WHAT WE ARE ABOUT

Partnerships in School Linking has been given major funding by the Department for International Development (DFID), in order to facilitate and support schools across Lancashire and Cumbria who are linked or who would like to link with partner schools in the South (including Africa, Asia, Central & Latin America, and the Pacific).

North-South links can help challenge prejudice, stereotypes & preconception about other countries, while promoting basic skills and potentially enhancing all areas of the curriculum.

We believe that the most successful links are based on equal partnership, with each partner having the space to express their own aims, and in which there is some commitment towards agreeing joint curriculum project and shared initiatives. Both partners can benefit greatly from a link, each has much to learn, and the potential for enhancing the curriculum is unlimited.

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We also recognise that there are many practical problems associated with school links, not least the difficulties of communicating across vast distances, or of raising money for exchanges.