SWEDISH TEACHERS HOSTED BY BET SCHOOLS

DURING THE AUTUMN TERM, THREE BET SCHOOLS WERE INVOLVED IN A PROJECT DESIGNED TO SHARE CROSS-CULTURAL EDUCATIONAL IDEAS AND EXPERIENCES.

The project involved Priory School, Bohunt School and TPS who welcomed three senior leaders and nine teachers from Nyhemsskolan School, Angelholms Kommun in Sweden for a week.

Each school arranged individual timetables for the teachers and Heads, including:

• A school tour

• Meetings with key leaders

• Time in departments

• Lesson observations

• Work shadowing

• Dinner with senior leaders from BET

The teaching staff shadowed Phil Avery, Director of Education, in addition to spending lesson time in the Science, Music and Maths departments.

Sharing cross-curricular teaching ideas is an incredibly worthwhile and valuable experience – BET schools have been involved in similar cross-cultural endeavours for many years with Sweden, China and Germany and many other countries. Staff and students look forward to welcoming visitors from the staff and leaders from other cultures again very soon.

Phil Avery, Director of Education, said:

“BET staff really welcomed the opportunity to share their ideas with the Swedish educators. They welcomed the questions and challenges they had and learned as much from them as they did with us.

BET realises that its success is due to our openness to new ideas and reflection on current practise; hosting international visitors is just one fantastic way of doing this.”