Special Events
Newtownabbey girls travel to Germany.
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McCarey and Lyndsey Webb, two Year 11 pupils from Newtownabbey Community
High School have recently returned from Dorsten in Germany as part of the
Twinned Town- Youth in Action Project. The programme has resulted from the
twinning of Newtownabbey Borough Council with the towns of Rybnik in Poland
and Dorsten in Germany and aims to provide young people from the three areas
with the opportunity to participate in civic engagement and to be encouraged
to contribute towards policy and administrative decisions within the
political arena. The process of pupil selection was quite a competitive one
and the girls joined with other pupils living in the Newtownabbey area in
their German adventure. Newtownabbey hosted the initial conference in
November 2008 and the international group also travelled to Poland between
the 14th and the 17th of June 2009.
European Day of Languages
Once again, Newtownabbey Community High School, under the direction of the Modern Languages Department, celebrated the European Day of Languages, with staff and pupils participating in various activities to further promote European and linguistic awareness. Thanks are due to the canteen staff for their unhesitating co-operation in allowing the canteen menus into translated into French and Spanish and for providing some European style food and to Mr. Armstrong, the Head of Art and Design for organising the various posters and labels for both the canteen and the classrooms. All classrooms were also labelled in three languages. Ms. Carey, Head of the Home Economics Department, also organised some tasting of European dishes. Mrs Verner, Head of English and Drama in the school co-ordinated the work of her excellent and very keen Year 12 GCSE Drama group. Students wrote to the European Commission and the various embassies who very kindly sent various gift items to the school. As the drama students had also designed quizzes, colouring pages and word searches for the Primary school children these European items were to be used as prizes. The various displays assembled by the drama group reflects the thorough research conducted by the students with the numerous ways of saying “Welcome” complemented by the various flags of Europe. A number of the young actors also dressed up in national costume for the day.
Mr. R. Morton, the Head of Languages at Newtownabbey visited his former department, now home to a large number of the school’s young neighbours at Whitehouse Primary following the Summer arson attack, and was able to provide the young Primary 5 learners with some Spanish tuition.
The level of participation within the school community was excellent and thus the number of activities is too many to mention and sincere apologies are offered to anyone whose contribution has not been mentioned.
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