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/
When Ewan McVicar visited Tarradale Primary, Muir of Ord, on the edge of the Black Isle, he met visiting Art Teacher Adrian Eaton, who promised to work with classes in several Black isle schools to make Bird Exchange images.
You can see some of the resulting work by selecting our BIRD EXCHANGE page above. Images have come from Mulbuie Primary, North Kessock Primary, Avoch Primary, Tarradale Primary in Muir of Ord, Cromarty Primary, Marybank Primary and Munlochy Primary.
The Black Isle, Ross-shire, Northern Scotland
A Story About Muir of Ord
A story about the Brahan Seer, who could see the future
RED HOT CHILLI STORIES
The below stories come from a 2004 storytelling project organised by Bob Pegg with P5 in Tarradale Primary. Most of the stories were collected by the children in their community.
Avoch.
North Kessock
Mulbuie
The Black Isle
Munlochy
Tarradale Primary, Muir of Ord
Cromarty
Marybank
The Story of the Skeleton and the Monk
