Category: Multi-class swaps
Our Great Big School Swaps are multi-class swaps involving classes from all over the world. When you join you are assigned a number of partner classes and everyone sends and receives all over the place!
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 […]
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 […]
The Great Big School Swap – All partners now assigned!
One day after schedule, but all the emails are now sent out for The Great Big School Swap! By now you should have received an email containing one or more addresses to send to, with a number of how many postcards to send to each. Why more than one class? Because of the uneven number […]
Schoolswaps presents…The Great Big School Swap!
Are you a teacher? Do want to receive some postcards from somewhere exciting for your class? If so, sign up to the first ever Great Big School swap! ++++++++NEWSFLASH+++++++++ I made a tiny mistake with the dates. Initially I typed July instead of June! I will be sending emails out to all participants with the […]
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 […]