Connecting Scotland & Zambia
Our website uses the arts to connect schools in Scotland and Zambia.
Schools around Scotland, [particularly in Livingston New Town. West Lothian],
and schools in the town of Livingstone, Zambia, [beside Mosi-oa-Tunya, the Victoria Falls] are taking part.
We have pages about participating places in SCOTLAND, about The Bird Exchange in which pupils create and share images of birds that have never been seen before, and these wing off to pupils in the other continent.
We hope to develop our Connectng, Story Exchange and Want To Know? pages.
Our work began in 2013, the bicentenary of Scottish explorer David Livingstone. Learn more about his Scottish connections and friends at http://davidlivingstonescotland.webs.com/
Our website is edited by Ewan McVicar, with funding from our Scottish Government via National Trust Scotland.
Ewan has had much help from Belinda Hodge of Livingstone 2013 - see http://www.victoriafallslivingstone.com/
The Bird Exchange project links schools through an exchange of visual arts images.
The idea arose because of the birds born in Scotland each Spring who fly off to Africa in Autumn and return the next year to nest-build.
Here are some of the bird images made by school pupils for the project.
Bird Images from Scotland & Zambia
The birds on the left are from schools in Livingston new Town, Scotland.
The birds on the right are from Acacia International School and Highlands Creative Academy, Livingstone, Zambia.
The birds below are from 10 year old pupils in Mulbuie Primary and six year old pupils in North Kessok primary, Black isle, Highland Scotland
The birds below are from Livingstone Zambia schools - Tongawezi Primary and Arican Impact schools
The next images arrived from Avoch Primary, Black Isle, in late December.
Birds from Munlochy Primary, Black Isle
Birds from Tarradale Primary, Black Isle
Bird images from Cromarty Primary here below.
The below bird images from Marybank Primary on the edge of the Black Isle arrived in mid January 2014.
