Clanfield Junior School in East Hampshire is twinned with Bukorwe Primary near Kihihi in Western Uganda
This is a new twinning arrangement so the partnership is still developing. Twinning Project Team members have recently visited both schools and have found that both schools are very keen and cannot wait to make contact with each other.
Twinning Project Team members recently visited Clanfield Junior School to take part in a school assembly.
The Team talked about their recent trip to Uganda and showed the children images of their twinned school.
Afterwards the children were invited to ask questions and view some crafts that the Team had brought back the various communities the Twinning Porject works with.
This picture shows Head Teacher Mark Pickering receiving some Twinning Project infomation from Project Team Member Jan Allnutt.
Clanfield Junior School
This school is just a few minutes drive from the Queen Elizabeth Country Park.
It is a nondenominational county Junior School maintained by the Education Department of Hampshire County Council. The current number of pupils on roll is approximately 292.
Bukorwe Primary School
Bukorwe Primary School is at the southern edge of the Queen Elizabeth National Park, near the small town of Kihihi.
The Project Team received a wonderful welcome when they visited the school in February 2010. The Team with met with staff members and parents, before taking part in an assembly.
The children sang songs of welcome and afterwards the Project Team presented the school with some exercise books, pens, pencils and other items which had been donated by people in England.
The Team also gave out frisbees and balls which will be used by the school to promote play and exercise.
The local Community Conservation Ranger promised to help keep the two schools in touch and this will be helped by the Project's donation of two laptops (see latest news) which will be taken around to all the Twinned Schools and once a mobile interlink is organised the English and Ugandan schools will find it easier and more rewarding to communicate.