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North-east primary teacher to go on fact-finding mission to Africa

Siobhan Rynne with pupils (clockwise, from front, left) Zoe Stephen, Isabel Camm, Harlow Clarkson, Eve Young, Nyah Isaac, Natalie Mosely and Zoe Speers. (Picture: Colin Rennie)
Siobhan Rynne with pupils (clockwise, from front, left) Zoe Stephen, Isabel Camm, Harlow Clarkson, Eve Young, Nyah Isaac, Natalie Mosely and Zoe Speers. (Picture: Colin Rennie)

A primary teacher will swap the classrooms of Aberdeenshire for east Africa this summer.

Siobhan Rynne is one of 16 people from across the country travelling to Rwanda in July as part of a global initiative to share and study teaching techniques.

The 26-year-old works at Banchory-Devenick School where she has a class of primary ones, twos and threes.

The visit, which has been organised by Global Learning Partnerships (GLP), will last four weeks and will involve the group

living in the same accommodation as the teachers, about two hours from the country’s capital Kigali.

In recent months, Miss Rynne has been fundraising for her trip, with nearly £1,000 already banked.

The school has also helped, with her pupils helping to host a Rwandan tea and coffee tasting session in the school.

After the event, she said her trip would be the experience of a lifetime.

She said: “We get to live and learn with the people. For the first three weeks we’re going to be in the village where the teachers live, it’ll be very basic accommodation but it will be a great opportunity.

“The idea is we will show them our methods that we use in Scotland to give them ideas, like using the outdoors for example, so they’re not just using text books.

“We will also learn about their culture and traditions and then come back and teach the children here about it.”

Miss Rynne, who has been teaching in the north-east for four years, first applied for the opportunity in January.

“It’s the first time I’ve done something like this,” she added.

“I had the chance to do it at university but I wasn’t brave enough to do it then.

“I just think it will be an amazing, one in a lifetime opportunity for me.”

Miss Rynne has to raise a third of the cost of the trip, £1,250, and has set up a Just Giving page.

To donate visit www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/siobhan-rynne