In brief, during the first 3 years of our partnership we will aim to develop projects in all of the following areas:
Each cluster has promised to plant trees to celebrate World Environment Day on June 5th 2007. The trees will be indigenous to each region and it is hoped will form the beginnings of an international park/garden which will come to symbolise our partnership.
On Friday 8 June 2007 students from The Gordon Schools, Gordon Primary and Rhynie Primary planted 33 trees in the Moss Wood Community Garden in Rhynie. This event was to celebrate both World Environment Day, which had taken place on 5th June, and the stsrt of the Welwitschia Partnership
The trees were provided by Steve Brown, who works for the Grampian Conservancy and the stakes and tubes necessary for protecting the trees were donated by the Moss Wood Community Garden project members.
The students were divided into 6 teams of three; each group being made up of one pupil from each school. The groups were ably assisted by Paul Manning, George Beverly and Olivia Forbes who are members of the garden project committee.
All the trees planted were ones that can be found locally, including ash and scots pine. The pupils were given a demonstration of how to plant the trees and were then sent off to get on with it.
After a hard morning’s planting the Rhynie school kindly provided the team with refreshments and scones to help recharge the batteries.
The Moss Wood Community Garden was established a year or so ago with grant aid from the Forestry Commission, but it also featured on the BBC Scotland’s Beechgrove Garden show.
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It was proposed that the next partnership visit would be to Windhoek and this would take place early July (possibly first week of UK summer holidays). Also the next Partnership Co-ordinator would be Johannes, as the next visit would be to Namibia.
field trip to see welwitschia
also analysis of how these themes impact each country
learning / teaching of traditional local sports/games
Obviously many of these plans came from teachers in UK and projects will need to be discussed with our partners before timescales can be arranged.
World AIDS Day : . Whenever feasible around 1st December secondary schools will carry out some kind of event (assembly etc) which is prepared and carried out by students to raise awareness of the impact of HIV/AIDS in their country. These students would be responsible for promoting the activity and feeding down to cluster primaries in an appropriate mannner
Welly Week: inter-cluster project focussing on putting the boot into poverty. Will involve older students preparing activities for youger students.
Tree Planting: ongoing
Above projects will involve sharing of results etc.
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