An exchange programme with Dennmark

Everything started 5 years ago, when a group of Danish headmasters on a tour around the Czech republic visited our school. They were trying to find a school, that would like to participate in an exchange programme. One month later, we recieved a letter from a school from Ringe, the small town on the island of Fynn. And it was the beginning…
The first year 20 children from the eight grade participated and they started to exchange letters. The first Danish group arrived on Easter Monday 2003. The pupils stayed in host families and they had an exciting programme (visit our school, international sport games, visit of Karlštejn castle, Terezín concentration camp, bowling club, glass factory, Koněprusy caves, boat trip,…). In the evenings they had a programme with their host families.
Then children from our school went to Dennmark to visit their Danish friends and they enjoyed the trip also a lot.
We find this kind of programme very useful. The children are not afraid of speaking English, because for both sides English is not their mother language and they have a possibility to experience life and culture in a small foreign city through family life. And one of the most important thing for our pupils – they do not have to go to school!

Nada Pavlisova

Friends from Denmark

Our friends from Denmark came to Prague on Easter Monday. They were here from 9th April to 14th April and lived in our families. We had a nice time – we visited centre of Prague, we were in bowling club, Zoo, climbing centre etc. After school program we could go with them to the cinema, bobsleigh course, to Petřín or we went shopping. We really enjoyed it, we are in contact with them and we are looking forward to visiting Denmark in June.

Jana Mikulcová a Jana Mahlerová, 8.B

Échange franco – tchéque 2007

Au mois de mars, nous avons passé huit jours chez nos amis français à la Pacaudiére en France. Et notre programme? Découverte de la région Rhône – Alpes et de la vie quotidienne de ses habitants et aussi de nos contemporains.
Nous avons visité le centre régional Lyon, Clérmont Ferrand, Roanne et d´autres lieux intéressants de cette région. Nous avons eu l´occasion de comparer le style de vie en France et chez nous en République tchèque, traditions historiques, la cuisine française et tchèque, le systéme scolaire... Nous avons passé une semaine inoubliable avec nos amis français. Maintenat, nous attendons avec impatience l´arrivée de nos correspondants à Prague. Nous aimerions bien leur présenter notre capitale Prague et profondir notre amitié.

David Kraus, 9.B

Dresden

Im Dezember 2006 haben wir eine Fahrt nach Dresden gemacht. Wir haben die Gemaldegalerie Alte Mister im Zwinger besucht, wir sind durch Dresden spazierengegangen und schone Weihnachtsatmosphare erlebt, einige Weihnachtsgeschenke gekauft und ein bisschen Deutsch gesprochen.

Vlasta Vojtaskova

OUR TRIP TO GREAT BRITAIN

On the 23rd September at 10.30 pm all 43 children from the classes 7.A,B,C and 3 teachers (Kateřina Prokopová, Monika Tučková a Silva Žeková) left school towards England. On the way to England we stopped to see some interesting places, for example Brugge in Belgium, Stonehenge and Salisbury cathedral. After that we drove straight to Barnstaple in North Devon county where we met our host families.
The next morning at school we had to introduce ourselves to the English teachers with whom we then spent our 10 days in England. During the stay we had a look at the centre of Barnstaple (shops, a museum, monuments etc.). We also went on other trips. We got to see the ruins of King Arthur´s castle in Tintagel, the cities of Lynton and Lynmouth, Exeter with a beautiful cathedral and also the beaches of Woolacombe and Ilfracombe.
On the way back we did not forget to stop in London where we visited the Tower of London with the crown jewels. On a short tour round the city we saw the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, the London Eye, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square or the world-famous Tower bridge. In the evening we crossed the English channel by ferry and drove home to Prague.We think that all of us enjoyed our stay in Barnstaple and we hope that there will be another chance to visit so exciting and enchanting country as England is.

Lenka Filipová a Anna Pekarovicsová, 7.A