Ignatius Park College is committed to developing global links with schools across the world and learning from, with and about each other, focused on a spirituality of justice and solidarity.
Baillie – St Edmunds School, Shillong, India
In the diverse and challenging year of 2020 we have:
Putney – Mt Sion CBC, Waterford, Ireland
• Hosted EREBB Zoom calls focused on COVID19 lockdown, curriculum and co-curricular with 12 EREA Australia schools and our 7 international EREBB partner schools from all corners of the globe. • Conducted the Year 10 Exchange program with our nearest Edmund Rice school – St Brendan’s College, Yeppoon. Eight students accompanied by teacher Mr Drew Thompson and teacher aide Mr Michael Parker from 11-17 October. The intent of the school exchange is to give Year 10 students an experience of the perspective of ‘the other’. It is a realistic, beginning-level exchange that explicitly builds confidence to enable students to engage in other immersive experiences. It allows for the sharing ideas between schools and further builds the understanding of the larger Edmund Rice Network. Ignatius Park College boys attended St Brendan’s College, Yeppoon to take part in regular classes, boarded at St Brendan’s College and participated in tours of the local area with their host brothers and staff. In exchange, they hosted a student from SBC when they completed the return leg of the exchange at IPC. • Year 7 EREBB email buddy program – All of our Year 7 boys, aided by their Homeroom teachers, have reached out and made contact with their buddy as part of our Pastoral House groups with Edmund Rice schools internationally as follows;
Carew – Stella Maris, Montevideo, Uruguay Nolan – Palma School, California, USA Rice – Veritas College, Springs, South Africa Reid – St Kevin’s, Oamaru, New Zealand Treacy – St Ambrose College, Manchester, England We are keen to consolidate and continue a close working relationship with these schools in the future. In particular, we are wanting our students and staff to share: How IPC lives the ER Touchstones and how we can share our story with our EREBB partner schools.
1. Establish connections between our Year 7
students and your students (preferably same age) as ‘email buddies’ and encourage each of our students to write and make contact at least 4 times per year.
2. Look at the possibility of student / staff exchanges or immersions in 2021 and beyond.
3. Sharing curriculum and resources to broaden
the educational experience for our students across key learning areas. This has been done with great success via ZOOM calls in 2020.
Thanks to all of the IPC staff and over 200 students who have been open to the EREBB initiatives in 2020 and we look forward to building our connections and programs in the future. Greg Christ | Identity and Mission Coordinator Liberating Education
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