Primary School Links Bonn - Bedfordshire

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Primary School Links Bonn -  Bedfordshire

March 2009

Preparatory meeting at Maulden Lower School

February 2009 

In our global world learning a foreign language at an early age has become more and more important for our students. English has always had first priority at German schools. Partnerships between our schools and those in the UK have always contributed largely in giving our students an immediate insight into British social and cultural life.

Since 1^st February 2009 English is taught at Primary Schools from Year One in the federal state of North Rhine – Westphalia. This is why from now on more and more primary schools will be on the look out for a partner-school in the UK.

In co-operation with Bedfordshire County Officer Rebecca Smith and the support of Bonn local authorities, The Oxford Club Bonn has made it possible for four Bonn Lower Schools to join a project which was originally initiated in 2003. In 2006 this initiative for the first time helped four German Lower Schools from the Bonn / Rhine-Sieg Area to embark on various projects with Lower Schools in Bedfordshire. Since that time, for three years running, 50 to 60 primary students as young as seven and eight years have had the opportunity to visit Bedfordshire and at the same time the same number of young students from Bedfordshire have visited Germany.

Lower Schools joining the project in 2009

GGS Ennertschule Kirchstr.56 53227 Bonn www.ennertschule.de/	Maulden Lower Church Road Maulden Beds. MK45 2AU www.mauldenlower.co.uk/
Erich- Kästner Schule Gemeinschaftsgrundschule der Stadt Bonn Karl-Barth-Str. 87 53129 Bonn www.eks-bonn.de/	Priory Lower Greyfriars Bedford Bedfordshire MK40 1JD www.priorylower.beds.sch.uk/
KGS Laurentiusschule Meßdorfer Str. 340 53123 Bonn	Heathwood Lower Heath Road Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire LU7 3AU www.heathwoodlower.com/#
Gemeinschaftsgrundschule Arnold von Wied Vilicher Str. 2 53225 Bonn  www.grundschule-arnold-von-wied.de/	Hockliffe Lower Woburn Road Hockliffe Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire LU7 9LL www.hockliffeschool.ik.org

First planning meeting of Lower Schools from Bedfordshire and Bonn

at Maulden Lower School in March 2009

On Saturday, 1^st March  2009, headteachers and teachers of four Bonn Lower Schools travelled to Bedfordshire to meet with their new partner-schools to lay the foundation stone for their future co-operation.

The German group of teachers was received at Maulden Lower School with a traditional English Breakfast before exploring their new environment with their hosts.

On the following Monday and Tuesday the English and German colleagues started to work out a programme for their future co-operation. This work will be continued in June 2009 when the English headteachers and teachers travel to Bonn to get to know their new partner-schools.

Thank you, Rebecca!

Without you this would not have happened!

Partner-schools:

GGS Arnold von Wied in Bonn-Schwarzrheindorf

and Hockliffe Lower School in Bedfordshire

Mrs Heide-Marie Bondong visiting her new partner-school Hockliffe Lower School in Bedfordshire

Partner-schools:

GGS Ennertschule in Bonn and

Maulden Lower School in Bedfordshire

Two heads, Mrs Steinborn and Mrs Gerig, expressing their pleasure at their new partnership

Mrs Steinborn and Mrs Osegowitsch teaching the children of their new partner school at Maulden

Return visit to Bonn

Lower Schools from Bedfordshire

visiting their partner schools

 20th June to 23rd June 2009

Reception of the englisch Lower Schools at the Oxford Club Bonn

English guests visiting the Federal Guest House on the Petersberg near Bonn

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