SAW around the world

SAW is currently establishing science, art and writing projects in schools worldwide.

SAW in the USA

SAW has been running complementary projects with educationalists in the US since its inception.

In the Summer of 2006, the School of Education at Salem State College, Boston set SAW as a challenge for 25 trainee teachers going out into placements schools in the Boston area. The teachers worked with children of various ages (kindergarten to age 13) from both privileged and deprived areas.

Louise Swiniarski, Professor of Education at Salem State, said of the project: “This project has a life of its own. It has captured the imaginations of not only my colleagues, but my students and their students and schools.”

A trainee kindergarten teacher who took part commented: “When I was doing my lesson plan I was struck by how many frameworks I touched upon in this seemingly simple lesson.”

SAW in Italy

Scuola elementare statale ‘Giovanni XXIII’, Torino, Italia – 2006

In 2006, ten-year-old schoolchildren at the 'Scuola elementare statale Giovanni XXIII’ in Torino, Italy, used inspirational images of shells and diatoms (single-celled, intricately patterned algae) to explore science and poetry in this international SAW project.

See photos and poems from this project

SAW worldwide

We presently have contacts in the US, Canada, UK, France, Finland, Russia, Mexico, Italy, Germany and Switzerland with a view to developing SAW projects worldwide.