Two
newspapers were produced for the Crossing Project.
The first one was written by Devon students and
the second by students from schools in the Western
Cape.
Thanks to South Africa Worldwide Express the first
Crossings newspaper was sent from Devon in England
to Capetown. DHL Express is the world’s largest
international distribution network, delivering time
sensitive packages and documents across five
continents. You can track your consignment on it’s
journey by accessing Red Planet at track@dhl.com.
DHL was one of the first companies to realise the
business potential of the worldwide web, so get
online and find out more about DHL at www.dhl.co.uk.
We would like to thank DHL for their continuing
sponsorship of the Crossings Project which has
enabled one shipment of books and educational
resources to be sent to schools in the Western Cape.
The production of these
two newspapers would not have been possible without
the help of the two main sponsors, the Environment
Agency, and Renwicks
Nissan.
Moving forward with
our major sponsor.
Renwicks
is a major sponsor of the Crossings newspapers and
is a family business which has been part of the
Devon motor industry for nearly 45 years. Its eight
dealerships across the county in Plymouth, Newton
Abbot and Exeter sell the latest ranges of Nissan,
Volkswagen, Audi and Peugeot vehicles.
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Charles
Dillon (GM Renwicks Nissan)
Peter Creasey (IMI marketing)
Alan Brackley (GM Renwicks Peugeot)
Paul Mallett (GM Renwicks VW/Audi)
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1997 was a busy year
for the company and saw the complete refurbishment
of the Volkswagen Audi site in Newton Abbot. Last
year also saw the opening of Motor Village in Exeter
which specialises in quality second-hand cars and
new Malaguti scooters and Hyundai cars. As well
as selling new and used vehicles, Renwicks also
have facilities for repairing, servicing and MOT
testing all types of vehicles, and can arrange to
deliver and collect cars from customers' homes or
places of work.
The company employs a
lot of staff throughout Devon and is committed to
training with NVQ development programmes and industry-led
qualifications. Many staff stay all their working
lives with Renwicks and quite a few of Renwicks'
top managers have worked their way up from workshop
and showroom positions.
For further information,
please contact Charles Dillon, Renwicks Director
on 01752 - 254466
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Peter
Henderson (Technical Director)
and
Peter Warren (Commercial Director) |
Silverton Mill
(01392 881601) have also supported the Crossings
project by providing half a ton of paper and card
which will be used for follow-up activites in Devon
schools during November.
A Crossings Highlight
A highlight of the
Crossings project for me was attending the Print
Media in Education Conference at The Breakwater
Lodge in Cape Town on October 23rd. Developing literacy skills is a tremendous challenge
for the new South Africa but newspapers throughout
the country have a range of schemes to help teachers,
students and their families. Many newspapers have produced educational resource
books which show how newspapers, a cheap and widely
available resource, can be used in a wide range
of curriculum subjects. The title of one: 'Something
from Nothing' says it all. Many newspapers run workshops for teachers, some
offer tours of their centres and many are working
directly in schools. The Natal Witness includes
blank newspaper pages so they can be used at school
and at home and the Cape Argus publishes a free
community newspaper for teachers: Chalkline. Chalkline
features health and education issues and news of
the latest projects to help fight illiteracy. There
are over 7 million illiterate people in South Africa
but many projects are helping to make the difference.
One invited parents and children to write their
own stories in their own language in booklets supplied
by the Cape Town Libraries Literacy Interest Group.
The aim was to get the family together and write
stories that could be shared with others. The response
was tremendous and all the stories offered an insight
into what it is like to be a family living in Cape
Town. Most of the stories are written in English,
but there are also stories in Xhosa and Afrikaans.
This is very like the Reading Together project piloted
in Plymouth, Devon U.K. which encourages the family
to read the newspaper together and compile a scrapbook. For more information on Newspapers in Education
in South Africa contact:
Geila Wills, Independent Newspapers Cape:
gwills@ctn.argus.co.za
Gail Cornhill, Natal
Witness:
cornhill@iafrica.com
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