Launch of New School Partnership with Colegio Guadalaviar, Valencia
We are delighted to announce a new partnership with a Spanish School in Valencia!
Our Year 8 Spanish students have written letters to a group of students in 1º ESO (first year of Secondary Education in Spain) at Colegio Guadalaviar, a girls’ school in Valencia, which they were thrilled to receive last week. Students both here at NHEHS and in Spain are very excited!
In the letter, our students introduced themselves, talked about the area where they live and their personal interests. This week our Year 8s received their own letters from the girls in Valencia and were thrilled to read them in class!
We are looking into the possibilities of more activities online as we build the relationship between the two schools. We are also very excited to meet our new Spanish friends when we travel to Valencia in the second half of term for our Year 8 Spanish trip!
Our Junior School Spanish Club (Years 5 and 6) has also just started a bilingual communication project with Colegio Guadalaviar’s 5B class. The first activity was to introduce the classes to each other with a photo and a letter. Later on, among the activities, we will record a video answering some questions and finally we will have a zoom call to meet with them.
Here is the letter our NHEHS Juniors received from Spain!
Here is the letter our NHEHS Juniors received from Spain!
Hola chicas, ¿qué tal?
Tenemos mucha suerte de poder hablar con vosotras, somos las alumnas de 5°B del colegio Guadalaviar. Somos 28 niñas en la clase, nacimos en 2012 y actualmente tenemos entre 10 y 11 años.
Nuestra profesora de inglés es Paloma.
Vivimos en Valencia (España), la lengua local es el valenciano, una de las lenguas que aprendemos en el cole.
Unas de las fiestas que celebramos en el colegio son: la fiesta fallera, el festival de verano, el concierto de navidad y las olimpiadas.
Nuestro colegio es católico.
Queremos aprender inglés porque es un idioma muy interesante y útil para cuando seamos mayores, nos puede ayudar en el trabajo, en los estudios y en los viajes, para comunicarnos con el resto de personas.
Chicas, nos ha encantado tener la oportunidad de hablar con vosotras, esperamos su respuesta. Hasta pronto.
Translation:
Hello girls, how are you?
We are very lucky to be able to talk to you, we are the students of 5th B of Guadalaviar school.
We are 28 girls in the class. We were born in 2012 and now we are between 10 and 11 years old.
Our English teacher is Paloma.
We live in Valencia (Spain), our local language is Valencian, one of the languages that we learn in school.
