Outcomes Following Global Connections I...

The appointment of a committee to be named "Zwelibanzi" to continue and expand the dialogue initiated during the Seminar between St. Stithians College (College, Collegiate, Prep & Junior School), the Letsibogo Girls' High School (Soweto), Reiger Park Primary School (Boksburg), Khayelihle School (Bergvlei), Pholosho School (Vosloorus) and Thutolore School (Soweto). The following areas were identified by the Committee as areas of concern:
(1) the need to network with our communities,
(2) develop fund-raising ideas,
(3) develop structures of "discipline without tears",
(4) hold a seminar on management and administration skills,
(5) teach children to lead in this new society of transformation,
(6) teacher development, and
(7) the sharing of resources.

The undertaking is to hold a seminar or conference at a neutral venue on each of the above topics. Specialist speakers will be brought in; a lot of group work will be done; networks will be built after each conference; and follow-up sessions will be held at each school.

The initiation of a Management Training workshop at St. Stithians College to further develop the collegial cooperation between independent school leaders and less-advantaged area school principals and to assist in the development of operational and management skills of the principals while sharing information on effective avenues for cooperation and expertise developed through experience in other countries and settings.

Placement of a Maru a Pula student from Botswana at Deerfield Academy, Massachusetts for the 1997-98 year on scholarship. A visit by the Deerfield basketball coach and a student player to Maru a Pula in July, 1998 conducted a basketball clinic. The Chair of the Science Department at Deerfield to visit Maru a Pula and take part in one of MAP's week-long courses at its environmental camp on the Limpopo River in eastern Botswana. The Maru a Pula Director of O Level studies visited Deerfield in the Spring of 1998.

Two Students from Letsibogo Girls' School, Soweto, South Africa have received two year full residential scholarships at SCECGS/Redlands, Australia.

Starehe Boys' Centre and School, Kenya, received Grade 12 Director and two Housemasters from St. Stithians College, South Africa for a five day visit in March, 1998, resulting in Starehe's Baraza system of student meetings being introduced at St. Stithians under the name "Indaba". St. Stithians appointed a Community Service Officer with the intention of developing some such training as its Voluntary Service scheme. Subsequently, the Headmaster of St. Stithians, accompanied by his Sixth Form Master and five boys visited Starehe 11 - 16, June 1999.

The Hill School, Pennsylvania, hosted an eleventh grade Maru a Pula, Botswana student, in the fall of 1998. In the summer of 1998, three Hill students visited Maru a Pula's Bush Camp alongside the Limpopo River, studying vegetation and animal life. The students also spent time at Maru a Pula's main campus and safari camps in Cape Town.

Following GC I, an invitation was extended to Fred Okono, Starehe Boys' Centre and School, Kenya, to speak at the 51st General Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Independent Schools in South Africa, 7 -11 September, 1997, in Port Elizabeth. Fred Okono presented a paper entitled The Kenyan Experience in Education.

Anne van Zyl , Head of Stanford College (South Africa), reports that a Deputy at Letsibogo Girls' High School (South Africa) was appointed as Head to one of the schools "at risk" and that as a result of Zwelibanzi this new Head was one of the first invited by Anne van Zyl to one of their Covey courses.

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Outcomes Following Global Connections II...

Westfield School in the U.K. visited several schools in South Africa and Botswana on behalf of Round Square and arranged for a late June, 1998 visit by a member of their staff and several students to the bush camp in Botswana. Westfield hosted a student from Greenwich Academy (CT, USA) during the spring term of 1999. Three students of Westfield were hosted at Greenwich Academy in the spring term of 1999.

Meg Moulton initiated a pen-pal program with the Letsibogo Girls' High School in Soweto, South Africa and several U.S. schools, including Greenwich Academy (CT, USA).

Munungi Musee of Starehe Boys' Centre and School, Kenya, was invited by Mr. Rod Fraser, of Ivanhoe, and Alan Ross of Billanook, Australia, to visit their schools to make arrangements for one Starehe student to attend their schools on scholarship.

Ken Rowe of Frankston High School, Australia, offered two scholarships to two students of Letsibogo Girls' High School, Soweto, South Africa, for the academic year 1998-99. Scholarships continued for academic year 1999-2000.

