Exchange with Australian School
By Lissa C. on Friday, 29 February , 2008 - 12:07 pm
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In July 2002, Anjou went to Adelaide for an IB Workshop as she was selected to be a trainer for the MYP. There she met Anthony Coles, the dynamic Head of Middle School (Mercedes College, Adelaide- a reputed IB school in Australia offering both the MYP and the DP) and struck a cord. Shortly after her return to India, Sunaina Shah, Mauli Shah and Kabeer Kathpalia won the national website Designing competition organized by Schoolnet India Ltd. As part of the package, they won a paid trip abroad. This opportunity was converted into an educational exchange, and in February 2003 the three students along with one of our teachers, Tanwinder Kohli went to Australia. There Tanwinder participated in the school life of Mercedes College, conducted a couple of sessions while the kids attended school.
We extended our invitation to Mercedes and Anthony said that they would probably work out a visit in 2004. Anthony kept his promise and in March 2004, 18 students from Grade 9 along with three teachers visited our school. Since then, the exchange programme has been going on with a lot of enthousiasm from both sides, with each visit being reciprocated.
CLICK HERE READ THE ARTICLE ON THE WEBSITE DESIGNING COMPETITION
Another article regarding the schoolnet Web designing Competition.
Click here to read the article published in the IB World magazine regarding the exchange programme. The article is entitled “Building Communities across continents” p.17
Click on these links: ‘Newsletter 2004‘, ‘Newsletter 2005‘, ‘Newsletter 2007′ to view the Newsletters of Mercedes College regarding this exchange.
In 2005 and 2007 Australian students visited our school during the second half of the year.Below are a series of articles:
Click here to read related article.
Category: Newsworthy, International Exchanges
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