Our journey to Limehurst High School
Starting a school partnership
On
This school is one of the schools that is involved in the Comenius project “ A gulp of
water, please” The intention of our stay was to discuss and to sign a
cooperation agreement for a bilateral school partnership.
The stay at Limehurst was very interesting and impressive. The head
teacher Mr. Jonathan Mellor gave us a warm welcome at his school. We talked
about education, about schools and lessons and about the planned school
partnership.
A key interest we share is that
both countries and schools get to know each other and develop a relationship.
The partnership will involve joint working between the two schools, for
example exchanging letters or emails and videoconferencing. This will maintain
the relationship though the course of the year.
To live, learn and work in
At the end of the stay at Limehurst both head teachers signed the
agreement and were looking forward to the future cooperation.
During the days in Loughborough we were invited to watch some lessons.
It was really impressive to see how the students worked in these lessons. We
liked these interesting lessons and it was awesome to watch the students as
well as the modern equipping of the rooms.
The use of modern technology in the Chemistry lesson was very motivating
for the students.
In form 9 we were in a lesson where German was taught. We answered the students’
questions, talked about our country and about our school.
Beside the school visit we went to Leicester and saw a
Thank you very much for the hospitality and the nice time we had at
Ch.Makerlik, U.Zerbe