100 Words goes global!
15 January 2010
2010 has got off to a great start with Natasha making a trip to Bangladesh to do some preparatory work for a British Council Connecting Classrooms 100 Words competition. She’s been there for the past week, meeting teachers and drama practitioners, and preparing materials to be circulated to connected schools in Banglasdeh, Algeria and the UK. The model is similar to that used for the CHINA NOW competition run in 2008, with young people writing 100 word plays using the native language of their partner school. The finished plays will be filmed and shared via a secure website, www.connectingclassrooms.org. The prize is a trip to the UK for students and teachers from the winning secondary schools in Bangladesh and Algeria. Participating primary schools will be taking part in a similar competition except they will be writing and filming 10 word plays, with the prize involving books and other resources from or about their partner country. This is the first time that 100 Words activities have been run using languages other than English and Mandarin, which we’re very excited about.