Staff and students at Somervale School welcomed a group of trainee teachers from Zambia to their school on Tuesday, 4th April.
The trainee teachers and their tutor are all from Mulfulira (a copper mining town in Zambia). The visitors were able to experience life in a British secondary school through observing lessons, talking to teachers and being interviewed by students. They even got to enjoy a school dinner and experience a practice fire drill!
The visitors were extremely impressed by the welcome they received and how
engaged the students were with their learning.
Headteacher, Joanna Postlethwaite, said: “It has been a fantastic experience for us as a school. Being able to give the students the opportunity to talk to someone from another part of the world and embrace the differences, as well as celebrate the similarities in our cultures has been invaluable. I am really looking forward to reading the reports the students have written today.”