International fun and games

We got information on traditional games that they would like us to play from India. We had to try and understand the rules and play the games successfully. In our last meeting we discussed the rules for each game and tried to understand how the games work and what is needed to play them. We went and collected the equipment to play the games from various departments around the school. We are going to play and record the games next week and hope to send off the recordings to India by the end of the school term. Have a nice summer.
Next update coming soon.

2 teachers from the UK to visit India

Ms Patel from Rushey Mead Secondary and Mr Wright from John Ferneley will be flying to India this Saturday to take part in an ICT conference. They will actually be visiting one of our partner schools in Hyderabad. Good luck to them on their travels. I am sure we are all looking forward to finding out about the trip when they return.

OUR FIRST EVER INTERNATIONAL DAY AT RUSHEY MEAD SCHOOL

We have just had our International day. During International day we learnt about the different countries in all the lessons. You could have tortilla chips and sangria at break. One of our friends wore an Indian sherwani suit.
Other students dressed up like the French and the Chinese.
Mr Patel dressed up like a Jamaican man. Ms. Robinson dressed up like a Japanese woman. In our English lessons we learnt about America. In Humanities, we learnt about Japan. In French, we learnt about Spain. In science, we learnt about India. RE was normal. We enjoyed the day very much.

BYE!!!!!!

p.s hope you enjoy our photos

Rushey Primary's Photo Story

What a fun and vibrant place to go to school!! We hope you get a real flavour of what Rushey Primary is all about...

Take a look inside Old Dalby..

We hope many pupils from partner schools both here in the UK and in India will take a look at what it is like to go to school in Old Dalby!!

A photo Story from John Ferneley

Thanks to staff and students at John Ferneley for producing this fantastic Photo Story. It gives a great insight into what life is like at the school.

It's here at last....

We have put the finishing touches to our Photo Story. We hope you enjoy it. The students have worked really hard in their own time to put this together. I hope it gives our international partners an idea of what it is like at Rushey Mead Secondary. We look forward to seeing the Indian Photo Stories soon.

Winners of the Photo Competition

Congratulations to Medha in year 10 and Keval in year 7 who won the photo competition which was set last term. Both of them submitted very good images of life in Leicester and at Rushey Mead Secondary School. The images along with others have been used to create our photo story which we will share with you all soon.

The winners will each receive a prize for their outstanding efforts.

Message from the UKIERI group at Rushey Mead Secondary school

We have now finished our first project which was the photo story, this will be sent to India. For our project we have been taking and choosing pictures of life in Leicester and at Rushey Mead Secondary School. We then spent time choosing suitable music to add to our images.

After which we chose the standard format for the photostory and polished it up.
Soon the photostory will be posted on this blog for you to view.

We have started our next project on researching traditional games :

WATCH THIS SPACE........for updates.

We're in the paper - AGAIN

The Leicester Mercury published a brief article about the UKIERI project at the end of December. The article is shown in full below. This follows the article in The Guardian, also shown in this BLOG.

INDIAN LINKS FOR SCHOOLS
10:30 - 31 December 2007
A city secondary school has established links with six schools in India.Rushey Mead School, in Leicester, is working to develop two key projects on sport and culture and health and fitness.A spokesman said: "We aim to foster mutual understanding but also to share common health goals between nations."The Indian schools are widespread and will offer students a different perspective of India."Rushey Mead and Old Dalby primary schools and John Ferneley High School, in Melton Mowbray, are also involved in the project.Rushey Mead school will be updating its work in India on a blog, which is at: www.ukierirusheymead.blogspot.com

STOP PRESS

Our funding has been approved from the British Council. All UK partners are meeting in the next few weeks to move on to the next stage of our plans and begin arranging a trip to India. We are hoping to send 4 staff to visit as many Indian partners as possible.

Time for some real hard work to make sure we have made plenty of progress on our projects to share with the students in India.

Happy New Year!!

... to all our partners, both in the UK and India. We have enjoyed our Christmas break and are looking forward to sending all the Photo Stories to India in the next few weeks. We are also starting work on the next stage of our projects, finding out about the traditional games and sports of our partners.