And it all ends with Robin Hood

Possibly this is going to be my last entry. You see, I'm at the airport right now waiting for my flight. 

I will be heading home soon with many memories, new ideas and experience to tell everyone about.

Yesterday we went to my favorite place as a child. Sherwood Forest. It brought me memories of stories read under the blanket in the middle of the night. Of vivid adventures and imagination gone wild.

Friar tuck and little John 

The major oak. Robin's tree.

And that is Robin Hood 

Thank you Darryl and Stewart for a lovely Day. 

AND FOR MY EARLY BIRTHDAY PRESENT :D (this is for you too Barbara. :) It was lovely staying with you) hope to see you all soon!

The ghost walk

I ended the day with the scariest lady ever.

She is the lady who does the ghost walk. If you ever come by Lincoln, you have to hear her out. The best scary ghost-story teller in town.

Anything strange?

Goodbye Lea Frances olive Anderson School!

I had a very good time at Lea school. So much that I may just drop by during a vacation. Everyone was friendly and helpful. we sure learned a lot about each other's culture and habits. Likes and dislikes ( no for mushy peas XD)

These are  the best students that I spent time with. I will be missing them all dearly. 

Oooh and guess what? I had my birthday 6 days earlier . XD thank you all !

Ooh and before We went, one of the girls at school had fun showing me around her farm. Which is where we headed after school. We don't have farms in Beirut. She is the first student I have ever seen who knows LOTS about farming and farms. Maybe when we have a lesson about Farms we can Skype Tamara's class and have her tell the students about it :)))

Clubs day

Friday is clubs day

At 1:30 the whole school is just divided in to clubs . Every class turns in to a whole different new class. 

Film club

Dancing club

Was it language or art? Probably both

Science club

Art and crafts

Sign language club

There is also a cooking club. ( yummy) 

Arabic at Lea school

Gave an Arabic lesson today :) with few introduction to Islam.

I noticed that most of the students still remember things they learned last year about Islam. And some were really keen on learning new Arabic words that they can use the next time they Skype with our students

Harvest festival at the school

Today was The harvest festival. Students form Lea school gathered food from their houses that they can give away  and put them in the church for people who are in need.

Singing 

 Art

Poems

The French tree .

The story of the seeds

Homous

Today we made the homous be tahini. During our work we had a fire drill :). The kids were very quiet and calm. Which shows how well trained they all are. We have to do fire drills training. Even if the fire station is next door. ;)

Back to the homous

NEARLY all liked it :))))

Lincoln Christ's hospital school

Today we met Chris Williams, a british council Ambassador and an international school partnership specialist. It happens that he is also the special projects consultant at Lincoln Christ's Hospital School which he was glad to take us in a tour and show us around. the LCHS  is a special language college. it is a very old school which goes back to 1904 ,and was used during the war as a hospital and a bomb shelter. One of the best with a system that focuses on every individual  and unlock the capacity to reach the outstanding achievement that every individual can reach.

They have a long history of success, opportunity and high achievement. What I have seen today in this school is where we can all reach, and how good a school can get.

www.christs-hospital.lincs.sch.uk

Have Students from different parts of the world

Brayford pool

While checking the university of Lincoln  we passed by what Lebanese may understand as the Lincoln's version of  zaytouna bay. The brayford pool. Only this one has ducks in it ;)

The Collection Art and Archaeology in Lincolnshire

Today with the school, we went to the collection. 

To those who are wondering, The Collection brings together an award winning archaeology museum and the region’s premier art gallery, the Usher Gallery, in the heart of historic Lincoln. 

 The archaeology gallery tells the story of Lincolnshire’s fascinating heritage through artifact rich displays and reconstructions, hands-on activities, touch-screen games, and the chance to dress up in authentic historical costumes. 

 The schools Investigate programme at The Collection museum is a Sandford Award winner . This is the only national award for quality and excellence in education. The award winning Investigate schools programme at The Collection museum presents lively hands-on, cross-curricular workshops based around our unique collection of artifacts.

Since the main theme this year is about the romans,the whole activities and tour guide was about this era only. 

The classes were divided in to 6 groups and each group had to do a certain activity, then swap so that they go through all of them.

 Key Stage One and Key Stage Two pupils experienced object handling through the Big Dig archaeology activity, took staff-led tours of the galleries and made artefact-based crafts to take home. 

the kids had the opportunity to Learn about the military establishment of Lincoln under the Ninth Legion and about life for the Roman citizens of the important Roman city of Lindum Colonia, and See the mosaic floor discovered during the construction of the museum building.

 The activities were tailored to meet the needs of the children. Which is a fascinating idea that made the students feel good about themselves especially when they were able to relate what they discovered/ learned at school to the things that are in the museum.

Marching can never be fun without the proper costume

Learning how to Excavate for artifacts.

Coloring and making old brooches . What a happy bunch I have.

Working on the school's mosaic.

It is story time.