Our last day of visits took us to two different places. Our first was to Donhead Preparatory School, a Jesuit school in Wimbledon that is a stepping stone to some of the exclusive grammar schools in the area and although they focus on academic achievements the Jesuit way is more important for them. …
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Loading...At today’s visit is to Quintin Kynaston Academy, located just around the corner from Abbey Road Studios, it was wonderful to have students greeting and talking to us as we signed in at the school. Students sharing their school and being proud of their learning environment is always an exciting way to see a school. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Today we headed to Cambridge for our first school visit in England. We arrive at Parkside Academy, which is a federation academy meaning they run more than one school. In this case there are two secondary colleges and a Sixth Form college. …
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Today’s visit, our last in Berlin, took us to a gymnasium in Kreuzberg, Leibniz Schule. 840 students attend this all day (which includes after school extra subjects and care for those who want it) school which has a 30% intake of German as a second language. …
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Angelika greets us this morning from the Oberstufenzentrum – Kommunikations, Informations und Medientechnik. The OSZ is a gymnasium offering more career focused education and vocational subjects.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Today we arrive at the Robert Junke Oberschule, an integrated Secondary School (ISS) named after the Austrian writer of nuclear weapons. This school, which is an integrated version of the Hauptschule, Gesamtschule, and Realschule offers vocational classes such as woodwork, metalwork, textiles and home economics as well as basic education such as German, English and Physics.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...We were welcomed to Berlin by the Peter Petersen UNESCO school. This school had always taken the Peter Petersen name but had worked as any other school in Berlin. It wasn’t until the centenary of the death Peter Petersen in 1984 that the school began to look into its namesake and they realised a change to the way the school ran was required. …
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Today is our last day in Copenhagen and we head off to Aarhus University to hear from Frans Ørsted Andersen, Associate Professor in the Center for Educational Research who will talk to us about comparing Denmark and Finland.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In today’s school visit I had a chance to teach 24 eleven year olds from Niels Steensens. It was a lovely experience and I had a chance to work with the students for around 90 minutes. After looking at some images of Australia and thinking about the different perspectives the students had an opportunity to ask questions. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Our first outing in Copenhagen is to the Technical Education Copenhagen, who educate 4000 upper secondary school students taking the more vocational track. Students in Copenhagen have a choice at age 16 of following a more academic stream at gymnasium or move on to a technical HTX school which incorporates academic threads with more vocational subjects.…
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