vidya –setu linking schools in rajkot and gateshead veena soni head of ethnic minority and...

Vidya –SetuLinking schools in Rajkot and

Gateshead Veena Soni

Head of Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Service

In 2010 through the connecting classrooms programme schools in Gateshead linked with schools in Gujarat.

Teachers from Rajkot visited our schools.

Teachers from Gateshead then went on to Gujarat on an exchange visit

Background

Our visits were very successful – due to the preparation meetings we held before the visit.

Post visit discussions Discussion with our partners Vidya- Setu- Conference in Rajkot India Discussion with head teachers

Vidya - Setu

Linked 40 schools in mainly Gateshead However we would like to extend it to

schools across the north east In India it has extended to schools across

India Bede- applied for funding through

connecting classrooms for an exchange visit June – head teacher of their partner school

visited them

Vidya- Setu

She visited Gateshead for 8 days During the visit- she observed lessons . She also taught lessons Story-telling Rangoli patterns Cooking Skype

Exchange visit

She was very interactive Out in the yard, games lesson, The children asked lots of questions Power point of the school day in India Lessons taught there Food, transport, clothes etc.

Exchange visit

Veena Soni

Head of EMTAS

Dryden Centre

Evistones Road

Gateshead

NE9 5UR

Tel No - 01914338692

Mob No – 07803276656

E-mail :- veenasoni@gateshead.gov.uk

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