St. Stithians, Johannesburg, helped in the orientation of the four South African students traveling to Australia on scholarships by having them visit their school for one week. David Wylde, Rector of St. Stithians, and two teams of housemasters spent several days each at Starehe Boys' Centre and School, Kenya where they discussed possible long term collaboration.

Ballarat & Clarendon College, Australia, provided a shipment of books for the library at Letsibogo Girls' High School, Soweto, South Africa.

Methodist Ladies' College, Australia hosted students from St. Stithians Collegiate, South Africa during the fall term of 1998.

D. Knowles, R. De Villiers, K. Garrett, D. Schreuder, M. Gammie, all of Kearsney College in South Africa visited Starehe Boys' Centre and School in Nairobi, Kenya in March of 1999.

Placement of a Maru a Pula student from Botswana at Deerfield Academy, (MA, USA) on a one year scholarship for the 1998-1999 academic year.

A graduate of Deerfield Academy (MA, USA) who was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina, worked at Letsibogo Girls' High School (Soweto, South Africa) during a summer.

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Outcomes Following Global Connections III...

Exchange of teachers -- Mrs. du Toit of Tiger Kloof, South Africa, went to Warlingham School, England, and a teacher from Warlingham went to Tiger Kloof.

Director of Sports from Frankston High School, Australia, spending time at Millfield School, England, with their Sports Director, Sue Woods in June of 1999. Possible exchange of an English teacher from Frankston High School to Starehe Boys' Centre and School, Kenya. In addition, two of Ken's staff visited Letsibogo Girls' High School in Soweto, South Africa in July of 1999.

Placement of a Maru a Pula student from Botswana at Deerfield Academy, (MA, USA) on a one year scholarship for the 1999 - 2000 academic year.

Malcolm McKenzie, former principal of Maru a Pula, Botswana joins the Deerfield Academy faculty as a Bicentennial Fellow for the 1999 - 2000 academic year. Three Deerfield students spent a GAP year, or portion thereof, as teaching assistants at Geelong Grammar School's Timbertop campus in Australia. A member of Deerfield's faculty spent a term in exchange at Geelong Grammar School, Australia.

John Mason, the Headmaster of The Doon School in India, advised that as a result of Global Connections III, workshops on leadership and team building for staff and students have been organized at his school.

Russell Goldsworthy from Wanganui Collegiate School, New Zealand, visited Falcon College, Zimbabwe, in May, 1999. Two sixth form boys from Wanganui spent nine weeks at Falcon College, Zimbabwe in May and June, 1999.

National Coalition of Girls' Schools (MA, USA) is helping Francis Kawari, Headmaster of Mutabe Girls' School, Zimbabwe, to evolve a joint Internet project between his school and several schools in the United States and Australia.

Ellen Kondowe of Letsibogo Girls' School, South Africa, attended and presented at the National Coalition of Girls' School's Board meeting in June, 2000. Marion Farndale of Westfield School, United Kingdom was invited to do the same.

Thomas Hagspihl, Head of Mathematics at St. Stithians Collegiate, South Africa, has been conducting workshops with students from Letsibogo Girls' School, South Africa.

Three individuals spoke at the National Coalition of Girls' Schools 2000 Annual Conference held in Massachusetts, are Global Connections participants. Meg Moulton, Executive Director of the National Coalition of Girls' Schools, has asked Ellen Kondowe, Principal of the Letsibogo Girls' High School in South Africa; Marion Farndale, Headmistress of Westfield School in the United Kingdom; and Noelene Horton, Principal of Lowther Hall in Australia, to speak at a session entitled "Girls' Schools: A Global Perspective".

In the spring of 2000, Letsibogo Girls' School, South Africa received library books from Frankston High School, Australia.

Letsibogo Girls' High School in Soweto, South Africa, has received library books from Suzanne Poirier, Director of Newton Country Day School. This was a result of the Principal of Letsibogo, Ellen Kondowe's, affiliation with Meg Moulton and the National Coalition of Girls' Schools, USA.

As the result of Global Connections I and successive International School Leaders' Seminars, several schools in Southern Africa also became members of the Round Square Conference. Five of these schools held the first Regional Conference of Round Square at the Tiger Kloof Educational Centre in Vryburg, South Africa (March, 2000). Other schools participating were: Maru a Pula (Botswana), Starehe Boys' Centre (Kenya), and Kearsney College, St. Cyprian's School, and St. Stithians College/Collegiate (South Africa).

