Our PSHE programme benefits from contributions from a number of specialist visitors, such as health professionals, Police officers, drugs counsellors, magistrates, politicians, theatre companies and careers consultants. Pupils throughout the School demonstrate active Citizenship through participation in voluntary and charity work, assemblies, prefect responsibilities, School council, sport, performing arts and the CCF. We have close links with a Rwandan school to whom we send a variety of teaching aids to and hold seminars with the trustees and our pupils as part of the curriculum. The school is called New Beginning intends to build a sustainable community centre across the poorest areas of Rwanda, giving the people the building blocks to development (http://www.anewbeginningrwanda.org/) . By supplying a sustainable source of education and healthcare where it is needed most, this charity hopes to give the people of the poorest areas the resources they need to breakthrough the barriers to development left by the genocide, and give them strength to find ‘A New Beginning’.

It is the intention of the charity to source and use locally provided materials and workers to build the community centre. Thus, the very act of building the centre will contribute skills to the community through training and site work. The Skinners’ School is proud to help with this project.