About
In 2005 Creative Partnerships afforded us (Burnside and Beacon Hill) to look at our existing links and involvement with other schools in an imaginative and creative way.
The success of our joint partnership (Burnside & Beacon Hill), which historically began before joint Business & Enterprise status, gave us the confidence that we needed to develop a relationship with a school in a developing country. Creative Partnerships had a crucial role in encouraging us to think about the nature of the new relationship, both in terms of setting up the project and in developing real curriculum links, in an enterprising and open manner. Effective personal relationships were crucial to the school link in the beginning. This helps explain the longevity of the Burnside and Beacon Hill partnership and therefore we saw the preliminary visit to Gorgor High School as crucial. We made a good start in correspondence and with David Lovedays\' (Trustee and former head teacher at Burnside) own personal knowledge of the nature of a Masai school helped us to reap the benefits and dividends of the partnership. However, the expectations about this partnerships by pupils and staff in Kenya were high, which we are striving to meet in full.
The partnership is based on the broad strands identified below and we adhere totally to the principle that all schools have much to learn from each other.
Aims
- To increase our understanding of: diversity and internationalisation; of how our environment shapes us and is shaped by us and educational practice. We will achieve this through developing a shared experience of how an extensive variation of communication and creativity can improve our teaching and learning. We will share our uniqueness being \'proud of who we are\', celebrate our common links and, together, embark on a creative journey of discovery of strands which join us in true partnership.
- To develop social enterprise and our experience of working in a truly equal partnership by challenging stereo-typical perception about tribal and social class status through an exploration of creative, enterprising ideas and mutual support.