Transcript Malawi ‘the warm heart of Africa’

Information Seminar
Tuesday 11th October 2011
16.30 hours
Holyrood Secondary School
Programme
• Welcome & the Holyrood Experience
Tom McDonald – Head Teacher, Holyrood Secondary School
• Malawi: A Young Person’s Experience
Sophie Harker – S6 Student, Holyrood Secondary School
• My Journey, My Experience, My Vision
Maureen McKenna – Executive Director of Education
• The MLOL Programme: A Few Facts
Les McLean – Quality Improvement Officer (Glasgow 2014)
Malawi - ‘the warm heart of Africa’
Where is it?
Some facts
• Population 15.6 million
• Major languages: English, Chichewa
• Life expectancy: 56 years (men), 57 years
(women)
• Main exports: Tobacco, tea, sugar, cotton
• GNI per capita: US $280 compared to
South Africa’s GNI per capita: US $5,770
and UK’s GNI per capita: US $41,520
(World Bank, 2009)
Education
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Highly valued – Government priority
Children start at age 6
Primary for 8 years
Secondary for 4 years
In order to progress to the next year you have to
pass exams. If you don’t pass then you repeat the
year
• Very little early years provision – not within remit
of Ministry of Education
Challenges for Education
• Not enough schools
• Not enough classrooms – children taught outside, sent
home during rainy season
• Not enough toilets/pit latrines
• Not enough teachers
• Almost no resources – textbooks, jotters, paper, pencils
• Huge drop off rate from standard 1 to standard 8 as
children have to work at home looking after siblings,
working in fields or early pregnancy in girls
Holyrood Project
• 4 years of senior pupils going to Malawi
• Improving infrastructure
• Building classrooms and painting rooms,
including learning resources on the walls
Holyrood and other schools across the city
• Sending out backpacks
• Raising money for Mary’s Meals
Lord Provost’s Malawi Fund
• Improving ICT resources
• Health projects – building clinics
• Support from Access and City Building
• Mary’s Meals
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Working in a range of countries
Feeding programs in primary schools
Run by Mother Groups
Delivering backpacks to primary school pupils
Supporting volunteers to run early childhood development
centres for under 6s – feeding them twice a day
• Increasing the number of children coming to school
Malawi Leaders of Learning
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In partnership with Link Community Development
Ages 6 to 18 – primary and secondary
Literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing
School improvement planning
Building the capacity of staff in Malawi to improve
learning and teaching
• Working with Mother Groups, School
Management Committees – the local community
Malawi Leaders of Early Learning
• In partnership with Mary’s Meals
• Extend the number of centres for under 6s which
feed children and help get them ready to learn
• Continue to help them extend the feeding
programs in primary schools
Building capacity by investing in
Malawi
• Employ a project manager
• Background in education who would be line managed by Sr
Eunice
• Mentored by Link Community Development Malawi
• Work with schools, teachers, primary education advisers to
improve school improvement planning
• Make arrangements for Malawi Leaders of Learning
• Identify schools and areas of improvement, including
access to electricity through Solar Connect
Solar Connect
What next
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Steering group here and in Malawi
Communications plan
Fund raising plan
Applications being sought for first team – spring
2012
• Cordia continue to support Mary’s Meals
• Access continue to support ICT through LP
Eligibility
• Focus Year 1: Secondary & Primary teachers + Active
Schools Co-ordinators
• Other sectors & roles considered for Year 2 onwards
• Focus on staff on permanent contract
• Issues for temporary staff & probationers
Training & Support
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Leadership
Team building
Fundraising
Preparing for the journey
Strategies for working in schools
Being resilient
Promoting global citizenship
Vision for the future
Legacy
Working with other cohorts
Timescales
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Applications
31st October
Consideration of Applications
11th November
Pre-selection Training
19th November
Selection Day
22nd November
2012 Cohort of MLOLs Announced 1st December
• Training Programme
• MLOLs to Malawi
February – May 2012
combination of twilight & Saturday
June – July 2012
5 weeks
Applications
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Application Form available today
Electronic copy will be e-mailed to you
Sections C, D & E – crucial
Section G – commitment (time & money)
Sections H & I – personal information
Section J – line manager’s support
• To Susan Aitchison by 31st October
Follow Our Journey
www.glasgoweducationmlol.org.uk
Contact Us
[email protected]
Questions