The American Farm School (Greece) hosted several members of staff from the Fultz Technical School in Albania. [The Fultz School is in the process of privatizing and the President of the Farm School accepted an offer to sit on the Board of the "new" Fultz School] Two Fultz School staff members participated in a seminar designed to sensitize them to the multiple, financial issues facing a private school and others followed the ins and outs of running an adult education program. A follow up meeting of principal administrators from both schools will take place in early summer to talk about issues of school governance and administration.

Plans for faculty/student exchanges between Kearsney College, South Africa, and Idyllwild Arts Academy (CA, USA).

Norbert Ng'ethe, a student of Starehe Boys' Centre in Nairobi, Kenya was a student in the Post-Matric Centre at St. Stithians College, South Africa (January 1999 - December 1999). He was joined by a second student from Starehe Boys' Centre, Geoffrey Mburu. Norbert Ng'ethe subsequently received a Thomas Jefferson scholarship to attend the University of Virginia, beginning the fall of 2000. Geoffrey Mburu (through the efforts of a former St. Stithians' parent, Mr. Colin Hall), was awarded a full scholarship to study at Madison University, Wisconsin, USA.

Collingwood School, Canada, established sponsorship of two students at Starehe Boys' Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.

Margot Branson, a teacher from Westfield School, England, visited Collingwood School, Canada, in April of 2000.

Deerfield Academy (MA, USA) hosted two students from Wanganui Collegiate School (Wanganui, New Zealand), each for one term. A Deerfield student attended Wanganui Collegiate for one term.

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Outcomes Following Global Connections IV...

Anna Nesvetailo of School No. 204, Novosibirsk, Russia was the keynote speaker at the Sovietski District, Novosibirsk Conference held August 28, 2000 and her topic covered her experiences at the GC IV Seminar.

Anna Nesvetailo of School No. 204, Novosibirsk, Russia, has shared her impressions of GC IV at the International Siberian Fair, made a report at the ACTR conference for EL teachers and has spoken about Global Connections to local teachers at seminars.

Anna Nesvetailo of School No. 204, Novosibirsk, Russia, took part in The Active Citizens, Strong Communities Conference held May 21-28, 2001 in Vancouver, Canada. While there, she was able to visit other Global Connections' member schools in Canada, including Bayview Glen and met with Rouve Ritson of Collingwood School.

Henry Moses, Headmaster of Trinity School (NY, USA), and David Matthews, Rector of Tiger Kloof Educational Institution, South Africa, have agreed on the outline of a teacher training and exchange program for the 2002 academic year.

Ken Rowe, Principal of Frankston High School, Australia, met with Ellen Kondowe, Principal of Letsibogo Girls' School in Soweto, South Africa, to debrief her regarding Lestsibogo students attending Frankston during the last school year and to arrange for three more Letsibogo students' attendance at Frankston for the 2001-2002 academic year.

Frankston High School, Australia, is planning for Jeannie Egan from Yuendumu Community Centre in the Northern Territory, Australia, to be an artist-in-residence at Frankston for a week. She will bring some of her community students to Frankston during her stay.

Letsibogo Girls' School, South Africa, has received a gift of computers presented by Thomas Sullivan of Gramercy Partners L.L.C. in New York, while paying a visit to the school. Ambassador Sheila Sisulu, the South African Ambassador based in Washington, D.C., U.S.A., had met with Ellen Kondowe, Principal of Letsibogo Girls' School, during the pre-Seminar phase of GC IV, and it was Amb. Sisulu who made the arrangements for the computer gift. Letsibogo now has an e-mail address.

Christopher Hopkins, Dean of Students at The Hill School (PA, USA), taught at Maru a Pula in Botswana through the month of August until the second week in September, 2000. Two Maru a Pula students were attending The Hill School and a third was to arrive for the 2000 - 2001 academic year.

Celia Patterson, a teacher from Mowbray College, Australia, visited Collingwood School, Canada, in April of 2001.

Larysa Olefirenko, Principal of Secondary School No. 8, Odessa, The Ukraine, appeared in articles in the following publications: Soviet Ismail, Dunaets, and Predunayskyie Vesty. The articles covered her experiences at the GC IV Seminar and pre-Seminar programs.

