History through connecting classrooms in Bradford and Peshawar, Pakistan

Editorial note: In this inspiring, teacher-led, crossphase project, pupils and teachers from eight schools in Bradford and Peshawar shared and learned about the histories of Bradford and Pakistan. The British Council’s Connecting Classrooms Scheme funded the project. The article below focuses on the primary dimension.

In 2008 three representatives from Bradford went to a British Councll Connecting Classrooms project ‘contact seminar’ in Kenilworth. Little did they know then that the outcome, their own Connecting Classrooms project, would forge a link with Peshawar, capital of the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, that would still be active after five years. The Bradford Connecting Classrooms project linked three schools in Britain and five in Pakistan. The Bradford – Peshawar cluster involved two mixed primaries, a girls’ secondary school in inner city Bradford and a madrassa, an airforce cross-phase school, two government girls’ high schools and a private mixed cross-phase school in Peshawar...