TT Bath: First school visit/Mirjami Hyttinen, Seija Holster ja Markus Pessa

On Tuesday we were visiting Hayesfield Girls´ School. We walked to the School after having practised the way there previous evening. It was 1,2 km, about 20 minutes walk. We observed

four lessons in French and Spanish. The students seemed eager to learn and the lessons were full of action and energy. The languages were exercised in practical situations.  The teachers were really friendly for us visitors  - we visited this school together with the Danish teachers and the Spanish Maria.

We observed the joyful atmosphere in the classes. The pupils behaved really nicely. The constant evaluation of students seemed a bit unnecessary since the classes were big. How can anybody make observations in a class of 34 students? Also the teachers stated that there is a lot of paper work and marking after every lesson. We would have been interested to see also other subjects taught in the school.

The evening in Bath went quickly. We visited an old and beautiful Catholic Church. The old town is beautiful with Christmas lights and decorations. We ate together in a cozy restaurant and made our homework for Andrew. Seija found her a hat and Mirjami a new handbag. This blog was created with the help of chocolate cake, coffee and tea. This is a short blog but the cake is enormous and tasty. This day was full of action so we are quite worn out in the evening.