Irina Shilova, Head Teacher, School 307, St. Petersburg, Russia, kindly hosted Verna Harrison of Maryland's Department of Natural Resources, and her daughter, Katie, during their August venture in St. Petersburg. Irina Shilova had met Verna Harrison during the pre-Seminar program of GC IV.

Anna Nesvetailo, School No. 204, Novosibirsk, Russia, advises that one of her school's EL Teachers has received replies from Alan Patterson, Headmaster of Mowbray College, Australia, and from Noelene Horton, Principal of Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School, Australia. Anna also reports that she has been in contact with Marion Farndale at Westfield, England, and indicates that she is prepared to arrange for an exchange program between schools.

Gordon Macdonald, Principal of Falcon College, Zimbabwe, reports that Glenn Sherratt, Director of the John Dorr Nature Center of the Horace Mann School NY, USA), visited him in December, 2000 as a result of their meeting at GC IV.

The Graded School in Brazil has made a further link with The Hill School (PA, USA) and is hoping to host two of their teachers in August and to send two of its teachers to The Hill in January.

Alan Patterson, Principal of Mowbray College, Australia, reports a "connecting" with Novosibirsk, School No. 204, Russia and hopes to visit with a school party in July, 2001 as a start to a "Sister School" arrangement.

Mowbray College, Australia, has provided travel scholarships for three students and a teacher (Svetna Chernoby) from Novosibirsk to attend Mowbray for six weeks.

Alan Patterson, Principal of Mowbray College, Australia, "connecting" with Ellen Kondowe, Letsibogo Girls' School, South Africa, hopes to provide a library position for one year.

Three students from the Tiger Kloof Educational Institution, South Africa, completed a term's visit to Mowbray College in Australia in 2000; early in 2001, Mowbray learners will come to Tiger Kloof and later in the year, Mowbray and Tiger Kloof are to have had a teacher exchange called the Tiger Kloof/Mowbray College Exchange.

Ken Rowe, Principal of Frankston High School, Australia, noted that Jeannie Egan from the Yuendumu Community Centre in the Northern Territory of Australia conducted an artist-in-residence program at Frankston.

Ken Rowe, Principal of Frankston High School, Australia, reports that three girls (Hilda, Onicah, and Elshia) from Letsibogo Girls' School, Soweto, South Africa, were in attendance at Frankston High School, January, 2001.

Stephen Higgs, Head of Ballarat Grammar School, Australia, and his school community have decided to fund a scholarship for a student at Tiger Kloof, South Africa.

As a result of their meeting at GC IV, Ms. Catherine Bashshur, Head of the American Community School in Lebanon, sent a contribution for Letsibogo's Library.

Karen Murton, Branksome Hall, Canada advised a student from Wanganui, New Zealand, spent a GAP year at Branksome Hall in August, 2001.

As a direct result of his presence and presentation at Global Connections IV, Larry Weiss, Head of the Upper School at Horace Mann, (NY, USA), spoke at The Mountain School's (MA, USA) conference on Ethics and The Environment, held in July, 2001.

Dilworth School (New Zealand) took students from St. Stithians (South Africa) and Frankston High School (Australia) on a GAP year at their Junior Campus in 2001.

Two students, Kenneth Lewela and Stephen Mwinga, from the Starehe Boys' Centre and School in Nairobi, Kenya, were students in the Post-Matric Centre at St. Stithians College, South Africa, for the 2000 - 2001 academic year.

Peter Harris, Director of Global Education Enterprises and Vice President of PAPE, Australia, has initiated a Youth Ecology Camp which was organized in association with the PAPE Conference in October, 2001.

Noelene Horton, Principal of Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School in Australia advised that in September, 2001, a group of students from Lowther Hall stayed at Traidos Foundation's, Thailand, Prem Center to study the environment and culture and to undertake the expedition component of the D of E Scheme for two to three weeks. Students from Kilvington Grammar, Australia, may have also joined the group.

The Hill School (PA,USA) has received students from Maru a Pula, Botswana for the school year 2001 - 2002.

Peter Tacy, the Executive Director of the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools, USA, has advised that the content of GC IV helped his organization create the basis of the November, 2001 CAIS/NYSAIS Heads' Conference on Educating for Global Stewardship. Mr. Tacy was to include the Deerfield Declaration on Education for Sustainable Development in the registrants' information packets.

Tim Ellis, Executive Director of Global Quest, USA, has visited and presented on Global Quest at many Global Connections' member schools, including Deerfield Academy, Horace Mann, Hotchkiss, The Mountain School and St. Mark's.

