Global Partnerships

International School Status and Global Partnerships

Deptford Green has achieved British Council International School Status. This is largely down to our long standing Global Partnership.

Uganda Partnership

Deptford Green’s Global School Partnership Programme with St Kizito School in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, is now in its 9th year and it continues to grow in both strength and breadth with shared curriculum projects in many subjects in both schools focussing on cultural understanding and global citizenship. 

Exchange visits offer students and teachers the life-changing opportunity to immerse themselves in a different culture and educational environment.

Recently the two schools have formed a trilateral partnership with Rainbow College in Lagos, Nigeria as part of Connecting Classrooms programme and we look forward to developing that. See link below on the Connecting Classrooms British Council Grant.

Youth Exchange

The Youth Exchange aspect of the partnership, hugely successful since it began in 2006, enables young people from the two schools to visit one another on alternate years and has enriched the lives of all who have taken part. In May 2013 nine students and four teachers will travel to Uganda for two weeks as the first leg of the fourth exchange.

The previous year, 2012 the visit by St Kizito students and teachers was arranged to coincide with the London Olympic Games in July and August 2012 and we were able to take students to see some of the Olympic events! That was the second leg of the third youth exchange under the auspices of The Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council.

Two former Deptford Green students completed volunteer placements in the St Kizito Community in August 2012 working at a HIV/AIDS project and in an orphanage. Similar work experience placements are planned for our sixth formers in 2013 as part of the community action service element of the IB Diploma course. These sixth formers, and the accompanying staff are busy completing sponsorship fundraising events to be able to fund the trip.

Fundraising

Fundraising is an on-going feature of the school community to enable students and teachers from both schools to benefit from the life changing exchange visits.  If you would like to donate please contact Wendy Bisiker at the school. We are working on becoming a registered charity, meaning that UK tax payers will soon be able to donate via online sites and "Gift Aid" their donations.

“Global citizenship is possible only when we understand each other.”
Emmanuel Okiria, Project co-ordinator, St Kizito.