bickley primary school swift weavers project 2011 - 2012

Bickley Primary School

Swift Weavers Project2011 - 2012

Teachers from Zimbabwe and Nigeria visited England.

Together we learnt new skills…

Basket weaving

Soap stone carving

Tie-dying

Paper Mache

In 2010…

Basket Weaving

Tree Planting

In 2011…

Each class wrote to our partner schools about

“A Day in the Life”

We learnt more about

each country

Nigeria

Zimbabwe

In November 2011, Miss Mayhew went to Kenya

Church on the Rock School – Nairobi slum

Sunshine home for street boys in Kenya

The team climbed Kilimanjaro to raise funds for the schools in Kenya

Sustainability:• We have learnt from our

partner countries about the importance of water, not wasting energy and how our school can be more sustainable.

• We have set up our own garden area and plan to grow our own fruit and vegetables.

Bickley Green Day (March 2012)

Paper Mache pots

• We learnt the technique of how to make paper mache pots from our African partners. We mashed up newspaper and soaked it over night in water. We then moulded it into a pot shape.

2012…Olympic Year

Bickley loves taking part in sportSo our next challenge is to share what we

do with our African Schools