Up early this morning!! I walked down to end of the road in the dark to meet Dianne, a teacher who works out at a new school in Epuyen. It was an interesting experience to go there as they have an environmental focus and all students must take classes in this. There are about 300 students.
They have a lovely big gymnasium, computer room, library and science labs so it is very well resourced, compared to many other schools in this area. The classrooms are quite small, there are usually between sixteen and twenty students in each class.
The students don't have any choice in what subjects they have. They take all the basic subjects plus the environmental ones, then just do a little Art, Music and PE to complement their curriculum.
Dianne is the English teacher, she goes out there once a month and the focus is on conversational English. However, the students needed a lot of coaxing to use English. A few were able to give a sentence. I certainly have a lot more understanding of how difficult it is to use another language and how small the steps need to be when you are learning!
Hi there, you must be nearly finished your month's immersion. It's the last day of holidays for us in NZ. We are going on camp in Week 2 and part of it will be a Spanish camp so we are busy practising our Spanish saying what foods we like.,
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Have a great last few days. Chau.