A MAJOR music festival is being planned Culcheth Sports Club to help raise money for a two-year international exchange programme.
Culcheth students will develop key skills and plan a visit to their partner school in Soweto, Matseliso High School. On their return the Culcheth students will then raise money and plan a return visit, enabling students and staff from Soweto to visit Culcheth.
The Culcheth-2-Soweto team is made up of students from across Year 8 – 11.
Since the inception of the project in 2010, six visits have taken place. A total of 83 students have travelled between the schools, with many more being involved in other elements of the project in both schools. The students and their supporters have raised over £80,000.
The last visit of Culcheth students to Soweto took place in October 2015, when 23 students and 3 teachers from Culcheth High School spent a week in Soweto working with students from Matseliso High School. On their return, these students, with the help of nearly 100 Year 8 and 9 ‘apprentices’, raised money for and planned the visit of eighteen Matseliso students and three staff to Culcheth.
When the South African visitors returned home, a new Culcheth-2-Soweto team was formed of twenty-five students who will visit South Africa in October 2017. These students are now raising money to fund their visit to Soweto.
Students work to fund raise individually, and as a whole team. Events organised range from cake sales at school to a family afternoon of food and entertainment at The Raj Indian restaurant in Culcheth.
The event will be a festival planned for Friday July 14, for which the team have been lucky enough to book the band Viva La Coldplay, one of the UK’s top Coldplay tribute acts to headline.
The evening promises to be a huge success with many local families attending. For more information about this event, or the project, please contact [email protected].
