Whether you are interested in setting up a partnership or
simply looking to find websites from schools in other countries,
this page has details of organisations, projects and
websites that can help.
Web addresses are given in full so you can
print this page for reference or training purposes.
Support for partnerships
- British Council School
Partnerships
www.britishcouncil.org/learning-partner-finding
Support for finding a partner school in Europe and across the
world. The school partnerships initiative includes opportunities
for teachers and their pupils to collaborate on joint curriculum
projects and to visit their partner schools abroad. They give
comprehensive information on funding and suggested
activities.
- BBC Worldclass
www.bbc.co.uk/worldclass
Information
for finding partner schools in Africa and Asia. Includes ideas for
teaching and learning and a space for schools to showcase their
international work.
- DFID Global School
Partnerships www.britishcouncil.org/globalschools
DFID Global School Partnerships is a consortium initiative of the
British Council, Cambridge Education Foundation, UK One World
Linking Association and Voluntary Service Overseas, funded by
DFID
.
It promotes partnerships between schools in the UK and those in
Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Europschool www.europschool.net
A European Commission funded Socrates and Action Comenius 3 project
set up to promote exchanges between nursery and primary schools
throughout Europe. This French language website provides resources
and games, as well as a database of contact addresses for schools
in Switzerland, Senegal, Romania, Morocco, France, Finland, Belgium
and Germany.
- The Japan Society (Japan
21) www.japan21.org.uk
UK charity which supports and encourages educational and grassroots
activity relating to Japan. It works with schools in the UK and
Japan, helping them to find and develop successful links to partner
schools. The Japan Society also organises visits to schools from
Japanese native speaker volunteers - Japan in your
classroom.
- Global Gateway
www.globalgateway.org.uk
Funded by the
DCSF
, Global
Gateway provides a one-stop shop service for developing school
links. The Global Gateway team provides individual advice on where
and how to link, finding a school, setting up communication and
what to do. The team can also help with British Council-managed
programmes. Links are available for all community and international
languages with partner schools offered in Europe, Francophone
Africa and Caribbean, Canada, Latin America and Spanish speaking
USA and Mexico.
- UK-German Connection
www.ukgermanconnection.org/
UK-German Connection is dedicated to increasing contacts and
understanding between young people in the UK and Germany. As well
as supporting school links and exchanges, they also manage the
Voyage Kids website – a site
for primary learners.
Support for linking with ICT and
videoconferencing
- eLanguages www.elanguages.org
A multilingual online collaborative programme for primary or
secondary teachers. It provides a shared online space for teachers
to share authentic resources internationally. The tool is available
in 18 languages - English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic,
Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian
Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Punjabi, Urdu, Tamil, Bengali,
Gujarati and Hindi. The initiative is funded by the DCSF and
British Council and is part of
Global Gateway.
- eTwinning www.etwinning.net
Part of the European Commission's lifelong learning programme. The
initiative enables schools in European countries to find partners
and work together a range of exciting curriculum projects using
ICT.
- European Schoolnet
www.eun.org
A European Commission-supported web portal which brings together
national school networks across Europe. Provides common access to a
variety of projects which aim to increase collaboration between
pupils, teachers and schools leaders in Europe through ICT.
- Global Leap www.global-leap.com
Global Leap is a not for profit videoconferencing resource website
for teachers around the world. It provides support for finding
videoconferencing partners and advice on how to use
videoconferencing in the curriculum.
- Montage World www.britishcouncil.org/montageworld
Montage World is a British Council initiative which offers
collaborative curriculum projects to primary and secondary schools
across the world.
Find a school website in another country
Many schools have their own websites which can
be used for contact information or to find out more about school
life in another country. You can find individual primary
school websites from these databases*:
French
German
Spanish
*Please note: to make some very
long links easier to remember, we have created shorter 'tiny'
URLs which automatically redirect you to the search pages
of each school database website. After clicking on the 'tiny'
URL, the full web address of the relevant school database website
will appear in your browser window should you wish to refer to this
instead.