A Journey into Learning

In February of last year I visited Ghana. One of the SEN schools I worked with was New Horizon School in Accra, who we now have an international link with. This film really encapsulates the spirit of the school. It’s in 3 parts.

I am very excited to be going to Ghana on Saturday. We have an international link along side William C Harvey School in Tottenham with New Horizon Special School and Castle Road Special Schools in Accra, Ghana and is funded by the Department for International Development. We have called the programme Creating Friendship and Interdependence. I have set up a shared blog by the same name to facilitate the link – which is viewable by invitation only since it contains photos of our children. Blogging is prooving a fantastic means of building a relationship between the schools in the two countries. The schools have both recently had computers donated by IT Schools Africa and Teachers Beyond Borders. Hopefully I can get them set up and usable whilst I am there.

The Ghanaian teachers visit to London in September was covered by the BBC. I hope that our visit will be equally successful! I’ll try and keep this blog updated whilst I am there…

I have been thinking a lot about ways of exchanging work with our partner school in Ghana. This has been somewhat of a challenge given that we are an SEN school, and most of our learners have limited literacy skills. We have played with ways using photos and short videos to encourage the children to build relationships with each other – but getting permission to use images of many of the children is difficult.

However, Voki offers a rather nifty way of the children communicating with each other. The kids loved making these – and it is a brilliant way of encouraging the children to talk.

Get a Voki now!

Get a Voki now!