International Dimension

Opportunity and success on a global stage

2025 - 2026

2025-26 Overseas Partnerships Overview

Active Partnerships

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Planning Stage Partnerships

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Potential Partnerships

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King’s Academy Meadow Vale

• Rwanda. Link with Sam Hunt who goes out each February half term. Send cards and letters and raise money to buy cows and goats. Speak to Sam of how else we can help. Send video to the children and receive one back. Communicate through videos on WhatsApp.
• Australia (proposed)

King’s Academy Binfield Secondary

• Local school - Cambodia (6th Form Trip)
• St Genes School (contact Emma Hodson)
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King’s Academy

Brune Park

École Secondaire Paul-Germain-Ostiguy, Saint-Césaire, Canada

New partnership with Ukraine (awaiting for a specific school to exchange with)

King’s Academy

Bay House

• Kaohsiung Municipal Hsin Chuang Senior High School, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
• Beatrix College - Tilburg, Netherlands
• Fomo Independent Secondary School (FISS) - Mulanje, Malawi
• Scuola Superiore A.Maria Camaiti - Italy

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King’s Academy Binfield Primary

• Kenton College Preparatory School - Nairobi, Kenya
• Aga Khan Academy - Hyderabad, India

King’s Academy College Park

• Amity International School - Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Escola Virolai - Barcelona, Spain
• Nanjing Phoenix Garden City Primary School - P.R. China
• Shkola Radoski - Kyiv, Ukraine

King’s Academy

Easthampstead Park

• Escola Virolai - Barcelona, Spain. Will continue in the next academic year.

ESO 2 (90 students)/ Languages club at Easthampstead Park

YouTuber Tutorials: Students Choose a song in their native language (Spanish / English) and "teach" it to their exchange partners (e.g. the song meaning / Why they like it / key phrases from the song in Spanish / English) (May-June). Kerry, we won't be able to complete this project until the third term so there's no rush to send the videos.

International project elective subject (ESO 3 + 4) /Easthampstead Park

Festivals / Traditions video exchange + interviews.....(Can start in mid November??)

Meet at Hampton Court earlier this year.

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• Apostelgymnasium School in Cologne, Germany - Trip going ahead in June 2025, relationship will continue?

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King’s Academy

Easthampstead Park

Zhangjiagang No. 1 Middle School 2024

Will be doing an exchange in 2025 - cancelled due to inability to find partnership school, will try again in 2026 (Chinese or Brazilian?)

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King’s Academy

Easthampstead Park

Challenges Abroad 6th Form Trip always works with local schools in the region - Cambodia, Thailand, Panama (w/ fellow King’s school), Peru.

Very successful program - we will continue this is 2026 (location TBD).

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King’s Academy

Easthampstead Park

Pen Pal partnership with Ukraine has just begun, but we hope this continues into the next Academic year.

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King’s Academy Gomer

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• Propose an overseas partnership

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King’s Academy

Lord Wilson

• St Andrews Samakee International School - Bangkok, Thailand
• Projects planned: All About Us, Sea Changes, ESport and The Digital Divide

King’s Academy Northern Parade

• BISAK - Saudi Arabia
• King’s College Soto De Viñuelas - Madrid, Spain

King’s Academy Oakwood

• Kenton College Preparatory School - Nairobi, Kenya
• Aga Khan Academy - Hyderabad, India

King’s Academy

Ringmer

• Escola Virolai - Barcelona, Spain
• College St. Martin, Lyon, France
• College St. Martin, France
• Zhangjiagang No. 1 Middle School, China

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King’s Academy

Prospect

• Zhangjiagang Liangfeng Middle School, China (active)
• Collège Institution Saint-Joseph - Le Havre, France (active)
• Local school - Nepal (6th Form Trip) (active)
• Escola Virolai - Barcelona, Spain (pending)
• The Sultan’s School - Seeb, Oman (pending)

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King’s Academy Rowner

• Current partnership- Francova Lhota Primary School, Czech Republic - initiated February 2025 (year 5 collaboration)
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2024 - 2025

