I shared the video that LSA students made raising awareness of our school traffic system and also showing the clear differences that England does to help make school journeys safer for students.
We discussed issues such as the lack of road crossings in Beirut, no cycling lanes, bad drivers and an-anything-goes kind of system that desperately needs change. Grade 8 students are aware of the problems and want to make a difference. They would love nothing more than to cycle to school but the roads and traffic make this an impossible means of transportation.
Some suggested that they have Lollipop ladies/men like in England- in fact this was a fantastic idea and the students would like us to bring them over from LSA! Maybe next year!
After the video and discussion, the students completed the speech bubbles to send back to England which shows the changes they would like to make to their system. LSA students completed their own as well. I plan to make a display of these suggestions at school to highlight some of the students' points of view.
Following this lesson, we worked on the anecdote project which is an extension of the Educate X idea of inspirational stories. Students from Mr Prescott's Year 8 class at LSA were asked to write anecdotes about things that inspired them or events that had an impact on their lives. I brought them to Beirut and the Grade 8 students in Mr El Amin's class of Rawdah also wrote stories, some profoundly different to those experienced by LSA students.
We discussed issues such as the lack of road crossings in Beirut, no cycling lanes, bad drivers and an-anything-goes kind of system that desperately needs change. Grade 8 students are aware of the problems and want to make a difference. They would love nothing more than to cycle to school but the roads and traffic make this an impossible means of transportation.
Some suggested that they have Lollipop ladies/men like in England- in fact this was a fantastic idea and the students would like us to bring them over from LSA! Maybe next year!
After the video and discussion, the students completed the speech bubbles to send back to England which shows the changes they would like to make to their system. LSA students completed their own as well. I plan to make a display of these suggestions at school to highlight some of the students' points of view.
Following this lesson, we worked on the anecdote project which is an extension of the Educate X idea of inspirational stories. Students from Mr Prescott's Year 8 class at LSA were asked to write anecdotes about things that inspired them or events that had an impact on their lives. I brought them to Beirut and the Grade 8 students in Mr El Amin's class of Rawdah also wrote stories, some profoundly different to those experienced by LSA students.
Many students read their stories aloud about family camping trips to days out at the beach while others read about their family plight while trying to escape a once war torn Beirut for America. Videos of these will be uploaded soon.
Lunch was delicious- a type of Lebanese pizza bread. Definitely a favorite of mine.
After lunch we had two more lessons where videos were shown and students participated in a "guess the accent" quiz on accents around the UK. This was a very fun activity and many found some of the accents such as Scottish and Welsh difficult to identify. No one guessed the scouse accent of Steven Gerrard or the cockney of Micheal Kane!
Tonight is our farewell dinner which will be traditional Lebanese cuisine. I will upload those later but for now. Enjoy the photos from the school day.
Ms Underwood
After lunch we had two more lessons where videos were shown and students participated in a "guess the accent" quiz on accents around the UK. This was a very fun activity and many found some of the accents such as Scottish and Welsh difficult to identify. No one guessed the scouse accent of Steven Gerrard or the cockney of Micheal Kane!
Tonight is our farewell dinner which will be traditional Lebanese cuisine. I will upload those later but for now. Enjoy the photos from the school day.
Ms Underwood
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