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St. Chad\u2019s School, Pattingham \u2013 Partnership with Mwiyenga ACK Primary School, Kenya.<\/h1>\n

There have always been very strong links between the school and church in Pattingham and these links continue to be as strong today as they were 100 years ago. Teams of volunteers from the church family go into school every fortnight to deliver bible stories in a lively and entertaining way as part of the Bible Society\u2019s \u2018Open the Book\u2019 initiative. School services take place in church for Harvest, Easter, Christmas, Leavers’ service as well as a shortened communion service for St Chad\u2019s Day. Children from the school join in with Holiday Club, Messy Church and Experience Christmas and Easter events and teachers bring classes over to church as part of the RE curriculum. Children from school have also helped Mrs Yeomans, the Headteacher, to deliver Family Services. As well as the Vicar, two other members of the church serve as Foundation Governors for the school, further developing the links between school and church.<\/p>\n

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Children from Mwiyenga excited to read books donated by St Chad’s School<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

St. Chad\u2019s School has been linked with Mwiyenga ACK Primary School in Kenya for several years now. The school first became involved through the project \u2018Connecting Classrooms\u2019 and the work of Rosemary Woodward (Schools\u2019 Advisor for Lichfield Diocese). Alison (one of the foundation Governors) and Milly Colin-Stokes (who was a pupil at St. Chad\u2019s School until moving onto Perton Middle) have recently visited Mwiyenga to represent St Chad\u2019s School and to continue the partnership.<\/p>\n

Background to the Partnership.<\/h2>\n
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Milly’s first meeting with the children at Mwiyenga on her first day at the school.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two teachers from St. Chad\u2019s (Miss Jenni Scarrott and Miss Claire Marshall) first visited the school in February 2012 and then returned in 2013 and 2014 developing collaborative projects, re-developing the EDCE (Reception) classroom, painting walls and developing a role-play area. St. Chad\u2019s School community raised money for desks, teaching resources and equipment and donated over 1,000 pencils.<\/p>\n

Two Headteachers from Kenya and another teacher, Mr. Muchoe, have visited St. Chad\u2019s as part of the project and in October 2015 John and Jo Morgan (St. Chad\u2019s Chair of Governors) visited Mwiyenga School during their visit to Kenya, developing the reading project and teaching lessons.<\/p>\n

\"Alison<\/a>
Alison working on painting the new library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In February 2017 Alison Colin-Stokes (as St. Chad\u2019s Foundation Governor) and her daughter, Milly, spent nearly two weeks in Kenya visiting Mwiyenga School in order to continue the partnership between the two schools. Milly has \u2018grown up\u2019 with the partnership as she was in Reception taught by Miss Marshall on their first visit to Kenya. They were both delighted to have the opportunity to take part in the 2017 partnership visit.<\/p>\n

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What is Mwiyenga ACK School like?<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>Mwiyenga School is in Myanga, Western Kenya not far from the Ugandan border. It is a rural school with around 800 pupils. In Kenya all children attend primary school until the age of 13. Children aged 5-13 attend the school in classes ECDE (reception) through to Standard 8. In some classes there are up to 123 children in each class.<\/p>\n

What they did?<\/h2>\n
\"'Milly<\/a>
Milly attending church service with children from Dreamland School<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n