2024-25 Overseas Partnerships Overview

Active Partnerships

• Amity International School, UAE
• British International School, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia
• King’s College Panama
• Kenton College Prep, Kenya
• Virolai School, Spain
• RAINReforest, Brazil
• The Sultan’s School - Oman
• King’s College, Madrid, Spain
• Aga Khan Academy, Hyderabad, India
• Kaohsiung Municipal Hsin-Chuang Senior High School, Taiwan
• College St. Martin, France
• Fomo Independent Secondary School (FISS) - Malawi
• Beatrix College - Netherlands
• College Saint-Genes - France
• Apostelgymnasium, Germany
• Institution St. Joseph, Le Harve, France
• Revere High School, Boston, USA
• Francova Lhota Primary School, Czechia
• Honeyland Schools, Nigeria
• St Andrews Samakee International School, Thailand
• Radosti School - Kyiv, Ukraine
• Scuola Superiore A.Maria Camaiti - Italy
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Cambodia: Samanoas Primary & Prak Chdor Primary Schools

Nepal: Manohara Basic School

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King’s Academy Meadow Vale

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King’s Academy Binfield Secondary

• Local school - Cambodia (6th Form Trip)

King’s Academy

Brune Park

École Secondaire Paul-Germain-Ostiguy, Saint-Césaire, Canada

King’s Academy

Bay House

• Kaohsiung Municipal Hsin Chuang Senior High School, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
• Beatrix College - Tilburg, Netherlands
• Fomo Independent Secondary School (FISS) - Mulanje, Malawi
• Scuola Superiore A.Maria Camaiti - Italy

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King’s Academy Binfield Primary

• Kenton College Preparatory School - Nairobi, Kenya
• Aga Khan Academy - Hyderabad, India

King’s Academy College Park

• Amity International School - Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Escola Virolai - Barcelona, Spain
• Nanjing Phoenix Garden City Primary School - P.R. China

King’s Academy

Easthampstead Park

• Escola Virolai - Barcelona, Spain - Meet up in Hampton Court (Feb 2025?)

ESO 2 (90 students)/ Languages club at Easthampstead Park

YouTuber Tutorials: Students Choose a song in their native language (Spanish / English) and "teach" it to their exchange partners (e.g. the song meaning / Why they like it / key phrases from the song in Spanish / English) (May-June). Kerry, we won't be able to complete this project until the third term so there's no rush to send the videos.

International project elective subject (ESO 3 + 4) /Easthampstead Park

Festivals / Traditions video exchange + interviews.....(Can start in mid November??)

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• Apostelgymnasium School in Cologne, Germany - June 2025

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King’s Academy

Easthampstead Park

Zhangjiagang No. 1 Middle School 2024 CANCELLED 2025

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King’s Academy

Easthampstead Park

Challenges Abroad 6th Form Trip always works with local schools in the region - Cambodia, Thailand, Panama (w/ fellow King’s school), Peru.

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King’s Academy Gomer

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• Looking into an overseas partnership

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Joined KGA Bay House for Chinese Day

King’s Academy

Lord Wilson

• St Andrews Samakee International School - Bangkok, Thailand
• Projects planned: All About Us, Sea Changes, ESport and The Digital Divide

King’s Academy Northern Parade

• BISAK - Saudi Arabia
• King’s College Soto De Viñuelas - Madrid, Spain

King’s Academy Oakwood

• Kenton College Preparatory School - Nairobi, Kenya
• Aga Khan Academy - Hyderabad, India

King’s Academy

Ringmer

• Escola Virolai - Barcelona, Spain
• College St. Martin, Lyon, France
• College St. Martin, France
• Zhangjiagang No. 1 Middle School, China

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King’s Academy

Prospect

• The Sultan’s School - Seeb, Oman
• Zhangjiagang Liangfeng Middle School, China
• Collège Institution Saint-Joseph - Le Havre, France
• Escola Virolai - Barcelona, Spain
• Local school - Nepal (6th Form Trip)

