A WORCESTERSHIRE primary school has received an award from the American vice-president of the World Bank in recognition of their work with children in other countries.
Somers Park School, in Malvern, was honoured with the Global Village international award for its Chums project. Chums consists of a triangle of schools across the world - Somers Park, The Key School in Annapolis in the US and Chumbageni in Tanga, Tanzania.
The headteacher of Somers Park, Stuart Sewell, travelled to Boston to receive the prestigious trophy on behalf of the school, and to address the audience at the Hynes Conference Centre about the work of his pupils.
He received the award from JF Rischard, the vice-president of the World Bank and author of the bestselling book High Noon: Twenty Global Problems, Twenty Years To Solve Them.
Mr Rischard celebrated the work of Chums and highlighted the project as a model for other schools to develop.
The achievements of Chums so far include:
l Letter and art work exchanged between pupils.
l Comparative geography and history work.
l Exchange of two cuddly animals from the two schools to visit homes in each place.
l Building a computer centre at Chumbageni.
l Mr Sewell has worked in Tanzania for a month.
In July, teachers from Tanzania and America are to visit Somers Park School and teachers from Malvern are to do the return journey the following month.
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