Dima Zau'iter of the Jubilee School in Amman, Jordan, advised that as a result of Global Connections IV, her school now offers a course on Environmentalism as a selective course.

Peter Harris, Director of Global Education Enterprises, Australia, has advised of the use of "The Natural Step" as presented at Deerfield.

Hilary Matthews of Tiger Kloof Educational Institution, South Africa, advises that Tiger Kloof is seeking membership in the Round Square, has adapted Gandhi's principle of seven social evils, has used the publication Owned by the Land as a guide for basic environmental concepts which have resulted in plans to build a bird hide, develop wetlands, eliminate alien plant species in the Kloof, and a declaration of the campus as a litter-free zone.

Eleanor Dase, Head of The Athenian School (CA, USA), reported on a project undertaken by a faculty member to save water and the formation of a Board supported environmental conservation committee made up of two Trustees, four students and two faculty members.

Hank Moses, Headmaster of Trinity School, USA, has begun to review its curriculum to seek what role the school can take in holding to the principles of sustainable development as stated in the Deerfield Declaration.

The Principal of No. 1 Middle School Attached School to the Central China Normal University, (Mr. Li through his interpreter), shared a program called "Protecting Our Home" in which the students monitored the quality of water and made a report containing suggestions to the government. The students won a contest for this program and the government adopted the suggestions.

Alden Smith, Assistant Director of The Mountain School at Milton Academy, USA reported a conference for urban schools was held on Ethics, Education and Environment at the Mountain campus.

Malcolm McKenzie, Principal of the United World College of the Atlantic, United Kingdom, reported discussions to set up a committee to act as an environmental audit group on campus.

Karen Murton, Principal of Branksome Hall, Canada, advises that in the school year 2000 - 2001 two girls from SCECGS/Redlands, Australia, came to Branksome for three months and the two host girls later returned to Australia for three months.

Tessa Fairbairn of St. Cyprian's School in South Africa reports of teacher/student exchange with the Hotchkiss School (USA).

Molly Barnes, Head of School, Rocky Mountain Semester in Colorado (CO, USA), reports that Trinity, Deerfield, Putney, and Athenian Schools (USA) have considered offering their enrichment program to their students.

George Semivule, Headmaster of King's College Budo, Uganda, reports that teachers from Tiger Kloof (South Africa) visited his school during the summer of 2000.

Deerfield Academy, (MA, USA) sent a gap year student as a teaching assistant to Tiger Kloof Educational Institution (Vryburg, South Africa).

A teacher on sabbatical from Deerfield Academy (MA, USA) will visit Letsibogo Girls' High School (Soweto, South Africa) in January, 2002 in order to see how they are dealing with AIDS education. This teacher will also visit Durban Girls' College (Durban, South Africa) and St. Anne's (Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa).

As a result of Global Connections IV, a member of the Science Department of Deerfield Academy (MA, USA) visited several schools in Australia during the summer of 2001.

Deerfield Academy (MA, USA) offered a one year scholarship to a Maru a Pula student for the academic 2000 - 2001 school year.

In keeping with the "Environmental" theme of Seminar IV, Tiger Kloof Educational Institution, Vryburg, South Africa, supports a sign at its gate which reads "Tiger Kloof is a litter-free zone. We care for our environment." Tiger Kloof is introducing waste recycling, permaculture technology, paper recycling for compressed paper bricks for heating, compost making using food waste and the establishment of woodlots for firewood for the local township.

Tiger Kloof Educational Institution, Vryburg, South Africa, is spearheading a "War on Litter Campaign" in the Huhudi schools and requesting tree donations from the local Department of Agriculture in order to "green" the township schools.

Barbara Stone, Principal of MLC School, Australia, advised of a teacher visit from the Deerfield Academy (MA, USA) in 2001.

Barbara Stone, Principal of MLC School, Australia, advised that her school had teachers visit the Prem Centre in Thailand in 2000.

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Outcomes Following Global Connections V...

Garth Grierson, Principal of Maru a Pula in Botswana advises: "It is likely that Maru a Pula will be able to offer a scholarship to Hotchkiss through Skip Mattoon, have links for Mawana for Aiglon College in Switzerland and L'Ermitage in France. L'Ermitage might also be able to link up with MaP French Dept. for enrichment and development."

