GLA KEY ACTION 1 COURSE: English in the UK

Global Learning Association

http://globallearningassociation.org/

Sunday 1st Oct – Monday 9th Oct 2017

Coordinators:

Chris Souvlis: [email protected] & Amanda Grange: [email protected]

Course no. GLA-UK15-A007 GLA PIC: 948140566 4 DAYS BRIGHTON/ 4 DAYS LONDON

For: Aneta Strokon, Poland. Region: województwo podkarpackie City: Mielec [email protected]

PROGRAM

Objectives:

1. To improve participants’ English by using a variety of approaches including classes, workshops and cultural visits.

2. To update participants on education, culture, & trends in the UK and encourage participants to learn more about UK culture.

3. To promote links and further the European Dimension in education.

In Advance:

—each participant should practice speaking and reading in English

—each participant should choose 2 photos from home to discuss in the UK (These can show themselves or their school or their home or region.)

Brighton Training Venue: BMECP, 10a Fleet St, BN1 4ZE (-5 minutes’ walk from hotel) Ph 01273 600 885 (Lessons each day will be from 9.30am – 15.30pm with an hour’s break for lunch.)

Sunday, 1 st October, 2017 Travel Day

Fly to London Gatwick from Krackow 13:20 1st Oct KRK 2h 40 Direct 15:00 LGW

1 Take the direct train from Gatwick Airport to Brighton. (35 minutes) Buy tickets from the machines or ticket desk at the Gatwick Train Station.

Walk 5 mins from the station to: Check into Jury’s Inn Brighton, 101 Stroudley Rd, Brighton BN1 Tel: +44 127 386 2121 https://www.jurysinns.com/hotels/brighton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton, http://www.visitbrighton.com/

Monday, 2 nd Oct

9.30 Introductions activity (Amanda Grange)

Grammar & Conversational English

12.30 Lunch in town centre (English pub lunch)

14.00 Learning tour of the town.

15.30 Free time

Tuesday, 3 rd Oct

9.30 English for Meetings and Discussion

Pure Language –together and in groups

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Visit to the historical Brighton Pavilion for a language task – headphone commentary in English

15.30 Free time

19.00 Chris Souvlis to meet the group at Jury’s Hotel reception.

Travel by taxi to:

19.30 Dinner with Amanda and Chris at: Donatello’s restaurant, 1-3 Brighton Pl, Brighton BN1 1HJ www.donatello.co.uk/

Walk back to hotel

Wednesday, 4 th Oct

9.30 Pure Language – together and in groups

Participants to bring 2 photos from home to talk about. Discuss life/ education in Poland & UK

2 12.30 Lunch….

1.30 Bus to countryside, village walk, English Cream Tea in Alfriston, a typical historic village paid for by GLA

Evening free

Thursday, 5th Oct

9.30 Pure Language – together and in groups/ The English Education System… with TEFL teaching qualified Sue Whittaker

12.30 Lunch….

13.30 Shopping in Brighton

16.15 Return & collect cases

17.00 Train to New Cross Gate (change trains at East Croydon) £18.10 Each (16:58 Brighton / 17:47 East Croydon … change trains 17:55 East Croydon / 18:08 New Cross Gate)

18.08 Met at Station by Chris Souvlis for transfer to Greenwich Travelodge, Blackheath Road, Greenwich, London SE10 8DA https://www.travelodge.co.uk/hotels/539/London-Greenwich-hotel

Chris to arrange transport from station to Travelodge

Wifi Code: TLJH653Y for the Twin/ Disabled access room at Travelodge.

Friday, 6 th Oct

8.00 Taxi to: St William of York Primary School (Harvest Celebration Day), Brockley Park, Forest Hill, SE23 1PS Ph 020 8690 2842 http://www.swoy.lewisham.sch.uk/ "Sharon Lynch"

8.30 Arrive 8.40 Tour of school during Morning Challenge

9.15 Tea/Coffee with Parents and Fr Dawid Jasinski, from the Polish Chaplaincy in Music Room

10.00 Harvest Liturgy 10.45 Observe lessons 12.15 Lunch with Children

13.00 Bus 171 & 53 to Trafalgar Square ‘London’s Living Room’ (with Chris Souvlis)

15.00 ‘Art & Language’-- at The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting

Meet Art Historian and Gallery Educator, Sara Dibb at Sainsbury’s wing… using art to inspire English language by talking and writing including games and poetry.

17.00 Free Time

3 (Optional: Friday Night board games at Lewisham Polish Centre -- Agnieszka Bozzao 07806 665 758) Waldram Park Rd, Forest Hill, London SE23 2PP

Saturday 7 th Oct

9.30 Bus 53 Trip to Greenwich Park viewing site, to photograph London skyline with Chris Souvlis

Walk though Greenwich to London River boat for trip to Tower of London. http://www.visitlondon.com/traveller-information/getting-around- london/riverboat#kxRMQGEvTZD3tmuI.97

Walk from Tower of London over Tower Bridge to City Hall.

Walk to Tate Modern Gallery past Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre

14.30 ‘Art & Language’-- at Tate Modern. Meet Sara Dibb at cloakroom meeting point, Turbine Hall.

16.00 Shopping/ Free time -Walk across Millennium Bridge to St Pauls Cathedral

(Optional: 19.30 Saturday Night Mass in Polish—Parish Church beside St William of York School)

Sunday, 8 th Oct

Free Time

Monday, 9 th Oct

10.00 Action Planning/ evaluating the course

Free time

14.30 departure for Gatwick Airport Keen Group -Mike Luther 020 8875 4979 Ex506

Dulwich Cabs ph 0208 6939933—mini bus to airport for Flight home

EasyJet 9th Oct 18:00 LGW2h 30 Direct 21:30 KRK

The Global Learning Association (www.globallearningassociation.org) is the not-for-profit trading arm of the UK Global Learning Association for Schools, a charitable organisation formed in 1996. GLA Associates have current or recent experience as International Education Advisers for Local Authorities, as Global Education Co-ordinators, in other advisory posts or as trainers and advisers to government departments. Many of our Associates are also qualified teachers and some have recent experience of headships or other senior management posts.

