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				Supporting the International Dimension in Sunderland LA


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			International School Award Comenius 1 School Partnership East-West Linking Programme Comenius Assistants Partner-finding Foreign Language Assistants (FLAs) DfID Global School Partnerships Connect Youth International School Sports Partnership Prize World Links
			School Sports Partnership Prize - The Franco-British Council awards an annual prize to a state or private primary or secondary school in Britain to carry out a school partnership project. The prize was launched in 1995, and since then has enabled thirteen schools to undertake a project with a French school, providing a greater understanding of a different culture, as well as the opportunity to share new ideas. Find out more>>

			The International School Award (ISA) is given in recognition of all the work in the international dimension that a school has done and will go on to do. Find out more>>
			A Comenius 1 School Partnership is a partnership between a school in the UK and at least two other schools in European countries. Find out more>>
			The East-West linking programme, which links schools in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, was set up following the Good Friday Agreement, to encourage friendship and understanding between the two countries. Funding is available for joint curriculum projects which include field trips for pupils and teacher exchanges. Find out more>>
			Comenius assistants are teachers or trainee teachers who come from a Europenan country to work in your school for between 3 months and one academic year. They are completely FREE OF CHARGE as their salary is paid by the EU. Competition to be a Comenius assistant is fierce, and so the people who are successful are always of the very highest quality. Deploy them across the school to enrich your existing curricula. Find out more>>
			Partner-finding The DfES would like all schools to have links with at least one overseas school by 2010. Find out more>>
			Information for Foreign Language Assistants Find out how to apply for a FLA for your school
			DfID Global School Partnerships are links between schools in the UK and schools in one of the countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America or the Caribbean. The initiative is funded by the Department for International Development and managed by the British Council. The Global Gateway has full information – click on “make a link” to find prospective partner schools. There is a grant of about £1000 available to enable one teacher to visit the partner in order to plan the curriculum project, and a further sum of £750 is available for planning, materials and supply costs for planning. These links are co-ordinated locally by Pauline Zarraga. Phone or fax 264 1892 for more information.
			Connect Youth International provides advice, information, training and grant aid to UK groups of young people taking part in international exchanges. Find out more>>
			The British Council World Links Team can help provide funding for partnerships with China, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Russia and Spain. Find out more>>

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