Fr. Edmund Mallya of Loyola High School in Tanzania advises that as a result of GC V, they have begun an environmental group at Loyola.

Paul Geise of Pine Point (CT, USA) will be sending the middle school director to Starehe to begin the process of building a student leadership model such as theirs at Pine Point.

O. Hoagland Keep of Eaglebrook School (MA, USA) is to conduct an all-school lecture on Starehe, host school for GC V, during the 2001-2002 school year.

O. Hoagland Keep of Eaglebrook School (MA, USA) will sponsor a student to Maseno School in Maseno, Kenya, for the 2002-2003 school year and is challenging his Student Council to do the same.

Alan Patterson, Mowbray College, Australia, has commenced a staff-to-staff communication with Paul Otula at Maseno School, Kenya.

Robert Lennox, Headmaster of Warwick Academy, Bermuda, presented to his staff about the lessons of Starehe, helping to turn the traditional academic school into a more "participative, inviting one." He addressed an assembly of his students on 10 September, 2001 about the experiences of the Seminar at Starehe Boys' Centre and School.

Mr. Lennox and his wife (Warwick Academy, Bermuda) shall assist the young man from Starehe Boys' Centre and School, Kenya, who became their school guide and are persuading Warwick Academy's 'Leo' club to do the same.

Money is being supplied via Robert Lennox (Warwick Academy, Bermuda) to Starehe, Kenya, to aid in the sport of cricket or any other sport they wish.

Ellen Kondowe of Letsibogo Girls' School, South Africa, advises that Ken Rowe of Frankston High School, Australia, is arranging for three girls to go to Australia in 2002.

Letsibogo Girls' School, South Africa has received 15 boxes of library books from a Mac Robertson Girls' School in Australia.

Staff from the Letsibogo Girls' School, South Africa, visited Tiger Kloof Educational Institution, South Africa, in October 2001.

Peter Whelan, a Geography Teacher at Lower Canada College in Montreal Canada, having learned of GC through Carol Chala, who attended its fifth Seminar, would like to utilize GC resources to enhance a geography project at his school in which each student "adopts a country." There are hopes that specific schools and contacts can be made in countries participating in GC and that the future might lead to teacher and student exchanges. Students have begun making contact and utilizing the Global Connections Website for support.

Possible gap-year placements of Starehe, Kenya two students at Dilworth School in New Zealand as of January, 2002.

Deerfield School (MA, USA) is sponsoring a Starehe Boys' Centre & School, (Nairobi, Kenya) student for the school year 2001- 2002.

Alan Ross, Principal of Billanook College, Australia, advises that arrangements are being made to have a GAP student from Starehe Boys' Centre & School, Kenya, for the 2002 -2003 school year.

Eleanor Dase, Head of The Athenian School, (CA, USA) reports computer/communication with Uganda and that an AIDS' drugs US/South Africa Clinic was led by students.

Gwen Williams, Executive Headmistress, and Margo Reid, Headmistress of Durban Girls' College in South Africa advise of student exchanges and visits of staff from the following institutions: Aiglon College (Switzerland), Deerfield (MA, USA).

Funso Adegbola, Director of The Vale College (Nigeria) advises that her school is working on a pupil exchange with Letsibogo Girls' School in South Africa.

Starehe Boys' Centre & School (Nairobi, Kenya) hosted students and teachers from Maseno High School (Maseno, Kenya) 28-30 September, 2001, providing information on academic programs, boarding, discipline, prefectship, community services, firefighting, leadership, and Baraza.

Paul Geise, Head of Pine Point School (CT, USA), visited with Joseph Nyamumbo (Starehe student who is currently at Deerfield Academy )(MA, USA). Pine Point plans to have Joseph Nyamumbo to their school to help establish a Starehe model of youth leadership in March, 2002.

Pine Point School (CT, USA) has begun a peer-editing program with L'Ermitage in Paris France. Pine Point School's French classes are linking with students in English classes at L'Ermitage.

The geography students of Pine Point School (CT, USA) have become e-pals with students at Ramallah Friends School in Palestine.

Anna Portarska, Program Director of the Balkan Network of Secondary Schools (BNSS) (Sofia, Bulgaria) advises that the BNSS website contains information regarding the fifth Global Connections Seminar held at Starehe Boys' Centre & School in Nairobi, Kenya; along with a copy of a letter from one of the students of the host school, Starehe. The website is located at www.bnss.net.

