Category: Swaps
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IYAF – Your Postcards so far : mapped!
Thanks for sending in your postcards for the International Youth Arts Festival in Kingston-upon-Thames. So far we have over 200 postcards in and they’ve come from all 5 continents!. Here’s a map with all the countries we’ve received post from so far. Why not get your class involved today?
Handmade postcard swap and exhibition – Let me introduce myself…
For the second year running, Schoolswaps is working with the organisers of the International Youth Arts Festival in Kingston-upon-Thames, UK to bring you the biggest international postcard swap and exhibition of the year! We want to invite you and your children to take part in the 2nd IYAF/Schoolswaps Exhibition in Kingston, which will be running […]
Schoolswaps Postcard Map Swap a huge success!
After a few months build up, Schoolswaps second big postcard swap has now finished, with all classes having sent their postcards (with one notable exception in Bangkok as they have been flooded and their school has just reopened and will be sending their postcards out this week) Over at the Schoolswaps network, some of the […]
Postcard or digital art competition open to all – £30 Amazon vouchers up for grabs!
Hi all – thought this would be a welcome distraction and a chance to make some art and perhaps get involved in a creative conference in London. I’m involved in running a conference in London for creatives involved in wellbeing, which includes you! This competition is open to all. In conjunction with the conference, we […]
Some ideas for teaching geography using postcard maps by Professor Simon Catling
This guest post for Schoolswaps was written by Professor Simon Catling, who is a Professor of Education and tutor in primary Geography education at the School of Education at Oxford Brookes University. His specialist interest is in children’s geographical learning and he has written much on the subject of geography and map learning for teachers and children and […]
The Great Big Schoolswap #2 – Map swap!
If you are a teacher and think your students could benefit from sending and receiving some postcards this term, the Great Big School Swap #2 is for you! The idea is simple. Get your class to send one postcard each and, hopefully they should all get one back! How does it work? You need to […]
Lessons learned from The Great Big School Swap
Given that most of the Northern Hemisphere schools are on summer break, I’ve taken the summer off too here at Schoolswaps. In the meantime, I’ve been very busy thinking about the next swap and reflecting on the last Great Big School Swap and getting ready for the new term, so I thought I’d write a […]
Postcards arriving at their destinations!
With The Great Big School Swap in full swing, hundreds of postcards are currently making their way across the world to and from the 66 classes signed up and it’s been really exciting to hear about all the cards coming in by email, on twitter and right here on schoolswaps in the schoolswaps network my […]
My Extraordinary Imagination opens at The Penny School Gallery, Kingston
On Wednesday 29th June, 2011 The Penny School Gallery in Kingston had a special preview of our postcard show, My Extraordinary Imagination as part of the Kingston International Youth Arts Festival. The turnout was good, with invited guests from the local area including Robin Hutchinson, the director of Creative Arts, who are the lovely people […]
Big Swap! Our place in a box
The University of Roehampton Geography Education department are running a Big School Swap and we want you to take part. The project is being run by Emily Rotchell, Geography Education lecturer at the University of Roehampton as part of the BA Education degree, and we want to invite as many diverse classes to take part […]