EXCHANGE WITH RGS WORCESTER

One more year our school has organized an exchange with the ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL from Worcester , England.

In London with a very weird man

Our students visited the school last March. Things went perfectly well , just as usual . However this year we were ever so lucky with the British weather !!

The British host families did their best to make us feel at home. Our students really enjoyed their stay in England.

The group today at Zaragoza Airport

Today we have said goodbye to our English partners. Time has flown away really quickly. The RGS students arrived in Zaragoza last 7 April.
They have also enjoyed a week full of activities and visits and an awfully wonderful Spanish weather.

The Spanish families have been ever so helpful and have made things really easy for our British children.

Hopefully , a new exchange will take place next year again. Ask your English teachers for information because the experience is really worth it!

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School exchange with RGS Worcester (2)

Well , everything went ever so well .....

With Mr Rattue, the headmaster of RGS

 We are so happy with how things turned out ....

The host families were exceptional - our children really felt at home. We have to say that all of them behaved extremely well.

The only thing that was not so good was the weather . We had lots of snow during the weekend !

In the language lab at school

We also have to thank the headmaster of the school and especially all the teachers from the Spanish Department , who made our stay very pleasant.



 Have a look at the pictures and see what a great time our students had.

At the school canteen

There was a little bit of everything , as you can see: the students attended some lessons at school and experienced how a day in a British school is ( even  the canteen meals !! )

Near Buckingham Palace

Also there was lots of sightseeing !!



We visited London - the capital of the country .

The London Eye

There we  saw the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace , climbed up the lions in Trafalgar Square , went shopping in Covent Garden , went mad at the M&Ms shop in Leicester Square , took a look through the gate of Downing Street , took loads of pictures of the Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament and finally went up The London Eye .


It was great , although it was absolutely freezing cold !!! Well , at least it did not rain.

  

Sealife Centre, Birmingham

 In Birmingham we paid a visit to the Sealife Centre , a wonderful aquarium in one of the nicest areas of the city centre.

 Then all of us enjoyed shopping in Birmingham famous Bullring , much more than a mall ! Glorious !!!!

At Christ Church in Oxford

And we also visited the lovely city of Oxford , where we had an exceptional guide. Our school , IES Goya, has a student at Oxford University right now : Uxue Rambla .

She showed us around and told our students all the funny little stories about the life of university students : college parties , lessons, exams and all kind of university rituals. 

Thanks a lot Uxue - it was lovely to see you !!

With Uxue in Oxford

Soon I´ll be publishing some slides with the whole lot of pictures we took during the trip to England .



You have to wait a little bit , though. I have more than 300 pics !!

Off we go !

School Exchange with RGS Worcester

We are about to leave ....

Next Monday 18 March 22 of our 3rd , 4th year ESO and 1st year Bach students  together with two teachers of the English Department will be travelling to England on a school exchange with  RGS Worcester , which our school has been running for 7 years now and which  has proved to be a really successful initiative up to the present.

RGS was originally founded in Worcester around 685 by Bishop Bosel, making it the fifth oldest school in the United Kingdom and the sixth oldest in the world. In 1265, the first written reference to the school appears, when Walter of Cantelupe, Bishop of Worcester, appointed four chaplains to go out to teach in the school, rather than teaching from within the Precincts of the Cathedral.

Fast forward to 1561, when the school received its first Royal Charter, which ensured that the school was endowed permanently with a governing body known as the Six Masters. A second Royal Charter was granted in 1843 by Queen Victoria, with the tile of 'Royal' being conferred in 1869. 

 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, also visited the school in 1961, providing a neat symmetry of royal visits.

In 2007, RGS merged with the girls-only Alice Ottley School, which has also been a landmark within the city for well over 100 years.

We are ever so excited. Hopefully everything will come out really well - partners are looking forward to meeting each other, though lots of chatting has already been going on  ....