{"id":14809,"date":"2023-11-22T06:55:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T06:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=14809"},"modified":"2025-04-01T16:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T16:45:47","slug":"life-in-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=14809","title":{"rendered":"Life in Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mrs Copeland’s mum kindly joined us today to share her experiences of living in Zambia.\u00a0 We are partnered with Mulola Primary School in Zambia as part of our British Council for a climate change project.<\/p>\n

Mulola is near the Kafue National Park in Zambia.\u00a0 The school has a total of 594 learners of which 294 are girls and 290 boys. Their learner’s ages range from between 7 and 16y ears old.<\/p>\n

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Mulola primary school became the 100th school to be supported by the British council\u2019s climate connection program aimed enabling school going children to take action against climate change issues.<\/p>\n

Our children have shared images of storms in Portpatrick with our partner school.\u00a0 They are going to do the same to allow for discussion on the What, Where, Why and How of the issue.<\/p>\n

We have also written pen pal letters to share insights into our lives here. Class teacher Bernadette Mupela plans to have her class write back to us very soon.<\/p>\n

We can see how arid and dry it is in the Mulola school grounds photographs that Ms Mupela has shared with us.\u00a0 We studied the climate and compared it to our own. We created graphs highlighting temperature and rainfall for Scotland and Zambia.\u00a0 We learned how drought is an issue and we shared how we had experienced coastal flooding with children in our partner school.<\/p>\n