Whitby High Cluster land in Zim - now Capetown teachers are on their way too!

Capetown teachers prepare for visits to their twins in London or Manchester

Now there is Zimasa , Strandfontein Primary, Battswood Primary, Chris Hani High, and Heathfield Primary amongst several others starting to pack their suitcases with warm and rainproof clothes........ They know they return to a welcoming few summer months as well as end of year exams and plenty of marking!!!!!!!  Also going over is St Marys Primary in Retreat, Spineview Primary, Surrey Estate Primary, Steenberg High , Wynberg Boys High, Gardens Commercial High and Alexander Sinton Arts Focus school.  Alexander Sinton High is also off to ZIM!!

Wynberg Girls High in December and Plantation Primary also being planned.

Now it's Groote Schuur High (Capetown) to host 20 UK students from their twin St Aidans College & ZIM twin Magwegwe High

Another tremendous global partnership we are so proud of that grows in meaning and friendships too. Missing from this photo is one really great SA Principal, Marius Ehrenreich. Talk about a guy who leads from the front and inspires everyone he meets undoubtedly.  Wish all our Principals were like him...
Here we have several UK and Zim teachers, plus the UK Principal too this time having a "wrap up" planning meeting before heading up beautiful Table Mountain in all her splendour yesterday.

Gardens Commercial High team (Capetown) showcase their school and Capetown this past week

What an absolutely fantastic life changing week two Principals (UK & ZIM) and their key teachers had being in the hands of the Gardens High Principal and senior staff and student

leadership. All staff welcomed them bringing in traditional Cape Malay foods So much so that they said they really needed some exercise in Kirstenbosch Gardens!  Even tears from their Zim Head as she tried to explain her thankfulness to them all...... Great team and such great learners too their partners said - going places in their global partnerships!

Charles Darwin Primary in Northwich, Cheshire creates ERIC the Elephant inspired by their SA & ZIM partnership.....

Meet baby elephant sculpture Eric, made from scratch with just a few cardboard boxes, newspaper, bin bags and then covered in modroc! He originated in January after the Charles Darwin (UK) and Eiffel Flats (ZIM) joint exchange to Kirstenhof Primary (CAPETOWN in SA) when Year 5 pupils developed him, even when things weren't always going according to plan!  Great global teaching and great justice to the British Council funding providing inspiration from exchanges like this!  

Frodsham Cluster (CHESHIRE,UK) last photo with Capetown's Steenberg, Floreat & Ferndale Primary teachers - icy cold front waiting here!

Another ZIM bound trip for Capetown's Zwaanwyk High, Oude Molen College, Dryden Primary and UK Hendon High School, LONDON!

Vic Falls firstly to see one of the most beautiful natural wonders on Earth......  Then Harare bound by flight and to Goromonzi High, Mufakose 2 High and Courtney Selous Primary to meet very special teams in all three schools - teachers who have already become their international friends..... Jayne

Capetown teacher from Marine Primary visits Westridge Primary in Harare last week !

Until we meet again for Whitby Next time it is in ZIM Vic Falls here we come !!!

Zimbabwean Whitby school cluster visitors explore the Roman walled town of Chester last week!

Whitby High cluster mean Business!

Whitby High's inspirational Design Technology teacher Krysia Ballance must surely feel great pride to see outcomes out of her Business and Enterprise initiative to design and produce saleable crafts in each of the three countries.   Here are shoes designed by the Zimbabwean partners out of car tyres!  Three Zim Principals are on their way back from Manchester today after a fantastic week together. For once it was a sunny Manchester too!

Bardale Primary Head Sindy Mangcoto on her recent departure from Capetown with Afritwin's Jayne Martin on the right

Bardale Primary Head lands back in Capetown but just see how The Grange Primary UK welcomed her!!

ZIM Joseph Munhuweyi Deputy Principal thinks the view from Rustenberg Girls High is drop dead gorgeous... Do you??

Zim's Joseph Munhuweyi now says that this is the sign you should have shown me before I stepped in the sea!!

Rustenberg Girls High's Zim Deputy Joseph Munhuweyi, Kriste Mambo Girls High, sees the Indian ocean on a balmy Capetown winter's day and loves it!

OK so for those of you who may be confused, Joseph is directing you left to the Indian Ocean and right to Table Mountain. Now what a choice!   How can a city have two such beautiful options in one place!! No wonder Capetown is such a tourism mecca................................  Jayne

Rustenberg Girls High in Capetown - Zim Deputy of Kriste Mambo Girls High, Joseph Muhenweyi sees his SA twin at last!

