This was the third visit of Birchfields teachers to The Day School of Beijing Primary. Miss Parkes said it would be an amazing experience and it was!
The school welcomed me with flowers and some performances. I told them how much we are enjoying learning about their country, and look forward to welcoming them here when some of the children and teachers come to visit us at the end of May.
It was wonderful to see this traditional dance at the welcome assembly.
The choir sang some folk songs.
I taught a lesson about the characters in Great Expectations, and showed the Chinese children the drawings that our Year 6 pupils had done of Magwitch.
After listening and reading together the children drew their own ideas.
Both schools are learning about the author Charles Dickens who was born 200 years ago. He wrote Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and many other books that we still read today. They have been made into famous films and TV serials too. We will be doing some of our own writing and more art work based on Dickens stories of life in Victorian times and sharing it with our Chinese partners.
The children learn English and can speak it really well.
Here the children are acting a play called ‘Let’s go’, about deciding where to go after school – the cinema or the amusement park!
more pictures to come….
