From 13 July until 3 August, Mr Heuston, Robyn and Ruaridh will be in China as part of a British Council delegation - participating in a Beijing Immersion Course as part of the Confucius Classroom Initiative. Read their blogs below. Thanks to Mrs Sutherland for the photo taken before their departure from Glasgow Airport.
(3 August 2009) The group are now home safely. Congratulations to everyone for being such excellent ambassadors of Glasgow and Scotland .
A huge thank you to Mr Joe Heuston whose leadership of the group is greatly appreciated by the school, the pupils and their families. And of course many thanks to Maureen Gilchrist and Edna Paterson (Quality Improvement Officers) for their support throughout.
Keiran Here Updating the blog cause no one else will! kidding!
welll china has been basically a life changing experience!
loved it! i dont want to go home now though!
but the last few days we ... (Read more)
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It has been a really hectic few days since we last blogged. Our Mandarin lessons are taking up much of our time and when we are not in class we are darting about the streets of Beijing ... (Read more)
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A 7am rise as usual for the group. We headed straight for the magnificent Garden of Flowers in Beijing. We were blessed with great weather after a rather dreich couple of days and the whole group made ... (Read more)
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Keiran( Lourdes), Ruaridh ( Kingspark Sec) and Charles (Shawlands) came out winners in tonight's quiz night. They competed against all the other groups from Scotland, so well done to the boys for ... (Read more)
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Keiran and Ruaridh here!
We'll make this snappy as we are off to our beds soon ( honest)!!!! Classes start at 9 so breakfast at 7.30 . We've visited loads of things here in ... (Read more)
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Hello again. Yes , it has been a while but we're just so busy here! Everyone is well and still enjoying their time here in China. Here's the latest from the group........
Mr Joe
Hello, ... (Read more)
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Well, we had a busy few days since we last spoke . Ruaridh, Ka I and Lai Ching will be filling you in with all the latest news soon, but we have been so busy we just can't find the time to ... (Read more)
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Sup Keiran Here!
To tell you about our exiting Journey!
Well to start off the flight was great! We were treated like royalty! Watched loads of new movies that are out! Someone then got accused ... (Read more)
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Sup Keiran Here!
To tell you about our exiting Journey!
Well to start off the flight was great! We were treated like royalty! Watched loads of new movies that are out! Someone then got accused ... (Read more)
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Mr Heuston, Ruaridh Robyn, Keiran ( Lourdes Secondary), Charles (Shawlands Academy), Ka I and Lei Cheng ( Hillhead) all arrived safely in Beijing 3 pm on Tuesday afternoon! After a long ... (Read more)
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