So now it is off to ZIMBABWE for several Capetown teachers - to Prince Edward High and Arcturus Primary

Bardale High teacher and learners finally off to Manchester to Wirral twins and then to Poole twin school

This is what's so lovely in a cluster of three UK three SA and three Namibian schools! They all get to meet now in the north of England at two of the twin schools, Wirral Boy and Wirral Girls' Grammar and experience life there. Then off to London and head down south to Poole   What an experience overall

Cape Academy of Maths Science and Technology teacher and two learners off to Manchester to their Wirral and then Poole twin schools

Ned Doman High (Athlone, Capetown) Headmaster in a beautiful town in Wales at Crickhowell High this week!

SA Home Affairs a very big THANK YOU for the passports! Off to Cheshire on Thursday !

Thank you many people who sped the process on in time - The Director General of Passport Affairs for South Africa, Mr Norman Ramachia, for making it an "urgent" case, Cape Talk radio chat host Kieno Kamies and Bruce Hong who offered to do anything possible to help, Hanneke Oosthuizen from Bridging the Gap and Arno Steynberg, Immigration expert in Pretoria... We are now world experts on applying for passports in South Africa!!! At the end of the day, these smiles make everything worthwhile....  Jayne

Western Cape Sports School, Alpha and Bardale Primary join forces to visit their Cheshire twin schools! What a sparkle they will bring!

Well now,  The Grange High and Grange Primary plus Weston Primary in Runcorn are about to be livened up with this trio!  Say no more!!!!!!!!!!!!.. Great team and wonderful Nick McGee on the other side who has put together a fabulous itinerary for them

Bardale High's two learners and Maths teacher are so looking forward to being in Cheshire on the Wirral soon!

Please Please Please Home Affairs in Pretoria can you get those passport through today... These talented Mfuleni learners have so much to look forward to but the burden of all the paper work - ID documents, and the ream of information for the UK visa is a very daunting process. Wirral Boys and Girls Grammar schools and Poole Grammar have a full program ahead for Bardale, Sans Souci and The Cape Academy as well as three twins from Windhoek in Namibia. The UK twin learners have fundraised for two learners per school to accompany a teacher.  Thank you to Oonah, Mike and Andy in the UK who lead the Afritwin program in each school, despite a huge own workload!

Capetown's Kirstenbosch - can't miss the one and only clear day this week for our Derby and Harare visitors!

Marine Primary in Oceanview have opened their hearts for their partners this week  Such great leadership and support    

Langa's Zimasa School welcomes Plymouth teachers with Table Mountain's "tablecloth" creeping up in the background.. Winter's here folks!!

On the school stage was almost too much for this little Zimbabwian learner from Hillcrest Prep..

Young Zimbabwians welcome UK and SA Principals to share their cultural talents at Hillcrest Prep, Mutare

Best of Principals across the world and best of friends................

Westlake Primary Principal (CAPETOWN) Landie Diamond strengthens Zimbabwean partnership with a punch!

Wonderful leadership with Hillcrest (ZIM) & Middlethorpe (UK) Principals meeting this time on Zim soil in Mutare together with Landie Diamond from Westlake Primary

Plymouth teachers arrive in gusty stormy weather but does this matter??

Emma and Peter from Elburton Primary in Plymouth couldn't have asked for worse weather to arrive in Capetown. "Sunny South Africa" was proved to be a myth in a few hours ......... Needless to say they with two colleagues were off on the Red Bus around the mountain hoping for the "table cloth" on top to lift.

Clarence Rd Primary in Durban always innovative and such a happy twin to visit

Torquay Boys Grammar's Dr Max Stites includes Vic Falls whilst visiting Prince Edward High in Zim

A special treat was in store for Max amongst an otherwise fabulous itinerary prepared by Loice Majongwe and her Headmaster Mr Aggrippa Sora recently..            

Western Cape Sports School & Zim Mvuthu High meet again GREAT relationship building up

Just shows when you choose amazing people what can come out of a relatively new partnership....

Nicolene Daniels from Western Cape Sports School and Richard Sibanda from Mvuthu High outside of Bulawayo..  And a great husband of Nicolene's willing to take them around on our public holiday of voting. 

Mfuleni High teacher and learner warm up for a trip on the Thames river in London.....