See you soon at the residential.

Hi everyone who is coming, from the UK and from Palestine.

On Friday 8th Jan after school (for the UK teachers) and after a long flight from Amman, the UK and Palestinian teachers will make their way to our opening residential in the Shropshire countryside, in the middle of England.... This is a purpose-built residential and conference centre that looks very empty in these pictures but will fill up with people and talking and activities as soon as you are all there.

These pictures show the conference hall, which we will be using, and the dining room, where we will eat  (they will cook halal food or vegetarian food or other - whatever you have said that you want.), an indoor sports hall which will be good if the weather is bad, and one of the bedrooms (three people will share).

In the dining room, they have a lot of flags but not a Palestinian one - I wonder if someone has one they can bring?

The residential has a lot of rules, SEE HERE  Palestinians, please discuss at your next meeting the things that work differently in the UK. (*Palestinian smokers will need to remember that they cannot smoke indoors! There is a special place for smokers.*) 

We expect this to be a very interesting weekend!  We will start with information on the project and a 'British day' (with information from the UK teachers) and a 'Palestinian day' (with information from the Palestinians).  Then Monday will be the first day for the Palestinians to see UK schools! And on Tuesday and Wednesday, they will go to their partner schools. Thursday is a community day - Friday a workshop day - Saturday the conference on School Twinning with Palestine - and on Sunday we will have an evaluation meeting as well as a special lunch together. There will be lots of time to get to know each other, to see different places in Britain, to take part in evening activities... It should be good, we are looking forward.

You should all have a programme for the exchange, and we will give you a handbook with more information when you arrive.

For the UK teachers specially - HAPPY CHRISTMAS
and for everyone HAPPY NEW YEAR! We look forward to seeing you early in 2016!