21st Century skills in Nigerian public schools

At the start of the new school term in January, ACE Charity started the Bridging Classrooms Across Continents Program, a remote cultural and learning exchange programme in partnership with a school partner in the UK aimed at connecting primary school pupil's and teachers in Nigeria and the UK to promote mutual learning, cultural appreciation, and knowledge sharing. To make this possible we arranged key activities such as Letter Writing Exchange (Virtual Pen Pal Exchange), Storytelling & Literacy Exchange, Art & Crafts Exchange and Virtual Teacher Knowledge Sharing Sessions. 

For our arts & crafts exchange activity, the primary 3 to 6 children from the schools we have our learning resource centres in Nigeria and the grade 3 to 5 children from our partner school in the UK were asked to make drawings based on the theme: What Home Means to Me. Each child was provided with water colour, pencils and cardboard papers. The result, excited children who made lovely paintings! 

You can catch a glimpse of the painting session here! 

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Rahina, 

For: The ACE Team 

ACE Charity’s Learning Resource Centres (LRCs) which is the home to our The Notable, Outstanding, Bold, Leaders Extraordinaire (NOBLE) Club were gifted new computers (Yay!). The NOBLE club was started with the aim of developing exemplary citizens among public primary school children by providing access to 21st century soft skills. 

Our LRCs are learning safe spaces that help address the learning poverty in public primary schools, in disadvantaged communities, by providing a conducive learning environment for learners and the delivery of flexible literacy and reading instructions that are tailored to meet their diverse learning needs and styles. To equip our beneficiaries with the basic digital skills necessary for them to thrive in their learning we try to make the necessary resources available and to support the work we do, a generous partner donated 15 computer system units and keyboards to our LRCs (Squeak!). You can see our excitement and that of the children here! 

Kindly keep supporting our work by donating and sharing why you choose to support us with your community of family and friends. 

Thank you! 

Rahina,
For: The ACE Team