We had a fantastic visit from some Ethiopian teachers as part of our Connecting Classrooms project. We are doing this through the British Council along with 5 other schools in Hexham - QEHS, Hexham Middle School, St Joseph's Middle School, Corbridge Middle School and Chollerton First School.
Whitley Chapel has been paired with a school called 'My Little Angels School' in Addis Ababa. Their Director, Ruthie, brought us some lovely gifts from Ethiopia, and all six teachers enjoyed their visit to our school very much. They observed some lessons in the first part of the morning, then they came back to the classes and the children asked them some questions. We found out lots of really interesting information about Ethiopia and what life is like there. They finished their visit with a delicious lunch cooked by Linda. The other 5 teachers thought Ruthie had been paired with a lovely school!
We had a visit from 6 teachers from Ethiopia. They came from schools in Addis Ababa as part of the Connecting Classrooms project.
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The photographer from the Courant came to take their picture for the newspaper.
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The teachers came into our classrooms and we asked them questions about Ethiopia.
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We got to look at the presents that our visitors had brought us.
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The lady in the blue suit is from 'My Little Angels' school and she has been paired with Whitley Chapel. She showed us the anharic alphabet.
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She also brought us a picture of some of the really interesting places to visit in Ethiopia. One of them was a huge underground church in a cave
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They also showed us the Ethiopian flag. The green is a sign of wealth, the yellow represents sun and the red represents the blood from war.
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