Exchange

  • Adiós Ávila, you’ll be always in our hearts 💚 (4/25/2018) - Our last day has been spent at school. We’ve joined our Spanish friends on some of their lessons. This is always quite an experience; classrooms and teaching style are very different. Some had maths, some music and some had English. There’s no uniforms, but there is a dress code. The change of lesson is signaled […]
  • Trees, wires and emotions… (4/24/2018) - You know when you’re taking 40 teenagers (our Spanish friends came with us today) to the Spanish version of Go Ape there’s a chance not all of them are going to react the same way. You know some might not be even willing to give it go. But you also know that life it’s to […]
  • Segovia, land of kings (4/23/2018) - It was great to see or students this morning, all with their smiley faces. They all seemed to have had busy weekends; some travelled to Madrid and got to see the main touristic sites, by foot or even by sedgeway! Others went to Salamanca, a beautiful historical city on the way to Portugal. Some climbed […]
  • Hot hot hot Madrid! (4/20/2018) - The sun came out to greet us… ¡Bienvenidos a España! We all agree winter has been long and harsh, and believe me when I say Spain hasn’t had a good one either. So how lucky it is to time our trip to Spain with the first week of proper Spanish spring weather. But first things […]
  • Jour 6 – Le Puys du Fou (6/15/2017) - On our last full day, we went to the Puys du Fou. If you’ve never been before, it’s well worth a visit should you even find yourself in the area, but it’s hard to explain in words what it’s like. Think theme park, but instead of rides, there are shows with stuntmen, all representing different […]
  • Revision for Spanish assessment (6/15/2017) - https://www.memrise.com/group/159935/
  • Jour 5- Collège Jean Bosco (6/15/2017) - So after what seems to have been a great weekend spent with families, lundi morning came round très vite indeed and we all found ourselves back at the collège for the day. The students observed the first trois cours of the journée, then had a bit of time after lunch to fill out their booklets. Most students had leur déjeuner in […]
  • Spanish revision holidays https://www.memrise.com/group/172512/ (6/14/2017) -
  • Work for Year 9 Spanish (6/13/2017) - Go onto this group on memrise and create an account. https://www.memrise.com/group/172158/
  • Jour 2 – Nantes et ses machines (6/11/2017) - After a very smooth first evening, with only a few issues surrounding wifi, vendredi’s 8.30 bell rings and there they are back safe, sound and smiling. Straight away we were herded on to le car, where there was plenty of talk about what was eaten for le dîner et le petit-déjeuner, and the difference between […]
  • Jour 1 – L’arrivée à St Macaire (6/11/2017) - Hello all, What a great start to our trip so far. We’ve got a few days to catch you up on, so let’s start with the (pleasingly) uneventful crossing… Well, that’s exactly what it was- uneventful. No sea-sickness (thank you parents for those all-important Kwells!), and 20 well-behaved students, who after about an hour of […]
  • Year 10 – Where I live (5/18/2017) - Use this quizlet to practise the vocabulary to describe what you can do in your town. QUIZLET – LA OU J’HABITE    
  • Día 6 – último día, Ávila (5/9/2017) - We’re writing this last entry on our blog on the way to Barajas aeropuerto. The coach is filled with the noise of sobbing students and a thousand and one stories they’re planning to tell you all.  I get the feeling this has been one successful exchange, Izzy wants to move her family to Avila, she’s […]
  • Día 5 – Aventuras en los árboles (5/8/2017) - Monday morning, so much to tell! It was lovely to hear how some visited Avila’s multiple sights, others went back to Madrid -this time to see some of the many historic buildings and squares-, or went to Segovia and felt insignificantly small next to the Roman aqueduct or in Quinn’s case got to experience a […]
  • Día 2 – Madrid (5/5/2017) - Today we went to Madrid.  This morning’s excursión to Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, home of Real Madrid Football club, was received with mixed emotions. On one hand we had those passionate about the sport, who had been gearing themselves up for this and couldn’t contain the excitement, Cory, Josh, Scott, Nyah and Dan. And then, there […]
  • Día 1 – Salamanca (5/4/2017) - Our journey to Avila went very smoothly.  We set off from school and arrived to Bristol airport with plenty of time for a hamburguesa. Everyone was happy with the flight seating arrangements (phew, I thought!) and quicker than we expected we were landing in Madrid. First impressions?… “it’s so hot!”. They stripped down to their […]
  • Year 8 Spanish Homework (4/19/2017) - Here is the memrise homework for this week please click on the link and learn places in a town for next Wednesday. https://www.memrise.com/group/159935/
  • yr 9 Spanish memrise (3/19/2017) - Year 9 Spanish homework https://www.memrise.com/group/153068/
  • Memrise vocab lists for listening and reading exam https://www.memrise.com/course/193647/aqa-gcse-spanish-vocabulary/ (3/15/2017) -
  • yr 9 Spanish homework Miss Bell (3/7/2017) - Complete the quiz on memrise. Create an account and start the quiz on food and drink. https://www.memrise.com/course/232919/spanish-foods-and-drinks/