If your school would like a partner please post details here. Please give information on what kind of school you are, which country you are in, the kind of partnership e.g. student penpals, joint projects, school exchange visits etc, whether you would prefer to link with a school in a particular country.
We would like to parterner our nursing training school with similar school elsewhere. Our school is in Uganda and our interest would be joint projects and exchange visits.
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Stanley Okurut
HI Stanley,
I am collecting at the moment the answers from different village schools as response to the email we sent out. I hope to be able to match all your different schools with each other - so that you can start joint projects with one partner school. But not sure that there is another nursing school. Did you try to contact the Arrow Web Hospital of Kayole Soweto http://www.nabuur.com/en/village/kayole-soweto?
best,
Maria
Yes thanks Mariaz, i am in touch with kayole. Trying to figure something that will require our joint focus.
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Stanley Okurut
We are carrying through a school project between a 12th grade English major class in Luebeck, Germany and Tejanath Pokharel's 9th grade classroom in Nepal. We are still hoping we can find a school in Mumbai to also participate.
This is the outline of the project. If other schools would like to partake, please feel free to contact me (cbsmkenya gmail com).
bye, Lia
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lilalia
We are currently doing a school project about water with a grade 4 class in Luebeck, Gemany, and grade schools in Jakarta (Herlina), Kimilili (Rev. Wasike), and Kitale (Esther). The project includes learning information about water and how it is made and used. The children are doing various experiments, as well as writing of reports.
If anyone wants me to send them the pdf files of these experiments or would like to participate in the project as well, please let me know (cbsmkenya gmail com).
Attached is the project outline.
Note: if the school participating in the projects do not have regular access to the internet, they can send me an email report of what the children did and some photos and I will publish the presentation on the song circle classroom community website (www.songcircle.ning.com).
bye, lia
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lilalia
Over time I have accumulated a list of organisations can help with setting up school partnerships. I add to it as I find things.
It can be found at http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgs9fnp6_0g5zp8p3n
Mary
Dear all,
Having heart that several local representatives have been applied to Global Gateway without success, I recently discussed this issue with Moses from Serere. He has been very successful in finding even three different schools. He told me that the success with registering at www.globalgateway.org depends on the first three sentences you put in your profile. Potential partners read through these few words and decide which school might be interesting.
After this conversation, I slightly changed the profile of Komarok to make the message easier and more direct - and after a week, John got a response from a school in the UK. Here is the example of Komarok http://globalgateway.org/default.aspx?page=7
Thought it would be interesting for you, and maybe by making your statement very easy to read and clear, you might have more success. Of course there is no guarantee, but I think Moses is right in saying that most messages are too complicated.
Good luck,
Maria
Hi Maria
That is interesting, hope Komarok partnership works well.
Your link took me to the general Globalgateway search page, but I managed to find the entry by using the search function. There does not seem to be a way to post a direct link, so am posting the info that is visible on the results screen as others may find it helpful:
Registerd users can then click to see more info and contact the school.
Mary
Hello Everyone,
Maria is very right and i would encourage other village to make there introductions a little bit simpler, talk about how good your school is and how friendly they may...bluh bluh, but make it short.
Moses
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Empowering commuities!
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hi Lia Hadley,
nice to listen about the lives of woman, but i'm disappointed to listen the limitations. which are limited to germany, india or nepal. in india neighborhood there, another country also exists which names pakistan.
woman of pakistan stares at world & asks from developed countries about their participation. woman of pakistan is swinging in the flood of traditional sanctions, threats of terrorists & critical remarks of society.
she is injured, she is weak, she is depressed.
she cries to change her life.........
she shrieks to protect her from miserable life........
she protests to help her for successive life.................
your kind guidance can alter her perilous life,
hope to hear you soon with soft remarks & kind feelings, kindly if you can have a glance on my village "kohat" & my profile.
it will help you to make a desicion.
thanks for your attention.
adnan khan
HI Stanley Okurut,
It's too quite to listen you, gentleman!!!!!!!!! wake up. Where are you?
Your absence make me feel worry. Just say something, I'm waiting to hear you.
Best wishes,
Adnan khan.
Hi Adnan,
Thanks,
I m ok but busy as the end of the year closes in. Besides my network has been poor of recent. But cogs. for breaking through the barriers
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Stanley Okurut
Hello Adnan,
You talked of an institution, can you please give the website if you have any, so we can assess and give necessary feed back.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Moses
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Empowering commuities!
http://www.scode.net.tc
HI MOSES,
It sounds great, when you pronounce me "khan" , thanks a lot for your offer my website will be completed soon, hopefully.
The sooner I receive it, the faster I'll inform you & my other neighbors.
Thanks a lot,
Adnan khan.
Dear Mr. Adnan Khan,
thank you for writing about how we could extend the school exchange project. The limitations occurred not out of conscious effort to limit the participants, but because of lack of response from Nabuur community members in India. The German school's curriculum stipulated that the students should studying various aspects of life in India or Nepal. We searched for participants in India, but were unsuccessful. We were very happy to receive one interested school in Nepal. The project is defined by the ministry of education and the teacher had to comply to its guidelines.
I hope you have much success with your work.
all the best,
Lia
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lilalia