After the first lesson all the pupils and teachers meet on the ground and sing songs from the Bible because it is a Christian school as I have already mentioned. (I must
admit that I am not attracted to Christianity at all, but on the other hand I quite liked this moment when the whole school gathered together and spent some time with singing religious songs, because there was kinf of special atmosphere and bond everywhere in that moment:-). After this one of the teachers introduced us to all the pupils so that was really nice:) We visited 4lessons there:
1)Engelsk i 6klasse med Grethe Jepsen
2) Engelsk i 5.klasse med Grethe Jepsen again
3) Musik i 4.klasse med Maren Andersen
4) Engelsk i 7.klasse med Lise Jeppesen
Grethe told us that in English they try to put the emphasize predominately on speaking (I really agree with this, because in the Czech Republic the focus is rather on grammar and then the pupils are afraid of speaking, because they are afraid of mistakes..and in my opinion speaking is the most important at elementary school so that the pupils would be more confident in a foreign language).
What I found out about this school: from 6th class they start a little grammar during English, there is always 1 supportive teacher for each subject who helps weaker pupils, when reading a text they don't translate everything, only some words, no checking of group work at the end of the lesson(teacher walks around all the groups and helps them if there is some problem), it is the private school, I didn't see any interactive blackboards, each pupil has his own box with his books and his stuff he needs during the lessons, lay-out of pupils' desks is quite free (somebody sits alone, somebody is in line with other 2pupils,...), strong integration of pupils with various dissabilities, 1 girl was vacuuming the main hall during a break (I don't know why, because I didn't ask:), young teachers seemed to me very innovative with a different approach to pupils, a music room was just great!! And I really liked the music lesson where the teacher let the pupils to be very free while listening Vivaldi and they liked it and were active and enthusiastic after listening.
We had a good time the whole morning there:-)
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