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Greetings from Kirkwall Grammar School in Orkney.

As part of our Global Citizenship initiative we invite any pupil, staff member, school and interested parties to **add polite and postive comments and ideas about how we can share information that will allow our readers to:**
 * understand and appreciate other cultures and ways of life, secure in their knowledge, understanding and appreciation of their own culture;
 * explore issues of international consequence and global interdependence on the basis on a sound knowledge of what they mean for Scotland;
 * recognise our interdependance with other countries;
 * deploy skills that will enable them to enter the employment market successfully and survive within a fast-changing and increasingly global economy;
 * develop positive attitudes to life; respecting the views of other, questioning stereotypes and oversimplification of situations, and making sound judgements based on good information;
 * be active citizens within Scotland, the UK and EU;
 * develop a committment to common human values; and
 * raise their aspirations and achievements.

At KGS we have currently one cohort of pupils who are involved in an eTwinning project with a school in southern Germany. The title of the project is Enjoying Cultures and you can view our joint blog pages at http://etwinningrsbd.edublogs.org/ Let us know what you think and any other ideas we could use to devlop this project.

20/11/06 Orkney Schools have now started to work in collaboration with school's in Shetland on a Global Citizenship/classroom ACfEx project. We hope to use the expertise of the staff at Anderson H.S. to see how we can develop materials so that we can take this project forward.