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14 The Link Magazine • July 2005
Developing big hearts and open minds
Children and staff at Peatmoor Primary School had a busy time at the end of May when visitors from around the world joined them to share
their school.
Twoboysandtwoteachersfrom dren need to have a wide outlook case. Our children also have astere- beng, said, "Peatmoor is a really
Dihlabeng, Peatmoor's South Af- which accepts and celebrates dif- otypical view: they think every- nice school with lots of room and
rican partner school, spent two ferences and diversity, here in our body in Britain is white. tons of computers. We wrote let-
weeks in Swindon. Their trip coin- town and across the world. It "Here we've been to Drove ters before we came, but it's nice to
cided with visits by children and doesn't matter who you are, what School with Peatmoor School chil- be able to meet our friends at this
teachers from two European part- you look like or your beliefs, it's dren to work on multi-cultural school. Our teaching at Dihlabeng
tier schools, one in Sweden, the what's inside that's important." projects and to learn about all the is in English so we can understand
other a French speaking school in Margaret Grant, headteacher at different people living in Britain. each other no problem."
Bilbao, Spain. Dihlabeng School, which has been "We also went to the Sikh tern- Lekhetho Mofokeng,l 1, said a
PeatmoorheadteacherTerriPea- linked to Peatmoor for over four pie, St Peter's Roman Catholic sightseeing trip to London was a
cock said, "we are working to cre- years said the two schools were Church and also to Asda in West highlight. "The underground is
ate a global dimension to the edu- looking at similarities. "Children Swindon." amazing. And we really liked the
cation offered atPeatmoor,tomake here have stereotypes of Africa, Elvis Mokoena, 12, from Dihla- changing of the guard."
it a central part of the curriculum, often based on visions of poverty
Lekhetho and Elvis with their special friend Elliott Patterson, centre, with left,
not an add on interest. Our chil- and starvation, which is not the advisonl teacher ]ernl Prior z'isiting the school to talk about Goa. and right.
Dihlal ,^n 1 teachers ]o West and Margaret Grant
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Urgently Needed, Friendly Families f {
who enjoy a new and interesting experience, to accommodate
}oung foreign language students for two-week stays
in the Swindon area between 26"' June and 23 '' July.
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Students have a full programme six days a week.
Good remuneration and local support is provided.
For more information, please contact Caroline Lockwood:
01666 860361 or 07944 496142
[email protected]
The summer school in Swindon is part of OISE Youth Language Schools —
a member of ARELS and approved by the British Counc il.

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