DG Newsletter Autumn 2012.pdf - Deptford Green School

GLOBAL SCHOOL
PARTNERSHIP WITH
ST KIZITO SCHOOL, UGANDA
Mayor’s Reception: On June 14th at Deptford Green School was invited by the Daneford Trust to celebrate
its international education links with St Kizito School and meet other young people from the borough
who are also involved in volunteer work courses. Jen Mason and Shannon O’Neil, former Deptford
Green students, are heading for a month’s placement at Reach Out HIV/AIDs Centre and an orphanage
arranged by St Kizito School. We hope to develop short time volunteer work placements for DGI students
as part of the International Baccalaureate programme.
Reaccreditation for International School Award: In July we submitted our application for reaccreditation
for the full International School Award and will be hearing about this shortly. Students and staff gave
evidence on the impact that our global links had.
Tristan Gadd reflects at the end of Year 11: “In a world of economic and political dependence on one another
(countries), surely it is about time our education caught up with that. We all believe in a brighter
future and many would say that knowing about and understanding about others we can accomplish the
future we all desire. So by establishing this we can encourage our students to create links around the
world to enable students, teachers and our community to do so.”
Gregg Woodier, Science teacher, talks of the lessons to be learned in resourcefulness. “The partnership
with St Kitizo allows two disparate groups of students to find commonality in the enjoyment of science
by asking questions regardless of resources in school. Here we wonder at the resourcefulness of the St
Kizito community. They made helicopters from discarded mobile phones and other junk. ”
OLYMPIC TRIPS DURING
GLOBAL YOUTH EXCHANGE
In August our Ugandan exchange students came to the UK, staying
partly in the homes of the Y11 students who had visited them last year.
The students did a 5 day residential
on the coast doing out of bound activities,
raft building, took part in a
Shakespeare day and went to see
Richard III.
During the exchange, which coincided
with the Olympics, staff ran an “International Olympic Youth Conference”
here at the school, which all of our students were welcome
to attend. For three
days in August students
were able to join workshops
in poetry, art,
music, debating, and
sports and were even
given tickets to the Olympics, which Deptford Green had
been given by the Get Set Olympic Organisation!
Deptford Green was awarded a total of 142 tickets, and
many other trips to the olympics and paralympics took
place over the summer. We would like to thank the staff
and students who were involved in these programmes during
their summer holiday, particularly Wendy Bisiker who
organised the two week programme for the Uganda students,
as well as running the Olympic Conference.