The choice is yours...
Dear Brenda,
We are delighted to confirm receipt your Presentation Proposal ‘"Banana split Phonics" making the teaching of phonics fun and meaningful’ at our forthcoming EYE SPI event.
Next steps:
We will now begin collating the individual requirements of our workshop facilitators and will be in contact with you to confirm your workshop location, available resources and address any specific needs you have. We hope to be able to share event logistics with you by Monday 12 December.
Until then, should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact.
Thank you for taking the time to submit your proposal. We look forward to working with you.
Kind regards,
Emma
on behalf of EYE SPI Team
Year 5
A truly international education
Year 5 student Reagan shares his account of his 5-day camp to Yangshuo.
As a group, all of Year 5 went on a magnificent camp in the depths of rural Yangshou, China. It was a part of our 'Where we are in place and time' unit of inquiry. We arrived by bullet train in Guilin on Monday October 17, 2016. The weather was hot and the mood was low after the two hour train ride. Many of us were hungry. Some of us had money and bought food on the train and were not as hungry.
Yangshuo Camp
Day 1
As we exited the train station the sun beat down at us,
baking like eggs on a frying pan. Most of us wanted the teachers to spill the beans about what we were doing standing out in the beating sun, in the middle of a mostly abandoned train station car park. But then the teachers introduced us to the Terratribes group. Their leader was a woman called Kate. Her Chinese name was Yanmei and she knew excellent English with a bit of a Chinese accent. The leader of our Y5G group was a Frenchman called Eapo (pronounced E-po). He was a French architect before coming to China and working for the Terratrbes (don't ask me why).