Year 7 pupils now have the opportunity to learn directly from pupils at the Elengeni Secondary School Mtwalo Malawi as part of a Plan-ed school link run by Mr Cornish and the Geography Department. All year 7 pupils have already begun studying the unit “Malawi- Closer than you think” in which pupils here at school learn about the culture, people, economy and environment of Malawi, while at the same time, pupils in Malawi learn similarly about the UK. The project will involve the exchanging of letters, photos, videos, surveys and class work. In July we sent 20 disposable cameras to one class at Elengeni with the aim of them taking photos of their lives using a number of themes. We had some amazing results when the cameras were returned to us in September. Check out the photos below! In the summer of 2009, we hope that year 7 pupils will have the opportunity to recipricate the project and produce their own excellent portfolio of photographs. We also hope that we will be able to hold a public display of some of the photos in Upminster library. News of the second part of the project will appear here. Click on the Plan-ed logo to read more about school link ing from their own site.

A map showing the location of our link school in Malawi