Friendships across the world

Bournemouth Collegiate School has been delighted to welcome two groups of overseas visitors recently. First to visit were 30 pupils from Bangkok Assumption College in Thailand who stayed for a two week visit.

During their stay pupils, who have been boarding at the school, have enjoyed sharing lessons with their English counterparts, evening activities with the school’s full time boarders and going on excursions further afield including London, New Forest, the Purbecks and home of Chelsea FC, Stamford Bridge.

Next came a group of fifty 10 and 11 year olds from Wuhan Experimental Foreign Language School in China. The school has 5,000 pupils and in the top ranked primary school in China.   During their visit the children stayed with host families but had lessons and meals at the school. The link between the schools was forged in 2009 when BCS Principal, Stephen Duckitt visited the school and addressed 500 of China’s top Principals who were attending a Principals conference at the school.

Stephen Duckitt, Principal said “this is exactly the kind of international collaboration we welcome at BCS. It enables our pupils to gain a valuable insight into other cultures and ways of thinking and is part of our commitment to prepare our pupils for the multi cultural world they will face”.