Deerfield Academy (MA, USA) has sent a Gap year student as a teaching assistant to Geelong Grammar School's Timbertop Campus (Australia).

In the spring of 2002 Deerfield Academy (MA, USA) will have their second teacher exchange with the Corio campus of Geelong Grammar School (Australia).

Deerfield Academy (MA, USA) offered a one-year scholarship to a Maru a Pula student for the academic 2001 - 2002 school year.

As an HIV/AIDS awareness initiative, Tiger Kloof Educational Institution (Vryburg, South Africa) is instituting an awareness and education program called "Break the Silence" for the 2002 - 2003 school year. Tiger Kloof will link with five other high schools and have various courses and training programs for teachers and students in peer and grief counseling.

Tiger Kloof Educational Institution (Vryburg, South Africa) has created a new code of conduct which is based on the Institution's values as well as those expressed in the Declaration generated at the fifth Seminar.

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Outcomes Following Global Connections VI...

The Directeur of L'Ermitage, France, attended and presented at the Bilingual Forum Conference for Central and Eastern Europe at the invitation of the Bilingual English-Slovak Grammar School Slovakia. The Wuhan Declaration was presented at the Conference. The Directeur returns to Slovakia in the fall to work on a project involving 4-6 schools based on the theme of Language, Culture and Bilingualism.

The Principal of School No. 8, The Ukraine, helped to promote the Bilingual Forum conference in Slovakia.

The Traidhos Foundation, Thailand, invited students from the Bilingual English-Slovak Grammar School, Slovakia to study International Baccalaureate in Thailand, offering full tuition for one student and reduced tuition for another.

L'Ermitage, France began a computer project with the aid of the Head Teacher of King Edward VII School, UK and input from Appleby College and Bayview Glen, Canada, Tamaki College, New Zealand and Digital Harbour, Australia.

The Principal of Tamaki College, New Zealand provided three powerpoint presentations to L'Ermitage to aid in the set up of their I.C.T. wireless computer system installation.

Tamaki College instituted an electronic link to provide distance mentoring for the new Principal of Tiger Kloof, South Africa.

The Principal of Tamaki College, New Zealand met with the Primer Minister to share the Wuhan Declaration and act as Facilitator to a ³new principals² training programme at Auckland University of Technology.

Tamaki College, New Zealand Board and staff agreed to find six key ideas to adapt from the Wuhan Declaration to fit the ³Tamaki way.²

Executive Headmaster of SCECGS/Redlands, Australia visited King Edward VII during the summer of 2002, following a visit to the US.

The Head Teacher of King Edward VII School, UK will host a visit from the International Coordinator of Frankston High School, Australia in September, 2002.

The Director of Communications at Lawrence Academy, Massachusetts, posted information on the GCVI Seminar on the school's website ³Bulletin Board² page, as well as contacted the local cable access station to advertise his visit to China.

The Principal of Frankston High School, Australia, made plans to send a group including her deputy and the school council president to South Africa to help negotiate links between a university (Monash) and Letsibogo Girls' School in Soweto.

The former Headmaster of Mowbray College, Australia and now Director of Foundation Studies at Trinity College, Australia is generating an English project with Svetna in Novosibirsk and with the Headmistress of Ion Luca Caragiale National College, Romania involving cross-reading and cross-marking

The Principal of Letsibogo Girls' School, South Africa advised that a total of 12 students have been in an exchange program with Australian schools MacRobertson, Frankston High, and Mount Eliza. Three more students from Letsibogo will become part of the Australian exchange for the 2002-03 school year.

Monash University, Australia, invited the Letsibogo/Australian exchange students to a winter enrichment program.

Students of Maseno School, Kenya experienced a three day exchange programme at Starehe Boys' Centre & School, Kenya in early July, 2002.

The Hill School, Taft School and Deerfield Academy (all US schools), offered one full year scholarship to students from the Maru a Pula School, Botswana, for the 2002-2003 academic year.

A joint presentation on Global Connections was made to the Head Masters Council Conference in South Africa in August by the Heads of Stanford College and St. Cyprian's Girls School, South Africa.

The Principal of School No. 8, The Ukraine spoke at an International Festival and helped draft the final document to reflect the principles put forth in the Wuhan Declaration.

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