At Our Lady of Lourdes, we deliver a curriculum that allows children to explore their world on a local, national and international level. We do this through our planned curriculum and through additional works. Our foreign language curriculum at OLOL is Mandarin. You can see more information about our Mandarin curriculum on the curriculum pages of the website.
We aspire to give all children at OLOL a chance to engage in enrichment and curriculum activities that will
Aspirations for our children are high and not tied to the city and country that they live in!
While we expect Brexit to create changes to how we take part in such work, we have always had a multi-tiered focus on Internationalism at OLOL including
At Our Lady of Lourdes, we have a formal partnership arrangement with three schools in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Our aim is to engage in long-term activities and exchanges (staff and children) while meeting the agreed aims from our initial China Bridge Meeting.
Our Partner schools in China are:
The British Council (and the Confucius Institute in China) manage many of these initiatives. Our participation in these activities allows us to broaden the opportunities for OLOL children and staff through whole school collaborative work with other schools.
Here are our current British Council (non-China) partner schools:
India Year R Link School | Nepal Year 2 Link School | Egypt Year 6 Link School |
Beacon house School System Kindergarten - III, P.E.C.H.S. Karachi
| Bal Uddhar Secondary School (बाल उद्दार माध्यमिक विधालय) | Hassan Ben Thabet Governmental Language School (مدرسة حسان بن ثابت الرسمية لغات), Cairo
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Taiwan Year 5 Link School | Bangladesh Year 4 Link School | Turkey Year 1 Link School |
Zhongshan Elementary School (私立中山小學) No.292, Sec. 1, Muzha Rd. Taipei City | Singraoli Govt. Primary School, Singraoli, P/O: Singerkach Bazar, Bishwanath, Sylhet, Bangladesh | TBC Ankara |
South Africa Year 3 Link School |
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Cathcart Primary (Cathcart (Roma Katolika) Prayimari) PO Boc 26, Cathcart, Southern Cape, 5310 |
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Since starting international exchanges at OLOL in 2017, staff have had the opportunity to visit
For staff taking part in these International Professional Exchanges there are untold personal and professional benefits – all of which benefit the children and community of Our Lady of Lourdes, such as
At Our Lady of Lourdes, we have a formal partnership arrangement with three schools in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Our aim is to engage in long-term activities and exchanges (staff and children) while meeting the agreed aims from our initial China Bridge Meeting.
Our Partner schools in China are: