On our final day at Halil Vedat Firath Ilkogretim Okulu (our host school), the school council gave information to the visitors about its election process, their roles and responsibilities and a presentation about their achievements.
Members of school council. Following the school council’s presentation, the visitors asked them lots of questions.
Question time: Following the school council’s presentation, the visitors asked them lots of questions.
The next phase of the project is a visit to Nydala barn och ungdon (school in Malmo, Sweden) in October 2009. The Swedish children and teachers have been working hard on planning this meeting and shared this with everyone. This gave the other participating schools an opportunity to feed back their views, and comments.
Before departing to our own home land, we finally had a group photo which includes children and teachers of:
South Harringay Junior School, London, UK;
Crowland Primary School, London, UK;
Halil Vedat Firath Ilkogretim Okulu, Istanbul, Turkey;
Nydala barn och ungdom, Malmo, Sweden;
College de Carbon-Blanc, Bordeaux, France.
We said our farewell to everyone and headed to Sabiha Gokcen Airport.
On clearing check-in, passport control and customs we headed to our flight back to London, UK. We were booked on easyJet EZY2384 and boarded the flight at 1530 (local time). The flight took off just after 1610 (local time) for London Luton.
And finally we taxi from the gate to take our position for takeoff. On clearance from air traffic control, we took off, heading back to London Luton.
We saw Alps, number of speedy jets and the English coast.
On landing and departing from the aircraft, we headed through passport control and collected our luggage. We then headed back to South Harringay Junior School, where our parents and three members of our school’s senior leadership team were waiting for us.
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