YPS Patiala along with eminent schools of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh has formed a cluster partnership for UKIERI program sponsored by British Council.

YPS Patiala as the Cluster Leader along with the British Co-Ed High School, Patiala - the Cluster Co-ordinator will visit UK to find suitable Cluster Partner schools in UK.

The program initially is for three years. It would foster enhancement of each others culture and educational processes.

Cluster program will have exchange of ideas, creating methodology of teaching, exchange of faculty and students for the next three years.

Himachal Pradesh

Pinegrove School, Dharampur
Shimla Public School, Shimla

The Principal of YPS Patiala, Mr.Stanley V.Kumar as the Cluster Leader and Ms. Rosa Kucharskyj, the Principal of The British Co-Ed High School as the Cluster Coordinator visited the UK recently to find suitable Cluster Partner schools in UK and have tied up with The Harlingey Cluster.

The Harlingey Cluster is comprised of the following schools

St Thomas More RC School and Sports College
Haringey Sixth Form Centre
Highgate Wood School and Performing Arts College
Park View Academy
Northumberland Park Community School\

The UKIERI School Strand brings together clusters of schools in the UK and India for joint curriculum projects and professional development opportunities. It offers links between young people in the UK and India, providing opportunities for thousands of young people to start a life-long engagement with each other's country.

UKIERI provides a unique platform for the sharing of educational developments and reform, and opportunities for dialogue and networking. It promotes cooperation between UK Schools and the private and Government-funded school sectors in India through strategic partnerships between bodies such as local authorities and national school organizations in the UK and the NVS and KVS managed school systems in India. Such links will address priorities for each government, fostering child-centered education and increasing internationalism in schools.

Cluster-to-cluster partnerships

One contact seminar will be held every year, attended by cluster leaders and teachers from UK and India. These seminars will be used to forge partnerships between the clusters and to formulate joint curriculum projects.

Priority Areas:

Collaborative projects for schools will be undertaken in these priority areas of mutual interest:

- Arts/Creative Industries
- Teaching of Languages
- Science and Technology
- Entrepreneurship
- Environmental Studies
- Sports

The cluster partnerships will be expected to address some compulsory themes over the lifespan of the project.

- ICT in the classroom
- Internationalism
- School Leadership

Wherever possible, those taking part in UKIERI school activity will have the opportunity for recognition of their work through the International School Award.

More information is available at http://www.ukieri.org/uk-india-school-activities.htm