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King’s Academy Rowner

• Francova Lhota Primary School, Czechia- initiated February 2025 (year 5 collaboration)
• IC had a meeting with a teacher from the school to organise next steps
• Both schools made slideshows with our pupils to share information about our schools and our classes
• Following on from this, the children generated questions to share and responded afterwards
• The classes then made slides about the history of their country to share with each other

Previous Updates

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2023 - 2024

British International School Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia

• Year 5 collaboration in May 2023 and again in April - May 2024.
• 250 Year 5 students involved from both school. To follow cohort through to Year 6 2024 - 2025
• Project theme: Understanding life in a different country.
• Curriculum Links: Geography, Computer Science, English, PSHE.
• Medium: Live virtual sessions, collaboration

on a project and live sharing of work on Google Slides.

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King’s Academy Northern Parade,

King's College Soto de Vinuelas, Madrid

• New collaboration with Years 2 and 4,
• Project theme: Working together across boundaries.
• Curriculum Links: Cross curricular.
• Medium: Live virtual sessions to meet and greet and collaborate on curriculum learning.

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King’s Academy Northern Parade,

British International School Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia

• 6th Form International Challenges Project was trialled in Autumn Term 2023
• 180 6th Form students involved from all schools.
• Project theme: Collaborating and communicating beyond borders.
• Curriculum Links: Citizenship, Careers
• Medium: Video challenges on FlipGrid.

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King’s Academy 6th Forms

King’s College Panama

• 6th Form partnership was forged to support the planned Challenges Abroad trip to Panama in June 2024
• 16 6th Form students travelling from KAEP, meeting with 35 6th Formers from King’s College
• KAEP students will visit King’s College for a morning of activities in the school and surrounding rainforest.
• Afternoon will involve a tour of the old city led by King’s Panama students.
• Communication will begin prior to the trip via Zoom.

The visit went well - Chinua, the DHT at KCP is hoping to bring a group of students to the UK in 2024-25, and would like to include us as part of their itinerary. That said, we've not been in touch beyond this since returning from Panama.

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King’s Academy Easthampstead Park

King’s College Panama

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King’s Academy Easthampstead Park

Next year we are in Peru - no King’s College in Peru. Matt Hall said if we have a partnership school in Peru they are interested in doing a partnership.

British School Algiers, Algeria

• Three BSA teachers undertook a professional development placement in King’s Academy Binfield in July 2023.
• Fully funded by BSA.
• Teachers from both primary and secondary.
• EAL, MFL and DT focus.
• Offer to host KGA teachers in the future.
• Requested to repeat placement in Summer 2024

RAINREforest

King’s Academy Ringmer

• In collaboration with RAINREforest, KAR are in partnership with an indigenous school in the Guajajara region of Brazil.
• Sustainability focused work centred on the ECO hub.
• Linked with KAR’s International Culture Day with Brazillian music and art workshops.
• First student to student communications to

took place in May 2023.

• Renewed work in April 2024 with new ECo Lead

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Kenton College Prep, Nairobi, Kenya

King’s Academy Binfield & Oakwood

• Y1 project began in January 2024.
• 90 students across three schools
• Project Focus: To support geography work on Kenya
• Curriculum Links: Geography, Art, English, PSHE
• Medium: Students began with the exchange of handwritten letters and will progress to live Zoom meetings and shared project work on the landscape and wildlife in their partner school’s location.
• Other links: Swahili will become a ‘Language of the Month’ a

at KAB and KAO with phrases taught by Kenton students.

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Virolai School, Barcelona, Spain

King’s Academy Easthampstead Park

• Y9 & 10 project began in March 2024.
• 200 students involved across both schools
• Project Focus: To expose students to real-life language learning and culture of Spain
• Curriculum Links: MFL (Spanish), English, Computing
• Medium: Students are creating a series of videos on a chosen topic to share with peers in partner school. The videos will be recorded in dual language. This will be followed by Zoom calls and group collaborative project work.
• Other links: KAEP plan to visit Viroli as part of an MFL (Turing funded Trip) in Summer 2025.

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The Sultan’s School, Oman

King’s Academy Prospect

• International Student Ambassadors project began in May 2024
• Project Focus: To compare cultures and experiences with a group of third-culture students living in Oman
• Curriculum Links: Languages, English, Computing
• Medium: Live Zoom calls to ask pre-prepared questions and presentations using Slides to feed back to one another.
• Other links: Prospect 6th Form have been invited to apply for the Oman Student Volunteer Programme run by the Sultan’s School and The British Omani society.

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Aga Khan Academy, Hyderabad, India

King’s Academy Binfield & Oakwood

• Year 3 partnership to begin in September 2024. This will be a year round partnership, starting in the Autumn term and developing into a project in the Spring.
• Project Focus: To support KAB & KAO topic work on India by comparing cultures and experiences first hand.
• Curriculum Links: Geography, English, Computing, PSHE
• Medium: Live Google Meet calls to ask pre-prepared questions and the creation of shared presentations using Slides to learn about each country and share cultural information.

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Amity International School, UAE

King’s Academy College Park

• First KGA student collaboration project: May 2023.
• Second year of project: March & April 2024
• 250 Year 5 students involved from both schools.
• Project focus: Understanding life in a different country.
• Curriculum Links: Geography, Computer Science, English, PSHE.
• Medium: Live virtual sessions, collaboration

on a project and live sharing of work on Padlet.

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Escola Virolai,

Spain

King’s Academy College Park

• 2024 -2025 First year of project
• All pupils in KS2 from KACP involved in the project (~ 450 pupils)
• Project focus: Pupil understanding of language learning in other countries, developing pupils’ cultural capital
• Curriculum Links: English, Science, D&T, Computing & Spanish.
• Medium: Physical resources, online sharing of work

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Nanjing Phoenix Garden City Primary School, China

King’s Academy College Park

• Exchange taking place in January 2025
• 124 Year 6 pupils plus 20 International Ambassadors involved in the exchange
• Project focus: Cultural awareness - similarities and difference
• Curriculum Links: All subjects
• Medium: Lessons, workshop, clubs, events

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Active Turing Scheme Funding Bids

Stage 1

• Have a designated international coordinator.
• Have evaluated school’s current cultural capital and international mindedness.
• Has an annual programme of cultural activities within school such as assemblies, displays, cultural festival, celebrations, international days.
• Have a policy and action plan for developing the international mindedness of the school.
• Has begun to carry out curriculum reviews in light of promoting international mindedness at least one subject area.
• Has appointed International School Ambassadors.
• Has experience of running an overseas school partnership project.
• Has an international dimension tab on their school’s website.
• Has achieved the Foundation Level International Schools Award.

Stage 2

• Has carried out curriculum review of key subjects and made adaptations to promote international mindedness.
• Is working on shared virtual projects with partner schools overseas involving at least 10% of student total.
• Has achieved the International Schools Award Intermediate Level
• Has a strong programme in place for the teaching of EAL.
• Has a programme of responsibilities for International Student Ambassadors
• Has a planned programme of induction and support for international students.
• Includes inspirational projects which address global issues in curriculum or extra-curricular opportunities.
• Secondary Only: Has a growing programme of international student trips.

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Stage 3

• Has carried out curriculum review of all subjects and made adaptations to promote international mindedness.
• Has active and evolving partnerships with overseas school/s involving at least 50% of student total.
• Hosting international staff

and/or students exchanges.

• Has connections with international charitable work.
• Includes inspirational projects which address global issues in curriculum and extra-curricular opportunities.
• Has applied for or achieved the full International Schools Award Accreditation.
• Be a member of an international community, global competitions or events.
• Secondary Only: Has a programme of international student trips which involve connecting with partner schools.

Academies, on their journey to fully offering ‘Opportunity and Success on a Global Stage’, will be working at one of the following three tiers.

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