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DAUNTSEY’S SUPPORTS ROMANIAN CHARITY
Pupils turn teachers on Ethiopian trip
During the summer holidays, 20 lower-sixth pupils from Dauntsey’s School travelled to the Romanian town of Cernavoda to support Nightingales Children’s Project. Over a week they ran a play scheme involving local street children and orphans, ranging in age from six months to 24 years. Most of the children live in poverty and have hugely complex emotional and sometimes behavioural problems. Some are quite severely disabled and many have HIV. Each day was carefully
planned by the Dauntsey’s pupils and given a theme such as ‘World Cup’, ‘healthy living’ and ‘British day’. A wide range of activities were organised, including face painting, crafts, cooking and dancing. The play scheme was financed by a range of fundraising activities organised by the pupils during the past year. Almost £8,000 was raised, which, in addition to the play scheme, has enabled Dauntsey’s pupils to: fund a Romanian girl through her university physiotherapy course; start a small furniture- building business for a group of young men; send girls at risk of being trafficked on holiday; support a local football team and pay for central heating for a community centre. “Geting to know the children and working with them was a real joy,” says pupil Hety Sagers. “I will definitely return if there is an opportunity and the experience has given me a focus for the future – working with children is something I want to do and I hope to train as a children’s nurse when I leave school.”
Derby High School pupils turned teachers during a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Ethiopia. The girls planned and ran a series of educational workshops over two weeks for youngsters in Addis Ababa, during which they taught English, science, maths, art and craft, music and drama. The girls each had to raise money to pay for the trip which was the culmination of a year of planning and preparations. Student Sophie Woodcock, 16, of Allestree, said the trip was an incredible experience: “Everyone keeps asking me what it was like and it’s really hard to put it into words. It was just amazing. I was teaching English. We had already drawn up a detailed lesson plan for each day and had planned to play lots of games with the children to keep them interested.” Lessons were themed around a play
that Derby High School students helped the children to perform. “It was really nice to see them all learning and by
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the time we came to leave we could see that they had improved, some children made massive strides,” said Sophie. This was the eleventh year that the
school, in Hillsway, Litleover, has sent a group of students to Ethiopia. As well as teaching during the trips, students have also helped to build a community library for local children in Addis Ababa.
Scrum down in southern Africa
LEFT: Solihull rugby players enjoy the view at Cape Peninsular on their boys’ tour of South Africa. RIGHT: All smiles from Solihull’s female hockey and netball players on their tour of South Africa
A rugby match against Swaziland was one of the highlights of two pre-season sports tours to South Africa for boys and girls from Solihull School. A team from the independent coeducational school played an under-17 side from the landlocked kingdom on a dirt pitch with makeshift posts. The Swaziland international was one of the first events of its kind to be organised by SKRUM, an African charity that uses rugby to help educate children about AIDS. It provided a stark contrast to the rest of the 15-day tour, which began with training
at the plush Ingwenyama Sports Resort. The three-day stay prepared the boys for matches against top rugby-playing schools Penryn College and Nelspruit High School in Johannesburg and Porterville School near Cape Town. The boys also enjoyed excursions to
Kruger National Park, Langa Township in Cape Town and Robben Island. Solihull’s female hockey and netball players also had the opportunity to visit Langa and played a hockey match against a community side on their own 12-night tour to South Africa.
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