Kemnay Academy’s exploration of potential links with a school and pupils in Rwanda is progressing as a focus for a sustainable approach to global citizenship. Recently, students from Harlaw Academy in Aberdeen City visited Kemnay Academy to brief S3 and senior students on their experiences in that country. Our S3 students study Rwanda as part of our Social Subjects curriculum. The briefing has fired our imagination and, together with our Charity Committee, we are planning to sponsor 4 Rwandan pupils through their secondary education. Our end of term non-uniform day will be geared to this. The Rwandan school system is quite different from ours and such sponsorship will make a huge difference to those pupils, their careers, their families and development of local community. However, it will also benefit our own pupils’ understanding of global issues and will complement our ethos of good citizenship and our Rights Respecting Schools Award work. We are working with a charity, Rwandan Schools Village Project (RSVP), to take this forward and to make a link directly with a Rwandan school. We hope to create interesting displays in the Academy to keep pupils up to date with our sponsored pupils’ and school’s progress. The charity’s website can be accessed through this link: http://rsvpcharity.org.uk/ We will keep you up to date with our progress via these newsletters, etc and build appropriate links into our website