Students from St Mary’s School in Menston are to celebrate their international partnership work by exhibiting photographs from the area alongside students from Ghana and South Africa.

Along with students of two Leeds schools, they have taken part in a photography competition My World, My Lens, taking images that give their partners in Ghana and South Africa a view of the local environment and how it reflects their identity.

The students gained a great insight into the African environment and identity through photographs of students in their partnership schools.

Connecting Classrooms is a British Council-sponsored project supporting partnerships between schools in the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa. Noboa means 'working closely together' and is the name for the partnership between three schools in Leeds and three each in Western Ghana and Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa.

Beechwood Primary School, Seacroft, Corpus Christi and St. Mary's Menston form the Leeds cluster of the partnership.

It is a further development of the successful Bambisanani Partnership that links St. Mary's with Mnyakanya High School in South Africa which has now run for six years, another facet of Leeds' established link with Durban in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa.

The exhibition will be held at Beechwood Primary School in Leeds on Friday, June 28 from 12.30pm and will end with student presentations from 1.30pm to 2.30pm.