As you know, we have been lucky enough to welcome children and teachers from Meiyuan School in Futian, Shenzhen in China to Bede Burn this week.

They arrived on Thursday afternoon and have so far visited Newcastle city centre (to see a pantomime), York and Edinburgh.  Monday was their first day in our school and they had all sorts of fun working with our children in key stage one.  The Chinese children were fascinated by our colourful displays, that children’s work was on the walls and how small our school is (they have 1,600 children in the school and 50 in each class!)  Perhaps the most surprising discovery was that the children were delighted to find that we had “real grass” on our field as their grounds are all artificial.

We have more fun activities planned in school and afterwards that will allow our children to learn more about the Chinese culture.  If you are attending the key stage two show on Tuesday then you will witness the signing of our ‘sister school agreement’ which we hope will allow us to forge even firmer links with our new friends in the East.