After a weekend of hard work, our campus at Winchester College was transformed from the already aesetically pleasing campus it is, into a visually stimulating, bright and colouful workspace. In the classrooms, useful language was put up, key vocabulary was stuck on boards, posters were made and slowly, the personality of each of our dynamic teachers began to manifest itself on the walls of their classes.
Students arrived on Sunday night and all through Monday. Some had had long delays and were tired, others were full of beans and buzzing with excitement not only from landing in England, but specifically here, where the campus is as one student said 'breathtaking'. Intermittent downpours left some students bemoaning the English summer and others couldn't believe how they could feel so hot one moment and be cold the next. The expression 'four seasons in one day' is now high up on their vocabulary lists!
Classes started smoothly on Monday and having made my rounds over the last few days, I can honestly say that the level of teaching is extremely high. In Web Design, I was amazed to see students beginning to produce their own websites using language that I don't even know (!), in Digital Design the same goes for the images they were altering and in Film Making, ketchup was being used as fake blood for the short films they are putting together. The fashion students have not only produced their own clothes and jewellery but have also been writing articles which will shortly be posted here, and the drama students appear to already be putting together an impressive performance for Sunday. Our music students have voices like angels and gave me goose bumps when I observed their class and our rhythm and mime students are using their bodies to create dynamic and striking images which are reminiscent of the very best modern dance companies. Those doing creative writing blew me away with their mature writing styles and those in practical science have been investigating all manner of things like the DNA in fruit and making invisible ink!
Students are making new friends, speaking a great deal of English and settling in. They are a wonderful group; eager to learn, creative, free spirited and remarkably mature for their age. I sincerely believe that with teachers motivating them in class time and the amazing Activity Leaders in charge out of class, this can't fail to be a unique experience for each and every student, not to mention us.
Students arrived on Sunday night and all through Monday. Some had had long delays and were tired, others were full of beans and buzzing with excitement not only from landing in England, but specifically here, where the campus is as one student said 'breathtaking'. Intermittent downpours left some students bemoaning the English summer and others couldn't believe how they could feel so hot one moment and be cold the next. The expression 'four seasons in one day' is now high up on their vocabulary lists!
Classes started smoothly on Monday and having made my rounds over the last few days, I can honestly say that the level of teaching is extremely high. In Web Design, I was amazed to see students beginning to produce their own websites using language that I don't even know (!), in Digital Design the same goes for the images they were altering and in Film Making, ketchup was being used as fake blood for the short films they are putting together. The fashion students have not only produced their own clothes and jewellery but have also been writing articles which will shortly be posted here, and the drama students appear to already be putting together an impressive performance for Sunday. Our music students have voices like angels and gave me goose bumps when I observed their class and our rhythm and mime students are using their bodies to create dynamic and striking images which are reminiscent of the very best modern dance companies. Those doing creative writing blew me away with their mature writing styles and those in practical science have been investigating all manner of things like the DNA in fruit and making invisible ink!
Students are making new friends, speaking a great deal of English and settling in. They are a wonderful group; eager to learn, creative, free spirited and remarkably mature for their age. I sincerely believe that with teachers motivating them in class time and the amazing Activity Leaders in charge out of class, this can't fail to be a unique experience for each and every student, not to mention us.
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