MEMORANDUM
OF UNDERSTANDING
between
SUNSHINE
HEIGHTS PS. & CEIP. MENÉNDEZ Y PELAYO
Sunshine Heights Primary School in Melbourne, Australia
(1-19 Mailey Street, West Sunshine,3020,Victoria) and CEIP. Menéndez y Pelayo inValverde del Camino, Spain (Carretera de
Calañas, Valverde del Camino, 21600, Huelva), hereby agree to become sister
schools in order to develop friendship and cooperation between our two schools
and promote mutual understanding and cultural awareness between Australia and
Spain.
It is recommended
to keep this agreement to 3 years life, to allow revision to accommodate
changed needs and expectations.
SISTER SCHOOL PROGRAM
GOALS
·
To develop cultural knowledge and intercultural
understanding.
·
To support the teaching of Spanish language in
Sunshine Heights PS. and English language in CEIP. Menéndez y Pelayo and to
continue to teach the languages in their respective schools.
·
To develop ties of friendship through regular
communication. Provide students and staff with opportunities to interact with
people from other cultures.
· To develop
students into citizens who are globally engaged, comfortable with diversity and
with the skills to operate effectively across cultures with different world
views and belief systems.
SISTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
Potential future
activities:
·
Organize a Sister School ceremony in both schools to
celebrate the partnership, such as planting a tree and presenting the Sister
School at the school assembly.
·
Design a common blog in which both language teachers
are participants, exchanginginformation about language curriculum and school
events. Students could also design the logo for the blog and be participants.
·
Exchange of student work, email, letters, parcels,
photos, student newspapers, etc to promote mutual understanding.
·
Regular communication between Sister School
administrators, using online networks like Skype or Whatsapp.
·
Both schools will endeavour to maintain students,
teachers and administrators exchange programs to provide the opportunity to all
enjoy and live in the sister school community, ensuring the success of the
program.
·
Exchange of teaching resources, course materials and
teaching strategies between schools.
·
Consider future visits overseas for teachersinvolved
in the Sister School project to better understanding of the language, culture
and education system in both countries.
·
Provide video conferencing facilities which should
be used for the development of electronically supported relationships between
both schools. This can include class
interaction between students, teachers and PD sessions.
·
Choose a song for both schools, “We can be friend”,
which will be sung and recorded by both schools.
·
Exchange folklore between both countries, such as typical
dances.
·
Create annual projects about acommon topic. For
example, “We travel around the world”.
·
Study and compare information between both
countries: gastronomy, meteorology, environment, etc.
In 2017, Sunshine Heights PS. and CEIP. Menéndez y Pelayo will review this agreement to
determine future directions of this agreement.
