Case Studies
Case studies provide insights and ideas about how schools and networks of schools approach their WorldWise projects. The WorldWise team will be updating this section of the site throughout 2010/11. If you would like to have your school partnership project represented here just contact us.
St. Dominic's High School (Santa Sabina) Sutton, Dublin and Masongola Secondary School, Zomba, Malawi This partnership is in its second year, having grown out of a Trócaire study visit by a teacher from Santa Sabina to Malawi in 2008.
Since then, there have been WorldWise teacher visits to both Ireland and Malawi that have helped the partnership to develop. Following an initial exchange of student profiles in year 1, students and teachers from both schools now participating in the partnership are involved in joint project work on the environment, rights and responsibilities, and health. See the partnership agreement and report of recent partner teacher visit
or read more about this partnership
St. Mary’s CBS Enniscorthy, Wexford and Queen of the Rosary School, Bo, Sierra Leone CBS Enniscorthy had long been keen to establish a link with a partner school, as they felt it was important to give their students a different view of life, and to examine issues from different perspectives. This partnership is currently in its third year, having been established in 2008 when three members of staff from Enniscorthy travelled on a WorldWise teacher visit to Bo. See their partnership agreement with QRS, or read more about this partnership
Rockbrook Park School, Dublin and John Paul II Secondary School, Nairobi The link between Irish school Rockbrook Park and their Kenyan partner John Paul II Mixed Secondary School is now in its fourth year, having been established with the help of Strathmore University, Nairobi, in 2007 and supported by WorldWise. See their partnership agreement, student visit report, final report from 2008/09 and the joint magazine, 'You and Me'. Read on to find out more about this partnership.
Ballyfermot College of Further Education, Dublin and Evelyn Hone College of Applied Arts and Commerce, Lusaka The partnership between Ballyfermot College of Further Education, Dublin and Evelyn Hone College of Applied Arts and Commerce, Lusaka, was established in 2007 as a multi-stranded and long-term project. See minutes of teacher meetings in Zambia and Ireland, their partnership agreement, final report 2009, and front cover of their joint newspaper. Read on to find out more about this partnership.
Lifelinks: St. Aloysius College, Carrigtwohill, Ireland and Mutito Girls' Secondary School, Kitui, Kenya St. Aloysius College, Carrigtwohill and Mutito Girls’ Secondary School, Kitui, have been in contact since 1996 through Irish project coordinator, Mary O’Donovan Cowhey, who is an English and Religion teacher in St. Aloysius. See their partnership agreement, the selection process they used to choose students for a visit to Mutito, and student responses to this visit. Read on to find out more.
New Millennium, New Friendship: Gort Community School, Galway, Ireland and Tana Haik Secondary School, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia The human-rights based approach to this partnership project is what makes it particularly dynamic, and any development issues that are focused on between Gort and Tana Haik, such as HIV/AIDS or gender-based violence, are linked back to the area of human rights. See the partnership agreement that has been produced, artwork created as part of the project and the speech made by Gort student at the 2008 Global Forum on HIV/AIDS. Read on to find out more.
Seamount College, Kinvara, Ireland and Notre Dame Girls' Senior High School, Sunyani, Ghana In Seamount College, Kinvara, development education has been a part of the school curriculum for over three years, both as a subject in its own right in Transition Year and through cross-curricular links in Geography, Religion, CSPE and Art. In 2007 this Dev Ed programme was enriched by the start of a partnership project with Notre Dame Girls’ Senior High School in Sunyani, Ghana. Get the partner school perspective on the project, read about the week-long development education workshop that took place in Seamount and see the mural produced in our Gallery. Read on to find out more about this partnership.
