Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 26: James Hoyle, a senior teacher at Skipton Girls’ High School, North Yorkshire, UK, and also Global Awareness Coordinator of the British Council visited KC Public School for a period of 4 days under the Council’s Connecting Classrooms Programme.
Skipton Girls’ High School and KC Public School are long term partner schools in their pursuit of excellence in education through the International School Award (ISA) Scheme of the British Council which is in operation all over the world. Both schools have worked collaboratively on a number of learning projects in the academic year 2014-15 and one of the major objectives of Mr. Hoyle’s visit was to identify mutually some relevant themes for collaborative project work to be done during the current academic year in addition to gaining first-hand experience of the partner school and interacting with its students and teachers.
Mr. Hoyle, after the assembly, on the first day of visit was given an intensive tour of the senior school to acquaint him of the infrastructural aspects of the school and to give him an overview of a day’s normal school routine.
On the second day, he interacted with teachers and children of the junior school and watched a cultural programme on international dances from China, India and the Middle East.
A special traditional Morris dance of England was also a part of this programme and on the third day, he interacted with senior school teachers and worked on identifying themes and topics for mutual project work to be done collaboratively.
Later in the day, he visited exhibitions on social sciences and English language prepared by students of KC Public School and also attended a cultural programme comprising of a Jammu folk dance, a traditional Scottish dance and the ‘Morni’ folk song from Himachal Pradesh which has been included in the World Song Book compiled by the British Council. He attended the inauguration ceremony of an Art Gallery in the school and also viewed an expansive exhibition of recycled art on display within the premises of the Art School. Later in the day, he shared the collaborative project on ‘Culture in the Box’ with the students of class 7th.
On the 4th day, he was taken on a tour of Akhnoor in the morning and in the evening he watched the performance of 4 English plays by students of classes 7th and 9th at the open air theatre in the school.
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