The Welwitschia Partnership

This is the pbwiki for the British Council Welwitschia Partnership; a school link project set up under the British Council's Connecting Classrooms programme.

The aim of this Wiki is to enable the partners to access and share the documentation for this project but also to spread news of what we are trying to achieve.

This is how I presented this new partnership to the UK cluster members.

The Partners

UK Cluster:

The Gordon Schools, Huntly, Aberdeenshire

Gordon Primary School, Huntly, Aberdeenshire

Rhynie Primary School, Rhynie Aberdeenshire

Ethiopia Cluster:

Lalibela Preparatory School

Lalibela Secondary School, PO BOX 34, Lalibela, Ethiopia

Lalibela Primary School

Here's a short documentary about Lalibela.

Namibia Cluster:

Augeikhas Primary School, PO Box 7137, Katutura Windhoek, Namibia

Khomas High School,  Windhoek, Namibia

Ella Duplessis High School,PO Box 10399 Khomasdal, Windhoek, Namibia

Have a look at this video drive through Windoek.

The People:

Partnership Co-ordinator: Adam Sutcliffe, acsutcliffe@gmail.com

UK Cluster Co-ordinator: Tracy Booth, igstbooth@gordonschools.aberdeenshire.sch.uk

Ethiopia Cluster Co-ordinator: Luelseged Kebede, luelseged_kebede@yahoo.com

Namibia Cluster Co-ordinator: Johannes Nowaseb,

The Name

We called our partnership WELWITSCHIA in honour of the world's longest living plant which has its home in Namibia and is indeed the national symbol of that country, and to synmbolise our desire for a long lasting partnership and friendship between the three cluster partners.

See what one of these miracles of nature looks like in real life (well on video anyway)