Current and recent involvement in training by GLA Associates includes eTwinning in Poland and Ukraine; classroom English for non-specialist linguists in the UK; International Dimension Training in Oxfordshire, Hosting numerous KA1 course etc.

+ the host schools and order of days listed could change

4 PRACTICALITIES

LOCATION

Brighton and London, England

[email protected] (Amanda Grange) 0044 (0) 7900 318 429

[email protected] (Chris Souvlis) 00 44 (0)7943 326 440

ACCOMMODATION

Accommodation and meals are not included, except for school lunch & breakfasts provided by hotels;

Assistance with hotels will be provided. (Jurys Inn, Brighton & Travelodge Greenwich, London)

Participants to buy their own lunches and dinner unless otherwise stated. (Breakfasts at hotel each day.)

TRANSPORT:

Advice with flights etc will be provided. Oyster cards for public transport in London.

PRE-COURSE READING: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/mwikis/eurydice/index.php/United-Kingdom-England:Overview

(Overview of the Education System in England) https://www.tes.com/news/school-news Education Press (Times Educational Supplement)

Payment details

Cost of70 Euros per participant per day, due at the latest: 28 days in advance of course start

Paid to: Global Learning Association,

Name and address of bank: Co-operative Bank, PO Box 250, Delf House, Skelmersdale, WN8 6WT Account: Global Learning Association Account number: 65464076 Sort code: 08 92 99 IBAN is: GB58 CPBK 0892 9965 4640 76

5 Course Leaders

Amanda Grange has over 25 years’ experience of working in the field of International Education and English Language teaching, gained both in the UK and abroad.

Amanda has 14 years’ experience of teaching English as a foreign language in the UK, Germany, France and Italy and currently works as a part-time lecturer in ESOL/EFL (English as a foreign language) at Brighton City College where she has worked for four years. She has taught all levels, including beginners, intermediate and upper intermediate and exam courses for IELTS, First Certificate, Cambridge Advanced, and ESOL: E1, E2, E3 and Level 1. Amanda also works as an Independent International Education Consultant as well as doing freelance work for the British Council and is a British Council Ambassador. She has been a member of the UK Global Learning Association since it began in the 1990s.

Amanda previously worked for East Sussex County Council in the School Improvement Service for 18 years as the consultant to schools for Modern Foreign Languages and International Links, promoting, advising and supporting schools in developing an international dimension in the curriculum. She facilitated school linking with schools in other countries, advised on joint projects and funding and arranged international professional development opportunities for teachers and head teachers, such as group exchanges and work-shadowing in Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Alaska. She led groups on visits abroad and organised and led programs in the UK for groups of teachers visiting from other countries.

She has nearly 20 years’ experience of running training courses for classroom teachers, international co-ordinators and head teachers in the field of international education and has organised and presented at regional and international conferences.

Having lived and worked in 5 countries and speaking 4 languages, Amanda is passionate about international education and language learning and strongly believes in the importance of international work and languages in schools and their role in broadening the outlook of young people , giving a global context to their learning and preparing them for life in a global society.

Sara Dibb is an art historian and educator with experience of working with GLA groups from abroad to raise their confidence with English.

Sara Dibb is an art expert and historian who is a gallery educator. She works in London in a number of important galleries to educate people about the exhibitions and the meaning of art. Sara has worked with groups of EU teachers for a number of years when they visit Londn to

6 improve their English. Thinking about art and our feelings toward specific art pieces and expressing those feelings with words, poems and games can make us think about language and improve our confidence to use it. Her language tasks can also be used with English language pupils once participants return home.

Chris Souvlis has many years’ experience working for both the British Council and for schools and Universities in England with international links.

Chris worked for The British Council from 1999 to 2010, helping deliver a range of education programs as diverse as the Fulbright US/ UK teacher exchange program and the Comenius Universities and Schools European Partnerships and In-service visits. He managed the 2-Week Primary Teachers Project, for the Teacher Development Agency and Department of Children, Schools and Families, to support the delivery of school languages at Key Stage 2.

Since 2010, he has continued to support teacher in-service training abroad, working every half term with training centres in Spain and France to deliver EU funded, language courses for teachers. Initially, he supported funding applicants and teacher participants from the boroughs of Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham, where he led the South London Schools International Support Network. Lately, he has worked supporting International links and projects across the UK, including in Southend, Essex and London.

He has contributed to the Coordination &/ or Evaluation of 6 large scale European projects in recent years, (see: www.ola-regio.com, www.PHWB-project.com) hosted visits for international groups to the UK and led training at home and abroad. He most recently coordinated a 3 country cross sectoral Erasmus+ project from 2015 to 2017, leading schools and Universities in the UK, Greece and Spain as they developed teacher training materials related to Pupil Well-being. He has coordinated many GLA Erasmus+ KA1 courses in the UK for educators from other EU countries. He has been deputy Chair of the Global Learning Association since 2015.

Chris Souvlis Support for International Links & Projects (Southwark & Southend) 00 44 (0)7943 326 440, [email protected]/ [email protected] http://globallearningassociation.org/ www.facebook.com/chris.souvlis?fref=ts

Ray Kirtley, Chairman of Global Learning Association:

School of Education and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Culture and Education, University of Hull Hull, HU6 7RX https://www.facebook.com/ray.kirtley.37

Tel: + 44 1482 465125/ Mobile: + 44 7453 476869