Woodchurch staff and pupils visit Uganda
In early July Ms Oldham, Mr Roberts and Mr Clarke along with 2 Year 10 pupils Ella Neale and Alice Champion spent a week at our partner school Kanah High School in rural Eastern Uganda where most parents are subsistence farmers. As always in order to make the most of the visit there was a busy programme of activities that included: lesson observations, team and solo teaching, meetings with the school council, prefects, all the girls, the whole school management team, head teacher, parents and governors. Everyone at Kanah really values the partnership with Woodchurch and they are all very keen to find out more about our culture and our school.
During the 6 days at school Ella and Alice attended lessons, played netball and made some really good friends. The girls cannot be commended enough for their absolutely superb attitude throughout the whole of the trip.
Mr Clarke observed and taught citizenship, history and geography, and also coached the Kanah football team, having first chased the cows off the pitch! Mr Roberts used his IT expertise to sort out the school’s computers and train students and a member of staff. He also met with pupils with behaviour issues and contributed to an assembly about good attendance. Ms Oldham worked with the girls on Sex and Relationship Education, met with the School Council and the eco-group who on hearing that we now have hens promptly decided to get 10 ducks!
The team also visited 5 of Kanah’s feeder primary schools, taking letters, diaries and disposable cameras from their partner schools here in Wirral. The primary pupils sung and danced, and generally treated us like royalty!
The partnership was featured in a special radio broadcast and we are waiting for an article in a Ugandan national paper. The District Education Officer was also visited.
ur 5 year partnership takes time and effort to nurture, but is reaping great rewards in both schools, helping to raise standards and foster a better understanding of development issues. We are grateful to the Department for International Development Global Schools Partnership programme for financing these amazing exchange visits for the past 3 years, and we look forward to developing the partnership further.
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