German-Ghanaian learning booklets

Schoolchildren in Ghana and Germany have collaborated to create an ABC booklet and a 123 booklet so that they can learn together. Two primary schools on each continent have developed a booklet together.

The German Ghanaian International School in Atwima-Denchemouso, the Emanuel von Seidl Primary School in Murnau and the Uffing Primary School started with the ABC booklet. What is typically Ghanaian, what is German or Bavarian and begins with A, B or D? Once a term had been chosen, the children had to think about how best to present it. Together with their teachers, the schoolchildren looked for objects typical of their country and captured them in photos.

The second project focused on numbers: the children at Denchemouso Basic School and James Loeb Primary School set out together to find numbers in their respective environments. With the support of their teachers, they developed ideas about which numbers are particularly important to us all and how they can be presented in an exciting way. This enabled the children from both countries to discover many things they have in common.

The primary school pupils in Atwima and Murnau worked together to create German-Ghanaian partnership booklets. Anyone who reads them quickly learns numbers and terms in the other language and gains a direct, unfiltered insight into the everyday lives of children in both countries. Cultural exchange on eye-level can be so simple and straightforward!

Our association organised this project and financed it with donations. It can be purchased in schools and at the Krönner bakery in Murnau’s Obermarkt. We would like to thank everyone involved once again and look forward to seeing what other partnership projects will emerge when such creative children are at work!