Making a sustainable link with a school in Ghana

1. Making a sustainable link with a school in Ghana March 23rd 2010

2. Where is our Partner School? Ahantaman is in Sekondi-Takoradi Sekondi-Takoradi is a city in… …West Africa …South West Ghana, which is in…

3. Time zones • At this time of year we are in the same time zone as Ghana, but when the clocks Spring forward next weekend we will be one hour ahead. • Accra is the capital of Ghana and is about 4 hours drive from Sekondi Accra, Ghana

4. Theatre Royal exchange, 2005 The group includes two PHSG pupils. Bibi Walker was in the Midsummer Night’s Dream production. Colette Gregory was in the first Plymouth Ghana Link visit to Sekondi. Mrs Osei, Head at Ahantaman, is also in the picture. Having a get together at the Browns’ house

5. The first PHSG staff visit to Ahantaman, 2005

6. Ahantaman Geography fieldtrip to PHSG, March 2006.

7. Geography fieldtrip, June 2006Getting to know you.

8. Working and living together

9. Ahantaman Senior Secondary School (Ahanss) The computers we sent arrived 4 days after we left Waiting outside the classrooms to greet us

10. Making friends

11. Curriculum links at PHSG • Ghana Scheme of Work; Year 9 Geography, now in year 7, including Fair Trade, Water-borne diseases and Development issues. • Textiles; Year 9, Adinkra symbols/recycling; • Year 10 PSHE; Trading Game; • African Cup of Nations competition; all years • Citizenship and Year 11 Geography; Development issues. • Year 12 Geography and United Nations Conference; Food miles and ecofootprints, ethical trade, climate change, renewable energy

12. Textiles, Year 9

13. Curriculum links at PHSG (cont) • Year 7 PSHE; What did you have for breakfast? • Year 8 Music; Drumming workshop • Maths department; Oware board game • Food Technology; Year 9, recipe book, VIP lunch and Ghanaian cookery teaching DVD. • Science; Year 10, wind turbines and solar panels, potential sites for renewable energy. • Environment and Land based Diploma, Year 10, tropical agriculture • Geography; GIS mapping and coasts DVD

14. Music and Maths

15. Local Studies GIS mapping software

16. Citizenship and the global dimension The BaFa BaFa game, International Day, 2009 The Chocolate Game, Year 9 Geography 2009

17. Curriculum links at Ahanss • Geography; Ecofootprint quiz, SS3, coastal processes DVD, GIS mapping. • What did you have for breakfast? Year SS1 equiv. • Textiles – tie-dying and development of joint school uniform material. Products for us to sell. • ICT – Intro to using Microsoft Office, all years. • Ecotourism, SS2 and 3 • Impacts of mining, SS2 and 3 • Rural development, SS2 and 3

18. Archie in Geography Otilia and students at PHSG Enjoying the girls cooking at PHSG Archie and Otilia in ICT

19. Branching out PHSG girls “manning” the Plymouth, Ghana Link stall at the Respect Festival Mrs Feni and Mrs Banks selling Ahantaman-made jewellery

20. Curriculum enrichment An invitation to the Lord Mayor’s parlour Our visitors show us how to do an assembly

21. Mrs Osei and Mrs Graham The dynamic duo wait to be on Mr Moisob’s radio programme before going to a wedding at Wembury.

22. Curriculum links at Ahanss (cont) • English cookery, the Mrs Banks way • Science experiments lab. • ICT throughout the school • Development issues, especially relating to the discovery of oil – the Mahogany platform • Ecotourism at Green Turtle bay • Tropical Rainforest sustainability • Geography fieldtrips

23. Ethical trade, 2009 Taking wind and sunlight readings ICT lesson Welcome party Making mash!

24. PHSG to Ahantaman, 2009 Akwaaba Why does it always rain on me?

25. 2009 Studying eco-tourism at Green Turtle Bay

26. Fieldtrips – life-changing The triumphant soccer team of 2009 Ebenezer produces his first powerpoint And this one’s for the girls .... Sharing pineapples

27. Lessons before breakfast

28. Different experiences Wind turbine demo in assembly Canteen staff preparing dinner

29. Visiting Nana Ahinkofi

30. The palace and nursery school

31. Inside the market in Sekondi-Takoradi

32. Raising our profile Visit from Minister for International Development Articles in a professional journal Teaching resources in use Teaching resources for Otilia and Archie A series of articles in an Ordnance Survey publication

33. Out and about On a fieldtrip to Coombe Dean to see their renewable energy solutions Our visitors attend a meeting of the Plymouth, Ghana Link At a reception with the Lord Mayor Full English plus complimentary milkshake

34. February 2010 – Mrs Osei retires

35. Presentations

37. Mrs Osei’s dream – a Skills Centre

38. The Minister of State

39. Minister of Education

40. The guys who made it possible Chris and Oliver arranged our visits to the Presidential castle and to Parliament.

41. Year 12 Extended Project ... And carries out a blindfold chocolate tasting test Christine gives a presentation about Fair Trade ...

42. International Club • Relaunched - blog • Plymouth High School club at Ahantaman • Video conferencing

43. Getting involved • These girls raised over £2,000 towards the 2007 fieldtrip. • Ahantaman also raised funds.

44. The end

45. A sustainable school partnership?