Charles Dickens Primary school is proudly celebrating after being awarded ‘International Primary School of the year 2012’ in a recent competition jointly hosted by the British Council and HSBC bank. As national competition winners, HSBC have donated £5000 to support future international work.
With this funding, we will be supplying our partner school in Malawi with cameras, flip cams and laptops to further strengthen our communications and support future projects.
Well done to Emily Crow, our International Coordinator, for her winning application which highlighted the continued commitment by staff to develop an effective international curriculum with long term sustainability. John Rolfe of the British council praised the wide range of cross curricular international learning that is taking place at Charles Dickens Primary School and the strong international ethos.
On Friday 16th November, we will be attending an awards ceremony at HSBC, Canary Wharf and will be presenting on the power, value and benefits of international activity at Charles Dickens School.
Congratulations CD and Mrs Crow especially! Our younger son tells us he has been drinking Japanese tea yesterday in your class and last week using chopsticks and in general thinking about and ‘trying out new cultures’. What great fun it is at an international school! Thank you very much.
Wow!! This is fantastic news. I am looking forward to setting up a link with a school here in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. I have just had a meeting with the Director and they are very keen. Well done Ms Crow and all the staff! Ms Roberts will be happy too.