Welcome to British Council Connecting Classrooms!
Connecting Classrooms in the Central and South Asia region is a project linking clusters of schools in the UK with clusters of schools in Pakistan, Bangladesh or Afghanistan.
Connecting Classrooms builds lasting partnerships between schools in the UK and others around the world. Through these partnerships, the programme develops trust and understanding between people in different societies, creating a safer and more connected world for the future.
We now have a total of 52 partnerships established between the UK and Pakistan, Bangladesh or Afghanistan.
Access your partnership project page by clicking on the 'partnerships' tab - or 'work on your project'.
Leadership Conference 2009-10
The Leadership Conference 2009-10 is taking place from Sunday February 28th-Tuesday 2nd March at Wokefield Park in Reading.
We have invited two head teachers from each cluster in the UK, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan to attend the conference, which will be followed by regional school visits until Friday March 5th. For all the information on the event itself go to the Leadership Conference Page
>>Leadership Conference February-March 2010
Get Voting! Student Poll
Please note that the POLL and QUESTIONS we would like your students to answer prior to the conference can be found by following the link below.
>>Student Voice and Postive Futures Poll
100 WORDS COMPETITION UK-BANGLADESH
100 Words - drama and digital video project
100 Words is a project for young people that opens their imagination, taps into their creativity and creates global connections. 100 Words aims to capture the essence of a language and culture in thousands of short plays, films or operas -each written using just a hundred words. Words and worlds are shared through live performance and digital technology, with an online environment created to give young people instant access to each other.
- Stage one - decide on theme of plays with partner school
- Stage two - write 100 word plays. Bangladeshi schools’ films must be in English, UK schools’ films must be in Bangla and English.
- Stage three - film them and upload them on to this webpage so your partner school can see them
- Stage four - comment on the video from your partner school
- Stage five - submit the videos
PRIZE:
The opportunity for you and 4 others from your school to participate in a two-day drama workshop in London. This will culminate in a public performance of the prize winning material and also of new work created during the workshop. Bangladeshi winners will then spend 3 days in their UK partner schools and put on the winning performance for the UK schools.
Go to your UK-Bangladesh partnership page to work on your project.
This is a pilot project which is currently only open to partnerships between the UK and Bangladesh. We hope in the future it will open to all UK-CSA partnerships.
NATIONAL SUPPORT EVENTS NOVEMBER 2009
We hosted 3 National Support events for the UK clusters partnered with Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan this November 2009, which were all great successes. Thank you to everyone who came to the events; it was fantastic to catch up on all the projects and hear about the many successes you are having on the project.
Many of you share similar challenges but we hope to have given you some practical solutions to work with and help move the projects forwards. The case studies we saw from all countries were no less than inspirational - thank you to those who represented their clusters and partners on the day.
All the presentations and resources used at the events are now on the resource bank to the right of the screen. Access the Resource Bank. As we said at the event, please do get in touch with us if you are having any major challenges with your project or partnership and need support or advice.
cc_csa@britishcouncil.org
Click on the photo gallery below to see images from this year's contact seminars as well as the various events held throughout 2008-09...you may see yourself!
THE RESOURCE BANK
We are constantly updating the resource bank for you so please use it! A report carried out by LONDON CHALLENGE on the Education system in Bangladesh has recently been put up and is an excellent insight into how schools are working in Bangladesh.
We have created a Resource Bank for sharing your lesson plans, ideas and schemes of work for embedding the Connecting Classrooms project within the school curriculum. We have some excellent examples of work already uploaded but if you have any more and want to share them please send them to the Connecting Classrooms inbox:
cc_csa@britishcouncil.org
Access the Resource Bank
Thank you for all the work you did on Global Handwashing Day across the countries in the UK and Central and South Asia.
The Global Handwashing Day website is now in the Resource Bank for your information next year...
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