Registered Charity: 1103909

Tyume Valley Schools  

An Educational Project in South Africa

 Changing South African Children’s Lives through Education

Creating Links

School Links

The aim is to increase educational opportunities by helping participating schools, both in the UK and South Africa, to improve and develop themselves

Personal Contact

Teachers and students will be able to contact each other and find out, first hand  about each others lives

Bring the classroom alive

Topics can really be brought alive for students of all ages when projects involve results of surveys and personal experiences of pupils in other countries.

Partnership Schools— a creative link between the developed and developing world

TVS has already linked up six UK primary schools and two secondary schools with Tyume schools as part of the new TVS Partnership Programme.

The schools have embarked on curriculum-based partnerships that, if successful, will enable them to apply for British Council grants for teacher and pupil exchanges.

Partner schools undertake parallel and joint projects that contribute to the educational objectives of each school.

Eventually we would like to find partners for all of our schools.

Contact the Project Coordinator for more information
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Dodgy Clutch—Drama Link

TVS has linked up with the Newcastle-based Education and Arts group, Dodgy Clutch, which is also working in the Eastern Cape. Dodgy Clutch has already scored a spectacular success with the show ‘Elephant’ and is now working with schools in the Tyume Valley.

 In April 2006  they put on a workshop for teachers and in September they will return to South Africa to stage a new performance at the Hogsback Festival.

For more information on Dodgy Clutch visit their website www.dodgyclutch.com

Planned Parenthood Association SA  www.ppasa.org.sa  

We were able to organise the Counselling courses for Teachers and Community members  through this organisation which is a leading non-governmental organisation providing reproductive health information and services in South Africa.

Community Heart is a UK charity which specialises in Community Health, Education and Reconstruction Training They run a ‘Book and Ten Pence’ Project to help set up school libraries in South Africa. We have been allocated some of these books which are now in our  resource centre library www.community-heart.org.uk   

Text Box: Green Standards— Equipment for the Resource Centre The Green Standard Trust is a registered charity set up to work with companies to reduce the amount of redundant equipment that is deposited in landfill sites when companies upgrade their offices. This is part of a high profile initiative called Waste to Wonder and we benefited through the School in a Box program which redistributes these resources to charities and schools For more on GS or ‘Waste to Wonder’ visit their website www.greenstandards.org Green Standards sourced enough computers, printers, tables, chairs, filing cabinets, bookcases, TVs, overhead projectors and stationery to fill a 40’ container. We then had to raise the £4000 needed to ship the container Click here to find out more about this project teachers discussing a projectchildren

Please contact us if you would like to discuss being involved with the School Partnerships Program

We will give you practical assistance in setting up and maintaining your link. 

Teachers and community members are encouraged to join our volunteer visits to the Tyume Valley.

Reciprocal visits are encouraged and funding could be available through the British Council Grants .

Visit the Global Schools site for more information www.britishcouncil.org/globalschools-partnership-promote.htm

There are many excellent sites with ideas for joint projects:-

Global Schools       Oxfam’s Cool Planet       Learning Africa    Eco-schools UK and South Africa        BBC World Class

Links With Other Organisations

There are many organisations working to help the Developing World and we are forming links with them so that our projects can be completed as quickly and efficiently as possible. In particular we try and use resources which are already based or have links in South Africa.