This site describes a collaborative project between pupils of Llandrygarn Primary School in Anglesey, Wales, UK, Otterup School in Fyn, Denmark and Beulah Lightburn School in Pearl Lagoon, a village in the Southern Atlantic Coast Region of Nicaragua.  The project was co-ordinated by the World Education Project, Bangor University and took place over three school years from June 1997 to the end of 1999. 

The project is based on the classroom themes of Ourselves, Our Environments and Our Homes.  It involves discussions and exchanges of work and uses a wide variety of communication methods including post, electronic conferencing and chats, web pages, videos and teacher exchanges. It is aimed particularly at the subject areas of Language and Literacy, Geography and Information and Communications Technology and at Personal and Social Development. Above all, it prepares the children to be active global citizens.

Written by:
Sheila Bennell of the World Education Project, University of Wales, Bangor, and including examples of work by teachers and children in Llandrygarn Primary School, Otterup School and Beulah Lightburn School.

Participating teachers: Jane Richards, Menna James and Catherine Davies (Llandrygarn Primary School), Flemming Dahlqvist, Poul Svarrer, Gunnar Hach (Otterup School), Lisa Powell, Mabel Garth (Beulah Lightburn School).

Photographs taken by:
Sheila Bennell, Jane Richards, Catherine Davies, Menna James, Flemming Dahlqvist, staff and parents of Beulah Lightburn School and pupils in the three schools.

Site design and construction:
Sheila Bennell

Scanning of graphics:
Sam Jackson and Jonathan Raperport

Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the following organisations for funding and for making this work possible:
Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges
The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International and
The Llangefni Rotary Club, Anglesey, District 1180
Ynys Môn / Isle of Anglesey LEA
Oxfam in Wales
Christian Aid Wales
Celtec North Wales Training and Enterprise
The Environment Agency Wales
REM Project, Bangor University The Danish Ministry of Education
The Danish Foreign Ministry

Please send comments on the site to:
sheila_bennell@rem.bangor.ac.uk