How to use this resource

For a complete description of the components of school twinning, please first read our school twinning guide. Then, if you decide to twin, contact us and we will match you with a school in Sierra Leone. We ask for a simple commitment of at least two email letter exchanges with your twin. The resources on this site will help with the letter exchange and additional learning and action. Feel free to use and adapt the activities in this resource. Please also add your own suggestions on the PSI twinning discussion board. The eight investigation topics include:

"Ow di bodi?" (discovering similarities)
Where are you? (learning about our world)
How’s school? (schools'  roles in community)
Fair’s fair; how can we share? (needs/wants)
Food for thought (food sustainability)
Dual fuels (sustainable energy )
Keeping the peace (community peace-keeping)
Dancing up a storm (cultural traditions)

Teachers in Sierra Leone will be working from a similar document, which you can view here. When you are ready to communicate with your twin school, let us know and we will help you exchange information via the internet.  You can also follow the volunteer's blog for regular updates from Sierra Leone.

This resource has been developed by Carolyn van Gurp, volunteer with the Centre for Development and Peace Education and Peaceful Schools International with funding from The Teaching Excellence Fellowship Program, Faculty of Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

The internet links contained in this resource were operational at the time of publishing. If you notice any problems with any of the links, please let us know. Thank you!